CHAP. 330.-An act to authorize the issue of duplicate agricultural land scrip where the original has been lost or destroyed. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 111. In case of loss or Be it enacted, &c., That the provisions of the act of Congress of thetwenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, (1) relating destruction of agto the reissue of land warrants in certain cases, be, and the same are land scrip new cerricultural college hereby, extended so as to include the reissue of agricultural-college tificates may be land scrip lost, cancelled or destroyed without the fault of the owner obtained. thereof, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the In- R. S., §§ 2441, terior may prescribe. [June 20, 1874.] 2442. 1862. July 2, ch. NOTE. (1) The provisions of the act of 1860, ch. 203 (12 Stat. L., 90), here referred to, are incorporated 130 (12 Stat. L., into the sections of Revised Statutes noted in the margin. 503). CHAP. 331.—An act making additions to the fifteenth section of the act approved July 2,1864, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an 'An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes" approved July 1, 1862." Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be, and is hereby, added to the fifteenth section of the act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes,' approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," the following words, namely: Officers and use roads and tele "And any officer or agent of the companies authorized to construct the aforesaid roads, or of any company engaged in operating agents required to either of said roads, who shall refuse to operate and use the road or graph as contintelegraph under his control, or which he is engaged in operating for uous line, and to all purposes of communication, travel, and transporta tion, so far as allow equal adthe public and the Government are concerned, as one continuous vantages, &c., to line, or shall refuse, in such operation and use, to afford and secure to each of said roads equal advantages and facilities as to rates, time, or transportation, without any discrimination of any kind in favor of, or adverse to, the road or business of any or either of said companies, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and may be imprisoned not less than six months. each road, under penalty. If Union Pacific 91 U.S., 343. 3 Dillon, 524. In case of failure or refusal of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, or either of said branches, to comply with the requirements Railroad Comof this act and the acts to which this act is amendatory, the party fail to comply with pany and branches injured or the company aggrieved may bring an action in the dis- this act, parties triet or circuit court of the United States in the Territory, district, aggrieved may or circuit in which any portion of the road of the defendant may be have action for situated, for damages on account of such failure or refusal; and, upon damages. recovery, the plaintiff shall be entitled to judgment for treble the amount of all excess of freight and fares collected by the defendant, and for treble amount of damages sustained by the plaintiff by such failure or refusal; and for each and every violation of or failure to comply with the requirements of this act, a new cause of action shall arise; and in case of suit in any such Territory, district, or circuit, process may be served upon any agent of the defendant found in the Territory, district, or circuit in which such suit may be brought, and such service shall be by the court held to be good and sufficient; And it is hereby provided that for all the purposes of said act, and of the acts amendatory thereof, the railway of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company shall be deemed and taken to be part and extension of the road of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, to the point of junction thereof with the road of the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Cheyenne, as provided in the act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. [June 20, 1874.] a Denver Pacific Road, part of Kan sas Pacific. 1869, ch. 127 (15 Stat. L., 324). June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 113. Contract for minated. 3808. CHAP. 333.-An act providing for publication of the revised statutes and the laws of the Be it enacted, &c., That the existing contract or contracts between publishing laws of United States ter- the Secretary of State on the part of the United States, and Charles C. Little, Augustus Flagg, Henry T. Miles, and John Bartlett, of R. S. §§ 3803- Boston, known as the firm of Little, Brown and Company, dated the the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and 1845. Res. No. all other contracts between the United States or any office thereof 10 (5 Stat. L.. 798); 1850, Res. No. 17 with said firm of Little, Brown and Company, respecting the print(9 Stat. L., 564); ing or publication of the laws of the United States, are hereby de1866, Res. No. 17 clared to be determined, pursuant to the powers therein reserved. (14 Stat. L., 352). &c. 1874, Dec. 28, ch. 9, post, p. 57. Revised Statutes SEC. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the (first edition), how duty of causing to be prepared for printing, publication and distriprepared for print- bution the Revised Statutes of the United States enacted at this ing, publication, present session of Congress; that he shall cause to be completed the head notes of the several titles and chapters and the marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section was compiled and repealed by said revision; and references to the decisions of the courts of the United States explaining or expounding the same, and such decisions of State courts as he may deem expedient, with a full and complete index to the same. 1877, March 9,ch. 82, and note, post, p. 133. 1878, March 2,ch. 26, post, p. 153. 