in Provided, however, That all sums of money so released which if Payments to In. not released would not belong to any Indian tribe shall be paid to such dian tribes. Indian tribe by the United States, and that in the event that the pro- Deficiency ceeds of the annual sales of the public lands shall not be sufficient to payments for agri cultural colleges meet the payments heretofore provided for agricultural colleges and etc. experimental stations by an Act of Congress, approved August thir- 1890, Aug. 30, tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the more complete endowment ch. 841 (1 Supp. R. and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic S., 797). 1862, July 2, ch arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved 130 (12 Stat. I.. July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, such deficiency shall be 503). paid by the United States: And provided further, That no lands shall be herein included on which the United States Government had made valuable improvements, or lands that had been sold at public auction by said Government. SEC. 2. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. [May 17, 1900.] Lands excepted Repeal. CHAP. 481.—An Act To fix the terms of the district and circuit courts of the western judicial district in the State of Louisiana. (1) Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be held semiannually in the western judicial district in the State of Louisiana two stated sessions of the district and circuit courts at each of the following places, to wit: At Opelousas on the first Mondays of January and June; at Alexandria on the fourth Mondays of January and June; at Shreveport on the third Mondays of February and October; at Monroe on the first Mondays of April and October. [May 18, 1900.] NOTE. (1) By 1881, March 3, ch. 144 (1 Supp. R. S., 325), the State of Louisiana was divided into two judicial districts and the times and places for holding courts fixed. By 1888, August 8, ch. 789 (1 Supp. R. S., 605), the western judicial district of Louisiana was subdivided, and by 1888, August 13, ch. 869 (1 Supp. R. S., 615), the eastern judicial district and the times and places of holding courts fixed. CHAP. 482.-An Act To provide for sittings of the circuit and district courts of the southern district of Florida in the city of Ocala, in said district. (1) Be it enacted, &c., That in addition to the times and places now fixed by law for the sitting of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the southern district of Florida there shall be a session of the said courts in the city of Ocala on the third Monday in January in each year hereafter: Provided, That the county in which said courts are to be held shall furnish suitable rooms and accommodations for the holding thereof, free of expense to the Government of the United States. [May 18, 1900.] NOTE. (1) By R. S., § 534, the State of Florida was divided into two districts. By 1879, February 3, ch. 43 (1 Supp. R. S., 214), the boundaries of the southern judicial district were extended and terms fixed for Tampa, which latter were changed by 1886, June 20, ch. 581 (1 Supp. R. S., 500). By 1894, July 23, ch. 149 (2 Supp. R. S., 203), the boundaries of the southern district were extended, and terms of court fixed for Jacksonville. By 1896, March 13, ch. 52 (2 Supp. R. S., 452), the provision of R. S., § 553, requir'ng the district judge for the southern district to reside at Key West was repealed. May 21, 1900. 31 Stat. L., 181. Transportation of merchandise in bond. Substitute for R. S., § 3005. CHAP. 487.-An Act To amend section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes of Be it enacted, &c., That section three thousand and five of the Goods to Free SEC. 2. (2) That the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution in Zone, Mexico. reference to the Free Zone along the northern frontier of Mexico and Repeal of 1895, March 1 adjacent to the United States," approved March first, eighteen hunRes. No. 23 (2, dred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Supp. R. S., 439). full operation of section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes as existing prior to the adoption of such joint resolution is hereby revived. [May 21, 1900.] NOTES.-(1) R. S. § 3005 as originally enacted restricted the ports where goods might be received for transportation as well as the places for which destined. (2) The resolution referred to in the text suspended the right to transport merchandise in bond into the Free Zone of Mexico so long as the Mexican free-zone law exists. May 22, 1900. 31 Stat. L., 181. Durham, N. C., made port of delivery. CHAP. 489.-An Act To constitute Durham, North Carolina, a port of delivery in the customs Be it enacted, &c., That Durham, North Carolina, be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery in the customs collection district of Pamlico, and the privileges of the seventh section of the Act of ConR. S., § 2555. immediate gress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing (1) transportation the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraiseprivileges. ment, are hereby extended to said port of Durham. [May 22, 1900.] NOTE.-(1) Immediate transportation privileges were extended to Wilmington and Newbern, N. C., by 1880, June 10, ch. 190, sec. 7 (1 Supp. R. S., 294). CHAP. 541.