ceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars, salary, one thousand two hundred dollars. Gross receipts two thousand seven hundred dollars, and not exceeding three thousand dollars, salary, one thousand three hundred dollars Gross receipts, three thousand dollars, and not exceeding three. thousand five hundred dollars, salary, one thousand four hundred dollars Gross receipts, three thousand five hundred dollars, and not exceeding four thousand two hundred dollars, salary, one thousand five hundred dollars. Gross receipts, four thousand two hundred dollars, and not exceeding five thousand dollars, salary, one thousand six hundred dollars. Gross receipts, five thousand dollars, and not exceeding six thousand dollars, salary, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Gross receipts, six thousand dollars, and not exceeding seven thousand dollars, salary, one thousand eight hundred dollars Gross receipts, seven thousand dollars, and not exceeding eight thousand dollars, salary, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Postmaster to And in order to ascertain the amount of the postal receipts of each office, the Postmaster-General may require postmasters to furnish furnish copies of the department with certified copies of their quarterly returns to quarterly returns. the auditor at such times and for such periods as he may deem neces- 1878, ch. 259, par. sary in each case 2, ante, p. 186. FOURTH CLASS. R. S., §§ 3852 SEC. 2. That the compensation of postmasters of the fourth class Compensation of shall be fixed upon the basis of the whole of the box-rents collected postmasters of fourth class. at their offices and commissions upon the amount of canceled postagedue stamps (provided for in section two hundred and seventy of the 3860. Revised Laws and regulations, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine), and on postage stamps, official stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, and newspaper and periodical stamps canceled, on matter actually mailed at their offices, and on amounts received from waste paper, dead newspapers, printed matter, and twine sold, at the following rates, namely: On the first fifty dollars or less per quarter, one hundred per centum; on the next one hundred dollars or less per quarter, sixty per centum; on the next two hundred dollars or less per quarter, fifty per centum; and on all the balance, forty per centum, the same to be ascertained and allowed by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department in the settlement of the accounts of such postmasters upon their sworn quarterly returns : Provided, That when the compensation of any postmaster of this 1883, March 3, class shall reach two hundred and fifty dollars for four consecutive ch. 123, § 4, ante, quarters each, exclusive of commissions on money-order business, p. 406. and when the returns to the auditor for four consecutive quarters shall show him to be entitled to a compensation in excess of two hundred and fifty dollars per quarter, the auditor shall report such fact to the Postmaster-General, who shall assign the office to its proper class, and fix the salary of the postmaster as provided by section one of this act: Provided further, That in no case shall there be allowed to any post: limit of pay. master of this class a compensation greater than two hundred and fifty dollars in any one of the first, three quarters of any fiscal year, exclusive of money-order commissions, and in the last quarter of each fiscal year there shall be allowed such further sum as he may be entitled to under the provisions of this act, not exceeding for the whole fiscal year the sum of one thousand dollars exclusive of money-order commissions. Orders relative SEC. 3. That the Postmaster-General shall make all orders relative to the salaries of postmasters; and any change made in such salaries to salaries to be ter-General. made by Postmas- shall not take effect until the first day of the quarter next following the order; and the auditor shall be notified of any and all changes of salaries. R. S., § 3856. SEC. 4. That the salaries of postmasters of the first, second and three classes to be third classes shall be readjusted by the Postmaster General, the readjusted annu- first adjustment (under this act) to take effect simultaneously with ally. the (1) reduction of the rates of postage, and thereafter at the beginning of each fiscal year; R. S., § 3854. -of postmaster at Washington, And the salary of the postmaster at Washington City, District of D. Columbia, shall be five thousand dollars; C., and New York R. S., § 3852. 1875, March 3, ch.128, par.1,ante, p. 70. And in no case shall the salary of any postmaster exceed the sum of six thousand dollars, except in the city of New York, where the salary of the postmaster shall remain as now fixed by law, at eight thousand dollars per annum. [March 3, 1883.] NOTE. (1) Rate of postage on first-class matter reduced, to take effect October 1, 1883, by 1883, March 3, ch. 92 (22 Stat. L., 455), omitted from this volume because superseded by the further reduction of 1885, March 3. ch. 342, par. 4, post, p. 483. March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 603. Public building condemnation. CHAP. 143.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., [Par. 1.] And the Secretary of the sites to be acquired Treasury is authorized to acquire, by private purchase or by conby purchase or demnation, the necessary lands for (1) public buildings and light1888, Aug. 1, ch. houses to be constructed, and for which money is appropriated, 728, post, p. 601. including all public building sites authorized to be acquired under 1889, Mar. 2. ch. any of the acts of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress; 411, post, p. 697. Expenses of ac- And there may be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, from quiring, how paid. the several amounts appropriated for the construction of public 433. par. 1, ante, buildings, respectively. 