Substitute for "SEC. 4967. Every person who shall print or publish any manuscript whatever without the consent of the author or proprietor first Discrimination obtained, shall be liable to the author or proprietor for all damages occasioned by such injury." against aliens re pealed. Repeal of R. S., § 4971. Volumes may SEC. 10. That section forty-nine hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 11. That for the purpose of this act each volume of a book in be copyrighted two or more volumes, when such volumes are published separately separately. and the first one shall not have been issued before this act shall take effect, and each number of a periodical shall be considered an inde pendent publication, subject to the form of copyrighting as above. SEC. 12. That this act shall go into effect on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Act takes effect July 1, 1891. Applicable to SEC. 13. That this act shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a citizens of foreign foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to countries permit- citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on ting similar rights. substantially the same basis as its own citizens; -or parties to international agree ment to which U. S. may be party. -when proclaimed by President. Or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement. The existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require. [March 3, 1891.] NOTE. (1) By proclamation of July 1, 1891, which will appear in 27 Stat. L., the President declared that the first of the conditions specified in the above § 13 is fulfilled in respect to the citizens or subjects of Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland. March 3, 1891. 26 Stat. L., 1110. Georgia, northern judicial dis trict. Western divi sion. 1882, April 25, ch. 87, and note, ante, p. 336. Terms at Columbus. CHAP. 566.—An act to create a new division in the Northern judicial district of Georgia. Be it enacted, &c., That a new division of the northern judicial district of the State of Georgia, to be known as the western division of the northern judicial district of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby established, to be composed of the following counties, to-wit: Muscogee, Heard, Troup, Merriwether, Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Schley, Webster, Quitman, Clay, Randolph, Early, Miller, and Terrell, and all of said counties which may not now belong, for judicial purposes, to the northern district of the State of Georgia, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the said northern district SEC. 2. That two terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for said northern district shall be held annually in R. S., §§ 572, said new division at the city of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, commencing on the second Monday in January and the second Monday in June, and shall continue in session for two weeks. 658. Process. Deputy clerks and court rooms. Repeal. SEC. 3. That all process, civil and criminal, issued against citizens residing in said counties, shall be made returnable to the said courts, respectively, at the said city of Columbus, and not otherwise. SEC. 4. That the clerk of the district and the clerk of the circuit court shall appoint a deputy clerk for the courts for said division, and the marshal of said northern district shall provide suitable rooms for the occupancy of said courts and the officers thereof. SEC. 5. [Relates to pending actions.] SEC. 6. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. [March 3, 1891.] RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER 7.-Joint resolution defining a quorum of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Resolved, &c., That any two of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sitting as a board, shall constitute a quorum for the Dec. 24, 1890. 26 Stat. L., 1113. District of Co lumbia, two Com missioners to be a quorum. transaction of business; And that the senior officer of the Corps of Engineers of the Army Engineer Comwho shall for the time being be detailed to act as assistant (and in missioner, when case of his absence from the District or disability, the junior officer absent, who to act. so detailed) shall, in the event of the absence from the District or ch.180, § 2, ante, disability of the Commissioner who shall for the time being be detailed from the Corps of Engineers, perform all the duties imposed by law upon said Commissioner. 1878, June 11, p. 174. -may be ap tains. Hereafter such Engineer Commissioner may, in the discretion of the President of the United States, be detailed from among the cap- pointed from captains or officers of higher grade having served at least fifteen years in the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the United States. [December 24, 1890.] NUMBER 9.-Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the Washington High School. Feb. 5, 1891. 26 Stat. L., 1113. District of Co High lumbia to. 1887, Feb. 12, ch. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Goverment, and which can be spared for that purpose, such as may appear to be required for military instruction and practice by the students of the High School of Washington, District of Columbia, and the Secretary 129, ante, p. 537. shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required. [February 5, 1891.] NUMBER 11.—Joint resolution to correct an error of punctuation in the tariff act of eighteen hundred and ninety. Feb. 18, 1891. 26 Stat. L., 1114. Tariff on cables, twine. Resolved, &c., That the punctuation in paragraph three hundred and sixty-two of "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties cordage, on imports, and for other purposes," approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, be corrected so as to include in the parenthesis. in said paragraph only the words "except binding twine," so that the said paragraph will read as follows: "362. Cables, cordage, and twine (except binding twine) composed in whole or in part of istle or Tampico fiber, manila, sisal grass, or sunn, one and one-half cents per pound; all binding twine manufactured in whole or in part from istle or Tampico fiber, manila, sisal grass, or sunn, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; cables and cordage made of hemp, two and one-half cents per pound; tarred cables. and cordage, three cents per pound." [February 18, 1891.] and Substitute for 1890, Oct. 1, ch. 1244, par. 362, ante, p. 838, and 26 Stat. L., 593. March 3, 1891. 26 Stat. L., 1115. Circuit courts of appeals. First meeting to be on third Tuesday in June, 1891. 1891, Mar. 3, ch. 517, ante, p. 901. Pending cases not affected. NUMBER 17.-Joint resolution to provide for the organization of the circuit courts of appeals. Resolved, &c., That the first meetings of the several circuit courts of appeals mentioned in the act of Congress passed at this present session, entitled "An act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes," shall be held on the third Tuesday in June, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and if, from any casualty, the first meeting of any of said courts shall fail to be so held on that day, the first meeting of any such court so failing to be held, shall be held on such day subsequent thereto as the chief justice, or any justice of the Supreme Court of the United States assigned to such circuit, shall direct: And be it further resolved, That nothing in said act shall be held or construed in any wise to impair the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court or any circuit court of the United States in any case now pending before it, or in respect of any case wherein the writ of error or the appeal shall have been sued out or taken to any of said courts before the first day of July, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. [March 3, 1891.] March 3, 1891. 26 Stat. L., 1117. National Home NUMBER 21.-Joint resolution to increase the number of members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and fill vacancies in such board. Resolved, &c., That the Board of Managers for the National Home for Disabled Vol- for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall hereafter consist of eleven unteer Soldiers. members, [Remainder of resolution names managers.] [March creased to eleven. 3, 1891.] Managers in 1875, Mar. 3, ch. 129, par. 6, and note (1), ante, p.71. |