SEC. 3. That ther shall be appointed for each of said circuit courts Clerks of: their for said middle and northern districts, by the circuit judge of the oaths, bonds, ducircuit, a clerk who shall take the oath and give the bond required ties, and fees. R. S., § 619. by law of clerks of circuit courts, and who shall discharge all the 1888, Aug. 13, duties and be entitled to all the fees and emoluments prescribed by ch. 866, § 7, post, law for clerks of circuit courts; p. 614. 1889, Feb. And the United States marshals for said middle and northern dis- 6, ch. 113, § 3, post, p, 639. tricts shall, respectively, act as marshals for said circuit courts, and Marshals and the United States district attorney for said districts shall discharge district attorneys the duties of district attorney in said circuit courts for said middle to act for circuit and northern districts. SEC. 4. [Relates to transfer of records.] * * [Omit SEC. 5. That the circuit court of the United States held at Mobile, Alabama, shall be designated and known as the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama; ted lines relate to bankrupt act which is repealed.] And that the fourth section (1) of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled, "An act relating to the circuit and district courts of the United States for the middle and northern districts of Alabama" be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 6. That terms of the circuit and district courts for the several districts of Alabama shall be held as follows: For the southern district, [Superseded 1890, June 26, ch. 631, post, p. 760.] For the middle district, on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of November in each year; For the northern district, on the first Monday of April and the second Monday of October in each year. courts. R.S., $$ 767,776. 1884, May 2, ch. 38, § 2, post, p. 427. Certain laws re specting appeals, &c., repealed. R.S., §§ 608,634. SEC. 7. That (2) the fifth section of the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight entitled, "An act to abolish the circuit court at Huntsville in the State of Alabama and for other purposes" and the act approved August fourth, eightee hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama" be and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. 8. That all laws and parts of laws, inconsistent with the pro- Repeal. visions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. [June 22, 1874. NOTES. (1) § 4 of act of 1873, ch. 223 (17 Stat. L., 484), here referred to, is the same as R. S. § 634. CHAP. 402.—An act to constitute Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, a port of delivery. June 22, 1874. 18 Stat., 196. Montgomery, Be it enacted, &c., That Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, within the Ala., to be port of collection-district of Mobile; and there shall be appointed a deputy delivery. collector of customs, to reside at said port, who shall receive a salary, to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. [June 22, 1874.] -and to have deputy collector. R. S., SS 256, 2565. CHAP. 413.—An act authorizing the Secretary of War to sell unserviceable ordnance stores, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to be caused to be sold in such manner, and at such times and places, June 22, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 200. Secretary of War to sell unservicestores. able ordnance 3672, 3692. R. S., SS 3618, and in such quantities, as shall most conduce to the interest of the United States, all obsolete and unserviceable ammunition and leaden 1875, March 3, ch. 139, par. 11, balls, and the surplus of pig lead in excess of two thousand tons now post, p. 74. stored in the various arsenals of the United States, and to cause the 1884, July 5, ch. net proceeds of such sale, after paying all costs and expenses of 235, § 3, post, p. breaking up and preparing said ammunition for sale, and all the necessary expenses of such sale, including the cost of transportation to the place of sale, to be covered into the Treasury of the Unitel States with full accounts of said expenses. [June 22, 1874.] 468. CHAP. 414.-An act providing for the collection of moneys due the United States from the Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, directed to require payment of the railroad-companies, their successors and assigns, or the successors or assigns of any or either of said companies, of all sums of money due or to become due, the United States for the five per centum of the net earnings provided for by the 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, or by any other act or acts in relation to the companies therein named, or any other such company or companies, and in case either of said railroad-companies shall neglect or refuse to pay the same within sixty days after demand therefor made upon the treasurer of such railroad company, the Secretary of the Treasury shall certify that fact to the Attorney-General, who shall thereupon institute the necessary suits and proceedings to collect and otherwise obtain redress in respect of the same in the proper circuit courts of the United States, and prosecute the same, with all convenient dispatch to a final determinatio. [June 22, 1874.] June 22, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 202. Gold bars may from bullion-fund CHAP. 419.