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And provided further, That if any person shall hereafter perform Subcontractors any service for any contractor or subcontractor in carrying the mail, &c., may have lien on money due he shall, upon filing in the department his contract for such service, contractor by filand satisfactory evidence of its performance thereafter, have a lien ing contract, &c. on any money due such contractor or subcontractor for such service to the amount of the same; and if such contractor or subcontractor shall fail to pay the party or parties who have performed service as aforesaid the amount due for such service within two months after the expiration of the quarter in which such service shall have been performed, the Postmaster-General may cause the amount to be paid said party or parties and charged to the contractor, provided that such payment shall not in any case exceed the rate of pay per annum of the contractor or subcontractor:

And provided further, That where any person, corporation, or Persons having partnership shall have contracts for the performance of mail service contract on differupon more than one route, and any failure to perform the service ent routes failing according to contract on any one or more of such routes shall occur, not to have pay to perform one no payment shall be made for service on any of the routes under for others. contract with such person, corporation, or partnership until such failure has been removed and all penalties therefor fully satisfied.

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[Par. 2.] The Postmaster General is authorized to designate postmasters at Presidential post-offices as disbursing officers for the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of the postal service concerned in the transportation of mails or in their distribution in transit, and for such other payments as they are now authorized to make from postal revenues. * ** [May 4, 1882.]

Postmasters at

Presidential offices

may be designated
disbursing offi-
cers, &c.
1884, July 5, ch.
234,par. 2, post, p.
467.

CHAP. 117.-An act to promote the efficiency of the Life Saving Service, (1) and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to establish additional life-saving stations and houses of refuge upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States as follows, namely:

ON THE ATLANTIC COAST.

A life saving station at or near Damariscove Island, Maine;
One at or near Hunniwells Beach, Maine;

One at or near the entrance to Portland Harbor, Maine;

One at or near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire;

One on Cape Ann, Massachusetts;

One between Cohasset and Scituate Harbors, Massachusetts;
One at or near Wood End; and

One in the vicinity of Peaked Hill Bars, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Two in the neighborhood of Nantucket and adjacent islands, Massachusetts;

One at or near Brenton's Point or Beaver Tail, Rhode Island;
One on Brigantine Beach and one on Seven-Mile Beach, New Jersey;
One at or near Lewes, Delaware;

Five on the coast between Cape Henlopen and Cape Charles, at such points between existing stations as the General Superintendent of the Life Saving Service may recommend;

One between stations numbered seventeen and eighteen, and one between station numbered twenty one and twenty-two;

One about three miles southwest of Hatteras Inlet on the coast of North Carolina;

Six houses of refuge on the eastern coast of Florida, and two lifesaving stations on the Atlantic coast of Florida,

NOTE. (1) For acts relating to Life Saving Service, see note to 1878, June 18, ch. 265, ante, p. 190.

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Lake Superior.

Lake Michigan.

Stations and

One near Key West and one near Jupiter Inlet, and one on the Gulf coast west of Apalachicola River, at such points as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend;

Two life-saving stations on the coast of South Carolina, to be located by the General Superintendent at or near the ports of George. town and Charleston;

A life-saving station at or near Quintana, Texas.

ON THE COAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR.

A life-saving station at or near Grand Marais, Michigan.

ON THE COAST OF LAKE MICHIGAN.

A life-saving station at or near Frankfort, Michigan;
One at or near Pent Water, Michigan;

One at or near the mouth of White River, Michigan;
One at or near Holland, Michigan;

One at or near South Haven, Michigan;

One at or near Michigan City, Indiana;

One at or near Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized houses may be to discontinue any life-saving or life-boat station or house of refuge whenever in his judgment the interest of commerce and humanity no longer require its existence.

discontinued.

Apparatus and supplies, etc., may

be transferred.

Superintendents

officers.

SEC. 3. That the General Superintendent may transfer the apparatus, appliances, equipments, and supplies of any discontinued station or house of refuge to such other stations or houses of refuge as may need them, and may also transfer any portion of the apparatus, appliances, equipments, and supplies of one station or house of refuge to another whenever in his judgment the interests of the service may require it.

SEC. 4. That hereafter all district superintendents of life-saving to be disbursing stations shall be disbursing officers and paymasters for their respective districts, and shall give such bonds as the Secretary of the Treasury may require, and shall have the powers and perform the duties of inspectors of customs; and the compensation of the superintendents in the districts herein named shall be as follows:

Compensation of superintend- shire, fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the first district embracing the coasts of Maine and New Hamp

ents.

