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348 FORTY-NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess I. Rss. 34-36. 1886. August 4, 1886. [No. 34.] Joint resolution permitting the public building authorized by act of ·————·;—-· Congress approved June thirtieth, eiighteen hundred and eighty-six,_ at Qavnimnh, Georgia, to be located not less than orty feet from any other bmldzng, instead of fifty feet, as provided in said act. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Savannah, Ga. of America in Congress assembled, That the public building authorized Public building- to be erected at Savannah, Georgia, by act of Congress approved June b OP? ”Pé‘°° "'°·Y thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, may be located not less than °Ar:,,"°° {05 forty feet from any other building, instead of fifty feet, as provided in ’ P`said act. ~ Approved, August 4, 1886. August 5, 1886. [No. 35.] Joint resolution accepting from Julia Dent Grant and William H. -·-—---——-—- Ka:d;rIbgt;i>l€;;st:egtév{3'l·r;::ud art presented by various foreign Governments to the Preamble. Whereas Julia Dent Grant and William H. Vanderbilt, by deed of trust executed ou the tenth day of J annary, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, presented to the United States certain swords, medals, paintings, bronzcs, portraits, commissions and addresses, and objects of value and art presented by various Governments in the world to General Ulysses S. Grant as tokens of their high appreciation of his - illustrious character as a soldier and a statesman: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate andH01lae of Rqweamtatioes of the United States Mceptmc, of of America in Congress assembled, That the United States accept, with Grant miie;. grateful acknowledgments, the said property and articles, more fully described in the schedule attached to said deed of trust, to be held by the United States and preserved and protected in the city of Washington for the use and inspection of the people of the United States. _ To be deposited Sm:. 2. That the said property and articles be placed under the

  • mN°*'°“ M“'°‘ custody of the Director of the Natioua1,Museum; and he is hereby

‘ directed to receive the same for safekeeping therein. Approved, August 5, 1886. August 5, 1886, [No. 36.] Joint resolution making additional appropriation for purchase of site for ————-——————- Congressional Library. Preamble. Whereas under the provisions of an act of Congress “autborizing A¤*¢»P· I2- the construction of a building for the accommodation of the Congressional Library,” approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- six, the sum of five hundred and fifty thousand dollars was appropriated for the purchase of a site for the Congressional Library; and Whereas in the proceedings in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, had in pursuance of said act, the amount of damages has been assessed at about thirty-five thousand dollars in excess of the amount so appropriated: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States vcougressioual of America in Congress assembled, That the additional sum of thirty- Llggzqional a five thousand dollars, or so inuch thereof as may be necessary, be, and prow, M, on fg; the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not me otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of a site for the Congressional . Library, to be immediately available. Approved, August 5, 1886. '