ing and Grounds, subject to the direction and supervision of a commission composed of members of the House, is provided for by the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, 32 Stat. 1113.

Appropriations for various employés under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds are made by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, 32 Stat. 125, and Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, 32 Stat. 859.

ACT APRIL 28, 1902, c. 594.

Furniture for House of Representatives.

Hereafter the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds shall supervise and direct the care and repair of all furniture in the Hall, cloakrooms, lobby, committee rooms, and offices of the House, and all furniture hereafter required for the House of Representatives or for any of its committee rooms or offices shall be procured on designs and specifications made or approved by the said Superintendent. Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, 32 Stat. 125.

This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

Sec. 1825.

ACT MARCH 3, 1901, c. 830, § 1.

Capitol police to wear uniform while on duty.

The provision of this act set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1244, is repeated in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, 32 Stat. 857.

Sec. 1826.

ACT AUG. 5, 1882, c. 389.

Powers and duties of watchmen in public squares and reservations. The watchmen in public squares and reservations are to receive free medical attendance by a provision of Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, set forth below.

ACT APRIL 28, 1902, c. 594.

Medical attendance for watchmen in public squares and reservations. That the park watchmen now provided for under the above heading of public buildings and grounds, and those that may hereafter be provided for by law for service in any of the public squares and reservations in the District of Columbia, shall receive free medical attendance, the same as the Metropolitan Police of said District.

Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, 32 Stat. 152.

This is a provision, under the heading "Public Buildings and Grounds," of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

Sec. 1835.

ACT AUG. 30, 1890, c. 837, § 1.

Use of public grounds for children's playgrounds.

The provision of this act for authorizing the temporary use of certain public grounds for children's playgrounds, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1249, is superseded by the re-enactment thereof, with the word "hereafter" inserted, by a provision of Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1007.

Use of public grounds for playgrounds.

The officer in charge of public buildings and grounds may hereafter authorize the temporary use of the Monument Grounds or grounds south of the Executive Mansion or other reservations in the District of Columbia for playgrounds for children and adults, under regulations to be prescribed by him.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, 32 Stat. 1122.

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above, which re-enacts a similar provision of Act Aug. 30, 1890, c. 837, § 1, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1249, making the provision permanent in form by the insertion of the word "hereafter," and extending its language to include playgrounds for children and adults.

Sec. 2035.

TITLE XXVII.

THE FREEDMEN.

[Repealed. Act July 1, 1902, c. 1351.]

This section, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1276, is repealed by a provision of Act July 1, 1902, c. 1351, set forth below.

ACT JULY 1, 1902, c. 1351.

Repeal of Rev. St. § 2035; disposition of retained bounty fund.

Retained bounty fund: That section two thousand and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed, and the unexpended balance of the fund formerly in the custody of the Freedmen's Bureau and referred to in said section is hereby covered into the Treasury as "Miscellaneous receipts": Provided, That upon application by parties entitled to any portion of the moneys so covered in, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay the amount found due in the same manner and from the same appropriation as claims for bounty to volunteer soldiers are now paid.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1351, 32 Stat. 556.

This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, cited above. Rev. St. § 2035, Comp. St. 1901, p. 1276, repealed by this provision, constituted the Secretary of War trustee of a retained bounty fund of certain colored soldiers. Further provisions relating to the fund are contained in Rev. St. §§ 2036, 2037, Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1276, 1277.

Sec. 2038.

Freedmen's Hospital in District of Columbia continued, etc.

Provisions for the construction of a new Freedmen's Hospital building are contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1007.

Construction of new Freedmen's Hospital; lease of ground; medical and surgical service.

Freedmen's Hospital: For the construction of a new Freedmen's Hospital building and accessories on the ground now occupied by the Freedmen's Hospital, fifty thousand dollars, said buildings to be constructed upon plans to be approved by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and sufficient when completed to provide for not less than two hundred patients; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said build

ings at a cost not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars which sum, including the amount herein appropriated, shall be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, That before any portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended, the proper authorities owning the ground upon which said buildings are to be erected shall lease the same to the Government of the United States at an annual rental of one dollar per annum during the period of their occupation of the same: Provided further, That the trustees of Howard University shall be required to supply all medical and surgical service without cost to the United States or the District of Columbia.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, 32 Stat. 1113.

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above.

TITLE XXIX.

IMMIGRATION.

[REGULATION AND RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION IN
GENERAL.]

ACT MARCH 3, 1875, c. 141, §§ 3, 5.

[Superseded. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012.]

These sections, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1286-1288, are superseded by the similar provisions relating to the same subjects of Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, §§ 2, 3, and other sections, set forth below.

ACT AUG. 3, 1882, c. 376.

[Superseded. Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, §§ 4, 7, 10. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § I.]

Section 1 of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1288, which imposes a head-money duty on alien passengers, and constituted the money thus collected an "immigrant fund," is superseded by the similar provisions of Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § 1, set forth below.

The provisions of sections 2-4 of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1289, for the execution of the act by the Secretary of the Treasury, and for regulations, etc., to be prescribed by him, are superseded by the transfer of the immigration service, and of jurisdiction and powers over immigration, from the Treasury Department to the Department of Commerce and Labor, by the act establishing that department, Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, §§ 4, 7, 10, ante, Tit. XII A, "The Department of Commerce and Labor." But, by a proviso in section 7 of that act, nothing contained in the act is to be construed to alter the method of collecting and accounting for the head-tax prescribed by section 1 of this act.

All duties imposed and powers conferred by section 2 of this act on state commissioners, boards, and officers, acting under contract with the Secretary of the Treasury, were to be performed and exercised by the inspection officers of the United States, by a provision to that effect of Act March 3, 1891, c. 551, § 8, Comp. St. 1901, p. 1299, which is superseded by the subsequent provisions imposing such duties and conferring such powers on immigration officers, contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § 16, set forth below.

The provisions of section 4 of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1289, for the return of foreign convicts to the countries whence they came, are superseded by the more comprehensive provisions excluding certain classes of aliens, among them persons convicted of felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, and providing for the return of aliens brought into the country in violation of law, contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, §§ 2, 19-21, set forth below.

ACT JUNE 26, 1884, c. 121, § 22.

[Superseded. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § I.]

The provision of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1290, ex