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Court to appoint commissioners.

notice, to answer the said petition; and if it shall appear to the court that there are any owners or other persons interested who are under disability the court shall give public notice of the time at which the said court will proceed with the matter of condemnation; and at such time if it shall appear that there are any persons under disability either who have appeared or who have not appeared, the court shall appoint guardians ad litem for each such persons,

And the court shall thereupon proceed to appoint three capable and disinterested commissioners to appraise the value of the respective interests of all persons concerned in such lands, under such regulations as to notice and hearing as to the court shall seem meet. Duties of com- Such commissioners shall thereupon, after being duly sworn for the proper performance of their duties, examine the premises and hear the persons in interest who may appear before them, and return their appraisement of the value of the interests of all persons, respectively, in such land;

missioners.

Payment, how made.

Future condem

And when such report shall have been confirmed by the court the President of the United States shall, if he think the public interest requires it, cause payment to be made to the respective persons entitled according to the judgment of the court, and in case any of such persons are under disability, or can not be found, or neglect to receive payment, the money to be paid to any of them shall be deposited in the Treasury to their credit, unless there shall be some person lawfully authorized to receive the same under the direction of the court, and when such payments are so made, or the amounts belonging to persons to whom payment shall not be made are so deposited, the said lands shall be deemed to be condemned and taken by the United States for the public use.

And hereafter, in all cases of the taking of property in the District nation proceed- of Columbia for public use, whether herein, heretofore, or hereafter ings in D. C. to authorized, the foregoing provisions, as it respects the application follow same pro- by the proper officer to the supreme court of the District of Columbia R. S., of D. C., and the proceedings therein shall be as in the foregoing provisions SS 257-266, 286- declared.

cedure.

292. 1890, Aug. 6, ch. 724, par. 4, ante, p. 777.

Disbursing officers to render accounts quarterly.

SEC. 4. That hereafter all disbursing officers of the United States shall render their accounts quarterly;

R. S., §§ 2091, 3622, 5491. 1887, March 3, ch. 359, § 3, ante, p. 560. 1888, Aug. 8, ch. 787, ante, p. 605. Secretary of Senate not affected.

R. S., S$ 60, 70. More frequent accounting may be required.

August 30, 1890.

26 Stat. L., 414.

Salted pork and

And the Secretary of the Senate shall render his accounts as heretofore;

But the Secretary of the Treasury may direct any or all such accounts to be rendered more frequently when in his judgment the public interests may require.

SEC. 5. [Local.] [August 30, 1890.]

CHAP. 839.-An act providing for an inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of Agriculture may cause bacon for export to be made a careful inspection of salted pork and bacon intended may be inspected. for exportation, with a view to determining whether the same is wholesome, sound, and fit for human food whenever the laws, regulations, or orders of the Government of any foreign country to which such pork or bacon is to be exported shall require inspection thereof relating to the importation thereof into such country, and also whenever any buyer, seller, or exporter of such meats intended for exportation shall request the inspection thereof.

Inspection, Such inspection shall be made at the place where such meats are where to be made packed or boxed, and each package of such meats so inspected shall and how stamped. bear the marks, stamps, or other device for identification provided for in the last clause of this section: Provided, That an inspectior

of such meats may also be made at the place of exportation if an inspection has not been made at the place of packing, or if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, a re-inspection becomes

necessary.

Inspector's cer

One copy of any certificate issued by any such inspector shall be filed in the Department of Agriculture; another copy shall be at- tificate to be filed tached to the invoice of each separate shipment of such meat, and a tached to invoice in Department, atthird copy shall be delivered to the consignor or shipper of such meat and delivered to as evidence that packages of salted pork and bacon have been in- shipper. spected in accordance with the provisions of this act and found to be wholesome, sound, and fit for human food;

And for the identification of the same such marks, stamps, or other Identification devices as the Secretary of Agriculture may by regulation prescribe marks to be preshall be affixed to each of such packages.

scribed.

demeanor.

Any person who shall forge, counterfeit, or knowingly and wrong- Forging marks fully after, deface, or destroy any of the marks, stamps, or other de- on packages a misvices provided for in this section on any package of any such meats, or who shall forge, counterfeit, or knowingly and wrongfully alter, deface, or destroy any certificate in reference to meats provided for in this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Punishment.

