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Britain, providing for the settlement of the claims 

 presented by the latter against the former in virtue 

 of the convention of Feb. 29, 1892. 



A joint resolution tendering the thanks of Con- 

 gress to Commodore George D^wey, U. S. N., and 

 to the officers and men of the squadron under his 

 command. 



A joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of 

 the Navy to present a sword of honor to Commo- 

 dore George Dewey, and to cause to be struck 

 bronze medals commemorating the battle of Manila 

 Bay, and to distribute such medals to the officers 

 .and men of the ships of the Asiatic squadron of the 

 United States. 



A joint resolution providing for a survey and 

 report upon the practicability of securing a navi- 

 gable channel of adequate width and of 35 feet 

 depth at mean low water of the Gulf of Mexico 

 throughout southwest pass of the Mississippi river; 

 .and various joint resolutions in regard to surveys 

 and estimates of public improvements at different 

 points. 



An act concerning sailing vessels of over 700 tons 

 and for other purposes. 



An act to abolish the distinction between offered 

 .and unoffered land. 



An act concerning attorneys and marshals of the 

 United States. 



An act for the appointment of a commission to 

 make allotments of lands in severally to Indians 

 upon the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah and 

 to obtain the cession to the United States of all 

 lands within such reservation not so allotted. 



An act to amend section 4440 of the Revised 

 Statutes, authorizing the licensing of mates on 

 river and ocean steamers. 



An act to amend the act to provide times and 

 places for holding terms of the United States courts 

 in the States of Idaho and Wyoming. 



An act to provide for the disposition of abandoned 

 imported merchandise. 



An act to establish an assay office at Seattle. 



An act to amend an act to prohibit the passage of 

 local or special laws in Territories. 



An act to ratify the agreement between the Dawes 

 Commission and the Seminole nation of Indians. 



An act to provide a life-saving station on the 

 -westerly side of the harbor of Gloucester, Mass. 



An act for revising and perfecting the classifica- 

 tion of letters patent and printed publications of 

 the Patent Office. 



To designate Gladstone, Mich., as a subport of 

 entry. 



An act giving the assent of Congress to a change 

 of the compact entered into between the United 

 States and the State of Arkansas, on her admission 

 to the Union. 



An act to locate permanently the capital of the 

 Territory of New Mexico. 



An act authorizing the appointment of a non- 

 partisan commission to collate information and to 

 consider and recommend legislation to meet the 

 problems presented by labor, agriculture, and capital. 



An act to confer jurisdiction on circuit courts in 

 certain cases. 



An act to confirm certain cash entries of the 

 public lands. 



An act relating to leases on the Hot Springs 

 Reservation. 



An act for the relief of the book agents of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 



An act to repeal in part and to limit section 8480 

 of the Revised Statutes. 



^ An act to amend section 2234 of the Revised 

 Statutes. 



An act to authorize the establishment of a life- 

 saving station at or near Charlevoix, Mich. 

 VOL. xxxvin. 14 A 



An act to amend sections 1 and 2 of the act of 

 March 3, 1887, 24 Statutes at Large, chapter 359. 



An act extending the homestead laws and pro- 

 viding for right of way for railroads in the District 

 of Alaska. 



An act authorizing the Supreme Lodge of the 

 Knights of Pythias to erect and maintain a sani- 

 tarium and bath house on the Government reserva- 

 tion at the city of Hot Springs, Ark. 



An act for the removal of cases from the courts of 

 Texas to the courts of the United States in Texas. 



An act to make certain grants of land in the Ter- 

 ritory of New Mexico. 



An act granting additional powers to railroad 

 companies created by laws of the United States and 

 operating lines in Indian Territory. 



An act for the relief of sufferers bv the destruc- 

 tion of the United States steamer " Maine" in the 

 harbor of Havana, Cuba. 



An act granting certain lands to the city of Santa 

 Barbara, Cal. 



An act to increase the number of surgeons in the 

 United States army. 



An act to amend the act to establish a Court of 

 Private Land Claims. 



Acts in relation to bridges : Over the Black 

 river in Arkansas, by the White and Black River 

 Railway; over the Snake river between the States of 

 Washington and Idaho ; across the Loggy bayou in 

 Louisiana; across Portage lake, Michigan; across 

 the Missouri river at Yankton ; over the Black river 

 at Pocahontas, Ark. ; across the Mississippi at Prai- 

 rie du Chien, Wis. ; across the Alabama river near 

 Montgomery, Ala. ; across Bayou Bartholomew, Ar- 

 kansas ; across the Missouri river at St. Charles, Mo. ; 

 across the Arkansas river near Webber's Falls, In- 

 dian Territory ; across the Yalabusha river between 

 Leflore and Carroll Counties, Mississippi ; over the 

 Tombigbee river in the State of Mississippi ; across 

 the Niagara river ; across the Choctawhatchee river 

 at two points in Dale County, Alabama; across the 

 St. Lawrence river ; across the St. Francis river, Ar- 

 kansas ; across the Red river at or near Grand Ecore, 

 La. ; across the Monongahela river ; across the Mis- 

 souri river at Quindaro, Kan. ; across St. Francis 

 lake near Lake City, Ark. 



Various railway acts: Granting to the Omaha 

 Northern Railway Company the right to construct 

 a railway across the Omaha and Winnebago Reser- 

 vations in Nebraska ; to the Muscogee Coal and 

 Railroad Company the right to construct and 

 operate a road through Oklahoma and Indian Ter- 

 ritories ; to Kettle River Valley Railway Company a 

 right of way through Colville Indian Reservation in 

 the State of Washington ; to the Washington Im- 

 provement and Development Company a right of 

 way through the same reservation ; to the Cripple 

 Creek Railway a right of way through the Pike's 

 Peak Timber Reserve ; to the Missouri, Kansas and 

 Texas Railway Company the right to straighten the 

 the channel of South Canadian river in Indian 

 Territory ; to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Com- 

 pany the right to cross the Dry Valley road to the 

 Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park ; to 

 the Nebraska, Kansas and Gulf Railway Company 

 the right to construct and operate a railway through 

 the Indian Territory ; to the Norwich and Worces- 

 ter Railway Company the right of way through the 

 naval station at New London, Conn. ; to the St. 

 Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway Company 

 the right of way through Indian Territory ; to the 

 Santa Fe and Grand Cafion Railway Company the 

 right of way through the Grand Cafion Forest 

 Reserve in Arizona. 



An act to amend an act to permit the use of the 

 right of way through public lands for tramroads, 

 canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes. 