—An act authorizing the transfer of gold mint bars from the bullion fund of the assay office New York to the Assistant Treasurer at New York. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury may, from be transferred time to time, transfer to the office of the Assistant Treasurer at New and applied to re- York from the bullion fund of the assay office at New York, refined demption of coin gold bars bearing the United States stamp of fineness, weight and certificates or in value, or bars from any melt of foreign gold coin or bullion of standexchange for gold ard equal to or above that of the United States and may apply the R. S., SS 3518, same to the redemption of coin certificates or in exchange for gold coins at not less than par and not less than the market value subject 1878, June 19, to such regulations as he may prescribe. [June 22, 1874.] ch. 359, par. 4, post, p. 200. coins in N. Y. 3519, 3545. June 22, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 202. School lands for CHAP. 422.-An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain fractional townships in the State of Missouri. (1) Be it enacted, &c., That for all fractional townships in the State certain fractional of Missouri, which are entitled to public lands for the support of townships in Misschools, according to the provisions of the act of Congress approved souri; how served. re NOTES-.(1) Provisions of the public land laws applying especially to the State of Missouri are as follows: 1874, June 6, ch. 323, ante, p. 11; 1875, Feb. 23, ch. 99, post, p. 67; 1876, May 5, ch. 91, post, p. 104; 1877, March 3, ch. 116, post, p. 141; 1879, Jan. 28, ch. 30, post, p.209; 1879, July 1, ch. 60, post, p. 209; 1889, March 2, ch. 381, § 1, post, p.682. (2) The provisions of the act of 1826, ch. 83 (4 Stat. L, 170), are incorporated into Revised Statutes. §§ 2275, 2276, which are wholly superseded by substitutes in the act noted in the margin R. S., S$ 2275, 2276. May twentieth eighteen hundred and twenty-six entitled. (2) "An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not before provided for," and for which no 384, post, p. 898. selections have heretofore been made, there shall be reserved and School lands to appropriated out of the public lands, for each of said fractional be selected by townships, the amount of land to which they were respectively entitled according to the provisions of said act. SEC. 2. That the lands to which said fractional townships are entitled as aforesaid shall be selected by the Commissioner of the General Land-Office out of any unappropriated public land within the State of Missouri subject to sale or location at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre: Provided, That said Commissioner, in making such selection, shall select such land as shall be designated to him for that purpose by the county courts of the counties in which such fractional townships are situated; and, when so selected, said lands shall be held by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools in such fractional townships, as sections numbered sixteen are, or may be, held in the State of Missouri. [June 22, 1874.] Commissioner of General Land Office. manner of se lection and tenure of title. R. S., § 2275. CHAP. 453.-An act to prevent hazing at the Naval Academy. June 23, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 203. Hazing at Naval Academy, how punished. R. S., SS 15111528. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases when it shall come to the knowledge of the superintendent of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, that any cadet-midshipman or cadet-engineer has been guilty of the offense commonly known as hazing, it shall be the duty of said superintendent to order a court-martial, composed of not less 1889, March 2, than three commissioned officers, who shall minutely examine into ch. 396, and note, all the facts and circumstances of the case and make a finding post, p, 696. thereon; and any cadet-midshipman or cadet-engineer found guilty of said offense by said court shall, upon recommendation of said court be dismissed; and such finding, when approved by said superintendent, shall be final; and the cadet so dismissed from said Naval Academy shall be forever ineligible to re-appointment to said Naval Academy. [June 23, 1874.] 15 Opins., 80. CHAP. 454.