Vol. 18, p. 109. R. S., sec. 1765, p.314. said sum to be paid to the reporters, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight. Rates of pay, assistant messengers, firemen, etc. No payments to permanently incapacitated persons. Prohibition on rsonal use of horses, etc. Proviso. Officials outside District Columbia. Repeal. SEC. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmer, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each. SEC. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated, otherwise than temporarily, for performing such service. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for paying expenses of horses and carriages or drivers therefor for the personal use of any officer provided for by this or any other Act other than the President of the United States, the heads of Executive Departments, and the Secretary to the President: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to officials outside of the District of Columbia in the performance of their public duties. This paragraph shall not take effect until July first, nineteen hundred and four. SEC. 4. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, March 18, 1904. March 19, 1904. [H. R. 9053.] [Public, No. 58.] Missouri River. CHAP. 717.-An Act To amend an Act to amend an Act to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at a point between Kansas City and Sibley, in Jackson County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time extended for States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of the bridging between Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to authorize Kansas City and Sibley, Mo. the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most Vol 28, P. 45, accessible, point between the city of Kansas City and the town of Sibley, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,"" approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to read as follows: amended. Time of construction. Amendment. March 19, 1904. [H. R. 10761.] [Public, No. 59.] Acceptance of lands for enlarging reservation. "SEC. 3. That the construction of the bridge authorized to be constructed by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, hereinbefore named and of which this Act is amendatory, shall begin within one year and be completed within three years from March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four, and unless these conditions be complied with this Act and the Act of which it is amendatory shall be null and void." SEC. 2. That Congress reserves the right to change, alter, amend, or revise this Act and the Acts of which it is amendatory at any time. Approved, March 19, 1904. CHAP. 718.—An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to accept from the citizens of Missoula, Montana, deeds donating to the United States certain lands for the enlargement of the military reservation of Fort Missoula, Montana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fort Missoula, Mont, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept from the citizens of Missoula, Montana, deeds donating to the United States the following-described lands for the enlargement of the military reservation of Fort Missoula, namely: The south half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five, the Description. northeast quarter of section thirty-five, the northeast quarter, the north half of the southeast quarter, and the north half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, all in township thirteen north and range twenty west of the Montana meridian in Missoula County, Montana. Approved, March 19, 1904. CHAP. 719.-An Act To quitclaim all interest of the United States of America in and to all of square eleven hundred and thirty-one, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to Sidney Bieber. March 19, 1904. [H. R. 819.] [Public, No. 60.] District of Columbia. Bieber square 1131. for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War Quitclaim deed to he, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant and convey unto Sidney Sidney Bieber, and his heirs and assigns, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all of a certain square of land in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, known upon the plat or plan of said city as square numbered eleven hundred and thirty-one, upon the payment by the said Sidney Bieber into the Treasury of the United States of such sum of money as the said Secretary of War, upon consideration of all the circumstances, shall determine proper to be paid by the said Bieber for the said square. Approved, March 19, 1904. Payment. CHAP. 745.-An Act Ratifying an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma legalizing the waterworks bond election held by the city of Geary, in said Territory. March 22, 1904. [S. 3658.] [Public, No. 61.] Bond issue for water fied. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of the legislative Oklahoma. assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, approved March fifth, nine- works by Geary, ratiteen hundred and three, entitled "An act legalizing the waterworks bond election held by the city of Geary," be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed; and the bonds to be issued in pursuance of said election are hereby legalized and made valid. Approved, March 22, 1904. CHAP. 746.—An Act Granting certain lots in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, to Gnadenhutten special school district. March 22, 1904. [H. R. 891.] [Public, No. 62.] Lots granted to spe Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled, That lots sixty-eight and Gnadenhutten. Ohio. sixty-nine, in the town of Gnadenhutten, Ohio, are hereby quitclaimed cial school district of. to the Gnadenhutten special school district of Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, subject to the disposition and control of the board of education of said district. Approved, March 22, 1904. CHAP. 747.-An Act To authorize an exchange of sites for the public buildings of Garland County, Arkansas. March 22, 1904. [H. R. 1956.] [Public, No. 63.] Hot Springs, Ark. Grant of lands to Garland County for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, buildings, repealed. as grants to the county of Garland a tract of land not exceeding five acres as a site for the public buildings of said county, under authority Vol. 19, 1 80. Lands granted in exchange. Proviso. Forfeiture. of which Act a tract of land in the city of Hot Springs, in said county, known and described as block one hundred and fourteen, consisting of three and sixty-two one-hundredths acres, has been selected and dedicated under said grant, be, and the same is hereby, repealed and said lands restored to the United States, to be disposed of as other Government lands in said city. SEC. 2. That there is hereby granted to the said county of Garland, as a site for the public buildings of said county, the following lots or parcels of land in said county and city, described in the plats and surveys of said city as follows, to wit: Lots numbered one, two, nine, and ten, in block numbered ninety-four: Provided, however, That a public building to cost not less than seventy-five thousand dollars be constructed upon the lands herein donated within a period of three years from the date of the passage of this Act, and that before the grant herein made shall take effect the title to block numbered one hundred and fourteen shall be reconveyed to the United States. Each of these conditions shall be construed as a condition precedent to the grant herein made to the county of Garland, and a failure on its part to comply with either of them shall of itself work a forfeiture of the rights hereby conferred on said county. Approved, March 22, 1904. March 22, 1904. [H. R. 5511.] [Public, No. 64.] Public lands. Registers and receivers may receive transcript fees. CHAP. 748.