RESOLUTIONS. May 22, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 251. Distribution of vised Statutes. NUMBER 22.-Joint resolution providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Resolved, &c., That the fifteen thousand copies of the new edition second edition Re- of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States re1877, March 2, quired by the fourth section of the "Act to provide for the preparach. 82, and note, tion and publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the ante, p. 133. United States", approved March second, eighteen hundred and sev1878, Dec. 21, enty-seven, to be printed and bound, shall be disposed of by the Secretary of State as follows: p. 261. Res. No. 1, post, 1890, April 9, ch. 73, post, p. 712. 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 433, par. 17, post, p. 382. 1878, Dec. 21, Res. To the President of the United States, four copies, one of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion, and one copy for the use of the Commissioner of Public Buildings; To the Vice-President of the United States, two copies; To each Senator, Representative, and Delagate in Congress, to the Secretary of the Senate and to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, one copy; To the librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and twenty copies; To the librarian of the House, for the use of Representatives and Delegates, four hundred and ten copies; To the Senate of the United States, for distribution, seven hundred and sixty copies; To the House of Representatives, for distribution, two thousand nine hundred and twenty copies; To the Library of Congress, fourteen copies, including four copies for the law library; To the Department of State, 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 eighty copies; To the War Department, including five copies for the use of the Military Academy at West Point, fifty-five copies; To the Navy Department, including three copies for the library of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, a copy for the library of each navy-yard in the United States, a copy for the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and a copy for the library of the Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts, seventy copies; To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyor-general and registers and receivers of land offices, two hundred and fifty-five copies; To the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the Chief and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the judges and officers of the United States and Territorial courts, four hundred and fifty copies; To the Department of Agriculture, five copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, two copies; To the Government Printing Office, two copies; And the Secretary of State shall supply (1) deficiencies and offices No. 1, post, p. 261. newly created. (204) NOTE.-(1) Provision was made for the Post-Office Department, here omitted, by 1878, Dec. 21, Res. And that the residue of said fifteen thousand volumes, together Secretary of with any further number thereafter printed and bound, shall, by the State to keep copSecretary of State, be sold at the cost of paper, press-work, and bind- ies for sale. ing, with ten per centum added thereto;" booksellers. And said Secretary is authorized to make arrangements with book--may make arsellers to keep on sale said Revised Statutes, to be sold as aforesaid, rangements with for such part of the ten per centum above actual cost as he may deem just and reasonable. Additional cop And whenever the said residue of said fifteen thousand copies shall be exhausted, said Secretary shall cause another five thousand copies ies to be printed to be printed and bound, at the expense of the United States, to be when needed. sold in like manner, unless otherwise disposed of by order of Con gress; The cost of the same to be paid from the general appropriation for printing. [May 22, 1878.] NUMBER 26.—Joint resolution providing for issue of arms to Territories. June 7, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 252. Be it resolved, &c., That the Secretary of War is hereby author- Additional arms ized to cause to be issued to each of the Territories of the United to be issued to States (in addition to arms and ammunition the issue of which has Territories. been heretofore provided for), such arms not to exceed one thousand in number as he may deem necessary, and ammunition for the same not to exceed fifty ball cartridges for each arm: Provided, That such issue shall be only from arms owned by the Government of the United States which have been supersedeď and no longer issued to the Army: R. S., § 1667. 1876, July 3, Res. No. 13, and note, ante, p. 124 And provided further, That said arms shall be issued only in the 1878, May 16, ch. following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely, upon 106, ante, p. 164. the requisition of the governors of said Territories showing the absolute necessity for arms for the protection of citizens and their property against hostile Indians within or of Indian raids into such Territories: And provided further, That the said governor or governors of said Territories to whom the said arms may be issued shall give good and sufficient bond or bonds for the return of said arms, or payment therefor, at such time as the Secretary of War may designate, as now provided for by law. [June 7, 1878.] NUMBER 30.-Joint resolution to allow the Secretary of the Navy to purchase plate iron And provided further, That such plate iron and materials shall be subjected to the same tests and inspection as now provided for and which inspection and tests shall be made publicly and in presence of such bidders or their authorized agents as may choose to attend at the making thereof. [June 14, 1878.] FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS-THIRD SESSION IN THE YEARS 1878-1879. CHAP. 9.-An act changing the time of holding the terms of the United States Circuit Court December 21,1878. for the district of West Virginia. (1) 20 Stat. L., 259. Circuit court at Parkersburg, W. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of West Virginia shall be held at Parkersburg Va., in January on the tenth day of January and June. And when either of said dates shall fall on Sunday the term shall commence on the following Monday. * * 1878.] [Part omitted relates to pending cases.] * * [December 21, NOTE. (1) By R. S. § 572, the district court for West Virginia is to be held on the days therein named at Clarksburgh, Wheeling, and Charleston. By $ 658, the circuit court is to be held once a year at Parkersburgh. By 1878, March 9, ch. 27, ante, p. 153, the dates of holding the district court are changed, but not the places. By 1888, May 17, ch. 261, post, p. 587, both the circuit and district courts are to be held at Martinsburgh once a year. By R. S., § 571, re-enacted by 1877, Jan. 31, ch. 41 (19 Stat. L., 230), circuit court powers were given to the district court of West Virginia, but these were repealed by 1889, Feb. 6, ch. 113, §§ 1,5, post, pp. 638, 639, and circuit courts authorized at all the times and places authorized for district courts. and June. R. S., § 658. 