deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twentyfive thousand dollars. Approved, April 17, 1882. CHAP. 83.—An act to amend section twenty-five hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes in relation to appraisers at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. Apr. 18, 1882. Appraisers, port R. S. 2569, 508, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-five hundred and sixty-nine, paragraph first, of the Revised Statutes, be, and the of New Orleans. same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "two appraisers amended. and one assistant appraiser" and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to wit: "one appraiser and two assistant appraisers." Approved, April 18, 1882. CHAP. 85.—An act to provide a deficiency for the subsistence of the Arapahoe, Apr. 21, 1882. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of eighty thouDeficiency apsand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- subsistence of propriation for priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Arapahoes, Cheyto be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for ennes, Aapaches, the subsistence of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Co- Kiowas, Comanmanches, and Wichitas, in the Indian Territory, the same being a de- ches, and Wichitas. ficiency for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Approved, April 21, 1882. Apr. 25, 1882. CHAP. 87.—An act to establish distinct United States courts, with distinct officers, in the northern and southern judicial districts of the State of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter there shall be Georgia. for each of the two judicial districts in the State of Georgia a judge, District courts district attorney, marshal and clerk to be appointed, commissioned, and in northern and southern judiciał removed as provided by law for other such officers; but the officers now districts. acting in said places in both said districts shall continue to act until their places shall be filled according to law. SEC. 2. That the district judge now holding office for both said districts shall be assigned to and hereafter be the district judge for the southern district in said State. District judge. Salary. District attor SEC. 3. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint for the northern district in said State a district judge who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties held and performed by the other district judges of the courts of the United States, and shall receive a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars a year. And the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district attorney and marshal of said southern district, and when the term of the present district attorney and marshal hereby assigned ney. to the northern district shall expire the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district attorney and marshal for said northern district, with the same powers and duties as in other cases, and with the same compensation compensation. and emoluments as are provided for the district attorney and marshal by existing laws for said districts. Approved, April 25, 1882. Marshal. Duties, powers, Apr. 25, 1882. Collection dis tricts, Oregon. R. S. 2586, 511, amended. Five collection districts. Boundaries prescribed. CHAP. 88.-An act to amend sections twenty-five hundred and eighty-six and twentyfive hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States by creating the collection district of Yaquina in the State of Oregon and authorizing the appointment of a collector therein. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-five hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 2586. There shall be in the State of Oregon and Territory of Washington five collection districts, as follows: "First. The southern district of Oregon; to comprise all of the waters and shores of that part of the State of Oregon lying south and east of Southern district the north bank of the Siuslaw River; in which Coos Bay, in Coos County, of Oregon. shall be the port of entry, and Ellensburg, at the mouth of Rogue River, Port Orford, and Gardner, on the Umpqua River, ports of delivery. "Second. The district of Yaquina; to comprise all the waters and shores lying north and east of the north bank of the Siuslaw River to the north bank of the Salmon River, and west of the summit of the Cascade Range of mountains; in which Yaquina shall be the port of entry and Newport a port of delivery. Yaquina. District of Ore gon Willamette. Puget Sound. R. S. 2587, 512, amended. tion. "Third. The district of Oregon; to comprise all the waters and shores lying north and east of the north bank of the Salmon River to the fortysixth and one-half degree of north latitude, and west of the Coast Range of mountains to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude, except that portion situated above the junction of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and drained by those rivers and tributary waters; in which Astoria shall be the port of entry. "Fourth. The district of Willamette; to comprise all the waters and shores lying north and east of the north bank of the Salmon River to the forty-sixth and one-half degree of north latitude, and west of the Coast Range of mountains to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude, above the junction of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, and drained by those rivers and their tributary waters, and all other portions of said State drained by said Willamette River or its tributaries; in which Portland shall be the port of entry. "Fifth. The district of Puget Sound; to comprise all the waters and shores of the State of Oregon and Territory of Washington not included in the districts of the southern district of Oregon, Yaquina, Oregon, and Willamette; in which Port Townsend shall be the port of entry." SEC. 2. That section twenty-five hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: Officers' resi"SEC. 2587. There shall be in the collection districts in the State of dence; compensa- Oregon and the Territory of Washington the following officers: "First. In the southern district of Oregon, a collector, who shall reside at Empire City, and three deputy collectors, who may be appointed by the collector, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and of whom one shall reside at Ellensburg, one at Port Orford, and one at Gardner. "Second. In the district of Yaquina, a collector, who shall reside at Yaquina, and who shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars a year, with the fees allowed by law, and a commission on all customs money collected and accounted for by him, such salary, fees, and commissions not to exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per year. "Third. In the district of Oregon, a collector, who shall reside at Astoria. "Fourth. In the district of Willamette, a collector and an appraiser, who shall reside at Portland. "Fifth. In the district of Puget Sound, a collector, who shall reside at Port Townsend." Approved, April 25, 1882. CHAP. 89.-An act to amend section three thousand and sixty-six of the Revised Apr. 25, 1882. Authority to issue warrants for search and seizure of merchandise "SEC. 3066.-If any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or other person upon which duties specially appointed by either of them, or inspector, shall have cause to have not been suspect a concealment of any merchandise in any particular dwelling- paid. house, store-building, or other place, they, or either of them, upon proper amended. Approved, April 25, 1882. CHAP. 106.-An act to amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Apr. 26, 1882. Mineral lands. R. S. 2326, 427. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse claim required by section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes may be verified by the oath of any duly-authorized agent or attorney-in-fact proceedings on. of the adverse claimant cognizant of the facts stated; and the adverse claimant, if residing or at the time being beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make oath to the adverse claim before the clerk of any court of record of the United States or of the State or Territory where the adverse claimant may then be, or before any notary public of such State or Territory. SEC. 2. That applicants for mineral patents, if residing beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make any oath or affidavit required for proof of citizenship before the clerk of any court of record or before any notary public of any State or Territory. Approved, April 26, 1882. CHAP. 107.