—An act to amend the act entitled "An act to reorganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863. June 23, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 204. Be it enacted, &c., That the justice of the supreme court of the Justice of Sup. District of Columbia, holding a criminal term for said District, may, Court, D. C., holdwhen not engaged in the proper business of the criminal term, hold ing criminal term sittings of the circuit court, and employ the petit juries drawn for court, the criminal term in the trial of such cases depending in said circuit. court as the justice presiding therein may assign to him for that purpose; and the business done at such sittings shall be recorded in the minutes of the circuit court. [June 23, 1874.] R. S. of D. C., $753. 1879, Feb. 25. ch. 99. §3, post, p, 220. 1880, June 8, ch. 137, § 1, post, p. 291; 1889, March 1, ch. 308, § 2, post, p.651. CHAP. 455.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. June 23, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 204. Be it enacted, &c., * * [Par. 1.] That hereafter the Congres- Printing of resional Printer shall print, upon the order of the heads of the ports of DepartExecutive Departments, respectively, only such limited number of ments regulated the annual reports (1) of such Departments and necessary accompa nying reports of subordinates as may be deemed necessary for the use of Congress: * * R.S.,§ 3779, 3798. 1876, July 31, ch. 246, par. 1, post, p. 114; 1883, Feb. 12, ch. 43, post, p. 397; 1884, July 7. ch. 332, par. 8, post, p. Destruction of, [Par. 2.] For the maceration of national bank notes, United States national-bank and notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be deUnited States * * stroyed ; and that all such issues hereafter destroyed may be notes, &c., may be by maceration in- destroyed by maceration instead of burning to ashes, as now provided stead of burning. by law; and that so much of sections twenty-four and forty-three of R. S., § 3581, the national-currency act (2) as requires national bank notes to be burned to ashes is hereby repealed; that the pulp from such macerated issue shall be disposed of only under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Provided, however, That no expensive maps or illustrations shall be printed without the special order of Congress. 469.* 5184, 5225. Moneys appro &c. * * [Par. 3.] All moneys hereafter appropriated for the aid, use, priated for charit- support, or benefit of any charitable, industrial, or other association, able purposes, to institution, or corporation, shall be placed to the credit of the proper whose credit to be fiscal officer of such association, institution, or corporation, by warplaced; to be paid only on checks, rant of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the books of the Treasurer of the United States, or of an assistant treasurer or designated deposR. S., §§ 3620, itary of the United States other than a national bank, and shall be paid out only on the checks of such fiscal officer, drawn payable to the order of the person to whom payment is to be made, for services, materials, or any other purpose, and stating in writing thereon the specific object or purpose to which the avails thereof are to be applied: 3678. 1890, Aug. 30, ch. 837,4. post, p.794. -payments from, under $20, how may be made. * Provided, That when payments are to be made under twenty dollars, such fiscal officer may check in his own name, but shall state in writing on the check that the avails thereof are to be applied to the payment of small claims, and shall furnish, to the Treasurer, assistant treasurer, or designated depositary on whom the check is drawn, a certified list of such claims, which list shall set forth the amount and nature of each claim and the name of each claimant. * Property of [Par. 4.] That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power Light-House Es- to order the sale at auction, after due public notice, of any real tablishment no estate or other property pertaining to the Light House Establonger required lishment, no longer required for light-house purposes; the proceeds R. S., § 4675. of such sales, after the payment therefrom of the expenses of making the same, to be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscel laneous receipts, as now provided by law in like cases. may be sold. ers. * * Light-House [Par. 5.] The jurisdiction of the Light-House Board, created by Board's jurisdic- the act entitled (3) "An act making appropriations for light-houses, tion extended over light-boats, buoys, and so forth, and providing for the erection and Mississippi, Ohio. and Missouri Riv- thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby extended over and Missouri Riv- establishment of the same, and for other purposes" approved August R. S., SS 4653 the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, for the establishment of such beacon-lights, day-beacons, and buoys as may be necessary for the use of vessels navigating those streams; and for this purpose the said board is hereby required to divide the designated rivers into one or two additional light-house districts, to be in all respects similar to the already existing light-house districts; and is hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are 4680. NOTES.