Importation of adulterated food,

SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful to import into the United States any adulterated or unwholesome food or drug or any vinous, spirituous liquor, &c., proor malt liquors, adulterated or mixed with any poisonous or noxious hibited. chemical drug or other ingredient injurious to health. Any person who shall knowingly import into the United States any such adulterated food or drug, or drink, knowing or having reasons to believe the same to be adulterated, being the owner or the agent of the owner, or the consignor or consignee of the owner, or in privity with them, assisting in such unlawful act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to prosecution therefor in the district court of the United States for the district into which such property is imported; and, on conviction, such person shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for each separate shipment, and may be imprisoned by the court for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Punishment.

Imported adulterated food or drink, forfeited;

SEC. 3. That any article designed for consumption as human food or drink, and any other article of the classes or description mentioned in this act, which shall be imported into the United States contrary proceedings. to its provisions, shall be forfeited to the United States, and shall be R. S., SS 911proceeded against under the provisions of chapter eighteen of title 1042. thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States;

exportation.

And such imported property so declared forfeited may be destroyed may be destroyor returned to the importer for exportation from the United States ed, or returned for after the payment of all costs and expenses, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe;

Examination of

And the Secretary of the Treasury may cause such imported articles to be inspected or examined in order to ascertain whether the imports. same have been so unlawfully imported.

President may

SEC. 4. That whenever the President is satisfied that there is good reason to believe that any importation is being made, or is about to suspend importation of articles bebe made, into the United States, from any foreign country, of any lieved to be adultarticle used for human food or drink that is adulterated to an extent erated. dangerous to the health or welfare of the people of the United States, or any of them, he may issue his proclamation suspending the importation of such articles from such country for such period of time as he may think necessary to prevent such importation; and during such period it shall be unlawful to import into the United States from the countries designated in the proclamation of the President any of the articles the importation of which is so suspended.

of U. S.

-may suspend SEC. 5. That whenever the President shall be satisfied that unjust importation of discriminations are made by or under the authority of any foreign products of other countries making state against the importation to or sale in such foreign state of any unjust discrimina- product of the United States, he may direct that such products of tion against those such foreign state so discriminating against any product of the United States as he may deem proper shall be excluded from importation to the United States; and in such case he shall make proclamation of his direction in the premises, and therein name the time when such direction against importation shall take effect, and atter such date the importation of the articles named in such proclamation shall be unlawful. The President may at any time revoke, modify, terminate, or renew any such direction as, in his opinion, the public interest may require.

Importation of SEC. 6. That the importation of neat cattle, sheep, and other diseased, &c., cat- ruminants, and swine, which are diseased or infected with any distle, &c., prohibited, and penalties. ease, or which shall have been exposed to such infection within sixty 1890, Oct. 1, ch. days next before their exportation, is hereby prohibited; and any 1244, § 20, 21, person who shall knowingly violate the foregoing provision shall be post, p. 861. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, and any vessel or vehicle used in such unlawful importation with the knowledge of the master or owner of said vessel or vehicle that such importation is diseased or has been exposed to infection as herein described, shall be forfeited to the United States.

Secretary of SEC. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and is hereby, auAgriculture to thorized, at the expense of the owner, to place and retain in quaranquarantine imported cattle, &c. tine all neat cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and all swine, im1884, May 29, ported into the United States, at such ports as he may designate for ch. 60, ante, p. 435. such purpose, and under such conditions as he may by regulation 1890, July 14, ch. prescribe, respectively, for the several classes of animals above de707, par. 2, ante, scribed; and for this purpose he may have and maintain possession of all lands, buildings, animals, tools, fixtures, and appurtenances now in use for the quarantine of neat cattle, and hereafter purchase, construct, or rent as may be necessary,

p. 774.

may appoint surgeons, inspectors, &c.

Importation of certain animals except at certain

prohibited.

And he may appoint veterinary surgeons, inspectors, officers, and employees by him deemed necessary to maintain such quarantine, and provide for the execution of the other provisions of this act.

SEC. 8. That the importation of all animals described in this act into any port in the United States, except such as may be designated quarantine ports, by the Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as quarantine stations, is hereby prohibited; Slaughter of inAnd the Secretary of Agriculture may cause to be slaughtered fected animals such of the animals named in this act as may be, under regulations posed to infection. prescribed by him, adjudged to be infected with any contagious disease, or to have been exposed to infection so as to be dangerous to other animals;

and animals ex

Ascertain ment

mals slaughtered but not affected.

