GENERAL STATUTES

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION

IN

THE YEARS 1895-1896.

CHAP. 2.-An Act To amend section twenty-six hundred and one of the Revised Statutes December 27, 1895. relative to Ports of Entry.

Be it enacted, &c., That section twenty-six hundred and one, Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Section 2601. There shall be in the States of Indiana and Illinois one Collection District as follows:

The District of Chicago; to (1) comprise the State of Illinois, and the waters and shores of Lake Michigan, within the State of Indiana; in which Chicago shall be the port of entry,

and Waukegan and Michigan City ports of delivery: Provided, That all present (2) ports of delivery in the State of Illinois now a part of the New Orleans District, shall be ports of delivery in the new District of Illinois and shall have all privileges which they have under existing law:

29 Stat. L., 1. Illinois Indiana.

and

Chicago collection district. Substitute

R. S., § 2601.

for

Boundaries. Chicago a port of entry. Waukegan, Ills., and Michigan City, Ind., ports of delivery. Present ports of delivery continued.

Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the (3) provisions of the Act approved August seventh, eighteen East St. Louis to hundred and eighty-two, which embraces East Saint Louis, Illinois, remain in port of within the limits of the port of Saint Louis, Missouri. [December 27, 1895.]

NOTES.-(1) R. S., § 2601 provides for the same collection district, but it includes only "the waters and shores of Lake Michigan within the States of Indiana and Illinois." The port of entry and ports of delivery are the same as herein.

(2) The ports of delivery in the State of Illinois (prior to the passage of this act a part of the New Orleans District), are as follows: Alton, by R. S., § 2568; Cairo, by R. S., § 2568 and 1890, Sept. 4, ch. 873 (1 Supp. R. S., 799); Galena, by R. S., § 2568; Peoria, by 1890, Sept. 29, ch. 1047 (1 Supp. R. S., 809); Quincy, by R. S., § 2568; Rock Island, by 1890, Sept. 25, ch. 911 (1 Supp. R. Ś., 805). By 1890, June 10, ch. 190, $1 (1 Supp. R. S., 293), Chicago is named as one of the ports from which immediate transportation may be made, and (by § 7) Chicago, Cairo, Alton, and Quincy as ports to which immediate transportation may be made. By 1881, March 3, ch. 156 (1 Supp. R.S., 328), Indianapolis is made a port of delivery and the privilege of immediate transportation is given.

(3) Saint Louis is, by R. S., § 2568, a port of delivery in the New Orleans collection district. By the act of 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 447 (1 Supp. R. S., 385), here referred to, East Saint Louis, Illinois, is included in the port of delivery of Saint Louis.

1882, Aug. 7, ch. 447 (1 Supp. R. S., 385).

CHAP. 3.—An Act Fixing the times for holding the Circuit and District Courts of the Northern January 4, 1896. District of Iowa, and of the Southern District of Iowa. (1)

29 Stat. L., Iowa.

2.

Courts for north

Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter terms of the Circuit and District
Courts of the United States shall be held in the several divisions of the ern district.
Northern district of Iowa, as follows:

In the Cedar Rapids division at Cedar Rapids, on the first Tuesday

in April, and the second Tuesday in September.

2

for southern district.

Pending actions, &c.

In the Easte:n division at Dubuque, on the fourth Tuesday in April, and the first Tuesday in December.

In the Western division at Sioux City, on the fourth Tuesday in May, and the first Tuesday in October.

In the Central division at Fort Dodge, on the second Tuesday in June, and the second Tuesday in November.

Section 2. That hereafter terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States shall be held in the several divisions in the Southern district of Iowa, as follows:

In the Western division at Council Bluffs, on the second Tuesday in March, and the third Tuesday in September.

In the Eastern division at Keokuk, on the second Tuesday in April, and the Third Tuesday in October.

In the Central division at Des Moines, on the second Tuesday in May, and the third Tuesday in November.

Section 3. That no action, suit, proceeding, information, indictment, recognizance, bail-bond, or other process, in any of said Courts, shall abate or be rendered invalid by reason of the change of time in the holding of the terms of said Courts, but the same shall be deemed to be returnable to, and pending and triable at, the terms provided for in this Act. [January 4, 1896.]

NOTE. (1) Towa was divided into two judicial districts by 1882, July 20, ch. 312 (1 Supp. R. S., 358).

By that act each district was divided into three divisions, to be known respectively as the eastern, central, and western. A fourth was added in the northern district, to be known as the Cedar Rapids division by 1891, February 24, ch. 282 (1 Supp. R. S., 895).

The act in the text supersedes all provisions as to times of holding court contained in those acts as well as in those of 1888, April 19, ch. 127 (1 Supp. R. S. 584), and 1892, January 22, ch. 1, ante, p. 1.

CHAP. 4.-An Act To make Palm Beach, Florida, a subport of entry and delivery.

Be it enacted, &c., That Palm Beach, in the State of Florida, shall be and is hereby made a subport of entry and delivery,

and a customs officer, or such officers, shall be stationed at said subport with authority to enter and clear vessels, receive duties, fees and other moneys, and perform such other services and receive such compensation as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury the exigencies of commerce may require. [January 6, 1896.]

Dist. of Columbia.

CHAP. 5.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

Be it enacted, &c., That section seventeen of the Act approved March Substitute for 1893, March 2, second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act to proch. 197, § 17, ante, vide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of pp. 108, 109. Columbia lying outside of cities," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

Questions of law may be certified to court of appeals.

Appeals to court of appeals.

-only on ques

tions of law.

SEC. 17. That said court in special term may certify to the court of appeals (1) of the District of Columbia for decision there, in the first instance, any question of law that shall arise during any proceedings in said court in special term under this Act.

Any party aggrieved by the final order or decree of said court in special term fixing the amount of damages, or the assessment for benefits as to any parcel of land, may take an appeal to said court of appeals, and shall be entitled to a bill of exceptions as in civil cases triable by jury, and said court of appeals may affirm, reverse, or modify the order or decree appealed from:

Provided, That said court of appeals shall consider only questions of law arising on such appeal.