The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-07-27

Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
resentstives Of the United States of America i
} Co gress assembled, That the time for the CON
pletion # the Portage Lake and IKE Sup-ro
ship canal be, and the same is hereby. extended {
the III ri day of March, eighteen hundred an
sew snty-one.
Approved, April 10. 1869.
An Act authorizing the submission of the consti
tutIous of virg MIA, Mississippi. and Texas, t.
| vote Of the people, and au hOrizng the election
| of State officers, provided by the said coistitu
| fioas and members of Congress
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
| resentatves of the United States of America il
C-,ngfess assembled, That the President of til.
United States, at such time as be may deem
best for the public interest, may submit the con-
| sttution which framed by the convention
which smet in Richmond, Virginia Tuesday
| the third day of December, one thousand eight
| hundred and siNty-seven, TO the voters Of said
State registered at the date Of said submission,
for Iaticstt ion rejection pnd he mag also sub
NIT a separate vote such provisions Of >aid
! stitution he may deem best, such vote TO he
| taken either upon each of the said provisions
alone in connection with the other portions Of
said consti ution. as the President may direct
SEC. , And be il further enacted, That at the
same election the voters Of said State vote
for and elect members eff the general assembly of
said State and all the officers If said State pro-
vided for by the said constitution, and me mbers
of Congress; and the officer commanding the dis
trict Of Virginia shall cause the lists of regis
tered voters of said State to be revised, en-
larged and corrected prior rs such election,
cor,iing to law, and for that purpose may APP
point such registrars he NAV deem necessary,
And said elections shall be held and returns
thereof made in n manner provided by the acts
of Congress commonly called the reconstruction
acts.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
President of the United States may in Ike man
submit the constitution of Texas TO the voters
of SAID State Al such time and in such manner
he may direct, either the entire constitution
separate provisions OF the same. provided in
the first section Of this act, TO separate vote
and at the same election the voters may vote for
and elect the members of the legislature and
all the State officers provided for in SAID con-
stitution. and members Of Congress: provided
al-o, ! hat no election shall be held in the SAID
State of Texas for any purpose until the President
directs.
Sac 4. And be it further enacted, That the
commissioner the part of the United states, in
conjunction with the commissioner on the part Of
Mexico, is hereby authorized to make all need
full rules and regulations for conducting the BUSH
ness Of the commission; such rules and regula-
tons not coutraveniDg the Constitution If the
United States, and provisions of this act, or the
convention.
Sac. 5. And be it further enacted. That the
Secretary of State is hereby authorized and re-
qnired to transmit to the commissioner the
part of the uPited States such papers and records
relating to the commission as he may deem proper,
may be called for by the commissioners: AID
at the termination Of the commits ion all the |
records, documents, and other papers which have
been brought before the commissioners, or which |
may be in possession of their secretaries shall lie
in the Department Of state: Provided, |
That this section shall not be onstrued TO
prevent the commissioner on the part of Mexico /
from d-positing in the department certified copies
or duplicates of papers produced on behalf of his
government instead of originals
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That upon |
by either party that a witness whose
willing to testify. it shall be competent for the |
board of commissioners to issue a commission 10
some suitable person to take the testimony of such
who il in the United States, may be COM
PEELED to appear and testify before said commits /
siouers in the same manner Is now provided by |
law in the case Of commissions issued from the |
courts Of the United States.
APPROVED. April I, 1869
Public Resolution No. Is.
A Resllution enat ling bosa ide settlers TO pur-
chase certain lands acquired from The Great and |
Little Usage tribe of Indians.
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Repre-
,entatives OF the United States If America in
Congress assembled, That any bona fide s-ttler
residing upon any portion of the lands sold to The
United States by virtue Of the first and second
,rticles of the treaty concluded between the
United States and the Great and Little Usage
ibe of Indians, September twenty-ninth, eieh-
cen hundred and sixty-five. and proclaimed
January twenty first, eighteen hundred and
lNty-seyen, VINO Is a CITIZEN OF tne united states
n shall have declared his intention to become
itizen of the United States, shall be, nnd hereby
5 emit tiled to purchase the same in quantity not
xcerding one hundred and sixty acres, at prc.
f one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
within two years from the passage of Il is act,
nder such rules and reguationsas may be pre-
cribed by the Secretiry of the Interior pro-
ided however, That both the odd and even
numbered sections of the said lanes shall be sub
ect to setti.ment and sale above provided !
nd provi ed further, hat the sixteenth and
hirty-sixth sections in each town hip of said
.nds shall be reserved for Stat school purposes
n accordance with the provisions of the act of
Omission of the State of Kansas Provided, how
yer, That nothing in this act shall be construed
n any manner affecting any legal rights hereto
,re vested in any other party or parties.
Approved, April 10, 1863.
Public Resolution-No. II.
. Resolution making San Diego, California, a port
of delivery.
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Represen-
atives If the United States of America in Con-
r. IS assembled, That San Diego, California be.
nd is hereby. created aport Of delivery in the
nstoms collection district Of san Francisco, and
nat the deputy collector Of that port receive the
lme salary as other deputy collectors Of the dis
riot.
Approved, April 10, 1860. y.