not to be issued by national banks ....
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT
Postal Service; Postmaster-General),
weighing of mails to be paid for out of ap-
propriation for inland transportation.
mail lettings in Maryland, Virginia, and
District of Columbia, how advertised.95, 154
in each State and Territory to be post-
ed
.... 154, 224, 323, 453, 549, 598
temporary mail service, how advertised...
accounts of, how to be kept .
limitation of contracts by departments to
supplies for one year not to apply to
mail bags, locks, postal cards, &c...
commissions, postmasters appointed by Pres-
ident to be made and recorded in, &c.
clerks of classes not to be paid from appro-
priations made for other purposes...
not to be accepted for themselves or others
by diplomatic or consular officers, sec-
retaries of legations, &c.......
PRESIDENT,
may detail officers of Navy as superintend-
ents, instructors, &c., at nautical
schools at certain ports....
may appoint commissioner to make inves-
tigation in regard to certain Indian
contracts
may assign assistant medical purveyors of
Army to act as surgeons....
may allow extraordinary expenses of min-
isterial officers in executing laws...
may fill vacancies in Military Academy
may make regulations for government of
Army..
. 149, 255, 494
steads; when may perfect title..299, 325, 348
notices on contests under laws of; how pub-
oath of claimant; before whom may be
taken, &c
496
.518-522, 617
to appoint a Judge-Advocate-General of
Navy
entries for, on lands granted to railroad
companies may be perfected and
other lands selected by companies ..
entries in limits of land grants prior to no-
tice of withdrawal, &c., confirmed..
claims abandoned on account of decision
of land officers may be renewed
entered after expiration of land grant
deemed valid...
settlers on lands injured by grasshoppers in
certain years may be absent, &c. (see
Grasshoppers)
42, 121, 212, 213
to be furnished by consular officers to Sec-
retary of Treasury ....
at Government Printing Office, pay of
to have pay for certain holidays...
only skilled workmen to be employed....
PRISONERS (See Convicts; Penitentiaries),
convicts to have deduction from sentence
for good behavior.
on discharge to be furnished with clothes
and money -:
designation of penitentiaries for, by Attor-
in District of Columbia, where to be con-
lands of Fort Kearney in Nebraska subject
to be published in District of Columbia in
one newspaper only ...
of sale of public lands, where to be pub-
lished
1873, July 1, No. 2, declaring laws passed
by Great Britain, Canada, and Prince
Edward's Island, giving effect to cer-
tain provisions of treaty of Washing-
ton..
September 22, No. 4, discontinuing dis-
criminating duties on merchandise
imported in French vessels.....
1874, May 29, No. 7, declaring law passed by
Newfoundland, giving effect to certain
provisions of treaty of Washington..
October 29, No. 10, accepting for cit-
izens of United States in Turkish do-
minions laws of Ottoman Porte ced-
ing right to foreigners to hold im-
movable property
1876, March 27, No. 3, suspending certain
judicial functions of ministers and
consular officers in Egypt.............
August 1, No. 6, declaring the admis-
sion of Colorado as a State.......
September 9, No. 7, proclaiming the con-
vention of commercial reciprocity
with the Hawaiian or Sandwich
Islands
1880, June 17, No.-, reciprocal protection
of trade-marks in United States and
Brazil
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES,
in District of Columbia; act concerning ..
qualification of voters and officers
certain, to be sold by Public Printer at cost.
may be bound for members of Congress at
Government Printing Office.....
may be sent and received by mail free by
Vice-President, Senators, Representa-
tives, &c......... 100, 154, 288, 304, 453, 458
to be sent to Soldiers' Homes by Secretary
of Senate and Clerk of House...
625 PUBLIC LANDS (See Lands)
PUBLIC MONEY,
to be appointed by President with advice
of Senate, and with all powers and
duties of Congressional Printer..44, 234, 243
to print only limited number of reports,
&c., of departments......
not to print expensive maps or illustrations
without special order of Congress...
to keep and report to Congress separate
account of expenses of Congressional
Record...
to advertise for proposals for furnishing pa-
per, under direction of Joint Com-
mittee on Printing
tion between United States and the
French Republic for the settlement
of claims.
to employ only skilled workmen
in case of newly organized parishes...
vestries not required to meet at stated
times and places..
vacancies in, how filled..
to furnish Record to justices, clerk, and
marshal of Supreme Court and re-
porter of Senate..
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