FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 1585 
papers, documents, and other articles from the Library of Congress 
as may relate to Christopher Columbus and the discovery and early 
history of America. 
(Stat., XX VII, 394.) 
April 6, 1892. k 
Be it enacted, ete., That no citizen of any other country shall be held 
liable for the infringement of any patent granted by the United States, 
or of any trade-mark or label registered in the United States, where 
the act complained of is or shall be performed in connection with the 
exhibition of any article or thing at the World’s Columbian Exposi- 
tion at Chicago. 
(Stat., XX VII, 14.) 
May 12, 1892. 
Be tt enacted, etc., That any national bank located in the city of 
Chicago and State of Illinois may be designated by the World’s 
Columbian Exposition to conduct a banking office upon the exposition 
grounds, and upon such designation being approved by the Comp- 
troller of the Currency said bank is hereby authorized to open and 
conduct such office as a branch of the bank, subject to the same 
restrictions and having the same rights as the bank to which it belongs: 
Provided, That the branch office authorized hereby shall not be oper- 
ated fora longer period than two years, beginning not earlier than 
July 1, 1892, and closing not later than July 1, 1894. 
(Stat., XXX VII, 33.) 
July 13, 1892. 
Post-Office act for 1893. 
Src. 4. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to estab- 
lish in the Government building, upon the ground of the World’s 
Columbian Exposition, a branch station of the Chicago, IIl., post- 
office; and there is hereby appropriated the sum of $40,000 for clerks, 
letter carriers, and incidental expenses necessary to maintain the same, . 
and a further sum of $23,000 for transportation of mails by railroad 
and mail-messenger service, the branch office herein provided to begin 
not earlier than January 1. 1893. 
(Stat., XX VII, 148.) 
July 19, 1892. 
Naval act for 1893. 
Toward the expenses of the international naval rendezvous and 
review, as provided in section 8 of the act creating the World’s 
Columbian Exposition, including pay and drill of seamen temporarily 
enlisted and used for said review in addition to the regular number 
of enlisted men and including the construction by the Secretary of the 
Navy of reproductions in Spain of two of the caravels, the Pinta and 
the Vina, which composed the fleet of Columbus on his voyage of 
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