Laws of the 50th Congress

25 Stat. 1 · January 20, 1888 · S. 261 An act to amend the law concerning the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 25 Stat. 1 · January 20, 1888 · H.R. 3318 An act relating to permissable marks, printing or writing, upon second, third, and fourth-class matter, and to amend the twenty-second and twenty-third sections of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the s… 25 Stat. 2 · January 31, 1888 · S. 290 An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Mississippi River, at or near Burlington, Iowa. 25 Stat. 4 · February 1, 1888 · H.R. 4271 An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 32 · February 1, 1888 · H.R. 4881 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 … 25 Stat. 33 · February 6, 1888 · S. 191 An act to make additional appropriation for the printing of the eulogies delivered in Congress on the late John A. Logan. 25 Stat. 33 · February 15, 1888 · H.R. 5352 An act to grant an American register to the foreign-built bark "Nordstjernen." 25 Stat. 33 · February 15, 1888 · H.R. 1213 An act to punish robbery, burglary, and larceny, in the Indian Territory. 25 Stat. 34 · February 17, 1888 · S. 274 An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at some accessible point in the County of Saint Charles in the State of Missouri, below the city of Saint Charles. 25 Stat. 35 · February 18, 1888 · S. 1346 An act to authorize the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 39 · February 18, 1888 · H.R. 2578 An act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River, at or near the city of Lexington, Missouri. 25 Stat. 40 · February 18, 1888 · H.R. 5514 An act to amend section four thousand eight hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes to enable the Assistant Secretary of the Interior to sign patents. 25 Stat. 41 · February 20, 1888 · S. 1022 An act to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands in Kansas. 25 Stat. 41 · February 28, 1888 · S. 1900 An act to carry into effect the International Convention of the fourteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for the protection of submarine cables. 25 Stat. 43 · February 28, 1888 · H.R. 6439 An act authorizing the appointment of two additional division superintendents of Railway Mail Service. 25 Stat. 43 · March 1, 1888 · S. 601 An act to authorize the purchase of additional ground in Newark, New Jersey, adjoining the custom-house and post-office building, and for the improvement of the building thereon, and the erection of additions thereto. 25 Stat. 43 · March 5, 1888 · S. 642 An act to authorize the removal of the quarantine station from Ship Island, Mississippi. 25 Stat. 44 · March 5, 1888 · H.R. 1495 An act granting to Edwin Libby Post, Grand Army of the Republic, permission to erect a soldiers' monument on vacant land adjoining custom-house at Rockland, Maine. 25 Stat. 44 · March 5, 1888 · H.R. 2993 An act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to the city of Austin, Texas, a tract of land in said city for educational purposes. 25 Stat. 44 · March 5, 1888 · H.R. 4359 An act for the purchase of a site, including the building thereon, also for the erection of the necessary store-houses, for the use of the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, at the city of Washington, Distr… 25 Stat. 45 · March 8, 1888 · S. 158 An act authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to the trustees of the Porter Academy certain property in the city of Charleston, South Carolina. 25 Stat. 45 · March 9, 1888 · H.R. 4756 An act to amend an act to restrict the ownership of real estate in the Territories to American citizens, and so forth, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. 25 Stat. 45 · March 23, 1888 · S. 1027 An act to fix the charge for passports at one dollar. 25 Stat. 46 · March 26, 1888 · S. 2494 An act to provide for payment of the funeral expenses of the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. 25 Stat. 46 · March 26, 1888 · H.R. 5617 An act to provide for the leasing of premises for the Washington. City post-office. 25 Stat. 46 · March 29, 1888 · H.R. 1611 An act for the erection of a public building at Springfield, Missouri. 25 Stat. 47 · March 30, 1888 · H.R. 6437 An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 72 · April 2, 1888 · S. 2220 An act to correct an error in and to further amend "An act to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Sunflower, Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi," approved March third,… 25 Stat. 73 · April 2, 1888 · S. 2550 An act appropriating twenty thousand dollars for expenses of special and select committees of the Senate. 25 Stat. 73 · April 2, 1888 · H.R. 1528 To reward the Esquimaux natives of the Asiatic coast of the Arctic Ocean for acts of humanity to shipwrecked seamen. 25 Stat. 73 · April 2, 1888 · H.R. 5373 An act to change the location of a certain alley in the city of Washington. 25 Stat. 73 · April 2, 1888 · S. 643 An act to construct a road to the national cemetery at Corinth, Mississippi. 25 Stat. 74 · April 2, 1888 · H.R. 4327 An act regulating the construction of bridges over the Muskingum River, in Ohio. 25 Stat. 76 · April 2, 1888 · H.R. 5723 An act to amend section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised. Statutes, regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 76 · April 4, 1888 · S. 1564 An act for the relief of importers of animals for breeding purposes in certain cases. 