CHAP. 287.-An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, and for other purposes. * Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 143. Additional police force at Capitol not to be employed. R. S., § 1826. cates for compen Be it enacted, &c. * * [Par. 1.] That so much of the Joint Resolution approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as authorizes the employment of additional police force is hereby repealed to take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred and seventy-six. (1). * [Par. 2.] The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized Clerk of House and directed to sign, during the recess of Congress after the first may sign certifisession and until the first day of the second session, the certificates sation during refor the monthly compensation of members and delegates in Con- cess. gress, which certificates shall be in the form now in use, and shall have the like force and effect as is given to the certificate of the 48. Speaker; 1890, Oct. 1, ch. 1256, § 1, post, p. 876. [Par. 3.] That the term "Public Printer" as employed in that part Public Printer. of the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the R. S., § 3758. Government for the current fiscal year which repeals all laws pro- 455, par. 1; 1876, viding for the election or appointment of Public Printer shall be July 31, ch. 246, construed as embracing that officer whether known as Congressional par. 1, and note Printer or Public Printer. * ** [Par. 4.] That all the duties relative to the Capitol building heretofore performed by the Commissioner of public buildings and grounds, shall hereafter be performed by the Architect of the Capitol, whose office shall be in the Capitol building. * * R. S. SS 38, 47, 1874,June 23, ch. ante, pp. 41, 114. to him. 1816, 1817. 1875, March 3, ch. 130, par. 7, ante, p. 73. 1877, March 3, ch. 102, par. 1;, March 3, ch. 105, par. 3, post, pp. 134, 136. 1879, March 3, ch. 182, par. 8, post, p. 251. 1881, Mar.3, ch. 130, par. 1, post, p. 320. 1888, July 11, ch. 615, par. 1, post, p. 597. Division of loans solidated. [Par. 5.] And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to consolidate the division of loans and the division of currency into and currency conone division; and all work now down in either division shall be done in the consolidated division: * * 1875, March 3, ch. 130, § 2 and note, ante, p. 76. Internal-reve 1879, June 21, [Par. 6.] And hereafter the transmission of internal revenue stamps to the officers of the internal revenue service shall be made nue stamps to be through the mails of the United States in registered packages. * *sent by mail. [Par. 7.] And hereafter no storekeeper shall receive a greater Pay of gaugers compensation than four dollars per day; and said gaugers and store- and storekeepers. R. S., §§ 3153, keepers, respectively shall only receive compensation when render- 3157. ing actual service. ch. 34, § 2, post, p. 267.1885, Mar. 3, ch. 343, par. 1, post, p. 484. 23 C. Cls., 413. [Par. 8.] And sections thirty-one hundred and fifty-nine, and thirty-one hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs relating to the internal revenue service, are hereby repealed. (2) Supervisors of internal-re venue Repeating. abolished. R. S., §§ 3159, 3160. power of, transferred to Commis sioner and collectors. The powers of transfer, and of suspension, of officers conferred upon supervisors by section thirty-one hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, are hereby vested in the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and all other powers conferred, and duties im- R. S., SS 3154, posed, by said section upon supervisors, are hereby conferred and 3159, 3160, 3163. imposed upon collectors of internal revenue within their respective ch. 125, § 2, post, 1879, March 1, districts. p.223. In case of the supervision (3) of a collector, under the power hereby Suspension of conferred, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall, as soon there- collectors of interafter as practicable, report the case to the President through the nal revenue. Secretary of the Treasury for such action as he may deem proper. NOTES.-(1) That part of the resolution of 1870, July 15, No. 131 (16 Stat. L., 391) here referred to, is incorporated in Revised Statutes, § 1826. (2) The sections hereby repealed are so noted and printed in the second edition of the Revised Statutes. (3) This word should be suspension, instead of supervision, as the context shows, and as it was in the former act on this subject, but it is engrossed on the roll as here printed. ises of wholesale R.S., § 3321. Packages of spir- [Par. 9.] And sections thirty-three hundred and twenty-one of its filled on prem- the Revised Statutes, and thirty-three hundred and twenty-three, dealer to be so far as the latter relates to wholesale liquor-dealers' packages filled stamped under on the premises of wholesale liquor dealers, shali, from and after ten regulations. days from the passage of this act, be repealed; and packages of distilled spirits filled on the premises of any wholesale liquor dealer R. S., § 3323, in shall thereafter be stamped under such rules and regulations as the 3 Fed., Rep. 21. Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe. (4) Storekeeper and That the Secretary of the Treasury may, upon the recommendagauger duties may tion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, impose the duties of be united in one storekeeper and gauger upon one officer, where the amount of spirits officer, who shall produced at the distillery, to which such officer may be assigned, is have commission not sufficient, in the judgment of the Commissioner to warrant the R. S., 3153, employment of two officers to perform the separate duties of storekeeper and gauger. part. and give bond. 3156. 