The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-08
TIE .WORK OF CONGRESS.
List of all the Latcs OF General Interest
Passed at the Recent Session.


| commissioners of Alabama claims.
| To amend the revised statutes relating tc
naturalization
To amend the revised statutes touching
! Vlce-conSuls general.
! Providing for the payment OF judgments
rendered under section l 1 of chapter 479 oi
the laws OF the first session of the Forty
| third Congress. alabama claims.)
Relating to the centennial celebration ol
American Independence.
Donating condemned nnoD and cannon
| balls to the ladies monumental ASSOCIATION OF
| Allegheny county, for monumental Pur
| poses.
Making an appropriation to pay fourteen
crippled and disabled union soldiers from
the sixth day of December, 1875, to the thir
tieth day of June, 1876. blouse of repre-
sentative eInployes.)
70 amend the act entitled "An act to ena-
bic the people of Colorado to form consti-
tuition and state government, and Tor the ad-
MISSION OF said state into the union on an
equal footing with the original states" Ap-
proved March 3, 1870.
To extend the time for claimants under
sectisn II of chapter $50 OF the Forty-third
congress to prove their claims (Aiabama
claims.)
Approving an act of the legislative assem-
bly, of Colorado territory.
To provide for the purchase of material and
for the continuation of the work on the
building for custom-house and postohiee at
st. Louis, Mo.
Making appropriations for the payment of
invalid and other pensions OF the United
States for the year ending June 80, 1876.
To confirm certain school indemnity selec-
tions Of public lands by the state of Nebras-
ka.
Donating the military road running from
Astoria Oregon, TO Salem, in that state. to
the several counties through which it runs
To supply deficiency in the appropria-
tious for certain Indians.
To apply deficiency in the appropriation
for the manufacture of postal cards for the
year ending June 30, 1876
To authorize the sale of the Pawnee Indian
reservation.
To enable the secretary of the treasury to
pay judgments provided for in an act ap-
proved February l6, 1876 entitled "An act
providing for the payment of judgments rem
dered under section Il Of chapter 4j9 of the
laws of the first session of the FOrty-third
congress.
To amend section 1,0H of the revised
statutes, relating to limitations in criminal
cases.
Concerning eases in bankruptcy COM
menced in the supreme court OF the several
territories prior to the twenty-second day Of
June, 1874, and now undetermined therein.
To provide for the expenses OF admission
of foreign goods to the centennial cxhibi-
ton at Philadelphia.
TO provide for deficiency in the printing
and engraving bureau of the treasury de-
parment, and for the issue of silver coin
the United Sta ties IN place Of fractional cur
renoy.
To confirm pre-emption and homestead en-
tries OF public lands within the limits Of rail-
road grants in cases where such entries have
been made under the regulations Of the land
department.
For continuing the work of improving the
capitol grounds.
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part of Utah territory, to be known as the
Beaver district, and for other purposes.
Authorizing the sale OF logs cut by the In
dians Of the Menomonee reservation in Wis
consin, under the direction of the interior
department.
Giving the consent of the United States to
the county OF Dubuque, IN the state of Iowa,
to construct county buildings IN Washington
square in the city Of Dubuque, and for other
purposes.
To provide for the separate entry Of pack
ages contained in one Importation.
Making apprs spuations 10 suS ply the def
cjencies IN the appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1876, and for prior
years, and Tor other purposes.
To relinquish the interest of the United
States in certain lands to the city and county
of San Francisco, in the state of California.
To exclude the states OF Missouri and Kan
sas from the provisions of the act of congress,
entitled, q An act to promote the develop
ment of the mining resources of the United
States" approved May 10, 1872.
Appropriating $4,000 for subsistence sup
plies for Apache Indians in Arizona territa-
ry, and for the removal of the Indians of the
Churicahua agency TO the San Carlos
agency.
To define the tax on fermented or malt
liquors.
Making appropriations for the payment of
claims reported to congress under section ,
of the act approved June 16, 1874, by the
secretary of the treasury.
Further to provide for the building of Gus
tom house, posioffice, court rooms and so
forth, in the city of Memphis, Tenn.
To extend the time to pre- emptors on the
Extending the time within which home.
stead entries upon certain lands in Michigan
may be made.
Making certain transfers of appropriations
in the provisions for the continge expenses
OF the department of justice for the current
year.
To continue the public printing.
Granting the right of way for n railroad and
line TO the Walla-N ala and Co
Iumbia river railroad company across Fort
Walla- Waila military reservation in Wash
inEtor territory.
Making further erappropriatiol is for the cree
ton Of government buildings at Dover, Del.
To amend section 1911 of the revised stat
utes of the United States, defining the iuris-
diction of the courts in Washington terri
tory.
Authorizing the appointment Of receivers
of national banks, and for other purposes.
Making appropriations for the naval ser
vice for the year ending June 80, 1877, and
for other purposes.
Appropriating $4,000 to pay the expenses
of the select committee TO investigate the
federal offices in Louisiana.
To amend the act entitled An act enti-
tied An act to encourage the growth of tim
ber on western prairies,'" approved March
IS, 1874.
TO extend the time for filing claims forad-
ditional bounty under the act of July 2S,
1866, which expired by limitation January
80, 1876, unit July !, 1880.
Providing for the sale of the Kansas In
dian lands to actual settler, and for the dis
position of the proceeds of the sale
To amend section 1,275 of the revised stat
utes of the United states. (Retired otiicers.1
To authorize the construction OF n pontoon
bridge across the Mississippi from some
point in La Cross county, in the state Of
Wisconsin, to some feasible pOin. in Hous-
ton county, Minnesota.
To repeal section 2,303 of the revised stat
utes of the United States making restrictions
in the dispositions of the public lands in the
states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Florida, and for other pur-
poses.
To authorize the northwestern improve
ment company, a corporation organized un-
der the laws of the state Of Wisconsin, to en-
ter upon the MenOmOnec Indian reservation
an! improve the Oconto river and its
branches.
To exempt vessels engaged in navigating
the Mississippi river and its tributaries above
the port of New Orleans from entries and
clearances.
TO amend section 5,546 of the revised stat
utes of the United States providing for the
imprisonment and transfer of United States
To amend section 5,271 of the revised stat
utes of the United States, relating to extra
dition.
To amend i" An act for the relief of certain
settlers on the public lands" approved Dec.
2S 1874, and for other purposes.
Making appropriations for Notifications
and for other works of defense, and for the
armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending
June 80 1877, and for other purposes.
Establishing Cheboygan, in the state of
Michigan, a port of delivery
Authorizing the Nebraska City bridge
company to construct poutoon railway
bridge across the Missouri river at Nebraska
To amend sections 1898 and 1894 of the
revised statutes, providing a penalty for
mailing obscene books and other matters
therein contained. and prohibiting lottery
circulars passing through the mails.
Making appropriations for the service OF
the postofice department for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1877, and for other pur-
poses.