ch. 142(17 Stat. L., fund commission- in sums of fifty and five hundred dollars, bearing date August first, ers; 1872, May 8, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, payable fifty years after date, 86), R. S. of D. C. bearing interest at the rate of three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, to be signed by the secretary and the treasurer of said sinking-fund commissioners and countersigned by the comptroller of said District, and sealed as the S$ 130-137. 16 Opins., 174. board may direct; 16 C. Cls., 106. -exempt from taxation. Which bonds shall be exempt from taxation by Federal, State, or municipal authority, engraved and printed at the expense of the District of Columbia, and in form not inconsistent herewith. -faith of United And the faith of the United States is hereby pledged that the post, p. 253. 1891, March 3, ch. 563, post, p. 947. 14 Opins., 445, 544; 15 Opins., 56. Said bonds shall be numbered consecutively, and registered in the office of the comptroller of said District, and shall also be registered ch. 162, 18, post, in the office of the Register of the Treasury of the United States, for which last-named registration the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such provision as may be necessary. p. 95. 16 C. Cls., 106. -prevention of of. And said commissioners shall use all necessary means for the prefraudulent issue vention of any unauthorized or fraudulent issue of any of such bonds. And the said sinking-fund commissioners are hereby authorized -may be exchanged by com- to exchange said bonds at par for like sums of any class of indebtedmissioners for ness in the preceding section of this act named, including sewer other indebted taxes or assessments paid, evidenced by certificates of the auditing board provided for in this act. ness. Sewer certificates not to be fur ther issued. -property not to be sold for pay18 C. Cls., 106. ment of. Commissions of a member SEC. 8. That the authority conferred on the board of public works to issue additional certificates of indebtedness by section four of the act of the legislative assembly approved on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby annulled. No property shall be advertised for sale or sold for the collection of any assessment authorized by the legislative assembly by the act entitled "An act creating drainage and sewerage sections in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and providing for the payment of the construction of sewers and drains therein by assessments and issuing certificates therefor" approved on the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, until otherwise ordered by Congress; and it shall be unlawful to issue any further certificates of indebtedness authorized by said act. SEC. 9. That no board or commission of which the governor is ex which governor officio a member (the board of public works excepted) shall be abolished by this act, but the members of the same, other than the governor, shall constitute such board or commission. was continued. Act of District izing issue of cer SEC. 10. That the act of the legislative assembly of the District of legislature author- Columbia entitled (2) "An act to fund unsettled liabilities of the tain bonds ap- City of Washington, and providing for the issuing of the bonds, and levying and collecting taxes to pay the same" approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby ratified and approved; but none of the bonds authorized by said act remaining unsold shall be negotiated or sold at less than par. [June 20, 1874.] proved, &c. NOTE. (2) Under the act of the legislative assembly of June 20, 1872, here ratified and approved, there were issued what are called the funding-loan bonds" of the District, to the amount of one million six hundred thousand dollars, in denominations of $50, $100, $500, and $1,000, bearing date November 1, 1872, and payable to bearer in thirty years from date (November 1, 1902), with six per cent. annual interest, in coin, payable semi-annually, on the first day of May and November. Coupons attached. CHAP. 339.—An act to encourage the establishment of public marine schools. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 121. Vessels for nau States. to Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy, to promote nautical education, is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish, tical school at cerupon the application in writing of the Governor of the State, a suit- tain ports to be able vessel of the Navy, with all her apparel, charts, books, and furnished instruments of navigation, provided the same can be spared without R. S., § 417. detriment to the naval service, to be used for the benefit of any 1881, March 3, nautical school, or school or college having a nautical branch, estab- ch. 141, post, p. lished at each or any of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadel- 325. phia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and San Francisco, upon the condition that there shall be maintained, at such port, a school or branch of a school for the instruction