-An act for a public building at Frankfort, Kentucky. Apr. 26, 1882. Frankfort, Ky. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise procure a site, which shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Frankfort, in the State of Kentucky, a substantial and commodious public building, with fire-proof vaults, for the use of the Federal courts, the post-office, and internal-revenue and other government offices located there; the plans and estimates for said building having Plans, estimates. first been prepared, examined, and approved as required by section thirty-seven hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States; said plans to be based upon calculations and specifications that will insure the purchase of a site and the completion of the building at a cost not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which said sum is hereby appropriated for the purposes herein named out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be 47-1-4 PUB R. S. 3734, 737. Cost. Appropriation. Proviso. Title. used until a valid title to the site selected shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Kentucky shall have ceded to the United States jurisdiction over the same for all purposes, during the time the government shall be or remain the owner thereof, except to enforce the criminal laws of the State and for the service of civil process therein. Approved, April 26, 1882. Apr. 26, 1882. endowment fund CHAP. 108.—An act to amend the act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 12 Stat., 504. States of America in Congress assembled, That section four of the act of State of Iowa au Congress entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States thorized to invest and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture of agricultural and the mechanic arts," approved July second, eighteen hundred and State college. sixty-two, be amended, and is hereby amended, so as to permit the State of Iowa, which has provided a college in accordance with the act aforesaid, to loan the endowment fund belonging to said college, upon real-estate security, under such rules and regulations for its safe investment as the general assembly shall hereafter provide. Approved, April 26, 1882. Apr. 26, 1882. CHAP. 109.—An act changing the name of the German Protestant Orphan Asylum Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United German Protest- States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation organant Orphan Asy- ized and existing in the District of Columbia and heretofore known as lum Association the German Protestant Orphan Asylum Association shall hereafter be authorized to known by the name and style of the German Orphan Asylum Associa change its name. tion of the District of Columbia; and hereafter it shall be lawful to Board of direct- have a Board of Directors composed of eighteen persons instead of ors increased to twelve, as provided in the charter of said corporation. Nothing in this eighteen. act shall be construed to affect in any way any property rights or any liabilities of said corporation. Approved, April 26, 1882. Apr. 26, 1882. CHAP. 110.—An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg in the State of Illinois and to establish it as a postroad Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mercer County States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the Bridge Company, Mercer County Bridge Company, a corporation duly created and organor Keithsburg ized under the laws of the State of Illinois, or the Keithsburg Bridge Bridge Company, or both, authorized Company, a corporation duly created and organized under the laws of to construct bridge the State of Iowa, or both of them, or either or both of their succesacross Mississippi sors or assigns, to build a bridge across the Mississippi River at such River. point on said river at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, as may accommodate the Chicago, Burlington and Pacific Railroad Company, or the Central Iowa Railway Company, and their connections, on the west side of said river, and the Peoria and Farmington Railroad Company, on the east side of said river, and to lay on or over said bridge a railroad track or tracks for the more perfect connection of any railroad or railroads that are or shall be constructed to the said river, on either or both sides thereof, at or opposite said point, under the limitations and conditions hereinafter provided; that said bridge shall not inter fere with the free navigation of said river beyond what is necessary in Free navigation order to carry into effect the rights and privileges hereby granted; and preserved. in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, the cause may be tried before the district court of the United States of any State in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge touches. SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, at the option of the company building the same, be built as a drawbridge, with a pivot or other form of draw, or with unbroken or continuous spans: Provided, That if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, it shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than two hundred and fifty feet in length, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river, and the main span shall be over the main channel of the river and not less than three hundred feet in length: And provided also, That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a drawbridge, the same shall be constructed as a pivot draw-bridge, with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of not less than one hundred and sixty feet in length in the clear on each side of the central or pivot pier of the draw, and the next adjoining spans to the draw shall not be less than two hundred and fifty feet, and said spans shall not be less than thirty feet above low-water mark and not less than ten feet above extreme high-water mark, measuring to the bottom chord of the bridge, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of the river where said bridge may be erected: And provided also, That said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats. Draw. Provisos. Post-route, and a lawful structure. Postal tele SEC. 3. That any bridge constructed under this act and according to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be known and recognized as a post-route, and the same is hereby declared to be a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, or for passengers or freight passing over said bridge, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads and public highways leading to the said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal-telegraph purposes across said bridge. SEC. 4. That all railway companies desiring to use said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges in the passage of the equal rights. same, and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof, and of all the approaches thereto, under and upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties, in case they shall not agree. graph. All railway companies accorded SEC. 5. That the structure herein authorized shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of drawings to be apDesign and said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that proved by Secreobject the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of tary of War. War for his examination and approval a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low-water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of Plan and locaWar the bridge shall not be built; and should any change be made in tion to be approved the plan of said bridge during the progress of construction, such change by Secretary of shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and the said structure shall be at all times so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under said War. |