1879, March 1, Assistant treas urer at Charleston abolished. R. S., SS 3595 3608, 3615. Depositories of The Secretary of the Treasury may issue a commission to such officer as storekeeper and gauger, but the compensation for his services as storekeeper and gauger shall be that of storekeeper only. And the said officer shall before entering upon the discharge of such duties, give a bond in the penal sum of not less than five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of the combined duties of storekeeper and gauger. * [Par. 10.] And so much of section thirty-five hundred and ninetyfive of the Revised Statutes as provides for the appointment of an assistant treasurer of the United States at Charleston is hereby repealed from and after September, thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; And the secretary of the Treasury is directed to discontinue, from public money at said date, the depositories at Buffalo, New York Santa Fe, New MexBuffalo, Santa Fé, ico, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. and Pittsburgh discontinued. * * And the New Orleans [Par. 11.] MINT AT NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: * mint. Assaying assaying and stamping of bullion is hereby authorized, subject to bullion authoriz- the provisions of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy1874, June 20, three. ed. ante, p. 17. Clerks of higher &c. * * (5) ch. 328, par. 7, SEC. 3. That whenever, in the judgment of the head of any department, the duties assigned to a clerk of one class can be as well grade may be di- performed by a clerk of a lower class or by a female clerk, it shall minished and of be lawful for him to diminish the number of clerks of the higher lower increased, grade and increase the number of the clerks of the lower grade within the limit of the total appropriation for such clerical R.S..S$161,163, service: 167. 1882. Aug. 5, ch. 389, § 4, post, Provided, That in making any reduction of force in any of the executive departments, the head of such department shall retain p. 374. Discharged sol- those persons who may be equally qualified who have been honordiers and sailors ably discharged from the military or naval service of the United and their widows, States and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and &c., to be preferred in retain- sailors. * [August 15, 1876.] ing clerks. R. S., § 1754. * NOTES (4) These amendments have been incorporated into the second edition of the Revised (5) This provision is repeated in the subsequent appropriation act (19 Stat. L., 307). The provisions of the act of 1873, ch. 131 (17 Stat. L., 435), are incorporated into Revised Statutes, §§ 3495-3562. * ** Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 176. In contracts in Indian service proposals, &c., to be filed and Secre CHAP. 289.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty-stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. SEC. 3. That in all lettings of contracts in connection with the Indian service, the proposals or bids received shall be filed and preserved; And in the annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, tary to report to there shall be embodied a detailed and tabular statement of all bids Congress. and proposals received for any services, supplies, or annuity-goods 1875, Mar. 3, ch. for the Indian service, together with a detailed statement of all 182, SS 7, 9, ante, awards of contracts made for any such services, supplies, and annuitygoods for which said bids or proposals were received; And an abstract of all bids or proposals received for the supplies or services embraced in any contract shall be attached to, and filed with, the said contract when the same is filed in the office of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury. P. 80. abstract to be filed with Second 2083. Estimates for SEC. 4. That hereafter the estimates for appropriations for the Indian service shall be presented in such form as to show the Indian appropriations; how preamounts required for each of the agencies in the several States or sented. Territories, and for said States and Territories respectively. &c. R. S., § 3669. SEC. 5. And hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall have the sole power and authority to appoint Traders to the Indian how appointed, tribes and to make such rules and regulations as he may deem just and proper specifying the kind and quantity of goods and the prices at which such goods shall be sold to the Indians. 15, 1876.] R. S., § 2129 2131. * * [August 1882, July 31, ch. 360, post, p.362. CHAP. 290.-An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 200. Certain prod Be it enacted, &c., That whenever the President of the United ucts of Hawaiian States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the legislature of the or Sandwich IsHawaiian Islands have passed laws on their part to give full effect lands admitted to the provisions of the convention between the United States and free of duty. his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the R. S., § 2504, 2d thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, he is 476, 478, 480. ed., pp. 468, 473, hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence; and thereupon, from the date of such proclamation, (1) the following articles, being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, to wit, Arrow-root; castor-oil; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as “Sandwich Island sugar:" syrups of sugar-cane, melado, and molasses; tallow, Shall be introduced into the United States free of duty so long as the said convention shall remain in force. [August 15, 1876.] NOTE. (1) On the 9th of September, 1876, the President issued his proclamation declaring that he had evidence that the Hawaiian Islands had passed laws to give effect to the convention here referred to. See convention of reciprocity and proclamation, 1876, No. 7, (19 Stat. L., 625, 666). 1891, March 3, ch.534, post. p. 910. 122 U. S., 117. 1890, Oct. 1, ch. 1244, note, p. 812. CHAP. 297.—An act relating to partition of real estate in the District of Columbia. Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 202. Partition of Be it enacted, &c., That all tenants in common and coparceners of any estate in lands tenements, or hereditaments, equitable as well as lands among tenlegal, within the District of Columbia, may, in the discretion of the ants in common in District of Colum- Court, be compelled in any court of competent jurisdiction, to make, bia; how made. Court may decree sale and di vision of proceeds. In case of sale, be made. or suffer partition of such estate or estates. In proceedings for partition all persons in interest shall be made parties in the same manner as in cases of equity jurisdiction. And in proceedings for partition under this act, the court may in addition to the powers herein conferred, exercise such powers as are or may be conferred by virtue of the general equity jurisdiction of the court. SEC. 2. That the court, in all cases, in decreeing partition, may, if it satisfactorily appears that said lands and tenements, or any estate or interest therein, cannot be divided without loss or injury to the parties interested, decree a sale thereof, and a division of the money arising from such sale among the parties, according to their respective rights and interests. SEC. 3. That in all such sales, unless the court shall by special how payments to order direct or require on good cause shown, that the sale be made for cash, the purchase money shall be payable, one third on day of sale, one-third in one year, and one-third in two years thereafter, with interest, the deferred payments to be secured to the parties, according to their respective interests, by good and sufficient mortgage upon the premises so sold, which shall be subject to the approval of the court. [August 15, 1876.] Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 203. Soldiers and sail ors maimed to limbs, &c., once in have artificial five years. R. S., §§ 4787, 4788. 1891, Mar. 3, ch. 542, par. 4; ch. 562; post, pp. 927, 947. -to have trans CHAP. 300.—An act to regulate the issue of artificial limbs to disabled soldiers, seamen and others. Be it enacted, &c., That every officer, soldier, seaman and marine, who, in the line of duty, in the military or naval service of the United States, shall have lost a limb, or sustained (1) bodily injuries, depriving him of the use of any of his limbs, shall receive once every (2) five years an artificial limb or appliance, or commutation therefor, as provided and limited by existing laws, under such regulations as the Surgeon-General of the Army may prescribe; And the period of five years shall be held to commence with the filing of the first application after the seventeenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. SEC. 2. That necessary transportation to have artificial limbs fitted portation to obtain shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, the artificial limbs. cost of which shall be refunded out of any money appropriated for Act not subject the purchase of artificial limbs: R. S., § 4791. to act of 1874, June 18, ch. 299 (18 Stat. L., 78). Provided, That this act shall not be subject to the provisions of an act (3) entitled "An act to increase pensions," approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [August 15, 1876.] NOTES. (1) As to trusses in case of rupture, see 1879, March 3, ch. 173, post, p. 244. (3) This act, having been superseded by 1886, Aug. 4, ch. 899, post, p. 511, is omitted from this volume. Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 204. Substitute for CHAP. 302.—An act relating to the promotion of Commodores on the retired list of the Navy.(1) NOTE. (1) This act is incorporated in § 1460 of the Revised Statutes, in the second edition. It relates to promotion on the retired list of the Navy, and is omitted because that is now prohibited by 1882, Aug. 5, ch. 391, par. 4, post, p. 377, and this act and said § 1490 are superseded. CHAP. 304.-An act to provide for the appointment of commissioners for taking affidavits, &c., for the courts of the United States. Be it enacted, &c., That notaries public of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to take depositions, and do all other acts in relation to taking testimony to be used in the courts of the United States, take acknowledgments and affidavits, in the same manner and with the same effect as commissioners of the United States circuit court may now lawfully take or do. [August 15, 1876.] CHAP. 307.-An act to create an additional land office at Colfax, Whitman County, Washington Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish an additional land-district in the Territory of Washington, which district shall be bounded as follows, namely: Aug. 15, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 207. Whitman, Washington, land--dis trict established. R. S., § 2256. 1880, June 16, ch.242, post, p. 300. Commencing at a point where the Columbia guide-meridian intersects the third standard parallel in said Territory; thence east along 1890, May 16, ch. the line of said standard parallel to where the same intersects Snake 215, post, p. 741. River; thence along said Snake River to where the same intersects the boundary-line between Washington Territory and Idaho Territory; thence north on said boundary-line to where the same intersects the boundary-line between Washington Territory and British Columbia; thence west along said line to where the same intersects the aforementioned Columbia guide-meridian; thence south along the line of said meridian to the place of beginning. Said district, as above bounded, shall be known and designated with office at as the Whitman district, and the office of said district shall be located Colfax, until at the town of Colfax, or at such place as the President may direct, changed by Presiin the Territory of Washington; and the President of the United dent. States shall have power to change the location of said land-office, in said Territory, from time to time, as the public interests may seem to require. SEC. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by Register and reand with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess ceiver for. thereof, a register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who R. S., §§ 2234shall each reside in the place where said land-office is located, and 2247. shall have the same powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties, which are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers in said Territory. SEC. 3. That the public lands in said district shall be subject to sale and disposal upon the same terms and conditions as other public subject to sale. lands of the United States: Provided, That all sales and locations made at the office of the old district of land situated within the limits of the new district, which shall be valid and right in other respects up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby confirmed. [August 15, 1876.] Public lands in, RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER 10.-Joint resolution concerning special-tax stamps. Be it resolved, &c., That nothing contained in chapter three of title thirty-five of the Revised Statutes shall prevent the issue, under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may pre May 8, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 213. Special-tax stamps to retail dealers in liquors |