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priations from the United States Treasury, and report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs what, in his judgment, are the defects, if any, in any of them, in system, in administration, or in means for the most effective advancement of the pupils therein toward civilization and self-support, and what changes are needed to remedy such defects as may exist, and to perform such other duties in connection with Indian schools as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. * *

1885, Mar. 3, ch.

SEC. 11. That hereafter the costs of the trial of the cases in the Costs in prosecourts of the several Territories tried pursuant to and for the offenses cution of Indians named in section nine of the act entitled "An act making appropria- for crimes in Tertions for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Depart- ritories; how paid. ment, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for 341, §9, ante, p. the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and 482. for other purposes," shall be audited by the accounting officers of the Treasury and paid out of money for similar expenses in the trial of criminal cases in the courts of the United States.

[SECS. 12, 13, 14 provide for the opening of certain lands of Seminoles and Cherokees in Indian Territory for settlement.]

Land districts to
created.
R. S., § 2256.
1890, May 2, ch.

SEC. 15. That the President may whenever he deems it necessary create not to exceed two land districts embracing the lands which he be may open to settlement by proclamation as herein before provided, and he is empowered to locate land offices for the same appointing 182, § 19, post, p. thereto in conformity to existing law registers and receivers and for 451. the purpose of carrying out this provision five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated. [March 2, 1889.]

CHAP. 413.-An act to regulate and license pawnbrokers in the District of Columbia,

March 2, 1889.

25 Stat. L., 1006. Pawnbrokers in

D. C. to be li

censed.

R. S. of D. C.,

Be it enacted, &c., That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may from time to time grant licenses, under their hands and seal, to such persons citizens of the United States as shall produce to them satisfactory evidence of their good character, to exercise §§ 404-407. or carry on the business of a pawnbroker, which license shall des- 1887, Jan. 26, ignate the building in which said person shall carry on said business; ch. 49, par. 1, ante, p. 523. 1891, March 3, ch. 531, post, p. 910. And no person shall exercise or carry on the business of a pawn- Penalty for broker without being duly licensed by the commissioners of the carrying on busiDistrict of Columbia, nor in any other building than the one des- license. ignated in said license, except by the consent in writing of the said commissioners, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each day he or she shall exercise or carry on said business without such license, or in any other building than the one so designated, except by the consent of the Commissioners as aforesaid,

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Any person, corporation, member, or members of a corporation or Pawnbroker firm who loans money on deposits or pledge on personal property, or defined. other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidences of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price, is hereby declared and defined to be a pawnbroker. SEC. 2. That every person receiving such license shall pay therefor the sum of one hundred dollars for the use of the District of Colum- fee, $100. bia yearly, and every such license shall expire one year from the date thereof, and may be renewed on application to the Commissioners of the District each and every year on payment of the same sum, and upon performance of the other conditions herein contained.

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Yearly license

SEC. 3. That every person so licensed shall at the time of receiv- Bond for observing such license, and before the same shall be operative, enter, with ance of law. two sufficient sureties, into a joint and several recognizance to the

-recovery on against surety.

Pawnbrokers to

Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, conditioned for the due observance of all such acts of the Congress of the United States as may be passed or in force respecting pawnbrokers at any time during the continuance of such license.

If any person shall be aggrieved by the misconduct of any such licensed pawnbroker, and shall recover judgment against him therefor, such person may, after the return unsatisfied, either in whole or part, of any execution issued upon said judgment, maintain an action in his own name upon the bond of said pawnbroker in any court having jurisdiction, of the amount claimed, provided such court shall, upon application made for the purpose, grant such leave to prosecute.

SEC. 4. That every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which shall keep book of be fairly written, at the time of each loan, an accurate account and entries of goods description of the goods, article, or thing pawned or pledged, the pawned. amount of money loaned thereon, the time of pledging the same, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, and the name and resi dence of the person pawning or pledging the said goods, article, or thing, together with a particular description of such person, including complexion, color of eyes and hair, and his or her height and general appearance.

-to give memorandum pledgor.

SEC. 5. That every pawnbroker, shall, at the time of each loan to deliver to the person pawning or pledging any goods, article, or thing a memorandum or note, signed by him or her, containing the substance of the entry required to be made in his or her book by the last preceding section, excepting as to the description of the person and no charge shall be made or received by any pawnbroker for any such entry, memorandum or note.

Book to be open SEC. 6. That the said book shall at all reasonable times be open to to inspection, &c. the inspection of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all judges of criminal courts, major and superintendent of police, captains of police of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, or any or either of them, or of any policeman who shall be duly authorized in writing for that purpose by any or either of them, and who shall exhibit such written authority to such pawnbroker.

Goods to remain

before sale.

SEC. 7. [For substitute see 1891, March 3, ch. 531, § 2, post, p. 910.] SEC. 8. That no pawnbroker shall sell any pawn or pledge until the in pawn one year same shall have remained one year in his or her possession, unless by consent in writing of the pawner; and all such sales shall be made at public auction and not otherwise, and shall be made or conducted by such auctioneers as shall be designated and approved of for that purpose by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

Notice of sale, &c.

SEC. 9. That notice of every such sale shall be published for at least six days previous thereto, in one or more of the daily newspapers of general circulation printed in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and such notice shall specify the time and place at which such sale is to take place, the name of the auctioneer by whom the same is to be conducted, and a description of the articles to be sold. SEC. 10. That the surplus money, if any, arising from any such surplus from sale. sale, after deducting the amount of the loan, the interest then due on the same, and the expenses of the advertisement and sale, shall be paid over by the pawnbroker to the person who would be entitled to redeem the pledge in case no such sale had taken place.