of youths in navigation, steamship, marine enginery and all matters pertaining to the proper construction, equipment and sailing of vessels or any particular branch thereof. And the President of the United States is hereby authorized, when in his opinion the same can be done without detriment to the public service, to detail proper officers of the Navy as superintendents of, or instructors in, such schools: Provided, That if any such school shall be discontinued, or the good of the naval service shall require, such vessel shall be immediately restored to the Secretary of the Navy, and the officers so detailed recalled: Officers of Navy may be detailed for nautical as instructors, &c., schools. Vessels to be restored on discontinuance of school, &c. Schools not to be used as places And provided further, That no person shall be sentenced to or received at, such schools as a punishment or commutation of punish- of punishment. ment for crime. [June 20, 1874.] CHAP. 340.-An act to create two additional land districts in the state of Kansas. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 121. Western land district of Kansas established. Be it enacted, &c., That all the western portion of the State of Kansas, included as follows, to wit, commencing at the northeast corner of township ten of range sixteen, and running thence west to the R. S., § 2256. western boundary of the State; thence south along said boundary 1880, May 24, line, to the fourth standard parallel; thence east along said parallel ch. 100, post, p. line, to the southeast corner of Rush County; thence north to the 1881, March 3, place of beginning, be, and hereby is, constituted a new land dis- ch. 146, post, p. trict, to be called the western land district. 283. 326. lished. SEC. 2. That all the western portion of the State of Kansas, in- Arkansas Valley cluded as follows, to wit, commencing at the northeast corner of land district in Barton County, and running thence west to the northwest corner of Kansas estabsaid county; thence south to the southwest corner of said county; thence west along the fourth standard parallel line to the western boundary of the State; thence south along said boundary-line to the southern boundary of the State; thence east along said boundaryline to the southeast corner of Barbour County; thence north to the place of beginning, be, and hereby is, constituted a new land-district, to be called the Arkansas Valley land-district; and shall, in addition, include in the district the lands lying in Rice and Reno counties. SEC. 3. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of Registers and rethe Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint a register and a receiver ceivers for said for each of said districts who shall discharge like and similar duties districts. and receive the same amount of compensation allowed to other R. S., §§ 2234officers discharging like duties in the other land offices of said State. [June 20, 1874.] 2247. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 122. Del Norte land district in Colorado established. R. S., § 2256. 1886, Aug. 4, ch. 895, post, p. 510. 1890, Feb. 6, ch. 7,, post, p. 704. -office of, to be at Del Norte, but may be changed by President. -register and receiver for. R. S., § 2234. Unfinished busi CHAP. 341.—An act to create an additional land district in the Territory of Colorado. Be it enacted, &c., That all that part of the Territory of Colorado commencing at a point on the south boundary line of Colorado Territory between ranges sixty-nine and seventy west of the sixth principal meridian; thence running north to the northern boundary of township twenty-eight south; thence west, on a line between townships twenty-seven and twenty-eight south, to the western boundary of range seventy-three west; thence north, on said boundary of range seventy-three west, to a point where the line between townships forty-eight and forty-nine north, New Mexico meridian, will intersect the same; thence west, between said townships forty-eight and forty-nine north, to the western boundary of the Territory; thence south, with said boundary line, to the southwest corner of the Territory; thence east, on the line of the southern boundary of the Territory, to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate land district, to be called Del Norte land district, the office of which shall be located at Del Norte, in Conejos County: Provided, That the President of the United States may change the location of said land office from time to time, as the public interest may require. SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice. and consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and shall receive the same fees and emoluments as the like officers now receive in the other land districts in said Territory. SEC. 3. That all persons in said district who, prior to the opening ness in other dis- of said Del Norte land office, shall have filed their declaratory statetricts relating to lands in, to be ment or application for pre-emption or homestead rights in any other transferred to, &c. land office in said Territory, shall thereafter make proofs and entries at said Del Norte land office; and all unfinished business in any other land office relating exclusively to lands in said Del Norte land district shall be transferred to said Del Norte land office when notified by the officers of the opening thereof. June 20, 1874.] June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 123. Bozeman land tana established. CHAP. 342.