15 C. Cls., 86. -title of. Revised Statutes And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same [under the seal of the United States], (1) and when printed and promulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories. SEC. 3. That the revision of the statutes of a general and permanent nature, with the index thereto, shall be printed in one volume, and shall be entitled and labeled "Revised Statutes of the United States;" and the revision of the statutes relating to the District of Columbia; to post-roads, and the public treaties in force on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with a suitable index to each, shall be published in a separate volume, and entitled and labeled "Revised Statutes relating to District of Columbia and Post-Roads. Public Treaties." SEC. 4. That the Secretary of State shall cause the two volumes to be stereotyped to be stereotyped and such number of each volume to be printed at Government and substantially bound at the Government Printing Office as he Printing Office for distribution and may deem needful, for public distribution as hereinafter provided, and for sale by his office. sale. Laws of each session of Congress to be edited, printed, &c. SEC. 5. That he shall, in like manner, cause to be edited, printed, published and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present and each future session of Congress, to the officers and persons hereinafter provided, and bound copies of the laws of each Congress to the number of two thousand copies to be distributed in the manner now provided by law, and uniform with the said edition of the Revised Statutes. Pamphlet copies SEC. 6. That at the close of every session of Congress the Secreof acts and re- tary of State shall cause to be distributed phamphlet copies of the solves of each ses- acts and resolves of Congress for that session, edited and printed in sion of Congress the manner aforesaid, as follows: to be distributed. R.S., §§ 386,387, 498. To the President and Vice President of the United States, two copies each; 1883, March 3, ch. 131, post, p.411. copy; To each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one To the Librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and twenty-six copies; NOTE. (1) The words in italics are stricken out by act of 1874, December 28, ch. P, § 1, post, p. 57. To the Librarian of the House, two hundred and fifty copies, for the use of the Representatives and Delegates; To the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; To the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and consulates, six hundred copies; To the Treasury Department, two hundred copies; 1883, March 3, To the War Department, including those for the use of officers of [ch. 131, post, p. the Army, two hundred copies; To the Navy Department, including those for the use of officers of the Navy, one hundred copies; To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and fifty copies; To the Post-Office Department, fifty copies; To the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the To the Government Printing Office, two copies; To the governors and secretaries of Territories, one copy each; To be retained in the custody of the Secretary of State, one thousand copies; And ten thousand copies shall be distributed to the States and Territories in proportion to the number of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress to which they are at the time entitled. 411. R. S., § 386. 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 433, par. 17, post, p. 382. SEC. 7. That after the close of each Congress the Secretary of State' Bound copies of shall have edited, printed and bound a sufficient number of the vol- Statutes at Large umes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to to be distributed at enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, close of each Conas follows: gress. To the President of the United States, four copies, one of which 1875, March 3, shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion, and one copy shall ch. 130, § 9, post, be for the use of the Commissioner of Public Buildings; To the Vice President of the United States, one copy; To each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; To the librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and fourteen copies; To the librarian of the House, for the use of Representatives and Delegates, four hundred and ten copies; To the Library of Congress, fourteen copies, including four copies for the law library; To the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and consulates, three hundred and eighty copies; To the Treasury Department, including those for the use of officers of customs, two hundred and sixty copies; p. 77. 1883, March 3, ch. 131, post, p. To the War Department, including a copy for the Military Acad- 411. emy at West Point, fifty copies; To the Navy Department, including a copy for the library at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, a copy for the library of each navyyard in the United States, a copy for the library of the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and a copy for the library of the Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sixty-five copies. To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of public landoffices, two hundred and fifty copies; To the Post-Office Department, fifty copies; R. S., § 586. To the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the chief and associate justices, the judges and the officers of the United 433. par. 17, post. States and territorial courts, four hundred and twenty-five copies; To the Department of Agriculture, five copies; p. 382. Printed copies of statutes to be evidence. To the Smithsonian Institution, two copies; And the Secretary of State, shall supply deficiencies and offices newly created. SEC. 8. That the said printed copies of the said acts of each session and of the said bound copies of the acts of each Congress shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States and of the several States therein. Revised Statutes SEC. 9. That the said laws of each session of Congress shall also and laws on what be stereotyped and printed for sale, as provided in respect to the said revised statutes. And the copies of the said revised statutes and of the said laws of each session of Congress, as issued from time to time, shall be respectively sold at the cost of the paper, press work and binding, with ten per cent. thereof added thereto, to any person applying for the same. And the proceeds of all sales shall be paid into the Treasury. SEC. 10. [Executed.] [June 20, 1874.] terms to be sold. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 116. District of Co lumbia, government, of abolished. R. S. of D. C., §§ 17 C. Cls., 351. 2-71, 74-84. - Commissioners CHAP. 337.—An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That all provisions of law providing for an executive, for a secretary for the District, for a legislative assembly, for a board of public works, and for a delegate in Congress in the District of Columbia are hereby repealed: Provided, That this repeal shall not affect the term of office of the present Delegate in Congress. (1) SEC. 2. That the President of the United States, by and with the to be appointed; advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint a powers of, &c. 1878, June 11, commission, consisting of three persons, who shall, until otherwise ch. 180, post, p. provided by law, exercise all the power and authority now lawfully 178. -how to apply revenues. vested in the governor or board of public works of said District, except as hereinafter limited; and shall be subject to all the restrictions and limitations now imposed by law on said governor or board; And shall have power to apply the taxes or other revenues of said District to the payment of the current expenses thereof, to the supch. 