On the eve of the adjournment of the last session of Congress I returned
to the Senate bill No. 561, entitled "An act for the relief of Major
Junius T. Turner," with my objections to its becoming a law. I now
desire to withdraw those objections, as I am satisfied they were made
under a misapprehension of the facts.

U.S. GRANT.

[This message was also referred to the Committee on Military Affairs,
which committee, on February 13, 1877, reported to the Senate a
recommendation that the bill do pass, the objections of the President of
the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. No action was taken.]

PROCLAMATIONS.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the first section of an act entitled "An act to authorize the
President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction
of certain tribunals in the Ottoman dominions and Egypt, established or
to be established under the authority of the Sublime Porte and of the
Government of Egypt," approved March 23, 1874, it was enacted as
follows:

That whenever the President of the United States shall receive
satisfactory information that the Ottoman Government or that of Egypt
has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of
the United States in their domains the same impartial justice which they
now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the minister,
consuls, and other functionaries of the United States pursuant to the
act of Congress approved the 22d of June, 1860, entitled "An act to
carry into effect provisions of the treaties between the United States,
China, Persia, and other countries giving certain judicial powers to
ministers and consuls or other functionaries of the United States in
those countries, and for other purposes," he is hereby authorized to
suspend the operations of said acts as to the dominions in which such
tribunals may be 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, and to notify the
Government of the Sublime Porte, or that of Egypt, or either of them,
that the United States during such suspension will, as aforesaid, accept
for their citizens the jurisdiction of the tribunals aforesaid over
citizens of the United States which has heretofore been exercised by the
minister, con