-An act to create the Bozeman land district in the Territory of Montana. Be it enacted, &c., That all that portion of the Territory of Mondistrict in Mon- tana, lying east of the range line between ranges two and three west of the principal meridian and south of the first standard parallel north of the base line, of the public land surveys of said Territory, shall be constituted a separate land district, to be known as the Bozeman land district, R. S., § 2256. 1880, April 30, ch. 71, post, p. 281. 1890, April 1, ch. 60, post, p. 710. office of - register and receiver for. R. S., § 2234. The office of which shall be located at Bozeman, but may be changed from time to time, by the direction of the President of the United States, as the interests of the public service may require. SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver of the public moneys of the United States for said district; and said officers shall reside in the place where the land office is located, and they shall have the same powers and receive the same emoluments as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land officers of the United States in other Territories. [June 20, 1874.] CHAP. 343.-An act fixing the amount of United States notes, providing for a redistribution of the national-bank currency, and for other purposes. June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 123. National-bank R. S., §§ 5133 Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled (1)" An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and act, to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall hereafter be known as "the national-bank act." on account of circu SEC. 2. That section thirty one of the "the national-bank act" be Banks need not so amended that the several associations therein provided for shall keep reserve not hereafter be required to keep on hand any amount of money lation. whatever, by reason of the amount of their respective circulations; R. S., § § 5191, but the moneys required by said section to be kept at all times on 5192. hand shall be determined by the amount of deposits in all respects, as provided for in the said section. 5192. SEC. 3. That every association organized, or to be organized, under Banks to deposit the provisions of the said act, and of the several acts amendatory in Treasury five thereof, shall at all times keep and have on deposit in the Treasury lation, and countper cent. on circuof the United States, in lawful money of the United States, a sum ed as reserve. equal to five per centum of its circulation, to be held and used for R. S., SS 5191, the redemption of such circulation; which sum shall be counted as a part of its lawful reserve, as provided in section two of this act; 1890, July 14, ch. 708, 6, post, p.775. And when the circulating notes of any such associations, assorted notes of, to be or unassorted, shall be presented for redemption, in sums of one redeemed on presthousand dollars, or any multiple thereof, to the Treasurer of the entation at Treasury; how disposed United States, the same shall be redeemed in United States notes. of, &c. All notes so redeemed shall be charged by the Treasurer of the 1875, March 3, United States to the respective associations issuing the same, and he ch. 130, § 3, post, shall notify them severally, on the first day of each month, or oftener, P. 76. at his discretion, of the amount of such redemptions; and whenever ch. 290, § 6, post, such redemptions for any association shall amount to the sum of p. 355. five hundred dollars, such association so notified shall forthwith deposit with the Treasurer of the United States a sum in United States notes equal to the amount of its circulating-notes so redeemed. 1882, July 12, And all notes of national banks worn, defaced, mutilated, or other- -mutilated notes wise unfit for circulation shall, when received by any assistant treas- of, to be redeemed and destroyed, urer or at any designated depository of the United States, be for- and others forwarded to the Treasurer of the United States for redemption as warded to the provided herein. And when such redemptions have been so re- banks. imbursed, the circulating-notes so redeemed shall be forwarded to the respective associations by which they were issued; but if any of such notes are worn, mutilated, defaced, or rendered otherwise unfit for use, they shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Currency and destroyed and replaced as now provided by law: Provided, That each of said associations shall re-imburse to the to reimburse Treasury the charges for transportation, and the costs for assorting Treasury for cost such notes; and the associations hereafter organized shall also sever- of transporting, assorting, engravally re-imburse to the Treasury the cost of engraving such plates as ing. &c. shall be ordered by each association respectively; and the amount 1875, March 3, assessed upon each association shall be in proportion to the circula- ch. 130, 5, ost, tion redeemed, and be charged to the fund on deposit with the Treas- P., 1882, July 12, ch. urer: And provided further, That so much of section thirty-two of said national-bank act requiring or permitting the redemption of its circulating notes elsewhere than at its own counter, except as provided for in this section, is hereby repealed. 