Disposition

of

Loans on sepa

SEC. 11. That no pawnbroker shall make any loan on the separate rate parts of one or divided part or parts of any one article or thing, and which article article forbidden. or thing shall have been offered entire or collectively to him or her by way of pawn or pledge.

Purchases by SEC. 12. That no pawnbroker shall, under any pretense whatever, pawnbrokers of purchase or buy any second-hand furniture, metals, or clothes, or pledge forbidden. any other article or thing whatever offered to him or her as a pawn or pledge, except at sale by public auction, as hereinbefore provided.

articles offered in

Penalty for vio

SEC. 13. That any pawnbroker who shall violate or neglect or refuse to comply with any or either of the provisions of this act, except lations of act. those contained in sections one and seven, shall, for every such offense, upon conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction, pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, for the use of the District of Columbia.

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SEC. 14. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, Repeal. and the same are hereby, repealed. [March 2, 1889.]

CHAP. 415.-An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska

March 2, 1889.

25 Stat. L., 1009. Alaska salmon fisheries. Erection of

Be it enacted, &c., That the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the rivers of Alaska, with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon or other anadro- dams impeding mous species to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared to be ascent of fish ununlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized lawful. and directed to establish such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition is strictly enforced and to otherwise protect the salmon fisheries of Alaska;

Punishment.

Commissi o ner

And every person who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars for each day of the continuance of such obstruction. SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby empowered and directed to institute an investigation into the habits, of Fisheries to investigate habits, abundance, and distribution of the salmon of Alaska, as well as the &c., of salmon. present conditions and methods of the fisheries, with a view of recom- 1891, March 3, mending to Congress such additional legislation as may be necessary ch. 561, § 11, post, to prevent the impairment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, p. 944. and placing them under regular and permanent conditions of production.

hibited.

&c.

SEC. 3. That section nineteen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Killing fur-bearStatutes of the United States is hereby declared to include and apply ing animals in to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea; Behring Sea proR. S., § 1956. 1874, March 24, ch. 64, ante, p. 6. And it shall be the duty of the President, at a timely season in each Proclamation of year, to issue his proclamation and cause the same to be published warning to issue, for one month in at least one newspaper if any such there be pub- 1889, March 21; lished at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warn- 1890, March 15; ing all persons against entering said waters for the purpose of Procs. Nos. 1, 11; violating the provisions of said section; and he shall also cause one 26 Stat. L.. 1543, 1558. or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons, and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein. [March 2, 1889.]

CHAP. 418.-An act to amend sections forty-four hundred and eighty-eight and forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes requiring life-saving appliances on steamers (1).

Be it enacted, &c., That sections forty-four hundred and eightyeight and forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes shall be amended by inserting after the words "life preservers," wherever they occur, the words "line-carrying projectiles, and the means of propelling them."

SEC. 2. This act to take effect February first, eighteen hundred and ninety. [March 2, 1889.]

NOTE. (1) This act was suspended for one year by 1890, March 29, ch. 56 (26 Stat. L., 33); and again by 1891, March 3, ch. 549 (26 Stat. L., 1083), the Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to suspend it for a further period of one year from March 29, 1891, so far as it relates to steamers plying exclusively upon lakes or bays.

March 2, 1889.

25 Stat. L., 1012. Steamers to be provided with jectiles, &c. line-carrying pro

R. S., SS 4488, 4489.

When act takes

effect.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION

IN

THE YEAR 1890.

CHAP. 2.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

Be it enacted, &c., That section six of an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by striking out the words, "five hundred" and inserting the words, "one thousand," so that the proviso will read: "Provided, That in the aggregate no supervisor shall be paid less than the sum of one thousand dollars." [January 23, 1890.]

January 23, 1890.

26 Stat. L., 2. Census; compensation to supervisors increased.

319,8 6,ante,p.655. 1889, Mar. 1, ch.

26 Stat. L., 3.

CHAP. 5-An act to amend the first section of an act approved June third, eighteen hundred February 4, 1890. and eighty-four, entitled "An act to amend sections four, five, and nine of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled 'An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places for holding courts in said districts,' and to provide for holding terms of the court of the western judicial district of Texas at the city of El Paso, and for other purposes,' and for other purposes." (1)

Be it enacted, &c., That the first section of an act approved June Texas, western third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act to amend judicial district; sections four, five, and nine of an act approved February twenty- terms of court. Substitute for fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled 'An act to create 1884, June 3, ch. the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change 64, 1, ante, p. 438, the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the and 23 Stat. L., 35. time and places for holding courts in said districts,' and to provide 1879, Feb. 24, ch. for holding terms of the court of the western judicial district of Texas 97, ante, p. 217. at the city of El Paso, and for other purposes," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"That the fourth section of an act approved February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled 'An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts,' is hereby amended as follows:

"SEC. 4. That the courts in the western judicial district shall be held twice in each year at Brownsville, San Antonio, the city of El Paso, and Austin. The courts shall be held at the city of Brownsville on the first Monday in January and the second Monday in June; at San Antonio on the first Mondays in May and November; at the city of El Paso on the first Mondays in April and October; at Austin on the first Mondays in February and July."

SEC. 2. [Relates to pending cases.]

hereby repealed. [February 4, 1890.]

Brownsville.

San Antonio.
El Paso.
Austin.

SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are

Repeal.

NOTE. (1) This act is a substitute for 1884, June 3, ch. 64, § 1 (23 Stat. L., 35), this being itself a substitute for 1879, Feb. 24, ch. 97, § 4 (20 Stat. L., 318). See the parts of these acts not superseded, ante, pp. 217, 438, and note on Texas courts, appended to the former act ante, p. 217.

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