1878, Mar. 9, ch. 27, ante, p. 153. 1888, May 17, ch. 261, post, p. 587. 1889, Feb. 6, ch. 113, post, p. 638. CHAP. 22.—An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter January 25, 1879. and cheese in the District of Columbia. (1) 20 Stat. L., 264. In District of Columbia, butter Be it enacted, &c.. That every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall offer or expose for sale, any article or substance in and cheese made semblance of butter or cheese, not the legitimate product of the of fat, &c., to have dairy, and not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which packages stamped the oil or fat of animals, not produced from milk, enters as a com- Oleo-Margarine. ponent part, or into which melted butter, or any oil thereof, has been introduced to take the place of cream, shall distinctly and durably stamp, brand, or mark upon every tub, firkin, box or package of such (2) article or substance, the word Oleo-Margarine, in plain Roman letters, not less than half an inch square placed horizontally in proper order thus: OLEO-MARGARINE. And in case of retail sales of such article or substance in parcels Oleo-margarine: the seller shall in all cases deliver therewith to the purchaser a sale of, to be acwritten or printed label bearing the plainly written or printed word companied with Oleo-Margarine, in type or letters as aforesaid: And every sale of such article or substance not so stamped, branded, marked, or labeled shall be void, and no action shall be maintained for the price thereof. NOTE.-(1) See 1888, Oct. 12, ch. 1090, post, p. 627, to prevent adulteration of food in District of Columbia, and particularly § 4, making it a misdemeanor to sell food not of the nature, substance, or quality demanded by the purchaser. (2) The oleomargarine tax act of 1886, Aug. 2, ch. 840, § 6, post, p. 506, makes provisions for the sale of oleomargarine at wholesale only in packages marked, stamped, and branded as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe. Sales by manufacturers and wholesale dealers must be in the original stamped packages, and by retail dealers only from such packages. To what extent, if any, the later act supersedes the above act of 1879 in the District of Columbia has not been the subject of any reported judicial decision. label. 1886, Aug. 2, ch. 840, post, p. 505. Oleomargarine. Penalty for sell ing or having in possession contrary to act. -penalty for selling without label. SEC. 2. That every person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, contrary to the provisions of this act, any of the said article or substance required by the first section of this act to be stamped, marked, or labeled as therein stated, not so stamped, marked, or labeled, or in case of a retail sale without delivery of a label required by section one of this act, shall, for each such offense, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in any court of the District of Columbia of competent jurisdiction for the trial of misdemeanors, and the onehalf of such fine when paid to go to the informer, and the residue to be paid into the treasury of the District of Columbia. SEC. 3. That every person who shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or who shall cause or procure to be sold, or offered or exposed for sale, any article or substance required by the first section of this act to be marked, branded, stamped, or labeled, not so marked, branded, stamped, or labeled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on trial for such misdemeanor, proof of the sale or offer or exposal alleged shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of the character of the article so sold or offered. [January 25, 1879.] Jan. 25, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 265. Pensions on ac mence. CHAP. 23.-An act to provide that all pensions on account of death, or wounds received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, which have been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall commence from the date of death or discharge from the service of the United States; for the payment of arrears of pensions, and other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That all pensions which have been granted count of death, under the general laws regulating pensions, or may hereafter be wounds, &c., in late rebellion; granted, in consequence of death from a cause which originated in when to com- the United States service during the continuance of the late war of the rebellion, or in consequence of wounds, injuries, or disease received or contracted in said service during said war of the rebellion, shall commence from the date of the death or discharge from said service of the person on whose account the claim has been or shall hereafter be granted, or from the termination of the right of the party having prior title to such pension: R. S., SS 4709 4713. 1879, March 3, ch. 187, post, pp. 256, 257. 1888, June 7, ch. 369, post, p. 589. 16 Opins., 374, 639. er. * * [Part omitted superseded by 1879, March 3, ch. 187, § 1, post, PP. 256, 257.] * * SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized -rules to be adopt- and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of ed by Commission- the arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause R. S., § 4718. to be paid to such pensioners, or, if the pensioners shall have died, to 1890, June 30, the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pench.639, par. 1,post, sion as the pensioner may be, or would have been, entitled to under p. 761. this act. Requirement reSEC. 3. That section forty-seven hundred and seventeen of the pealed that claims Revised Statutes of the United States, which provides that "No shall not be prosecuted after five claim for pension not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from date of years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted without filing, except, &c. record evidence from the War or Navy Department of the injury or Repeal of R. S., § 4717. the disease which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made: Provided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the further prosecution of the claim, the claimant may present, through the Pension Office, to the Adjutant-General of the Army or the SurgeonGeneral of the Navy, evidence that the disease or injury which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made originated in the service and in the line of duty; and if such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Commissioner |