290, 58, post, p. 355. to redeem notes only at their own counters. R. S.. $ 5192, 5195, 5226. how may with SEC. 4. That any association organized under this act, or any of the acts of which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its cir- draw circulation culating notes, in whole or in part, may, upon the deposit of lawful and bonds deposmoney with the Treasurer of the United States in sums of not less ited. NOTE. (1) The provisions of the act of 1864, ch. 106 (13 Stat. L., 99), here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin. 5162, 5222. R. S.. SS 5159, than nine thousand dollars, take up the bonds which said association has on deposit with the Treasurer for the security of such circulating 16 Opins., 663. 1882, July 12, notes; which bonds shall be assigned to the bank in the manner ch. 290, 9, 10, specified in the nineteenth section of the national-bank act; and the post, p. 356. outstanding notes of said association, to an amount equal to the 1890, July 14, legal-tender notes deposited, shall be redeemed at the Treasury of ch. 708, § 6, post, the United States, and destroyed as now provided by law: p. 775. June 20, 1874. 17 Stat. L.. 125. Provided, That the amount of the bonds on deposit for circulation shall not be reduced below fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 5. That the Comptroller of the Currency shall, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, cause the charter-numbers of the association to be printed upon all national-bank notes which may be hereafter issued by him. SEC. 6. That the amount of United States notes outstanding and to be used as a part of the circulating-medium, shall not exceed the sum of three hundred and eighty-two million dollars, which said sum shall appear in each monthly statement of the public debt, and no part thereof shall be held or used as a reserve. SECS. 7, 8, 9. [Superseded by 1875, Jan. 14, ch. 15, § 3, post, p. 58.] [June 20, 1874.] CHAP. 344.-An act to provide for the establishment of life-saving stations and houses of refuge upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States, and to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service (1). Life-saving and Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby life-boat stations authorized to establish life-saving stations, life-boat stations, and to be established. houses of refuge, for the better preservation of life and property ch. 111,post, p. 320; from shipwreck, at or in the vicinity of the following-named points 1882, May 7, ch. upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States, namely: 1881, March 2, 117, post, p. 339, 1886, June 19, ch. 424, post, p. 497; R. S., § § 4242-4251. Delaware; 1878, June 18, ch. 265, §1, post,p.190. Maryland; 1878, June 18,ch. 265. § 1, post,p.190. Virginia; 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1, post, p. 190. Florida; Washington; Oregon; Lake Ontario; ON THE COAST OF DELAWARE. Cape Henlopen, a complete life-saving station; Indian River, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF MARYLAND. Green Run Inlet, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF VIRGINIA. Chincoteague, a complete life-saving station; Watchapreague Inlet, a complete life-saving station; Hog Island, a complete lifesaving station; Sandy Shoal Island, a complete life-saving station; Smith's Island, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA. About eighteen miles north of Indian River Inlet, a house of refuge; Gilbert's Bar, a house of refuge; near Orange Grove, a house of refuge; between Hillsborough and New River Inlet, a house of refuge; about ten miles south of New River Inlet, a house of refuge. ON THE COAST OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Neah Bay, a life-boat station; Shoalwater Bay, a life-boat station; Cape Disappointment, a life boat station. ON THE COAST OF OREGON. Cape Arago, a life-boat station. ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. Humboldt Bay, a life-boat station. [Remainder repealed 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1, post, p. 191.] ON THE COAST OF LAKE ONTARIO. Mexico Bay, about seven miles westward of Stony Point, a complete life-saving station; Mexico Bay, about seven miles eastward of Nine Mile Point, a complete life-saving station; Oswego, a lifeboat station; Charlotte, a life-boat station. NOTE.-(1) See note (1) to 1878, June 18, ch. 265, post, p. 190. |