25 Stat. 76 · April 4, 1888 · S. 1663 An act authorizing the Little Rock and Alexandria Railway Company to build certain bridges in the State of Arkansas. 25 Stat. 78 · April 4, 1888 · H.R. 1589 An act to provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Mississippi City. 25 Stat. 79 · April 4, 1888 · H.R. 4487 An act to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay certain creditors of the Pottawattomie Indians out of the funds of said Indians. 25 Stat. 79 · April 4, 1888 · H.R. 4556 An act to confirm New Madrid location survey, numbered two thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and to provide for issue of patent therefor. 25 Stat. 80 · April 4, 1888 An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 80 · April 5, 1888 · H.R. 1481 An act making an appropriation to construct a road and approaches from Pineville, Louisiana, to the national military cemetery near that town. 25 Stat. 81 · April 5, 1888 · H.R. 1678 An act to authorize the purchase of a site for a public building at Buffalo, New York. 25 Stat. 81 · April 5, 1888 · H.R. 3508 An act for the relief of William G. Galloway, late captain Fifteenth, United States Army. 25 Stat. 82 · April 9, 1888 · H.R. 3470 An act to authorize the construction of bridges over the rivers Saint Mary's, Satilla, Little Satilla, and Crooked, in the States of Georgia and Florida. 25 Stat. 83 · April 9, 1888 · H.R. 7217 An act for the erection of a public building at Lowell, Massachusetts. 25 Stat. 84 · April 11, 1888 · H.R. 4472 An act for a public building at Helena, Arkansas. 25 Stat. 84 · April 11, 1888 · H.R. 8808 An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for holding terms of United States courts at Vicksburg Mississippi." 25 Stat. 84 · April 16, 1888 · S. 1387 An act authorizing the appointment of James S. Jouett to a first lieutenantcy of cavalry in the United States Army. 25 Stat. 85 · April 16, 1888 · H.R. 1262 An act granting the right of way to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad through the Fort Crawford military reservation. 25 Stat. 85 · April 16, 1888 · S. 1371 An act for the relief of Alfred Hedberg. 25 Stat. 85 · April 17, 1888 · H.R. 5639 An act for erecting of a fire-proof workshop at the National Armory. 25 Stat. 86 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 1818 An act for construction of a revenue cutter for Charleston, South Carolina, in maintenance of the service, to replace the United States revenue cutter McCulloch. 25 Stat. 86 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 3796 An act to purchase of the widow and children of the late General James Shields certain swords. 25 Stat. 86 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 5062 An act for the erection of a public building at Birmingham, Alabama. 25 Stat. 87 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 5673 An act to give validity to certain patents for inventions which were irregularly executed. 25 Stat. 87 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 6051 An act regulating the times for holding the terms of the United States courts in the northern district of Iowa. 25 Stat. 87 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 7262 An act for the erection of a public building at Texarkana, situated on both sides of the line between the States of Arkansas and Texas. 25 Stat. 88 · April 19, 1888 · H.R. 8044 An act to change the time of the sessions of the circuit and district courts of the northern division of the eastern district of Missouri. 25 Stat. 88 · April 20, 1888 · H.R. 1076 An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tennessee. 25 Stat. 90 · April 23, 1888 · H.R. 7220 An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the erection of a public building at Chattanooga, Tennessee," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the act amendatory thereof approved Februar… 25 Stat. 90 · April 24, 1888 · S. 2565 An act to appropriate a sum of money sufficient to carry out the provisions of the act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled, "An act for the purchase of a site, including the building thereo… 25 Stat. 90 · April 24, 1888 · H.R. 1584 An act granting the right of way to the Duluth, Rainy Lake River and Southwestern Railway Company through certain Indian lands in the State of Minnesota. 25 Stat. 92 · April 24, 1888 · H.R. 2927 An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. 25 Stat. 94 · April 24, 1888 · H.R. 9381 An act to facilitate the prosecution of works projected for the improvement of rivers and harbors. 25 Stat. 94 · April 26, 1888 · H.R. 4964 An act to prevent any person or persons in the cities of Washington and Georgetown from making books and pools on the result of trotting or running races or boat races. 25 Stat. 94 · April 30, 1888 · H.R. 7315 An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment or the Indian title to the remainder. 25 Stat. 105 · May 1, 1888 · S. 1431 An act for establishing a light or lights and other aids to navigation to guide into Charlotte Harbor, Florida. 