R. S., § 4243.

For the second district, embracing the coast of Massachusetts fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the third district, embracing the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the fourth district, embracing the coast of New Jersey, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the fifth district, embracing the coast between Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the sixth district embracing the coast between Chesapeake Bay and Cape Fear River, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the seventh district, embracing the eastern coast of Florida and the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, twelve hundred dollars per annum.

For the eighth district, embracing the coast of the United States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, fifteen hundred dollars per annum. For the ninth district, embracing the coasts of Lake Ontario and Erie, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the tenth district, embracing the coasts of Lake Huron and Superior, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the eleventh district, embracing the coast of Lake Michigan, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For the twelfth district, embracing the coasts of California, Oregon,

and Washington Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars per

annum.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to appoint and fix the annual compensation of the several keepers of all stations and houses of refuge at such rate as he may deem just and proper:

Compensation of keepers and men. R. S., § 4243.

Provided, That the compensation of any keeper shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum; and the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to fix the pay of the men employed at the different stations, provided the same shall not exceed fifty dollars per month. SEC. 6. That crews may be employed at any of the life-saving or life-boat stations on the Pacific coast during such portion of the coast. year as the general superintendent may deem necessary.

Crews on Pacific

SEC. 7. That if any keeper or member of a crew of a life-saving Members, etc., of or life-boat station shall be so disabled by reason of any wound or crews disabled in injury received or disease contracted in the Life-Saving Service in line of duty to the line of duty as to unfit him for the performance of duty, such have pay for one year of disability. disability to be determined in such manner as shall be prescribed in the regulations of the service, he shall be continued upon the rolls of the service and entitled to receive his full pay during the continuance of such disability, not to exceed the period of one year, unless the general superintendent shall recommend, upon a statement of facts, the extension of the period through a portion or the whole of another year, and said recommendation receive the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury as just and reasonable; but in no case shall said disabled keeper or member of a crew be continued upon the rolls or receive pay for a longer period than two years.

SEC. S. That if any keeper or member of a crew of a live-saving In case of death or life-boat station shall hereafter die by reason of perilous service in line of duty or any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the Life- widow or child to saving service in the line of duty, leaving a widow, or a child or receive pay for two years. children under sixteen years of age, such widow and child or children shall be entitled to receive, in equal portions, during a period of two years, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the same amount payable quarterly, as far as practicable, that the husband or father would be entitled to receive as pay if he were alive and continued in the service:

Provided, That if the widow shall re-marry at any time during the said two years, her portion of said amount shall cease to be paid to her from the date of her remarriage, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any; and if any child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years during the said two years, the payment of the portion of such child shall cease to be paid to such child from the date on which such age shall be attained, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries, if there be any.

Medals.

1878, June 18,

SEC. 9. That the life-saving medals of the first and second class authorized by the provisions of the seventh section of the act of July 1874, June 10, twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall be hereafter ch. 344, § 7, ante, designated as the gold and silver life-saving medal respectively, and P. 29. any person who has received or may hereafter receive either of said ch. 265, § 12, ante, medals under the provisions of said section, or the twelfth section p. 193. of the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and who shall again perform an act which would entitle him to a medal of the same class under said provisions, shall receive, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to award, in lieu of a second medal, a bar, suitably inscribed, of the same metal as the medal to which said person would be entitled, to be attached to a ribbon of such description as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, which may be fastened to the medal already bestowed upon said person; and for every such additional act an additional bar may be added.

Appointments

for fitness.

And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, whenever any person becomes entitled to a bar representing a gold medal, to award him, in addition to said bar, such taken (1) as it is customary to award in acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck.

SEC. 10. That the appointment of district superintendents, inspecto be made only tors, and keepers and crews of life-saving stations shall be made solely with reference to their fitness, and without reference to their political or party affiliations.

SEC. 11. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. [May 4, 1882.]

NOTE.-(1) "Token" is here meant

May 6, 1882.

22 Stat. L., 58. Preamble.

Penalty for altering, &c., certifi

cates.

Collector of cus

certificates and lists.

CHAP. 126.—An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese (1).

Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof: Therefore,

Be it enacted, &c. SEC. 1. [For substitute, see 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 458.]

SEC. 2.

SEC. 3.

SEC. 4.

SEC. 5.

SEC. 6.

For substitute, see 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 458.j For substitute, see 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 458. For substitute, see 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 458.] Superseded, 1888, Oct. 1, ch. 1064, post, p. 625.] Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 459.] SEC. 7. That any person who shall knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any name for the name written in such certificate or forge any such certificate, or knowingly utter any forged or fraudu lent certificate, or falsely personate any person named in any such certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term of not more than five years.

SEC. 8. [Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 460.]

SEC. 9. That before any Chinese passengers are landed from any toms to compare such vessel, the collector, or his deputy, shall proceed to examine such passengers, comparing the certificates with the list and with the passengers; and no passenger shall be allowed to land in the United States from such vessel in violation of law.

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SEC. 11.

SEC. 12.
SEC. 13.
SEC. 14.

SEC. 10. [Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 460.]
Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 460.
Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 460.
Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 461.]
That hereafter no State court or court of the United
States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. [Substitute, 1884, July 5, ch. 220, post, p. 461.] [May 6, 1882.]

NOTE. (1). For review of laws relating to Chinese immigration, see note to 1888, Oct. 1, ch. 1064, post, p. 625.

For review of laws forbidding other immigration, see note to 1891, March 3, ch. 551, post, p. 934.

CHAP. 157.-An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia.

May 17, 1882.

Companies for insuring real estate titles, District

22 Stat. L., 67.

Be it enacted &c., That the five hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the words "life insurance" the words "or for the purpose of insuring of Columbia. R. S. of D. C.,

titles to real estate."

§ 553. SEC. 2. That any company heretofore formed, agreeably to the 1881, Jan. 28, ch. aforesaid section of the said Revised Statutes, for the purpose of 29, ante, p. 314. insuring titles to real estate may become perpetual on filing in the 1890, Oct. 1, ch. office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia a certifi- 1246, post, p. 870. cate to that effect in like manner as is provided by law for the filing nies may become Existing compa of the original certificate of incorporation. [May 17, 1882.]

perpetual.

CHAP. 163.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted &c., *

[Par. 1.] Section two thousand and seventy of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

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May 17, 1882.

22 Stat. L., 70.

Indian interpreters, salaries of

Repeal of
R.S., § 2070.

Indian Commission, duties of re

stricted.

R. S., §§ 2039

[Par. 2.] For the expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation, appointed by the President under the provision of the fourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, And hereafter the commission shall only have power to visit and inspect agencies and other branches of the Indian service, and to inspect goods purchased for said service, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall consult with the commis- 2042. sion in the purchase of supplies. The commission shall report their doings to the Secretary of the Interior. [Par. 3.] When it becomes necessary to detail clerks and other Per diem pay to employees of the Indian service outside of Washington to assist in certain clerks &c., the opening of bids, making contracts, and shipping goods, they may detailed for special be allowed a per diem of not exceeding four dollars per day for hotel duty in Indian and other expenses, which per diem shall be in lieu of all expenses 1875, March 3, now authorized by law, exclusive of railway transportation and ch. 133, par. 1, sleeping car fare. ante, p. 81.

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[Par. 4.] Section two thousand and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 2056. Each Indian agent shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is duly appointed and quali

fied." * *

service.

Indian agents to hold four years.

R. S., 2056.
Substitute for

24 C. Cls., 331.
Consolidation

SEC. 6. That the President may, in his discretion, consolidate two or more agencies into one, and where Indians are located on reserva- and abolition of tions created by executive order he may, with the consent of the tribes agencies. to be affected thereby, expressed in the usual manner, consolidate one or more tribes, and abolish such agencies as are thereby rendered unnecessary;

And preference shall at all times, as far as practicable, be given to Indians in the employment of clerical, mechanical, and other help on reservations and about agencies.

R. S., § 2059.

Preference to Indians.

R. S., § 2069. 1875, March 3, ch. 132, § 5, ante, p.79.

SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Indian Statutes, &c., to Affairs to cause to be compiled and printed for the use of Indian be furnished to Agents and inspectors the provisions of the statutes regulating the agents by commis performance of their respective duties, and also to furnish said officers from time to time information of new enactments upon the same subject. * * [May 17, 1882.]

sioner.

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