1882, Aug 7, ch. buildings, the expenses incident to the procuring of sites for said p. 380. * * [Par. 2.] And all officers in charge of public buildings in the Dispublic buildings, trict of Columbia shall cause the flow of water in the buildings D. C., when to be under their charge to be shut off from five o'clock post meridian to R. S., § 1800- eight o'clock ante meridian: Provided, That the water in said public 1812. R.S. of D. buildings is not necessarily in use for public business. shut off. C., § 214. over Government * * Receipts from [Par. 3.] That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred private dispatches and eighty-three, all moneys received for the transmission of private telegraph lines to dispatches over any and all telegraph lines owned or operated by be paid into Treas- the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, as required by section thirty-six hundred and seventeen of the ReR. S., SS 223, vised Statutes; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith 3617. 1874, June are hereby repealed. ury. 23, ch. 461, ante, p. 46. Changes in Capitol grounds to be estimated for. R. S., § 1816. officers for inven * * [Par. 4.] For improving the Capitol grounds: and here after all changes and improvements in the grounds, including approaches to the Capitol, shall be estimated for in detail, showing what modifications are proposed and the estimate cost of the same. * * Patents may be [Par. 5.] The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of granted to, with- Patents are authorized to grant any officer of the government, except out fee to, U. S. officers and employees of the Patent Office, a patent for any invention tions to be used in of the classes mentioned in section forty eight hundred and eighty public service, six of the Revised Statutes, when such invention is used or to be used in the public service, without the payment of any fee: &c. R. S., § 4886. Provided, That the applicant in his application shall state that the 1875, March 3, invention described therein, if patented, may be used by the governch. 133, par. 3, ante, p. 82. ment or any of its officers or employees in the prosecution of work NOTE.-(1) See note (7) on public buildings to 1875, March 3, ch. 130, par. 14, ante, p. 74, and on condemnation proceedings to 1888, Aug. 1, ch. 728, post, p. 601. for the government, or by any other person in the United States, without the payment to him of any royalty thereon, which stipula tion shall be included in the patent. * * [Par. 6.1 Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: * * Hereafter the report of said institution shall contain an itemized statement of all employees, the salaries or wages respectively, each of them, and also of all other expenses of said institution. 21 C. Cls., 479. 22 C. Cls., 335. 137 U. S., 342. Itemized report of expenses of Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. 1, 1888, Jan. 20,ch. post, p. 577. [Par. 7.] And the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized to designate, from the employees of the Commission, an assistant, to discharge his duties in case of his absence or disability: Provided, That no increase of pay shall be granted in consequence of such selection. * * [Par. 8.] That there may be bound for each Senator, Represent- Binding for ative, or Delegate in Congress, one copy of each book or document Members of Conissued or ordered by authority of Congress during the term of service gress. of such Senator, Representative, or Delegate; but this provision shall not be construed as allowing any binding as aforesaid to be done of any books or documents issued during any former Congress of which said Senator, Representative, or Delegate was not a member. * * 6, R. S., § 3785. 1877, Dec. 10,ch. ante, p. 149. 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 433, par. 16, ante, p. 382. Clerk of su [Par. 9.] That the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall make to the Attorney-General his semi-annual report of preme court of D. fees and emoluments in the same manner and under the same regula- of fees and to pay C. to make report tions as clerks of the other courts of the United States, under and in into Treasury all accordance with section eight hundred and thirty-three of the Revised above maximum Statutes, the maximum of whose compensation, after the payment of of $3,500. office expenses, and other allowances granted by the Attorney- R. S., §§ 833, General, shall not exceed the maximum of three thousand five hundred dollars, and the balance of said fees and emoluments of his office shall be paid into the Treasury according to the provisions of section eight hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes. Provided, That the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States shall not hereafter retain of the fees and emoluments of his office for his personal compensation over and above his necessary clerk-hire and the incidental expenses of his office, certified to by the court, or by one of its justices appointed by it for that purpose, and to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding six thousand dollars a year, or exceeding that rate for any time less than a year; and the surplus of such fees and emoluments shall be paid into the Treasury as provided by law in cases of clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States: And provided further, That so much of (2) section three of the act of February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as relates to the compensation of said clerk for his attendance in court is hereby repealed: 844. R. S. of D. C., SS 915-928. Clerk of Supreme Court of U. S. to pay into Treasury fees above $6,000 year. a R. S., SS677, 844. 1875, Feb. 22, ch. 95, § 3, ante, p. 65. 1884, July 7, ch. 332, par. 7, post, 469. p. 109 U. S., 74. 110 U. S., 401. Repeal in part of 1799, Feb. 28, § 3 (1 Stat. L., 625). Table of fees for And provided further, That the Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to prepare the tables of fees to be charged by the clerk thereof, and until the same is thus prepared the fees therein clerk of Supreme charged for recording or copying any paper or record shall not exceed fourteen cents per folio. * * Court, U. S. [Par. 10.] That Senators elected, whose term of office begins on the Senators-elect fourth day of March, and whose credentials in due form of law shall who have not have been presented in the Senate, but who have had no opportunity qualified, pay of. to be qualified, may receive their compensation monthly, from the be- R. S., §§ 18, 19, 28. ginning of their term, until there shall be a session of the Senate. [March 3, 1883.] * * NOTE. (2) See letter of Chief-Justice Waite, printed in First Comptroller's Decisions, vol. 4, p. 101. RESOLUTIONS. Termination of NUMBER 22.