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District of Columbia and the Supreme Courts of the 

 several Territories. 



Extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace 

 in Wyoming Territory. 



Amending section 764 of the Revised Statutes. 



To declare a forfeiture of lands granted to the 

 Texas Pacific Kailroad Company, and for other pur- 



To incorporate the Luther Statue Association, to 

 erect and maintain a monument or statue in memory 

 of Martin Luther in the District of Columbia. 



To amend section 1889 of chapter 1, title 23, of the 

 Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to gen- 

 eral incorporation acts of Territories. 



Detaching Grundy County, Tennessee, from the 

 Southern District of East Tennessee, and attaching it 

 to the Middle District of said State. 



To authorize the appointment of a commission by 

 the President of the United States to run and mark 

 the boundary-lines between a portion of the Indian 

 Territory and the State of Texas, in connection with 

 a similar commission to be appointed by the State of 

 Texas. 



To provide for the appraisement and sale of lots in 

 the town of Peru, Dubuque County, Iowa. 



To empower the Secretary of War to establish, un- 

 der certain conditions, a horse-railway upon and over 

 the island of Rock Island, and the bridges erected by 

 the United States connecting the cities of Davenport 

 and Rock Island therewith. 



To donate a cemetery site on the public lands to the 

 city of Kir win, in the State of Kansas. 



Providing for the erection of a building to contain 

 the records of the library and musuem of the Medical 

 Department, United States Army. 



Extending the time fixed for the joint commission 

 appointed under the sundry civil act, approved July 

 7, 1884, to submit their report. 



Authorizing the printing of certain naval and mili- 

 tarv reports. 



To authorize the increase of the capital stock of the 

 Commercial National Bank of Chicago. 



To change the name of the Manufacturers' National 

 Bank of New York to the Manufacturers' National 

 Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



To provide for printing the annual reports of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



To authorize the construction of a bridge across the 

 Mississippi river at Memphis, Tenn. 



To authorize the construction of a bridge across 

 the Saint Croix river at the most accessible point be- 

 tween Stillwater and Taylor's Falls, Minn. 



To authorize the increase of the capital stock of the 

 First National Bank of Larned, Kan., not to exceed 

 $250,000. 



Granting right of way to the Fremont, Elk Horn 

 and Missouri Valley Railroad Company across the 

 Fort Robinson military reservation, in the State of 

 Nebraska. 



To authorize suits for damages where death results 

 from the wrongful act or neglect of any person or 

 corporation in the District of Columbia. 



To authorize the construction of bridges across the 

 Mississippi river, one within the State'of Minnesota 

 and one between the States of Minnesota and Wiscon- 

 ' sin. 



To authorize the National Bank of Bloominerton, 

 111., to change its name to the First National Bank of 

 Bloomington, 111. 



To give the assent of Congress to the construction 

 of a railroad bridge by the East and Middle Tennessee 

 Railroad Company over the Cumberland and Caney 

 Fork rivers. 



To change the name of the Slater National Bank of 

 i North Providence, R. I. 



To authorize the increase of the capital stock of the 

 First National Bank of Omaha, Neb. 



Providing for printing additional copies of the sixth 

 ' and seventh annual reports of the Director of the 

 United States Geological Survey. 

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To authorize the printing of 50,000 copies of the 

 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry for the year 1885. 



To authorize the printing of 400,000 copies of the 

 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 for the year 1885. 



Providing for printing the sixth and seventh annual 

 reports of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Providing for printing monograph 2 of the publica- 

 tions of the United States Geological Survey. 



Various bills authorizing the erection of public 

 buildings, the purchase of sites or an increase in ap- 

 propriations for public buildings at Council Bluffs, 

 Iowa ; Clarksburg, W. Va. ; Troy, N. Y. ; Aber- 

 deen, Miss. ; La Crosse, Wis. ; Wichita, Kan. ; Port 

 Townsend, Wash. ; Auburn, N. Y. ; Louisville, Ky. ; 

 Waco, Tex. ; Augusta, Me. ; Tyler, Tex. ; Key West, 

 Fla. ; Springfield, 111. ; Richmond, Va. ; Detroit, 

 Mich. ; New Bedford, Mass. ; Sacramento, Cal. ; 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Erie, Pa. 



Special Session of the Senate. A special session 

 of the Senate began at noon, March 4, 1885. 

 The main business of the session after the inau- 

 guration of the new President was executive, 

 and consisted in action on his appointments, 

 but there was a spirited discussion on the sub- 

 ject of railroad land grants, and more especially 

 on the grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, 

 and Vickshurg line, commonly known aa the 

 Backbone Railroad. Some debate also occurred 

 on the admission of Senator Blair, of New 

 Hampshire, who had been appointed tempora- 

 rily his own successor by the Governor of his 

 State, the Legislature having failed to provide 

 for the vacancy caused by the expiration of 

 his term. The following is a list of the Senate 

 of the Forty-ninth Congress at the meeting of 

 the special session : 



THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, President of the 



Senate. 



Alabama. Arkansas. 



James L. Pugh, Augustus H. Garland, 



John T. Morgan. James K. Jones. 



California. Colorado. 



John F. Miller, Thomas M. Bowen, 



Leland Stanford. Henry M. Teller. 



Connecticut. Delaware. 



Joseph R. Bawley, Thomas Francis Bayard, 



Orvifle H. Platt. Eli Saulsbury. 



Florida. 

 Wilkinson Call, 

 Charles W. Jones. 



Illinois. 



Shelby M. Cullom, 

 John A. Logan. 



Iowa. 



William B. Allison, 

 James F. Wilson. 



Kentucky. 

 James B. Beck, 

 J. C. 8. Blackburn. 



Maine. 

 Eugene Hale, 

 William Pitt Fryo. 



Massachusetts. 

 Henry L. Dawes, 

 George F. Hoar. 



Minnesota. 



Bamuel J. B. McMillan, 

 Dwight M. Sabiii. 



Georgia. 



Joseph E. Brown, 

 Alfred H. Colquitt. 



Indiana. 



Benjamin Harrison, 

 Daniel W. Voorhees. 



Kansas. 

 John J. Ingalls, 

 Preston B. Plumb. 



Louisiana. 

 Randall Lee-Gibson, 

 James J. Eustis. 



Maryland. 

 Arthur P. Gorman, 

 Ephraim K. Wilson. 



Michigan. 

 Omar D. Concrer, 

 Thomas W. Palmer. 



Mississippi. 

 James Z. George, 

 Lucius Q. C. Lamar. 



