PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1889, and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the first day of October, 1890. BENJAMIN HARRISON, President; LEVI P. MORTON, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; JOHN J. INGALLS was elected President of the Senate pro tempore February twenty-eighth, 1890, and continued to act as such until March the nineteenen, when the Vice-President resumed the duties of President of the Senate; on the third day of April JOHN J. INGALLS was elected President of the Senate pro tempore, and continued to act as such during the subsequent temporary absences of the Vice-President; THOMAS B. REED was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives December second, 1889; JULIUS C. BURROWS was elected Speaker pro tempore May twenty-sixth, 1890; Mr. REED resumed the duties of Speaker May twenty-eighth; JULIUS C. BURROWS was elected Speaker pro tempore September third; Mr. REED resumed the duties of Speaker September twelfth. CHAP 1-An act making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the December 19, 1889. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Deficiency approsums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are priations. hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following objects, namely: PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING, To supply a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in the appropriation for the public printing for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees for labor (by the day, piece or contract,) and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to be expended for the foregoing purposes, ratably, and in the proportion provided in the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the current fiscal year PRINTING, ENGRAVING AND BINDING ELEVENTH CENSUS. Publie printing and 'nding. Eleventh Census. For printing, engraving and binding required for the preliminary Printing, etc. work for taking the Eleventh Census, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and to continue available until exhausted. Approved, December 19, 1889. STAT L-VOL XXVI-1 (1) January 23, 1890. Eleventh Census. Minimum compensa creased. CHAP. 2.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section six of tion to supervisors in an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by striking out the words "five hundred" and inserting the words "one thousand," so that the proviso will read: "Provided, That in the aggregate no supervisor shall be paid less than the sum of one thousand dollars." Vol. 25, p. 763. Approved, January 23, 1890. January 25, 1890. Preamble. Denver, Colo. CHAP. 3. Whereas, at the second session of the Forty-second Congress an act approved May-twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (seventeenth Statutes at large, page one hundred and forty), entitled 'An act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain lands in Colorado for a cemetery," erroneously describes a tract of land as the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one, and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section two, township four south, range sixty-eight west, sixth principal meridian; and Whereas the said city of Denver has paid for and received a patent for the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two, township four south, range sixty-eight west, sixth principal meridian, which latter description is correct, and in accordance with the land actually occupied by the said city of Denver for a cemetery: Now therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entiDescription of lands tled "An act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain lands ceded to, for ceme- in Colorado for a cemetery," approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Strike out the words "the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter" and insert in lieu thereof the words "the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter," so that the description of the said land in the said act shall read : tery, corrected. Patent legalized. Park authorized. "The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two, township four south, range sixty-eight west, of the sixth principal meridian. SECTION 2. That the United States patent issued November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, conveying the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two in township numbered four south, of range sixty-eight west, of the sixth principal meridian, in the Territory of Colorado, to Joseph E. Bates, mayor of the city of Denver, and to his successors and assigns forever, be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed. That the said city of Denver be, and it is hereby, authorized to vacate the use of the said land, or any portion thereof, as a cemetery, and to appropriate and use the same or any part thereof for a public park or grounds. Approved, January 25, 1890. CHAP. 4.-An act to grant an American register to the ship Kenilworth. February 4, 1890. American register Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary "Kenilworth." of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue granted to foreignan American register to the foreign-built vessel Kenilworth wrecked built vessel. in the waters of the United States, ordered to be sold, and bought and repaired by citizens of the United States. Approved, February 4, 1890. CHAP. 5.-An act to amend the first section of an act approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act to amend sections four, five, and nine of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventynine, entitled 'An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places for holding courts in said districts,' and to provide for holding terms of the court of the western judicial district of Texas at the city of El Paso, and for other purposes,' and for other purposes." February 4, 1890. Texas, western judicial district. Vol. 23, p. 35. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of an act approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty- Terms of court. four, entitled "An act to amend sections four, five, and nine of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventynine, entitled 'An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places for holding courts in said districts,' and to provide for holding terms of the court of the western judicial district of Texas at the city of El Paso, and for other purposes," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "That the fourth section of an act approved February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled 'An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts,' is hereby amended as follows: "SEC. 4. That the courts in the western judicial district shall be held twice in each year at Brownsville, San Antonio, the city of El Paso, and Austin. The courts shall be held at the city of Brownsville on the first Monday in January and the second Monday in June; at San Antonio on the first Mondays in May and November; at the city of El Paso on the first Mondays in April and October; at Austin on the first Mondays in February and July.” Terms. San Antonio. SEC. 2. That all writs, processes, pleas, recognizances, and bonds Process, etc. made or returnable to the terms of said courts, as now provided by law shall be considered as taken and returnable to the terms estab lished by this act. SEC. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 4, 1890. CHAP. 6.-An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at some accessible point within one mile north and one mile south and east of the mouth of the Kansas River. February 6, 1890. Missouri River and Land Improvement Construction Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Missouri River and Land Improvement and Construction Company, a corpo- and ration organized under the laws of the State of Kansas, or its assigns, Company may bridge. is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge across the Kansas City, Mo. near |