-Joint resolution providing for the termination of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Washington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Resolved, &c., That in the judgment of Congress the proviarticles 18 to 25 sions of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and of and 30, relating to article thirty of the treaty between the United States and Her Brifisheries and to tannic Majesty, for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference importation of im- between the two countries, concluded at Washington on the eighth ported goods through this coun- day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ought try; in treaty with to be terminated at the earliest possible time, and be no longer in Great Britain. force; and to this end the President be, and he hereby is, directed to Treaty, 17 Stat. give notice to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the proL., 869. visions of each and every of the articles aforesaid will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of the two years next after the time of giving such notice. notice to be given. SEC. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give and communicate to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty such 1885, July 31, notice of such termination on the first day of July, anno Domini Proc. No. 8 (23 Stat. L., 837). eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or as soon thereafter as may be. Articles deemed SEC. 3. That on and after the expiration of two years' time reexpired. quired by said treaty, each and every of said articles shall be deemed 1873, July 1, and held to have expired and be of no force and effect, and that Proc., No. 2 (18 every department of the Government of the United States shall execute the laws of the United States (in the premises,) in the same manner and to the same effect as if said articles had never been in force; Stat. L., 42). 2866, 4347. 2506, 1887, Mar. 3, ch. - and acts to en pealed. 339, post, p. 555. And the act of Congress approved March first, anno Domini eighteen force sa me re- hundred and seventy-three, entitled (1) "An act to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," so far as it relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated shall be and stand repealed and be of no force on and after the time of the expiration of said two years. [March 3, 1883.] NOTE.-(1) The act of 1873, ch. 213 (17 Stat. L., 482), here referred to and repealed, is incorporated into Revised Statutes, §§ 2506, 2866, 4347. March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 642. Congressional NUMBER 24.-Joint resolution authorizing the sale of the Congressional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional Record. Resolved, &c., That it shall be lawful for the Public Printer, Directory and under the direction of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House Record may be of Representatives on Printing, to print for sale, at a price sufficient R. S., §§ 77, 78, to reimburse the expenses of such printing, the current Congres3809. sional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional 1874, Jan. 22, ch. Record. sold. 14: June 20, Res. The money derived from such sales shall be paid into the TreasNo. 12; ante, PP. ury monthly to the credit of the appropriation for public printing, 1884, Mar. 31, and no sale shall be made on credit. [March 3, 1883.] 2, 56. ch. 18, and note, post, pp. 423, 424. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION IN THE YEAR 1884. CHAP. 1.-An act to fix the time for holding the District Court in the District of Maine at Bangor. Be it enacted, &c., That the regular term of the District Court of the District of Maine now held at Bangor on the Fourth Tuesday shall hereafter be held on the First Tuesday of June. [January 18, 1884.] CHAP. 6.-An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies on account of the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in regard to rebate of tax on tobacco, and to provide for the expenses of the meeting of the Legislature of the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes. * Be it enacted, &c. * * For the legislative expenses of the Territory of New Mexico, namely: * Provided, That the legislative proceedings, records, and laws of said Territory shall be printed in the English language. ruary 14, 1884.] * * [Feb CHAP. 9.—An act making all public roads and highways post routes. Be it enacted, &c., That all public roads and highways while kept up and maintained as such are hereby declared to be post routes. [March 1, 1884.] CHAP. 12.-An act to establish a standard of time in the District of Columbia. Jan. 18, 1884. 23 Stat. L., 1. Maine to be held Feb. 14, 1884. 23 Stat. L., 2 New Mexico, laws, &c., to be in English. March 1, 1884. 23 Stat. L., 3. and highways deAll public roads clared post routes. R. S., § 3964. Be it enacted, &c., That the legal standard of time in the District of Columbia shall hereafter be the mean time of the seventy-fifth in meridian of longitude west from Greenwich. SEC. 2. That this act shall not be so construed as to affect existing contracts. [March 13, 1884.] March 13, 1884. 23 Stat. L., 4. Standard of time District of Columbia adopted. CHAP. 18.-An act to limit the cost of indexing the Congressional Record. Be it enacted, &c., That the Joint Committee on Printing be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to make the necessary provisions and arrangements for issuing the index of the Congressional Record semi-monthly during the sessions of Congress; That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to print and distribute the same number of copies of said semi-monthly index March 31, 1884. 23 Stat. L., 6. Index to Con gressional Record to be printed semimonthly. R. S., § 78. how distributed. |