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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS.

FIRST SESSION, FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

HOLIDAY RECESS, 1901-1902.

December 12, 1901.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Holiday recess. when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December nineteenth, they stand adjourned until twelve o'clock Meridian, Monday, January sixth, nineteen hundred and two.

Passed December 12, 1901.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY. MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY JOHN HAY.

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of William McKinley, late President of the United States, having occurred during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing in the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of the public bereavement: Therefore, be it

January 16, 1902.

Memorial address to

Congress.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That President McKinley the two Houses of Congress will assemble in the Hall of the House be delivered by the of Representatives on a day and hour fixed and announced by the Hon. John Hay before joint committee, to wit: Thursday, February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and that, in the presence of the two Houses there assembled, an address upon the life and character of William McKinley, late President of the United States, be pronounced by Honorable John Hay, and that the President of the Senate pro tempore and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be requested to invite the President and ex-President of the United States, ex Vice-Presidents, the heads of the several Departments, the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives of the foreign Governments, the governors of the several States, the Lieutenant-General of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy, and such officers of the Army and Navy as have received the thanks of Congress who may then be at the seat of Government, to be present on the occasion, and such others as may be suggested by the executive committee.

to Mrs. Ida S. McKin

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to Copy of resolutions transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Ida S. McKinley, and to ley. assure her of the profound sympathy of the two Houses of Congress for her deep personal affliction, and of their sincere condolence for the late national bereavement.

Passed January 16, 1902.

LAKE SUPERIOR IRON DEPOSITS.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed at the Government Printing Office four thousand copies, in pamphlet form, of the report on the "Iron ore deposits of

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the Lake Superior region," by C. R. Van Hise, being pages three hundred and five to four hundred and thirty-four of Part Two of the Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and one thousand for distribution by the Geological Survey.

Passed February 1, 1902.

February 1, 1902.

Report of Librarian

of Congress. Printing ordered.

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed and bound in cloth five thousand five hundred copies of the report of the Librarian of Congress for nineteen hundred and one; five hundred copies for the use of the Senate, one thousand five hundred copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and three thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Library of Congress. Passed February 1, 1902.

February 7, 1902.

Geological Survey. Bulletin on Texas oil and gas fields. Additional copies ordered printed.

TEXAS OIL FIELDS.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there be printed at the Government Printing Office four thousand additional copies of Bulletin Numbered One hundred and eighty-four of the Geological Survey, lately issued, entitled "Oil and Gas Fields of the Western Interior and Northern Texas Coal Measures and of the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary of the Western Gulf Coast," by George I. Adams, one thousand for the use of the Senate, two thousand for the use of the House, and one thousand for free distribution by the Geological Survey,

Passed February 7, 1902.

February 11, 1902.

Error in engrossing

the urgent deficien

bill corrected.

URGENT DEFICIENCIES APPROPRIATION BILL.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That cies appropriation the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed in the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 9315,) "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes" to insert the word thirteenth on page nine in line nine, in lieu of the word thirtieth.

Passed February 11, 1902.

February 13, 1902.

Report on the National Home for Dis

diers.

ordered printed.

VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS' HOME REPORT.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That abled Volunteer Sol- there be printed and bound in cloth of the Report of the Board of Additional copies Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in addition to the usual number, five hundred copies of the report proper, ive hundred copies of the report of the Assistant Inspector-General on the State Homes, and one hundred and fifty copies of the record of members, for the use of the House.

EXECUTION OF DEEDS IN THE PHILIPPINES, ETC.

February 17, 1902.

Return of House bill

in the Philippines, etc.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That No. 5814 requested. the President be requested to return to the House of Representatives Execution of deeds the bill (H. R. 5814) "to provide for the execution in the Philippine Islands and in Porto Rico of deeds of land situate in the District of Columbia."

Passed February 17, 1902.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

March 7, 1902.

Issue of Government publications to Con

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Superintendent of Public Documents be, and he hereby is, author- gress authorized. ized and directed to issue to the Secretary of the United States Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives such Government publications as they may find from time to time to be necessary for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives respectively. Passed March 7, 1902.

LAWS OF PORTO RICO.

March 7, 1902.

mission to Revise and Compile the Laws of Printing ordered.

Porto Rico.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed three thousand five hundred copies of the report of the Commission to Revise and Compile the Laws of Porto Rico, sent to Congress by the Attorney-General, of which one thousand five hundred copies shall be for the use of the Department of Justice, five hundred for the use of the Senate, and one thousand five hundred for the use of the House of Representatives: Provided, That of the one Proviso. thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Department of Justice partment of Justice. one thousand shall be held by said Department for distribution in such

a manner as the Commission to Revise and Compile the Laws of Porto Rico may indicate.

Distribution by De

Passed March 7, 1902.

SCHLEY COURT OF INQUIRY.

March 7, 1902.

Proceedings of the

Printing ordered.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That schley Court of Inthere he printed three thousand five hundred copies of the proceed- quiry, etc. ings of the Schley Court of Inquiry, together with all papers officially before the President with Admiral Schley's appeal and the President's action thereon and also with a subject and topical index of the whole publication; and of which one thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and five hundred copies for the use of the Navy Department.

Passed March 7, 1902.

GAZETTEER OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed and bound in cloth four thousand copies of the Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands, one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, two thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for the use of the War Department.

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