25 Stat. 105 · May 1, 1888 · S. 2085 An act to provide for protecting the navigation of the Illinois River by extending the system of beacon-lights to said river. 25 Stat. 105 · May 1, 1888 · S. 2179 An act authorizing the Kansas City, Texarkana and Gulf Railway Company to bridge the Red and Little Rivers, in the State of Arkansas. 25 Stat. 107 · May 1, 1888 · H.R. 1805 An act for a public building at Greenville, South Carolina. 25 Stat. 107 · May 1, 1888 · H.R. 4365 An act to authorize the construction of an arsenal for the repair, storage, and distribution of ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of the Government of the United States, at Columbia, Tennessee. 25 Stat. 108 · May 1, 1888 · H.R. 6894 An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. 25 Stat. 113 · May 1, 1888 · H.R. 1956 An act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Blackfeet, and River Crow Indians in Montana, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 134 · May 1, 1888 · H.R. 3253 An act appropriating the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars for the enlargement and improvement of the United States Government building at Charleston, West Virginia 25 Stat. 134 · May 2, 1888 · H.R. 7546 An act to amend sections twenty-five hundred and ninety-five and twenty-five hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to provide a collector at the port of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and for … 25 Stat. 134 · May 9, 1888 · S. 1483 An act for the registry of the barges "Albert M," "Condor," and "Adelante." 25 Stat. 135 · May 9, 1888 · H.R. 1158 To amend an act entitled 'An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty,' approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ei… 25 Stat. 135 · May 9, 1888 · H.R. 1438 An act to authorize the Kansas Valley Rail Road Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Riley military reservation, in Kansas, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 136 · May 9, 1888 · H.R. 1788 An act for the erection of a public building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 25 Stat. 136 · May 9, 1888 · H.R. 3333 An act to authorize the city of Chicago to erect a crib in Lake Michigan for water-works purposes. 25 Stat. 137 · May 11, 1888 · H.R. 1712 An act for the erection of a public building at Portsmouth, Ohio. 25 Stat. 137 · May 14, 1888 An act to provide for a light-house at Newport News, Middle Ground, Virginia. 25 Stat. 138 · May 14, 1888 · S. 2458 An act to amend an act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River at the foot of Pennsylvania avenue east. 25 Stat. 138 · May 14, 1888 · S. 2506 An act for the establishment of a light-house, fog-signal, and day beacon in the vicinity of Goose Rocks, Fox Island Thoroughfare, Maine. 25 Stat. 138 · May 14, 1888 An act to authorize the Batesville and Brinkley Railroad to build a bridge across the Black River in Arkansas. 25 Stat. 139 · May 14, 1888 · H.R. 3215 An act to authorize the construction of the Ohio Connecting Railway Company Bridge. 25 Stat. 140 · May 14, 1888 · H.R. 9430 An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to award a gold medal of the first class to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New York City, for rescuing five boys from drowning. 25 Stat. 140 · May 14, 1888 · S. 1148 An act to grant a right of way to the Kansas City and Pacific Railroad Company through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 144 · May 14, 1888 · S. 1889 An act to authorize the Tennessee Midland Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River, at any point on the line between the counties of Decatur and Perry, in the State of Tennessee, it may deem acce… 25 Stat. 145 · May 14, 1888 · S. 2198 An act to authorize the building of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Arkansas. 25 Stat. 147 · May 14, 1888 · S. 2671 An act to create and organize the county of Latah. 25 Stat. 149 · May 14, 1888 · H.R. 1325 An act providing for the purchase of additional ground in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, adjoining the post-office site, and for the improvement of the building thereon, and appropriating one hundred and fifty thous… 25 Stat. 149 · May 14, 1888 · H.R. 7218 An act for the erection of a public building in the city of Duluth, State of Minnesota. 25 Stat. 150 · May 15, 1888 · S. 2267 An act for the relief of the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, to extend time of payment to purchasers of land of said Indians, and for other purposes. 25 Stat. 151 · May 16, 1888 · S. 2605 An act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York. 25 Stat. 151 · May 17, 1888 · S. 1204 An act to provide for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States at Martinsburgh, in the district of West Virginia. 25 Stat. 152 · May 19, 1888 · H.R. 1697 An act for the erection of a public building in the city of Asheville, North Carolina. 25 Stat. 152 · May 21, 1888 · S. 555 An act to establish an additional land-district in the State of Oregon. 25 Stat. 153 · May 21, 1888 · H.R. 6831 An act to detach the county of Audrain, in the State of Missouri, from the eastern, and attach it to the western judicial district of said State. 25 Stat. 153 · May 21, 1888 · H.R. 7348 An act granting to the city of Grand Forks, Dakota, the right to build two free bridges across Red River.