CONSULS—Continued.

Penalty for extortion, 186, 63.

Penalty and overcharge to be deducted from compensation, 186, 63.
Certain officers to account for fees received, 186, 64.

Returns of officers paid by fees, 186,

64.

To be liable for neglect to collect fees, &c., 186, 8 64.

Receipts to be numbered, 186, 64.

Accounts of fees to be kept, 186, 8 64.

64.

Copies of receipts, &c., to be transmitted to the secretary, 186, 8 64.
Account and report to be sworn to, 186,
False swearing to be perjury, 187, 8 64.
Stationery and contingencies, 187, 68.
When office rent to be allowed, 187, 68.
Pay of vice consuls, &c., 185, ? 61.

Not to absent themselves more than ten days without leave, 187, 8 65.
Nor to correspond with newspapers, &c., 187, 65.

Nor to recommend to office, 187, 2 65.

Nor to accept presents, 187, 65.

Nor to exercise diplomatic functions unless expressly authorized, 185, 58.
Power to administer oaths, 180, 28.

To take possession of personal estate of citizens dying abroad, 179, § 23.
To collect and pay debts, 179, % 23.

And remit the balance, 180, 23.

Or deliver the same to the legal representative, 180, 23.

To give notice of the decease of a citizen, 180, % 24.

And transmit inventory of his effects, 180, 24.

Masters of vessels to apply to, for official services, 179, 21.

Penalty for omission, 179, 8 21.

Masters of vessels in foreign ports to deposit their papers with, 175, % 4.
Penalty for neglect, 175, 4.

To be returned on production of clearance, &c., 176, 8 4.
May retain ships' papers until payment of all demands, 179,

21.

Not to charge commissions on extra wages, &c., 187, & 66.
But may transport home destitute seamen, 187, 66.

To enter seamen shipped in foreign ports, 177, 87; 605, 8 21.

May object to receiving foreign seamen on board American ships, 604, % 10.
May be present at investigation of citizenship of such seamen, 604, % 10.

To hear complaints of seamen, 177, 8; 611, 8 46.

Crews to have liberty to make complaints to, 178, 14; 608, ¿ 35.

To appoint examiners of vessels on complaint of unseaworthiness, 177, % 10; 607, 31.

To approve or disapprove of their report, 177, 11; 607, 32.

To discharge the crew, with three months' wages, if sent to sea unsuitably provided, 177, 12:
607, 233.

To take measures for saving stranded vessels, &c., 180, 25.

When to grant and verify passports, 188, 69.

Penalty for issuing false passports, &c., 188, 7 69.

Return to be made of passports granted, &c., 188, 2 69.

When to certify invoices, 179, % 20; 612, 48.

Penalty for certifying to false invoice, 189, 75.

48.

To communicate commercial information to the state department, 159, 23.
To furnish prices current to the treasury department, 179, 20; 612, % 48.
May be authorized to pay foreign postage, 773,

97.

CONSULS-Continued.

To be marked and credited, 773, § 97.

President to prescribe regulations for transaction of business, 187, 68.
Liability for official neglect, or corrupt conduct, &c., 178, 16; 608, ¿ 36.
Penalties for official neglect, &c., 188, % 72; 608, § 36.

For giving false certificate, 189, 74.

Judicial powers in China and Turkey, 181-4, 8 30–54.

When naval officers to execute duties of, in reference to seamen, 178, 17.
Papers of foreign vessels to be deposited with, before entry, 335, § 84.
Penalty for neglect, 335, 2 84.

Not to extend to vessels of nations that do not reciprocate, 336, 84.
Papers not to be returned until production of clearance, 336, 8 84.
Penalty for violation, 336,

85.

Commissioners to enforce decisions of foreign, 166, % 6.

Power of the courts to punish, 189, 1; 792, ? 2.

What contempts may be summarily punished, 189, § 2.

Penalty for refusing to testify before either house of congress, &c., 190, 3.

How such person to be proceeded against, 190, 5.

Power of courts martial to punish, 80, ? 249.

Penalty for contemptuous or disrespectful words by soldiers, &c., towards the president, &c., 74, ¿ 178.
Penalty for contempt or disrespect towards commanding officers, 74, 8 179.