And that the value of animals so slaughtered as being so exposed of value of ani- to infection but not infected may be ascertained by the agreement of the Secretary of Agriculture and owners thereof, if practicable; otherwise, by the appraisal by two persons familiar with the character and value of such property, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, whose decision, if they agree, shall be final; otherwise, the Secretary of Agriculture shall decide between them, and Payment to his decision shall be final; and the amount of the value thus ascerof ascertained shall be paid to the owner thereof out of money in the Treasury appropriated for the use of the Bureau of Animal Industry; but no payment shall be made for any animal imported in violation of the provisions of this act.

owner
tained value.

Animals brought If any animal subject to quarantine according to the provisions of to prohibited ports to be sent to this act are brought into any port of the United States where no nearest quaran- quarantine station is established the collector of such port shall

tine.

require the same to be conveyed by the vessel on which they are imported or are found to the nearest quarantine station, at the expense of the owner.

SEC. 9. That whenever, in the opinion of the President, it shall be Importation of necessary for the protection of animals in the United States against all animals, may infectious or contagious diseases, he may, by proclamation, suspend proclamation. be suspended by the importation of all or any class of animals for a limited time, and may change, modify, revoke, or renew such proclamation, as the public good may require; and during the time of such suspension the importation of any such animals shall be unlawful.

ulations of Secre

Inspection of

for export and dis

SEC. 10. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause careful in- Inspection of all spection to be made by a suitable officer of all imported animals imported animals. described in this act, to ascertain whether such animals are infected with contagious diseases or have been exposed to infection so as to be dangerous to other animals, which shall then either be placed in Disposal of aniquarantine or dealt with according to the regulations of the Secre- mals, &c., by regtary of Agriculture; and all food, litter, manure, clothing, utensils, tary of Agricul and other appliances that have been so related to such animals on ture. board ship as to be judged liable to convey infection shall be dealt with according to the regulations of the Secretary of Ariculture; And the Secretary of Agriculture may cause inspection to be made of all animals described in this act intended for exportation, and animals intended provide for the disinfection of all vessels engaged in the transporta- infection of vestion thereof, and of all barges or other vessels used in the convey- sels. ance of such animals intended for export to the ocean steamer or 1891, March 3, other vessels, and of all attendants and their clothing, and of all ch. 555, post, p. head-ropes and other appliances used in such exportation, by such orders and regulations as he may prescribe; and if, upon such inspection, any such animals shall be adjudged, under the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, to be infected or to have been exposed to infection so as to be dangerous to other animals, they shall not be allowed to be placed upon any vessel for exportation: the Expenses. expense of all the inspection and disinfection provided for in this section to be borne by the owners of the vessels on which such animals are exported. [August 30, 1890.]

937.

CHAP. 841.-An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

August 30, 1890.

26 Stat. L., 417.

Annual appropriations for en

503).

Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- dowment of agripriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as herein- cultural colleges, after provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete &c. endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agricul- 1862, July 2, ch. ture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be 130 (12 Stat. L., hereafter established, in accordance with an act of Congress approved 1866, July 23, ch. July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen 209 (14 Stat. L., thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- 208). dred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such 1887,March 2,ch. appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one 314, ante, p. 550. thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to 373, ante, p. 589. be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction:

1888, June 7, ch.

Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any No money for State or Territory for the support or maintenance of a college where institutions maka distinction of race or color is made in the admission of students, ing distinction of

race, unless sepa- but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately rate schools for for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with white and colored the provisions of the act if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth:

are provided.

Division of funds

Provided, That in any State in which there has been one college where separate established in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred institutions for and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like white and colored. character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and

Time, manner,

or Territories.

is now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore under the act to which this act is an amendment, the legislature of such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this act between one college for white students and one institution for colored students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been included under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white and colored students.

SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Ter&c., of annual ritories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be payments to States annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the State or Territorial treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon the order of the trustees of the college, or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums to the treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the same, and such treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its disbursment.

Money-grants subject to legisla

tive assent.

Certain install

The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants:

Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriaments due, to be tion herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournpaid on assent of ment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury.

governor.

Diminution of

SEC. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the desigfund to be made nated officer of the State or Territory for the further and more comup by State, or no plete endowment, support, and maintenance of colleges, or of instisubsequent pay- tutions for colored students, as provided in this act, shall, by any

ments made.

No portion to be applied to build ings.

action or contingency, be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory;

And no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.

Annual report An annual report by the president of each of said colleges shall be of colleges to Sec- made to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of retaries of Agri- the Interior, regarding the condition and progress of each college, culture, and Interior, and to other including statistical information in relation to its receipts and excolleges. penditures, its library, the number of its students and professors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under the direction of any experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their

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