The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-07-18

3, ritory of Wisconsin for the purpose of aid
r ing in opening q canal to connect the wat
r ers Of Lake Michigan with those Of Roc
i river.
% To provide for the better security of th
IS lives of passengers on steamboats,
y To remit the duties upon certa,J good
e destroyed by FIRE at the late conflagratioi
e in the city Of New York.
: Making appropriations for certain road
: in the Territory of Wisconsin.
9 To restrain the circulation of small note
D as currency in the District of Columbia
c and for other purposes.
z To increase the present military estab
Y lishment of the United States, and for 9th
er purposes.
Granting half pay to certain widows.
r To establish Criminal Court in the Dis
Q trct of Columbia.
y To confirm certain entries of public lands
8 permitted to be made by the Registers and
, Receivers Of land districts, under the be-
| lief that the tract had been offered at public
{ sale.
To establish a new collection district in
the State of Mississippi.
To refund to the Georgia Rail Road and
Banking Company certain duties paid up
on rail road iron.
To refund certain duties upon rail road
iron, paid by the New York and Harlem
Rail Road Company.
To prevent the issuing and circulation
porations created by acts Of Congress which
have expired.
To remit or refund duties to the Balti-
more and Susquehannah Rail Road Com
pany upon certain importations of iron
made by them for the use of their rail road.
To refund to the Newcastle and French
town Turnpike and Rail Road Company
certain duties paid by them upon iron i'm
ported for the construction of their rail
road
To encourage the introduction and pro-
mote the cultivation of tropical plants in the
United States.
To grant to Cherokee county, Ala. the
tract of land on which the seat Of Justice
Of said coanty has been located.
TO change the time of holding the Uni
ted States Circuit Court in the District of
Maryland.
To authorize the sale of certain bonds
belonging to the United States.
TO establish additional land offices in the
States of Louisiana and Arkansas.
To authorize vessels bound for the ports
of Mexico and prevented from completing
their voyages, in consequence Of the exist
ing blockade Vt those ports, to enter and
store their cargoes, in the ports Of the Uni
ted States.
To repeal, in part, the net entitled "An
| e.. a, e., Of a.,
acts, records, and seal of the United States
and for other purposes"
To extend the charter of the Bank o'
; Alexandria, in the city Of Alexandria.
To authorize the issning Of patents tc
the last bonn fidc transferce of reservations
under the treaty between the United State.
and the Creek tribe Of Indians, which wa.
concluded on the 24th of March, 1882.
Exempting from duty the coal which may
! bo on board Of steamboats, or vessels pro-
PEELED by steam on their arrival at any port
in the United States.
TO grant precmption rights to settlers on
the public lands.
TO ascertain anil designate the bounda-
ry line between the State of Michigan and
the territory of Wisconsin.
To authorize the President Of the United
States to cause the public vessels to cruise
upon the coast in the winter seaso on, and to
relieve distressed navigators.
TO create the office of surveyor Of public
lands in Wisconsin Territory.
To establish two additional land Offices
in that part Of Wisconsin Territory west of
the river Mississippi.
To rntify and confirm certain official acts
of John Pope, late Governor of Arkansas.
Authorizing the appointment of persons
to test the usefulness Of inventions to i'm
prove and render safe the boilers of steam
engines against explosions.
To amend and extend the charter of the
Franklin Insurance Company.
To authorize the Commissioner Of the
Patent Office to issue patent TO James
Smith.
To authorize the President Of the United
States to cnuse the southern boundary line
Of the Territory Of Wisconsin to be ascer-
toined and marked.
Making appropriation for the removal ol
the great raft Of Red river.
+ To continue in force the act for the pay
mcnt Of horses and other property lost in
the military service Of the United States.
Making appropriations for building ligh,
boats, beacon lights, buoys, and making
surveys, for the year 1898.
To amend an act authorizing the Sccrc-
terry of War to establish n pension agency
J; in tho town Of Decatur, in the State Of Al
abamn, and to provide for the payment o
certain pensioners in the said town Of De
: catur.
h To modify the last clause Of the 6fth sec
tion Of the deposite act of the 23d of June
r 1886.
I Supplementary to the act entitled "Ar
. act to increase the present military estab
, lishmcnt Of the United States, and for otheI
purDosre ~ onnroved JuIv = 1919