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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
February
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Keiiiuauy O- The Sonate passo.l the bJH to provlde for the sale of the old site of Kort Brady, Michigan, and for the pirchase of a new site and for the eonstrueUou of a mitiilile building thereon. A resolution v;;s aereé i lo i-alling ou the tecretary of state for (oforma t i c . n ;is to tlie supply of audcottOU cortiribated by the United Status to forelpn cóunir.es. Bills irovidiug for Ihe erection oí public buildings were passed, as follows: Kor a bui diuK at i ort Smlth, Ark., $150,01)0; Mouroe, La., $ii;0,O00; Sioux City, la., liM,U0J; Pueblo, Col.. $150,000; Oslikosh nis., $100,000; Vicksburg, .Miss., ilULl.OiKJ: l'ortland, On., $350)000; at Huiistju, Texas, i?",000; for coisnlcting the public buiUin at Kort Scott, Ks., ah addiuonal sum of $50.000; for comploting the buiUUcg at Wicblta, Ks., au additioual sum of $)O,(JO0 ; for a building al V - port, Ky., not to exceed ?10U,000; at Opeiousas, La., ?E0,OÍX); at Dayton. o., f 150,0X1; at ZanesviUe. $150.(X)0; at. San Antonio, Texas, $','(X,UO0; at Stillwatcr, Mimi., $75,000; at Atchison Ks., í 1UO,O(X; for the purchase of a site lor a public Imildinii at San Francisco. KtiO.OOO. Hills were also pwsed cnablinL' tho stit? ol Colorado to tukc lands in lien of the lötli :nd :;tith scctlons sel apart for Indiana reservalio ns. to trraut tlic riht of wav ihrmili public lands for Irregatlon purr;oses, and to extend the laws of the Upited Btatea ovar tbc traorganlacd territory ,-outli of the state of Kansas, ;uid knovp aa Ue ''publfU land slrip,': The House took up the "half gallon tax bill," and Mr. 1'iiHllay of Maryland took the npporlunity to deliver a careíully prepared spe icb u)ou the linanclal Qnestlón, irblcn i& hls npinion resolved itself into a quustiou a.i to whethcr or not tlie Hlaud act should bc repeatcd. After adopting a resolution cali Ing o:i the .-efietary ol the treasury fcjr l:ior,n;ition as to the suras of money clainmi in s uls against the collectors of eustoms fot dutio.s ilieally cxacted ou traported morchaudlso uow pending in the southern district of New York, the House atljourued.

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Ann Arbor Democrat