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Destroyed clothing.
Bounty, destruction
of enemies' vessels:
Fnifutment
ties.
boon.
Mileage claims.
Postmasters' saiaries.
Vo1 .18,p.11o,
Vol. 23,p.284.
Readjustedd co-pencation
Vol. 22, p. 600.
Postal revenues.
February 1, 1888.
Agricuituralexperimennstations.
Vol24, p. 440.
Vol. 12, p . 503 .
Appropriation .
SESS . I. . OHS. 4, 5 .
1888 .
~ or payment on account of clothing or bedding destroyed by order
for sanitary ~purposes in preventing the spread of contagious diseases,
one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and five cents .
For bounty for the destruction of enemies' vessels prior to July
first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and ninetythree dollars and thirty-four cents .
For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, two thousand one hundred and forty-four
dollars and fifty cents .
For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses
and mileage, allowed under the decision of the United State' Supreme
Court in the case of Graham versus United States, eighteen thousand
seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty three cents .
SEC. 3 . That for the payment of a . portion of the claims certified to
be due by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department under appropriations, the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section
five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
and under ap ropriations heretofore, treated as permanent, being for
the service ofp the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four and
prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under section
two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
as fully set forth in House Executive Document Number Thirty-two,
Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows :
For compensation of ,postmasters readjusted under act of March
third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, payable from deficiency in
postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years,
one hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars
and five cents
For deficiency in postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eightyfive and prior years, except the claims designated as A 1, A 2, and
A 3 and the claims numbered eight thousand six hundred and fortysix and nine thousand four hundred and ninety-five in said Executive
Document Number Thirty-two, forty-nine thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents .
Approved, February 1, 1888.
CHAP. 5 .-An act .making an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of
an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An
act to establish agricultural experimental stations in connection with the colleges
established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of acts supplementary thereto .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That to carry into
effect the provrisions of an act ap-roved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the
several States, under the provisions of an act approved July second,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary
thereto," the sum of five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight .
Approved, February 1, 1888 .
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
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CHAP . 7.-An act to make additional appropriation for the printing of the eulogies delivered in Congress on the late Jphn A . Logan .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of
four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessar - be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys
in the Teasury of the United Stte not otherise appropriated, for
the purpose of printing portraits for additional copies of the eulogies delivered in the Congress of the United States upon the , late
John A . Logan, said portraits to be printed in accordance with "An
act to authorize the printing of the eulogies delivered in Congress
upon the late John A . Logan," approved March third, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven .
Approved, February 6, 1888.
February 6,1888.
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printadsitionalcopies
of eulogies.
vol. 24, p. 467 .
February 15, 1
CHAP. 9 .-An act to grant an American register to the foreign-built bark "Nordst- -
jernen."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary "Nordstiernen ."
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue
an American register to . the foreign-built bark "Nordstjernen," toAmerican
register
wrecked or disabled in or near . the waters of the United States and foreign-built bark'
towed into a port thereof, said vessel having been condemned and ordered to be sold, and bought by citizens of the United States, by
whom said vessel has been repaired at an expense of more than
five-sixths of the present cost thereof .
Approved, February 15, 1888.
February 16, M98 .
CHAP. 10 .-An act to punish robbery, burglary, and l4rceny, in the Indian Territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
stealing, etc .,
United States of America in Congress assembled, That and person ,'nHorse
Indian Territory .
hereafter convicted in the United States courts having jj
over the Indian Territory or parts thereof, of stealing any horse,
mare, gelding, filly, foal, ass or mule, when said theft is committed
in the Indian Territory, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Punishment.
one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than fifteen
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of
the court .
SEC. 2 . That any person hereafter convicted of any robbery or g1Robbery and burburglary in the Indian Territory shall be punished by a fine of not Punishment.
exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding fifteen
years, or both, at the discretion of the court ; Provided, That this act Provisos .
shall not be so construed as to apply to any offense committed by one offenses upon InIndian upon the person or property of another Indian, or so as to re- dians,etcl
peal any former act in relation to robbing the mails or robbing any
person of property belonging to the United States : And provided Pending trials.
further, That this act shall not affect or apply to any prosecution
now pending, or the prosecution of any offense already committed .
SEC . 3 . That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act
R . s., sees 2154-e,
are hereby repealed : Provided, however, That all such acts and parts P-'5Trial for prior of.
of acts-shall remain in force for the punishment of all persons who fenses
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have heretofore been guilty of the crime of larceny in the Indian
Territory .
Approved, February 15, 1888 .
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