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or irregular warrants, accounts, or vouchers; and what, if any, amount Powers of board remains in the hands of said treasurer; and to the end aforesaid, and to enable the said board of audit to complete the duties assigned thereto in said act, said board shall have all the powers and perform all Report to Con- the duties in said act set forth; and shall make report of their proceed. gress at present ings herein and pursuant to said act, together with all oral testimony hereafter taken by them to Congress at the present session thereof not later than the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

session.

Approved, December 21, 1874.

Feb. 16, 1875.

[No. 3.] Joint resolution authorizing the President to appoint a commissioner to attend the International Penitentiary Congress at Rome.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Commissioner to States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he International Pen- is hereby, authorized to appoint a commissioner to attend the Interitentiary Congress. national Penitentiary Congress, proposed to be held next year at Rome. Approved, February 16, 1875.

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[No. 5.] Joint resolution appointing managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons be, and are hereby, reappointed managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under the provisions of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate a national military and naval asylum for the relief of the totally disabled officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States,' approved March twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,"-John H. Martindale, of New York; Hugh L. Bond, of Maryland; and Erastus B. Wolcott, of Wisconsin; whose terms expired on the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

Approved, February 26, 1875.

March 2, 1875.

Manuscript returns of first and ninth censuses to

be bound.

[No. 6.] Joint resolution to provide for the preservation of the manuscript returns of the first and ninth censuses.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congressional Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to bind in suitable form for ready reference, and for their better preservation, the manuscript returns of the first and ninth censuses of the United States.

Approved, March 2, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

1875, c. 118, ante, 338, explained.

[No. 7.] Joint resolution explanatory of an act entitled "an act fixing the number of Paymasters in the Army of the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the intent and meaning of an act entitled "An act fixing the number of Paymasters in the Army of the United States", approved March two, eighteen hundred and seventy-five was to authorize the appointment of such additional

R.S., 1194, p. 212,

number of paymasters with the rank of major as will make the total number of Paymasters with the rank of major, fifty, and no more. And repealed in part. so much of section eleven hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes as applies to the Paymasters of the rank of major be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

[No. 8.] Joint resolution for the relief of Lowell A. Chamberlain Whereas, it appears that Lowell A. Chamberlain was induced to tender the resignation of his commission of first lieutenant in the First regiment of Artillery, United States Army, under the apprehension of being dismissed therefrom by sentence of a general court-martial, which resignation was accepted by the President of the United States, to date November seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; and Whereas the vacancy created by the acceptance of the said resignation has been filled by promotion in regular course: now therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to restore the said Lowell A. Chamberlain to his position in the Third Regiment of Artillery, United States Army, with the same rank and date of commission, and without forfeiture of pay, as if he had not tendered his resignation; Provided, That the President shall be convinced, upon an examination of the evidence in the case, that the dismissal of the said Chamberlain by sentence of the general court martial, before which he was tried, would have been unjust and not warranted by the facts; And provided further, That no vacancy which may hereafter occur in the grade of first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery, United States Army, shall be filled until the number of officers in that grade in the said regiment shall be reduced to the number now allowed by law,

Approved, March 3, 1875,

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PROCLAMATIONS

MADE BY THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

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