Testimony to be confined to facts alleged in notice and answer, 255, § 22.

Annual reports to be made of disbursements of, 170, 16; 225, 26.

Returns of disbursing officers, 170, 16.

Of congress, not to be applied to other than ordinary expenses, 170, 8 17.

No extra allowances to be paid out of, 170, 2 18.

What books, &c., may be purchased out of the, 226,

Of the senate, how disbursed, 171, ? 19.

Secretary to give bond for, 171, & 20.

How deposited and drawn, 171, & 21.

Of court of claims, how disbursed, 200, 8 14.

Clerk to give bond therefor, 200, % 14.

CONTINUANCE.

11.

Executors becoming parties to suits pending to be entitled to, 15, ? 1.
When defendants entitled to an imparlance, 794, & 10.

CONTRACTS. See Mail Contracts; Navy Contracts.

The states not to pass laws impairing the obligation of, 6.

No member of congress to be interested in public, 190, ¿ 2.
Violation to be a misdemeanor, 190, 8 2.

Exceptions, 191, 23.

Every public contract to contain such a stipulation, 191, 8 4.

Penalty for making contracts with members, 191, % 5.

Annual statement of, to be laid before congress, 191, 26.

Contracts and purchases to be by open purchase or advertising for proposals, 191, § 7.
Annual report to congress, 191, 2 7.

Not to be made except under a law or appropriation, 191, § 8.

Exceptions, 191, 8.

No land to be purchased except under a law authorizing it, 191, ¿ 9.

How proposals, &c., to be advertised, 191, 10.

To be deposited in the comptroller's office within ninety days, 190, ? 1.
Regulation of, in District of Columbia, 191, 11.

CONVICTS.

May be sentenced to state prisons, 222, 111.

May be confined in a penitentiary out of the proper district, 192, & 3.
Transfer of, in Ohio and Illinois, 192, 4.

For crimes relating to the post office, to be kept at hard labor, 218, ¿ 84.
Not to be enlisted in the army, 73, & 169.

Power of congress to provide for granting of, 4.

Exclusive right of publishing, &c., vested in authors, &c., and their assignees, 193, § 1.
For what period, 193, 1.

Copy of title to be deposited with clerk of the district court, 193, § 2.

Record thereof, 193, 2.

Fees of clerk, 193, § 2.

Copy to be delivered within three months from publication, 193, 2.

List and copies to be annually transmitted to the state department, 193, 2.

Notice of copyright to be printed on the title, &c., 194, ? 3.

Copies to be sent to Smithsonian Institution, and congressional library, 194, ¿ 4.
Such copies to be free of postage, 785, 172.

When copyrights to be renewed, 194, 8 5.

Record thereof, 194, 5.

Copy of record to be published, 194, % 6.

Assignments of, to be acknowledged and recorded, 194, 8 7.

For infringement as to maps, charts and musical compositions, 195, 11.

Not to prohibit importation of productions of aliens, 195, 12.

Penalty for unauthorized publication of manuscripts, 195, 13.

Courts may grant injunctions, 195, ¿ 13.

Copyright in dramatic composition to include the exclusive right of representation, 195, % 14.
Damages for violation, 196, 14.

Prior rights to be protected, 196, 8 14.

Defendants may plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence, 196, 15.
Penalty for publication of pretended copyright, 196, 16.

Costs, 196, 17.

Limitation of actions, 196, 18.

CORONER.

Fees of, in the District of Columbia, 240, 52.

And of jurors and witnesses before him, 240, ¿ 52.

CORPORALS.

Of engineers, pay and rations of, 61, 60.

CORPORATIONS.

In suits by the United States against a corporation, its debtors may be summoned as garnishees,
91, 1.

How vessels owned by, may be enrolled and licensed, 142, 19.

Or registered, 833,

37.

Regulation of, in the circuit courts, 131, 29; 196, 1.

Supreme court to make regulations respecting the taxation and payment of, 197, 8 8.

What fees to be taxed as, 279, 8 20.

Taxed bills to be filed, 279, % 20.

Bills of, to be sworn to, 279, ? 25.

Where several actions are brought against defendants, who might have been joined, 197, 5; 273, 26.

Or several libels that might have been joined, 197, 6; 273, 6.

