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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. RES. 27-29. 1908. 577 eases of Cattle, the same to be first revised and brought to date under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture; thirty thousand copies Di“’“’““°“· for the use of the Senate, sixty thousand copies for the use of the Idloulsje of Represeptgtivesnand ten thousand copies for distribution by t c epartment o gricu ture. Approved, May 23, 1908. · [No._ 28.] f.£<i]intbRes0lXtgon Providing for additional lands for Idaho under the ¤gvJ25R1g<3 PTOVIBIODS O B 8IBy C . [Pub. Res., No. 28.] Resolved by the Senate and House of Rripresentatioes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an additional one mil- fglgytioml md lion acres of arid lands within the State of Idaho be made available lands gmnwdw. and subject to the terms of section four of an Act of Congress entitled $gf·2g·5·f§,2_ “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- ' ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninet —tive, and for other purposes," approved August eighteenth, eighteen Iiundred and ninety-four, and by amendments thereto, and that the State of Idaho be al owed, under the provisions of said Acts, said additional area, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes and under the provisions of said Acts. Approved, May 25, 1908. [glo. 29.] Joint Resolution To provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese Aigrizg igin emnity. [Pub. Res., No. 29.] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby gihigesg ggdfygrgtgi authorized to consent to a modification of the bond for twenty-four bon:i)for Boxer ammillion four hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and seventy- “g°*· eight dollars and eighty-one cents, dated December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six. received from China pursuant to the protocol of September seventh, nineteen hundred and one, for indemnity against losses and expenses incurred by reason of the so—called Boxer disturbences in China during the year nineteen hundred, so that the total m§l¤¤¤¤¤i<>¤ 0* wrpayment to be made by China under the said bond shall be limited to ' the sum of thirteen million six hundred and fifty-five thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixtymine cents and interest at the 1¤¢¤r¤¤¤- stipulated rate of four per centum per annum, and that the remainder of the indemnity to which the United States is entitled under the said protocol and bond may be remitted as an act of friendship, such pag'- ments and remission to be at such times and in such manner as the President shall deem just:] Provided, That withip one year from P,,,,,,;,,,,_ I the ssa e of this 1*eSO ution any person w iose claim upon C<>¤¥* 0*, C *i¤§§ the Cginege indemnity, nineteen hundred, was presented to the iii3»$Sali(;iei,ai1i.1(¤iii. United States commissioners or to the Department of State and disallowed in whole or in part may present the same by petition to the Court of Claims, which court is hereby invested with jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate such claim, without appeal, and to render such judgments de novo, or in addition to any allowance or allowances heretofore made, as, in each case shall be fully and substantially compensatory for actual losses and expenses of the claimant caused by the antiforeign disturbances in China during the year nineteen hundred, excluding merely speculative claims or elements of damage: And provided also, That the sum of two million dollars be reserved from the smgggélgyqrved rv tgninese indemnity, nineteen hundred, for the payment of such ]udg- p8‘ I "