117, post, p. 69. port of the public schools, the fire department, and the police, and 1878, June 11, to the payment of the debts of said District secured by a pledge of ch. 180, § 3, post, the securities of said District or board of public works as collateral, and also to the payment of debts due to laborers and employees of the District and board of public works; 1875, March 1, p. 174. -to have posses And for that purpose shall take possession and supervision of all sion, &c., of offices, the offices, books, papers, records, moneys, credits, securities, assets, records of District and accounts belonging or appertaining to the business or interests of the government of the District of Columbia and the board of public works, and exercise the power and authority aforesaid; government. -not to make certain contracts. Taxes to be col lected but not hy pothecated. 1878, June 11, ch. 180, 3, post, p. 175. But said commission, in the exercise of such power or authority, shall make no contract, nor incur any obligation other than such contracts and obligations as may be necessary to the faithful administration of the valid laws enacted for the government of said District, to the execution of existing legal obligations and contracts, and to the protection or preservation of improvements existing, or commenced and not completed, at the time of the passage of this act. All taxes heretofore lawfully assessed and due or to become due shall be collected pursuant to law, except as herein otherwise provided; but said commissioners shall have no power to anticipate taxes by a sale or hypothecation of any such taxes, or evidence thereof: Provided, That nothing in this clause contained shall affect any provis NOTE.-(1) The acts of Congress relating to the District of Columbia were revised and included in the first part of the second volume of the Revised Statutes, with post-roads and treaties, but that does not contain the laws of the legislative assembly of the District, which was created by the act of 1871, ch. 62 (16 Stat. L., 419), and abolished by this act. ions of law authorizing or requiring a deposit of certificates of assessment with the sinking-fund commissioners of said District; 1879, June 21, ch. 33, post, p. 266. Commissioners may abolish offices, make appoint And said commissioners are hereby authorized to abolish any office, to consolidate two or more offices, reduce the number of employees, remove from office, and make appointments to any office ments, &c. authorized by law; and the compensation of all officers and em- 1878, June 11, ployees, except teachers in the public schools, and officers and em- ch. 180, § 3, post, ployees in the fire department, shall be reduced twenty per centum P. 175. per annum. Said commissioners shall each, before entering upon the discharge to take oath and of his duties, take an oath to support the Constitution of the United give bond. States and to faithfully discharge the duties imposed upon him by law; and shall each give bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office; and shall each receive for his services a compensation at the rate of five thousand dollars -salary of. per annum: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to abate or in any wise interfere with any suit pending in favor of or against the District of Columbia; Pending suits. Service of pro And provided further, That in suits hereafter commenced against the District of Columbia, process may be served on any one of said cess against Discommissioners, until otherwise provided by law. trict. SEC. 3. That the President of the United States shall detail an Engineer of officer of the Engineer Corps of the Army of the United States, who Army to be deshall, subject to the general supervision and direction of the said tailed to have care board of commissioners, have the control and charge of the work of &c. repair and improvement of all streets, avenues, alleys, sewers, roads, 1878, June 11, and bridges of the District of Columbia; and he is hereby vested ch. 180, § 2, post, with all the power and authority of, and shall perform the duties P. 174. heretofore devolved upon, the chief engineer of the board of public works. &c. He shall take possession of, and preserve and keep, all the instru- to keep certain ments pertaining to said office, and all the maps, charts, surveys, books, records, books, records, and papers relating to said District, or to any of the avenues, streets, alleys, public spaces, squares, lots and buildings thereon, sewers, or any of them, as are now in or belonging to the office of said engineer of the board of public works, and shall, in books provided for that purpose, keep and preserve the records now required to be kept, and such as may be required by regulations of said board. -not to receive additional salary. He may, with the advice and consent of said board of commission--may appoint asers, appoint not more than two assistant engineers from civil life, sistant engineers. who shall each receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and shall be subject to his direction and control. He shall receive no additional compensation for such services. And he shall not be deemed by reason of anything in this act con--not deemed to tained to hold a civil office under the laws of the United States. And no salary or compensation shall be paid to the surveyor of the District, or any of his subordinates, except such fees for special services as are allowed by law. And the offices of assistant surveyor and additional assistant surveyor of the District of Columbia are hereby abolished. SEC. 4. Levied a tax for the year ending June 30, 1875. Superseded by 1877, March 3, ch. 117, post, p. 142, and 1883, March 3, ch, 137, post, p. 413.] hold civil office. Compensation of surveyor, &c. Assistant surveyor's office abolished. Bonds with in SEC. 5. Provided for preparing a form of government.] SEC. 6. Provided for a board of audit temporarily.] SEC. 7. That the sinking-fund commissioners of said District are hereby continued; and it shall be the duty of said sinking-fund com- terest at 3.65 per missioners to cause bonds of the District of Columbia to be prepared, sued by sinking annum to be is |