suls, or other functionaries of the United States.

And whereas satisfactory information has been received by me that the
Government of Egypt has organized other tribunals on a basis likely
to secure to citizens of the United States in the dominions subject
to such Government the impartial justice which they now enjoy there
under the judicial functions exercised by the minister, consul, or other
functionaries of the United States pursuant to the said act of Congress
approved June 22, 1860:

Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me by the
said act approved March 23, 1874, do hereby suspend during the pleasure
of the President the operation of the said act approved June 22, 1860,
as to the said dominions subject to the Government of Egypt in which
such tribunals have been organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said
tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the minister, consuls,
or other functionaries of the United States in said dominions, except
as to cases actually commenced before the date hereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of March, A.D. 1876, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundredth.

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States was duly approved on the 13th day of March last, which
resolution is as follows:

_Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_, That it be, and is
hereby, recommended by the Senate and House of Representatives to
the people of the several States that they assemble in their several
counties or towns on the approaching centennial anniversary of our
national independence, and that they cause to have delivered on such
day an historical sketch of said county or town from its formation,
and that a copy of said sketch may be filed, in print or manuscript,
in the clerk's office of said county, and an additional copy, in print
or manuscript, be filed in the office of the Librarian of Congress,
to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of