Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-04
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty frs
Congress.

GENERAL NATURE-No. III

GENERAL NATURE-No. H.
Az ACT prescribing an oath of Office to be taken
by persons who participated in the late rebel
lion but who are not disqualified from hold
ing Office by the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
Be IT enacted 5y the Senate and House Of Re-
personalities of the United States OF america IN
Congress assembled, That when any person,
who is not rendered ineligible to office by the
provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution, shall be elected or appointed to
anyofice of honor or trust under the government
of the United States, and shall not be able. on
account of his participation In the late rebel
lion TO take the oath prescribed In the act OF
Congress approved July two, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two. said person shall in lieu of said
oath, before entering upon the duties of said
Office take and subscribe the oath prescribed in
an act of Congress entitled An act prescribing
an oath of office to be taken by persons from
ed,n approved, July eleven, eighteen hundred
'''' o. : 90 J. G. BLAINE.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,.
Tice President of the United States and Presi-
dent of the Senate.
Received by the President February 8, 1871.
(NorE BIZ THE DEPARTMENT. OF ST2TE.-The
foregoing act 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 in which it originated within
the time prescribed by the Constitution Of the
United States, has become law without has
APPROVAL
tRxscLuTIoN OF eESERAL ,NATURE-No. g.
JoINr RESOLUTION for the protection and
preservation of the food fishes ofthe coast ofthe
United States,
Whereas it is asserted that the most valuable
food fishes of the coast and the lakes of the
orSA lx1d nfeb1 IN
Dor, to the public injury, and so as materially
TO affect the interests of trade and commerce
Therefore,
Be II resoLred By the Senate and House of Re
presostatircS Of the United States of Anleriea
II. CONGRESS assembled, That the President be,
and he hereby is, authorized and required to
appoint. by and with the advice and consent OF
the Senate, from among the civil officers or en-
ployees of the government, one person of proved
scientific and practical acquaintance with the
fishes of the ceast, to be commissioner offsh and
fisheries, TO serve without additional salary.
SEQ. 2. A,,d be 1t further resolved, That it
shall be the duty of said commissioner 10 prose
cute investigations and inquiries on the subject.
with the view of ascertaining whether any and
what diminution in the number of the food
Ashes of the coast and the lakes of the United
States has taken place; and, If so, to what causes
the same is due and also whether any and what
protective, prohibitory, or precautionary meas,
ures should DO adopted in the premises; and
10 report upon the same to Congress.
SEC 8. And Be it further TesoLred, That the
heads of the Executive departments be, and they
are hereby, directed to cause to be rendered all
Necessary and practicable aid to the said COM
missioner in the prosection of the investigation:
and inquiries aforesaid
SEC. 4. And be 1T further 7esoIced That il
shall be lawful for said commissioner Il
take, or cause to be taken, at all times, in thu
waters of the sea-coast of the United States
whore the tide ebbs and flows, and also in tn,
wstsrs of the lakes, such.fsh or specimens there
Of as may in his Judgment from time TO time
be neodful or proper for the conduct of his du
ties as aforesaid, any law, custom, or usage o
any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, February 8, 1871.
IREsoLUTIoN OF GENERAL NATURE-No. g..
JoIsT RESOLUTION authorizing the sale of {
portion of the Fort Leayenworth military re
seryation to the Kansas Agricultural and Me
chanlcal Association, of Leav enworth county
IN the State OF Kansas, for. fair grounds.
Be IL resolved BY the Senate and House of Re
prcsentGttrcs OF the United States of Auserieo
fs Congress assembled, That the Kansas Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Association. a ccrpo.
rate body organized under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of Kansas, is hereby author.
lied TO purchase from the United States. for the
sole purpose and use of such association as fair
ground. and for experimental agriculture and
Horticulture, that portion of the Fort Leayen-
worth military reservation bounded and de-
scribed SIS follows, viz: Commencing ct the
southeast corner of the premises herein de-
scribed, at point one hundred feet north and
in continuation of the west line OF Sixteenth
street, as laid down and recorded IN the map Of