Connecticut western news., 1876-08-25
WORK OF A SESSION.
The Work of C0ngresssA-LfstO of More Im-
 bOrthht Bills Passed.


 porthht Bills Passed.
 During the last session of the United States Congress there were introduced in tho House of Representative t, 105 bills and 164 joint resolutions and in the Senate 1,0A5 bills and twenty five joint resolutions, making total of 5, 15O bills and 189 joint resolutions. Of this num- Der about 40 public acts, 13O private acts, and thirteen joint resolutions and five private resolutions have become laws, including the following:
 An act providing that the declaration of intention to become citizen of the United States may be made by an alien before the clerk of United States court, and making all such declarations here tofore made before such clerk legal. Extending until the twenty third of June, 1877, the provisions of the act for stamping of unstamped instruments, documents or papers.
 To enable the people of Colorado to form constitution and State govern ment.
 Making appropriations for the pay nent of invalid and other pensions for the year ending with June, 1876.
 Providing that 10 person shall be prosecuted, tried CT punished for any ofense not capital, except unless the in dictment Is found or the information is instituted within three years after such offense shall have been committed.
 Providing for the separate entry of packages contained in one importation. Confirming pre-emption and home stead entries of public lands within the limits of railroad grapts, in cases where such entries have been made under regu- lations of the land office.
 Extending the time to pre- emptors on public lands.
 Defining the tax on fermented ,r malt | liquors.
 Providing that in cases of extradition in every case of complaint and of hear ing upon the return of warrant of ar rest, any dispositions, warrants or other papers offered in evidence shall be ad- mitted and received for the purpose of such hearing, if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received as evidence of the criminality of the person so apprehend- ed by tribunals of 8 foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and copies of any such deposi- tions, warrants or other papers shall, if authenticated according to the laws of such foreign country, be in like manner received as evidence, and the certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, resident in such foreign country, shall be proof that any such dero ,ition, warrant or other paper or copy thereof is authenticated in the manner required by this section.
 Making appropriations for fcrtifca- tions and other works of defense.
 Authorizing the appointment of re ceivers of national banks.
 To reduce the number and increase the efficacy of the medical corps of the army.
 Providing for the redemption of un used stamps.
 Exemptipg vessels engaged in navi gating the Mississippi river and it. tributaries about the port of New Or leans from entries and clearances.
 Amending sections 3,893 and 3,894 O the revised statutes, providing penalt, for mailing obscene books and othe matters therein contained and prohibit
 ing lottery circulars passing through tn
 mails.
 , Providing for an expenditure of $200.
 GOO for the completion of the Washing ton monument.
 , Providing that no voluntary assign , ment by debtor or debtors of all hi or their property, heretofore or here 7 after made in good faith for the benefi
 of all of his or their creditors, ratabl and without creating any preference, an valid according to the law of the Stat . where made, shall of itself, in the even s of his or their being subsequently a6 t judicated bankrupts in proceeding ( ? involuntary bankruptcy, be bar to tn l discharge of such debtor or debtors. 4 f any time after the expiration of si D months from the adjudication of banl f ruptcy, or if no debts have been passe g against the bankrupt, or if no asset Q have come to the hands of the assigne a at any time after the expiration of sixt q days and before the final disposition
 the cause, the bankrupt may apply
 the court for discharge from his debt
 This section shall apply in all cases her toforo or hereafter commenced. Il Extending the duration of the cou T of commissioners of Alabama claims Il the first of January next. n Appropriating $2OO,OOO for the CO U struction of military posts at certa a points on the Yellowstone and Musse 6: shell rivers.
 't Removing the political disabilities y General G. T. Beauregard, of New o ,s leans.
 l. Authorizing the secretary of the trea 10 ury to issue silver coin to an amou
 not exceeding $10,0O0,OOO in exchan| II II for an equal amount of legal tend se notes, and declaring that the trade dc n Lar shall not hereafter be legal tende 1T u. etc.
 '1 Providing for the restoration of u T. original writing of the Declaration y Independence. .. Prohibiting supplies of special mets i' lie cartridges t> hostile Indians. e Appropriating about $430, 900 to p It the claims adjudged by the Southe '' claims commission in favor of loyal eli 'e 'ee zens whose property was taken fro ;. ot them during the late war for militia = uses.
 Us Authorizing the employment of o, u hundred Indian scouts in the army. n Providing for the printing and dist ss button of the reports of the commissio
 CT of agriculture for the years 1874 al
 1875.
 An act for extending the time for e redemption of lands held by the Unit w States under several acts levying dire hs taxes, and for other purposes. le A Second Joan of Arc. IT. The Paris correspondent of the Lc ,i don Telegraph says: It appears tl