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RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.] Joint Resolution Repealing joint resolution to provide for the distribution by Members of the Sixtieth Congress of documents, reports, and other publications, approved March second, nineteen hundred and nine.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to provide for the distribution by Members of the Sixtieth Congress of documents, reports, and other publications," approved March second, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, April 23, 1909.

[No. 2.] Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-first Congress.

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April 23, 1909. [H. J. Res. 45.] [Pub. Res., No. 2.]

Appropriations for

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are House of Representa hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise tives. appropriated, for purposes as follows:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, Dele- Stationery. gates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

30, 1909.

Employees to June
Pages.

For the following employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive: Forty-six pages including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; fourteen messengers in the post-office at one hundred dollars per month each; and for three telephone operators at Telephone operaseventy-five dollars per month each; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.

For services of one additional messenger in the post-office from
March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive,
at one hundred dollars per month, three hundred and ninety dollars.
For folding speeches, one thousand dollars.
Approved, April 23, 1909.

[No. 3.] Joint Resolution Relating to the provisions of section ten of the sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section ten of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not be construed as applying to the unexpended balance of any river and harbor appropriation, the use of which may be essential, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, for the further maintenance or prosecution of the work to which it pertains as heretofore authorized by Congress.

Approved, June 25, 1909.

Messengers in postoffice.

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Additional messenger in post-office.

Folding speeches.

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July 1, 1909. [H. J. Res. 59.]

[Pub. Res., No. 4.]

Chelsea, Mass.

Time extended for

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[No. 4.] Joint Resolution Amending an Act concerning the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time within which treating sufferers from certain accident, emergency, and maternity cases may be received and treated in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, fixed by the Act approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby extended until October first, nineteen hundred and nine. Approved July 1, 1909.

Vol. 35, p. 251.

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August 5, 1909. [S. J. Res. 16.]

[Pub. Res., No. 6.]

Rivers and harbors.

Printing of prelim

etc.

[No. 5.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan cots, tents, and appliances for the use of the forty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, at his discretion and under such restrictions as are usual in such cases, without to the Government of the expense United States, to loan to the citizens' committee having charge of the arrangements for the forty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in August, nineteen hundred and nine, at Salt Lake City, Utah, and to deliver to F. M. Sterrett, the executive director of said committee, for the use of said committee, such cots, tents, and appliances as may be required at said encampment; the same to be delivered to F. M. Sterrett, executive director aforesaid, at such time prior to the date of said encampment as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of War and said executive director: Provided, That the said F. M. Sterrett, or his successor in office, shall indemnify the War Department for any loss to such cots, tents, and appliances as not necessarily incident to such use. Approved, July 12, 1909.

[No. 6.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of reports upon preliminary examinations and surveys, and so forth.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That at any time prior to inary examinations, the assembling of Congress in December, nineteen hundred and nine, all reports of preliminary examinations and surveys heretofore authorized by Congress that may be prepared and ready for printing shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be printed by the Public Printer as Documents of the Sixty-first Congress.

Approved, August 5, 1909.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution:

[S. J. Res. 40.]

Income tax.

Proposed a mendment to the Constitu

"ARTICLE XVI. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportion- tion. ment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.'

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