-(1) In every sundry civil appropriation act from 1886, Aug. 4, ch. 902, to 1891, March 3, ch. 542, (24 Stat. L,, 254, 542, 25 Stat. L., 547, 979, 26 Stat. L. 411,989,) the following amendment of this provision has appeared, apparently limited to a single year in each act; And the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined. and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business (2) The provisions of the act of 1864, ch. 106 (13 Stat. L., 106) here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes, §§ 5184, 5225 (3) The provisions of the act of 1852. ch, 116 (10 Stat. L. 118), here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes within the sections noted in the margin. used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent. [Pur. 6.] That after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, the Freedmen's Hospital in the District of Columbia shall, until otherwise ordered by Congress, be continued under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make all estimates and pass all accounts, and shall be accountable to the Treasury of the United States for all expenditures; and all property including hospital and quartermaster's stores, belonging to said hospital, and now in charge of the War Department, be also transferred to the Interior Department. [June 23, 1874.] Freedman's Hospital in D. of C. to of Secretary of Interior, &c. be under direction R. S., § 2038. CHAP. 456.---An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. * * June 23, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 231. Be it enacted, &c. [Par. 1.] And for the more efficient Superintendent management of the free-delivery system, the Postmaster-General of free delivery to may designate a fourth class clerk to act as superintendent of free be designated; his delivery in the Post-Office Department at an annual salary of two salary. thousand five hundred dollars; * * [Par. 2.] That hereafter no payment shall be made to any newspaper published in the District of Columbia for advertising any other routes than those in Virginia and Maryland. * * R.S., § 394. Certain mail routes only, to be advertised in D. C. R. S., § 3827. Stamped envel opes. R. S., § 3915. 1888,Jan. 20, ch. Rates of postage [Par. 3.] That hereafter no envelope, as furnished by the Government, shall contain any lithographing and engraving, nor any printing except a printed request to return the letter to the writer. SEC. 4. [Rev. Stat. not to be in newspapers.-No longer applicable.] ch. 2, post, p. 577. SEC. 5. (1) That on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, all newspapers and periodical publications on newspapers mailed from a known office of publication or news agency, and and periodicals addressed to regular subscribers or news agents, postage shall be charged at the following rates: On newspapers and periodical publications, issued weekly and more frequently than once a week, two cents for each pound or fraction thereof and on those issued less frequently than once a week, three cents for each pound or fraction thereof. Provided That nothing in this act shall be held to change or amend section ninety-nine (2) of the act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-Office Department," approved June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two: SEC. 6. That on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, upon the receipt of such newspapers and periodical publications at the office of mailing, they shall be weighed in bulk, and postage paid thereon by a special adhesive stamp, to be devised and furnished by the Postmaster-General, which shall be affixed to such matter, or to the sack containing the same, or upon a memorandum of such mailing, or otherwise, as the PostmasterGeneral may, from time to time, provide by regulation. SECS. 7, 8. [Superseded by 1879, March 3, ch. 180, §§ 25, 17, post, pp. 249, 247.] mailed from office of publication or agency, &c. R. S., § 3509. 15 Opins., 345. 16 Opins., 233. on such matter mailed for local free delivery not changed. R. S.. § 3872. method of pay ing postage in such cases. Publishers, make affidavit SEC. 9. That the Postmaster-General, when in his judgment it shall be necessary, may prescribe, by regulation, an affidavit in form, agents, &c., to to be taken by each publisher of any newspaper or periodical publi- when required. cation sent through the mails under the provisions of this act, or NOTES. (1) This section seems to be mainly, if not wholly supers ded by the provisions of 1885, March 3, ch. 342, par. 4, post, p. 483, (see also, 1879, March 3, ch. 180, §§ 10, 12, 14, 1884, June 9, ch. 73, and 1888, June 18, ch. 394, § 1, post, pp.246, 438, 593), but is here retained as necessary to a correct understanding of the following section (6), which is still in force. (2) The several provisions of the act of 1872, ch. 335 (17 Stat. L., 283), referred to in this act, are incorporated into the Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin. R. S., § 3909. |