-An Act To authorize registers and receivers of United States land offices to furnish transcripts of their records to individuals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That registers and receivers of United States land offices shall, in addition to the fees now allowed by law, be entitled to charge and receive for making transcripts of the records in their offices for individuals, the sum of ten cents per hundred Transcripts admit- Words for each transcript so furnished; and the transcripts thus furnished, when duly certified to by them, shall be admitted as evidence in all courts of the United States and the Territories thereof, and before all officials authorized to receive evidence, with the same force and effect as the original records. ted as evidence. Approved, March 22, 1904. CHAP. 749.-An Act To extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland entering the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one, chapter ten hundred and twelve, of the Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Fifty-seventh Congress, second session), is hereby amended by inserting in line four, after the word "Canada," the word "Newfoundland," so as to read as follows: "That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of two dollars for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by steam, sail, or other vessel from any foreign port to any port within the United States, or by any railway or any other mode of transportation from foreign contiguous territory to the United States. The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said alien passenger shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or To be district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consignee of every such vessel or transportation line. The permanent appropriation called money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and immigrant fund." shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called the 'immigrant fund,' to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under this Act, including the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act. The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such aliens to ports of the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. The head tax herein provided for shall not be levied upon aliens in transit through the United States nor upon aliens who have once been admitted into the United States and have paid the head tax who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory: Provided, That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the direction or with the approval of the Secretary roads. of the Treasury, by agreement with transportation lines, as provided Vol. 32, p. 1221. in section thirty-two of this Act, may arrange in some other manner for the payment of the duty imposed by this section upon aliens seeking admission overland, either as to all or as to any such aliens." Approved, March 22, 1904. Lien on vessels for tax. Proviso. CHAP. 815.—An Act Constituting Utica, New York, a port of delivery, and for other purposes. March 24, 1904. [H. R. 4074.] [Public, No. 66.] Customs. Utica, N. Y., made a port of delivery. R. S., sec. 2535, p.499, amended. granted. trans privileges Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Utica, in the State of New York, be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, in the customs-collection district of Oswego, New York, and that the privi-Immediate leges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise conferred portation by the seventh section of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 21, p. 174. and eighty, entitled "An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes, be, and the same are hereby, extended to said port; and there shall Deputy collector. be appointed a deputy collector of customs, to be nominated by the collector of customs at Oswego, New York. Approved, March 24, 1904. CHAP. 816.-An Act Making an appropriation for fuel for the south wing of the March 24, 1904. [H. R. 14256.] [Public, No. 67.] House of Represent ation for fuel, etc. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appro- atives. priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Deficiency approprithe sum of seven thousand dollars for fuel and oil for the heating apparatus in the south wing of the Capitol building, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. Approved, March 24, 1904. VOL XXXIII, PT 1-10 March 24, 1904. [H. R. 6494.] [Public, No. 68.] Preamble. Arizona. Asylum CHAP. 817.-An Act To approve and ratify Act Numbered Seventy-three of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Whereas on the nineteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and three, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona enacted the following law: "To provide for the loan of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of making improvements to the Territorial Asylum-for the Insane and for authorizing the issuance of bonds for said amount, and for other purposes; and "Whereas the number of insane persons confined in the Territorial Asylum for the Insane is now almost three hundred; and "Whereas the accommodations for such insane persons at the Territorial Asylum for the Insane are not adequate for the proper care and accommodation of more than one hundred and fifty insane patients; and "Whereas as a result of this overcrowded condition in the Territorial "Whereas some of the rooms and wards of the Territorial Asylum for "Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Bonds authorized SECTION 1. That for the purpose of erecting such buildings and makfor Territorial Insane ing such other improvements on the grounds now owned by the Territory of Arizona and used as grounds for the Territorial Asylum for the Insane in Maricopia County, Arizona Territory, as will in their judgment best serve the purposes of relieving the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing at the said Territorial Asylum for the Insane, the board of control of the Territory of Arizona is hereby authorized and empowered to procure a loan on the faith and credit of the Territory of Arizona as follows: Amount of loan, etc. Fale of bonds. "SEC. 2. That a loan of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be negotiated on the faith and credit of the Territory of Arizona, to be paid at the end of fifty years from the date said loan commences, which said loan shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, redeemable at the end of twenty-five years, principal and interest payable in gold coin of the United States, said loan to be negotiated in sums as follows: "The board of control of the Territory of Arizona under this section is authorized and hereby empowered to negotiate a sale of bonds for the Territorial Asylum for the Insane in any sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars for the current year ending July first, nineteen hundred and four, and in amounts not to exceed ten thousand dollars in any one year thereafter ending July first, until the full loan of one hundred thousand dollars authorized by this act shall have been exhausted. |