When causes to be consolidated, 197, 8 7.

Attorneys to pay costs of vexatious proceedings, 197, 7; 273, 26.

In copyright cases, 196,

17.

In suits against custom house officers, 410, 391.
In criminal cases, 196, 2 3.

In prosecutions for fines and forfeitures, 196, 3.

When informers to be liable for, 196, ¿ 3.

When to pay fees of officers, 197, 8 4.

No costs, in prosecutions for forfeitures, on certificate of probable cause, 412, § 396
On affirmance in error, 196, 2; 259, % 3.

Limitation of, in admiralty causes, 26,

6.

Power of congress to provide for the punishment of, 4.
Punishment of, 215, 73-4; 216, 76–7.

Debasing the coin, 215, 75; 216, 78.

Of post office stamps, how punished, 219, 90.
Of postage stamps, 219, 91; 788, ? 190-1.
Of mail-keys, 219, 92.

Of stamped envelopes, &c., 220, 3 94.

Of custom house certificates, &c., 366, 197.
In the District of Columbia, 242, 72.

Court to establish rules and appoint commissioners to take testimony 1988

When several cases may be embraced in one bill, 199, 8 7.

Testimony to be reported in all cases, 199, % 7.

Reports to be continued from session to session, 199, 28.

When adverse reports to be conclusive, 199, § 9.

When rehearing may be granted, 199, ¿ 9.

Court rooms to be provided, 199, & 10.

Power to call on the departments for information, 199, 11.

Clerks, their salaries and duties, 199, 11; 200, % 14.

To administer oaths, &c., 792, ? 2.

To punish contempts, 792, ? 2.

To establish rules of practice, 792, 2; 793, % 4. 6.

State laws to be rules of decision in the federal, 792, 3.

May be adjourned to another place, when contagious disease prevails, 811, § 7.

COURTS.

COURTS MARTIAL. See Military Courts Martial; Naval Courts Martial; Regimental

On officers of the navy dropped, furloughed or retired, by navy efficiency board, 674, % 167.

Their compensation, 200, 1; 276, & 10.

CRIMES. See District of Columbia; Neutrality; Slave Trade.

Trials for, to be by jury, 9.

Where to be held, 9; 221, % 102.

No person to be held to answer for, except on presentment, or indictment, 12.
Except in cases in the land or naval forces, &c., in time of war, &c., 12.

No person to be twice in jeopardy, 12.

Accused to have a speedy and public trial, 12.

By a jury of the state or district, 12.

To be informed of the nature and cause of accusation, 12.

To be confronted with the witnesses, 12.

To have compulsory process for his witnesses, 12; 221, ? 104.

To have assistance of counsel, 12; 221,

104.

Cruel and unusual punishments not to be inflicted, 13.

Punishment of whipping and pillory abolished, 206, § 23.

Punishment of death by hanging, 222, 108.

Criminal jurisdiction of the courts, 127, 17; 230, 8 11; 231, 14-15.
Arrest of criminals, 90, 8 1.

Removal for trial, 90, 1.

In what cases, prisoners to be bailable, 90, 1.

Prisoners to be brought up and remanded without writ, 279, § 26.

Where capital offences to be tried, 221, 102.

Where offences on the high seas to be tried, 222, % 110.

When copy of indictment, and list of jury and of witnesses to be furnished, 221, g 104.
Process for defendant's witnesses, 221, 104; 223, 116.

Effect of standing mute, 222, 105, 110; 223, 113.

Corresponding with foreign governments, with unlawful intent, 201, 3.

Fitting out privateers to cruise against the commerce of the United States, 689, 4.
Violence to persons of foreign ministers, 41, 16.

Issuing passports, without authority, or to other than citizens, 39, % 11.

Forging certificate of naturalization, &c., 35, ¿8; 214, 8 68.

Murder, 202, 4-5.

Murder on the high seas, where the party dies on land, &c., 209, 36.

Manslaughter, 202, 8; 212, 8 52-3.

Manslaughter by negligence on steamboats, 203, % 10.

Manslaughter on the high seas, 208, ¿ 32.

Manslaughter on the high seas, where the party dies on land, 211, 50.
Attempts to commit murder or manslaughter, 211, 8 51.