—An Act To amend section eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes Be it enacted, &c., That section eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 864. Every person deposing as provided in the preceding section shall be cautioned and sworn to testify the whole truth, and carefully examined. (1) "His testimony shall be reduced to writing or typewriting by the officer taking the deposition, or by some person under his personal supervision, or by the deponent himself in the officer's presence, and by no other person, and shall, after it has been reduced to writing or typewriting, be subscribed by the deponent." [May 23, 1900.] NOTE. (1) The amendment consists in the grant of authority to take the depositions in typewriting and to permit their reduction to writing or typewriting by some person other than the officer taking it, and also of the substitution of the word "officer" for "magistrate." CHAP. 549.—An Act To detach the county of Dyer from the eastern division of the western district of Tennessee and to attach the same to the western division of the western district of said State of Tennessee. (1) Be it enacted, &c., That the county of Dyer, in the State of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby, detached from the eastern division of the western judicial district of the State of Tennessee and attached to the western division of the western judicial district of said State of Tennessee. SEC. 2. That all process, civil and criminal, hereafter issued against persons residing in said county of Dyer shall be made returnable to the courts held at Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, and all suits and prosecutions now pending in the circuit or district courts of the United States against persons residing in the said county of Dyer at Jackson, in the State of Tennessee, shall be determined in said courts. SEC. 3. That this Act shall take effect thirty days after its passage. [May 24, 1900.] NOTE.-(1) By 1901, January 19, ch. 102, post p. 1460, the terms of courtat Greeneville, Tenn., are changed. By 1900, February 7, ch. 10, ante p. 1114, a new division is created in the eastern judicial district. For a review of legislation affecting the courts and judicial districts of Tennessee, see note to 1899, February 2, ch. 83 (2 Supp. R. S., 939). May 24, 1900. 31 Stat. L., 183. Tennessee. R. S., § 547. Dyer county attached to western judicial district. process. -pending cases. Effect. CHAP. 550.—An Act To amend section five of an act to relieve certain appointed or enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps from the charge of desertion, approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. May 24, 1900. 31 Stat. L., 183. Navy and Ma 1888, Aug. 14, Be it enacted, &c., That chapter eight hundred and ninety, volume twenty-five, of the United States Statutes at Large, entitled "An Act rine Corps. to relieve certain appointed or enlisted men of the Navy and Marine ch. 890 (1 Supp. R. Corps from the charge of desertion," approved August fourteenth, S., 615). eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, revived and reenacted. removal of charge of desertion. time of applica SEC. 2. That section five of the said Act be, and is hereby, so amended as to remove the limitation of (1) time within which applica- tion. tions for relief may be received and acted upon under the provisions of said Act. [May 24, 1900.] NOTE.-(1) Section 5 referred to limited the time for making application to five years from the date of the act. CHAP. 553.-An Act To enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes. May 25, 1900. -to preserve, etc., game and wild -purchase of Be it enacted, dec., That the duties and powers of the Department Department of of Agriculture are hereby enlarged so as to include the preservation, Agriculture. distribution, introduction, and restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to adopt birds. such measures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be birds. required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States and Territories. The object and purpose of this Act is to aid in the restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted act. thereto where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the introduction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have not heretofore existed. The Secretary of Agriculture shall from time to time collect and publish useful information as to the propagation, uses, and preservation of such birds. -purpose of Publication of And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all needful information as to rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act, and propagation of shall expend for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate birds, etc. -regulations. therefor. Permit for im mals or birds. -exceptions. SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to import porting wild ani- into the United States any foreign wild animal or bird except under special permit from the United States Department of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural history specimens for museums or scientific collections, or the importation of certain cage birds, such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other species as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. The importation of the mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes" or row, etc., not to fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, or such other birds or be imported. animals as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time declare injurious to the interest of agriculture or horticulture is hereby prohibited, and such species upon arrival at any of the ports of the United States shall be destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. Mongoose, spar -destruction or return. bidden. Transportation SEC. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to deliver of prohibited animals or birds for- to any common carrier, or for any common carrier to transport from one State or Territory to another State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia or Alaska to any State or Territory, or from any State or Territory to the District of Columbia or Alaska, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead -birds, etc., bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such animals killed contrary to or birds have been killed in violation of the laws of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed: State laws. --when lawfully killed, etc. etc. Penalty. Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are killed. Marking of pack- SEC. 4. That all packages containing such dead animals, birds, or ages tor shipment, parts thereof, when shipped by interstate commerce, as provided in section one of this Act, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents may be readily ascertained on inspection of the outside of such packages. For each evasion or violation of this Act the shipper shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars; and the consignee knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of this Act shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars; and the carrier knowingly carrying or transporting the same shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars. Animals, etc., SEC. 5. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game subject to laws of animals, or game or song birds, the importation of which is prohibited, State into which or the dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild game animals, or transported. 1890, Aug. 8, ch. game or song birds transported into any State or Territory, or remain728 (1 Supp. R. S., ing therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon 779). arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise. Bird plumage This Act shall not prevent the importation, transportation, or sale of manufactured birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard from barn-yard fowl. [May 25, 1900.] fowl. CHAP. 555.—An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. * Be it enacted, &c., * (1) That hereafter all telegrams pertaining to the business of the Weather Bureau may be destroyed after they are three years old, and the accounts based thereon have been settled by the Treasury Department; and the present accumulation of these old telegrams may be destroyed. [May 25, 1900.] * * NOTE. (1) General provision for the disposition of accumulations of useless papers is made by 1889, February 16, ch. 171 (1 Supp. R. S., 644), amended by 1895, March 2, ch. 189, par. 7 (2 Supp. R. S., 430). * May 26, 1900. 31 Stat. L., 205. Army. lines. CHAP. 586.—An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. Be it enacted, &c., Par. 1.] Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service Military teleof the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field graph and cable electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, ninety-seven thousand dollars. For the purpose of connecting headquarters, Department of Alaska, at Saint Michael, by military telegraph and cable lines with other military stations in Alaska, four hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That commercial business may be done over these military lines under such conditions as may be deemed, by the Secretary of War, equitable and in the public interests, all receipts from such commercial business shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States, and that the sum hereby appropriated shall be immediately available: Provided further, That no telegraph or cable lines owned or operated or controlled by persons not citizens of the United States, or by any foreign corporation or government, shall be established in or permitted to enter Alaska. * * -may transact commercial busi ness. No foreign lines in Alaska. Pay of regimen tal sergeant-ma [Par. 2.] (1) That hereafter the regimental sergeant-majors and regimental quartermaster-sergeants of artillery and infantry shall have jors and q. m. serthe same pay and allowances as the regimental sergeant-majors and geants. regimental quartermaster-sergeants of cavalry. * * [Par. 3.] (2) For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired Retired enlisted list, six hundred thousand dollars: men. Credit for serv Provided, That hereafter, in computing length of service for retirement, credit shall be given the soldier for double the time of his actual ice out of United service in Porto Rico, Cuba, or in the Philippine Islands. * NOTES. (1) This paragraph is a repetition of 1899, March 3, ch. 423, par. 1 (2 Supp. R. S., 990), with the addition of the word "hereafter." See note (1) to that paragraph. The addition of the word "hereafter" makes the provision general and permanent, as explained in note (9) to 1893, February 27, ch. 168, par. 7 (2 Supp. R. S., 93). (2) A retired list for enlisted men of the Army is authorized by 1890, September 30, ch. 1125 (1 Supp. R. S., 810). States. |