The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-07-11

[Public-No A.1
An Act to discontinue Sault Ste1 Marie. As a Dol
y Of entry in the Superior district and to estal
n ish Marquette in lieu thereof
# Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rel
= resentatives of the United States Of America i
g Congress assembled That SAINT ste. Marie, in tn
district Of Superior, is hereby discontinued
port OF entry, and that the port OF entry for tn
D district be, and is hereby, established at Mar
quette, at which place the collector of the dis
trict shall reside, aud deputy collector shall
> side at Sault Ste. Marie.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That al
acts and parts of acts conaravening this act be
and the same are hereby, repealed. This ac1
shall take effect from and after the tenth day Of
| MAY next
Approved April 10, 1869
[Public-No Is.
An Act making available appropriation hereto
| fore made for furniture for the Presidential
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
| resentatiyes of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That the sum Of twenty five
| thousand dollars appropriated by the act approved
March third, eighteen hundred ana sixty-nin
| entitled SO An act making appropriations for
sundry civil expenses of the government for the
year ending June thrteth. eighteen hundred and
seventy, and for other purposes, for the purpose
Of " re'urnisbing the Presidents House, is
| hereby made available r snch purpose, without,
| in any event, increasing The amount of said APP
propria ion.
Approved, April 10, 1869.
TPublic-No. 81
Public kesolution-No-
Resolution respecting the provisional govern
ments of Virginia and Texas.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United State of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the persons holding
civil Offices in the provisional. governments # Nir
ginia and Texas, who cannot take and subscribe
the oath prescribed by the act entitled =. An act
to prescribe an oath of office and for other pur-
poses approved July ., 1862, shall, the pas
sac of this resoluti N, be removed tberefrom
slptt ha fl11r--
to fill the vacancies SO created by the app int
ment Of persons who take said oath pro-
ved, That the provisions of this resolution shall
not apply to persons tho by reason Of the re- |
moval of their disabilities provided in the |
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution shall |
have gu tlified for any office pursu of the |
act entitled a. An act prescribing oath If Office |
by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have
been removed approved July eleventh. egh-
be, and is hereby extended to, and made appli-
cable to the State of Mississippi.
SCHUYLER CorFAx
Speaker of the House of Representatives |
B. +. WADE.
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Endorsed by the President: - Received Febru-
airy 9th, 1,69''
Note by the Department of State The 70 e.
going resolution having been presented TO the
President of the United States for his approval |
and not having been returned by him to the
house of Congress where ii originated within the
time prescribed by the Constitution Of the United
States has become n law without his approval |,
IN Act authorizing the submission of the consti-
buttons of Nirg MIA, Mississippi, and Texas. to
n vote Of the people and authorizing the election
Of State officers. provided by the said constitu-
tons and members Of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
esentatives Of the United States of America in |
ngress assembled, That the President of the |
United States, ar such time as he may deem
,et for the public interest, may submit the con-
.itution which was framed by the convention
which smet in Richmond, Virginia. Tuesday, (
he third day of December. thousand eight :
hundred and sixty-scven. to the voters # said
tate, registered at the date Of said submission,
or ratification rejection pud he MAJ also sub
nit to separate vote slch provisions of .aid CEN
titution as be may deem best. such vote TO be
AIKEN either upon each Of the said provisions /,
lone, or in connecIi with the other portions of
aid consti uti"n as the President may direct Ii
SEC. p And be it further enacted. That at the n
anne election the voters of said State may vote =
,r and elect members of the general assembly of
aid State, and all the officers If said State pro-
ided for by the sad constitution, and members h
T Congress and the officer commanding the dis n
riot Of Virginia shall cause the lists Of regis u
cred voters Of said State to be revised. en-
,rged. and corrected prior to such election, y
1rding to law, and for that purpose may ap-
ONT such registrars as he may deem necessary
nd said elections shall be held and returns
hereof made in manner provided by the acts A
T Congress commonly called the reconstruction n
IS Ssc And ,a :, f,r.,s- sn.c,sa Tia, -. q
De Il |
resident of the United States may in like man
sr submit the constitution of Texas TO the voters
said State at such time and in such manner
he may direct, either the entire constitution or
parate provisions of the same, provided in
e first section OF this act, to a separate vote
ID at the same election the voters may vote for -
ID elect the members of the legislature and
the State uicers provided for in said con-
tuition and members of Congress: provided
%, hat no election shall be held in the said
ate of Texas for any purpose until the President
directs.
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That the e
on the part of the United States, in
ijanction with the commissioner the part Of g
.xico, is hereby authorized to make all need ~
rules and equations for conducting the bust
IS Of the commission; such rnles and regula- =
rs not contravening the Constitution Of the .
TIED States, and provisions of this act, the
lventon.
&C. s. And be it further enacted, That the
Rotary of State is hereby authorized and re-
red to transmit to the commissioner the
t of the Crited States such papers and records GI
ting to the commission as he may deem proper.
as may be called for by the commissioners: and
the termination If the commits ion all the | ~,
ortis, documents, and other papers which have 4"
n brought before the commissioners, or which
V be in possession Of their secretaries shall be
'osited in the Department of state: Provided,
At this section shall not be Sc construed as to
vent the commissioner the part of Mexico
N dtpositng in the department certified copies 50
duplicates of papers produced on behalf of his
instead of originals Sc
&c. 6. And be il further enacted, That upon
gestion by either party that witness whose
imony is deemed important refuses is I'M 4
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