Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-22
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
The Acts Passed at the Last Session
of That Body.

Following is a complete list of the
public laws enacted at the second ses-
sion of the XLVIIth Congress:
To provide for terms of the United
States District Court OF Wichita, Kans
Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
in Washington, Idaho and Montana
Il Territories.
To increase the police of the District
Of Columbia.
To suppress gaming in the District of
Columbia.
In relation to the Japanese Indemnity
Fund
To amend the act in relation to dis
eliminating duties on goods produced
east OF the Cape of Good Hope.
Expectation of tobacco, snuff and ci-
gars in bond toadjscent foreign territory.
The establishment of q free public
highway in the District of Columbia
The Agricultural Appropriation bill.
Concerning the construction of bridg-
es acress the Ohio river.
The Military Academy Appropriation
bill.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appro-
priation bill.
Concerning the title to the site of the
military post at Ell Paso, Texas.
To cede certain lot of land to the
First Taxing District of Tennessee.
To sell certain property belonging to
the Hsrodsburg kentucky Soldiers
Home.
To authorize the Public Printer to
make certain purchases without adVer-
sing.
Relating to tax on perique tobacco.
In relation so the grinding of Canadi-
an grain in mills within the U. States.
Extending the time or filing claims
for horses and equipments lost by Off
GERS and men in the United States ser
vice.
To reimburse Oregon and California
and the citizens thereof for expenses in
the Modoc Indian war.
To pay the Burlington and Cedar
Rapids railroad for transporting mails.
To regulate and improve the Civil Ser
vice Of the United States.
To attach Hardenaa county, Texas,
to the eastern division of the Western
district.
To provide for extra work in the Gov
eminent Printing Office.
To increase certain witness fees in
United States Courts.
Relating to the Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition in 1884.
To amend section $3.50 of the Revised
Statutes public printing!.
| Erection of monument to General,
the BaroR De Kalb.
Increase of the capital stock Of the
| First National Bank of Xenia, Ohio.
Da .,f +oir iaiI de hv hn
Freedmen's Saving Bank.
Granting railroad right of way thro'
Fort Smith Reservation, Arkansas.
Authorizing the construction of GER
tain bridges. srE
Changing the name of the First Ma
tional Bank of West Greenville, Pa.
Relief of the sherwood estate in the
District of Columbia.
For public building at Jefferson Ci-
ty, Missouri.
Pension Appropriation bill.
Indian Appropriation bill.
Allowance of certain claims reported
from the Treasury Department.
To prevent the Importation OF adul-
teration- of tea.
Naval Appropriation bill.
Dist. of Columbia Appropriation bill.
POSt0thc6 Appropriation DILL.
TO admit free of duty articles for the
mining exhibition at Denver, Colorado.
In relation to the Southern Exhibi-
tion" at Louisville, Kentucky.
Bridge over Thames river near New
London, Connecticut.
Army Appropriation bill.
Fertilization Appropriation bill.
Right of way for railroad through the
Niobrara reservation in Nebraska.
Extension of Capital and North 0
Street Railroad" in the District OF Co
lumbia. ..-.-.I. ~
Seneca Indians of New York to grant
title to land for cemetery purposes.
To amend the Pension laws Qoss OF
an arm or a legl.
To refund certain moneys to the State
of Georgia for expenses incurred in 177T.
Relief of the German National Bank
of Louisville, Kentucky.
For the relief Congress and the Exec
utive Departments in the investigation
of claims against the United States.
Issuance Of duplicate checks in GER
tain cases by the Superintendent OF the
San Francisco mint.
To amend the Revised Statutes in re
lation to yachts.
To amend the Revised Statutes so as
to permit army officers to hold civil Of
fees in the Territories.
Making st. Vincent, Minnesota, port
of entry.
In relation to certain fees allowed
registers and receivers.
Amending the Agricultural College act.
Prescribing regulations for the Sol
diers' Home, at Washington, d. G.
To amend the act for the publication
Of the Revised Statutes approved June
20, 1874.
To confirm certain enties on the pub
lie lands.
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
bill.
To modify the postal money order
system.
To punish larceny from the person in
the District of Columbia.
To readjust the salaries OF certain post
masters under the act Of June II, 1856.
Relating to contracts under the War
To reduce the Internal Revenue Tax
alton, and for other purposes (Tarin bllD.
To confer certain powers upon the
Senior Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court OF the District of Columbia in eN-
tradition cases.
To amend certain statutes relating to
the District of Columbia.
To exclude the public lands in Alaba-
ma from the mineral land laws.
To establish certain post routes.
To create three additional land dis
tIicts in Dakota.
To establish railway bridge across
the Illinois river near Columbiana.
Deficiency Appropriation bill.
Bridges over certain rivers in Georgia.
Salary of the Chicago Collector or
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.
Assessment OF real estate in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
70 ahinst tha salaries of PoStmastarS.