And the circuit courts shall be held at Jefferson in the eastern district on the second Mondays in February and September, And at San Antonio in the western district on the first Mondays in May and November. Eastern and western districts; terms of circuit courts in. R. S., § 658. 1879, Feb. 24, ch. 97, § 4. SEC. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby Repeal. repealed. [June 11, 1879.] CHAPTER 19. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE PAYMENT OF PRE-EMPTORS ON CERTAIN PUB- Pre-emptors of certain public lands in Minnesota and Dakota to have till October, 1880, to make proof and payment. June 12, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 11. lands in Minnesota Be it enacted, &c., That the time at which pre-emptors on the public Pre-emptors of lands in the State of Minnesota, including the lands within the Fort certain public Ridgeley and Sioux Indian reservations, and the old Sioux Indian res- and Dakota to have ervation in the county of Grant, Territory of Dakota, are now required till October, 1880, to make final proof and payment, be, and the same is hereby, extended to make proof and two years from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in all payment. R. S., § 2267. cases when the pre-emptor shall make due proof before the register and 1874, June 3, ch. receiver of the local land office in the district in which their lands are 206. situated that their crops have been destroyed or seriously injured by 1874, June 18, ch. grasshoppers within two years prior to October first, eighteen hundred 308. and seventy-eight. [June 12, 1879.] CHAPTER 20. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME OF SPECIAL POSTAL SERVICE UNTIL SERVICE CAN BE Special postal service may be extended. Postmaster-General may make temporary con- Be it enacted, &c., That in cases where special service has already been placed on new routes, the Postmaster General may, in his discretion, extend such service until the time when service can be obtained by advertisement, not exceeding in any case one year. June 12, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 11. Special postal service may be extended. Postmaster-Genmay make And whenever an accepted bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a contractor on any mail-route shall fail or refuse to perform the service eral on said route according to his contract, or when a new route shall be temporary contracts for carrying established or new service required, or when, from any other cause, mail without adthere shall not be a contractor legally bound or required to perform such vertisement in cerservice, the Postmaster General may make a temporary contract for tain cases, R. S., § 3941. carrying the mail on such route, without advertisement, for such period 1876, Aug. 11, ch. as may be necessary, not in any case exceeding one year, until the serv- 260. ice shall have commenced under a contract made according to law. And 1878, May 17, ch. any provision of statute in conflict with this provision is hereby repealed. 107, § 1. [June 12, 1879.] CHAPTER 23. AN ACT RELATING TO VINEGAR FACTORIES ESTABLISHED AND OPERATED PRIOR TO Vinegar factories established before March, 1879, within 600 feet of distillery, &c., may be operated under regulations of Commissioner. Be it enacted, &c., That any vinegar factory for the manufacture of vinegar, established and operated as a vinegar factory prior to March June 14, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 20. Vinegar factories established before March, 1879, with in 600 feet of dis- first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, may be operated for the mantillery, &c., may ufacture of vinegar by the use of alcoholic vapor within such distance be operated under less than six hundred feet of any distillery or rectifying-house under such regulations of Commissioner. regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe R. S., § 3282. with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. [June 14, 1879.] 1879, March 1, ch. 125, § 5. CHAPTER 33. AN ACT TO RELIEVE THE CHURCHES OF THE DISTRICT OF COUMBIA, AND TO CLEAR June 21, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 23. Church property bia relieved from taxes heretofore. 1. Church property in District of Columbia re- 2. -taxes collected on, to be refunded. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That so much of an act of Congress entitled "An act for in District Colum- the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", taxation and from approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as was sale of same for construed to authorize the Commissioners of the District to set aside former exemptions from taxation of church property which was actually 1874, June 20, ch. held and used for the purpose of divine worship, and to enforce a tax 337, § 2. upon such property, be, and is hereby, repealed; and the title to such property is hereby declared to vest in the trustees, or such other persons as held the title to the same at the time of the passage of the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, or their successors in interest, notwithstanding the sale of such property for non-payment of taxes. taxes collected SEC. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and on, to be refunded. they hereby are, authorized and required to refund to the trustees or other proper officers of such church or churches as have paid the taxes assessed against them under the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, such sums respectively as were paid by each upon property actually held and used for the purpose of divine worship. [June 21, 1879.] CHAPTER 34. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL June 21, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 23. INTERNAL REVENUE. [Par. 1.] That hereafter storekeepers at distilleries that mash less than sixty bushels of grain per day shall be allowed not exceeding fifty dollars per month. But when one person acts as storekeeper and gauger, his salary shall not exceed four dollars per day for the time actually employed. * SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. Investigating [Par. 2.] For compensation of three investigating agents, at five dolern Claims Com lars per day when actually employed; also traveling expenses of agents, agents for South mission. fees and mileage to government witnesses, costs of summoning government witnesses, fees to commissioners for taking testimony, fees for abstracts and exemplifications of public records relating to claims and claimants, six thousand dollars: to claimants of Provided, That said agents shall give notice to claimants whose claims Agent of southit is proposed to investigate of the time and place of taking testimony, ern claims commiswho shall have the right to cross examine every witness who may tes- sion to give notice tify in behalf of the government; and said agents shall also take at taking testimony. the same time the testimony of any and all witnesses who may be pre- Rules to be presented by the claimant, on his paying the expenses thereof; And all such testimony, both on behalf of the claimant and the gov ernment, shall be taken under the law and rules which usually govern the taking of testimony; And the judges of the Southern Claims Commission shall prescribe and publish rules for the taking of the testimony, and shall provide in all cases for full and fair notice to be given of the time and place thereof; And sections two, three, four, five, and six of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, authorizing the Southern Claims Commission, are hereby repealed, to take effect on and after the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty. * SEC. 3. That sections forty-seven hundred and seventy-one, fortyseven hundred and seventy-two, and forty-seven hundred and seventythree of the Revised Statutes of the United States, providing for biennial examinations of pensioners, are hereby repealed: scribed. Commission abolished, R. S., § 3689, p. 724. 1878, ch. 329, § 2, par. 15. Repealing 1871, March 3, ch. 116, §§ 2-6. Biennial exami nation of pension ers abolished. 4773. Specialexaminations continued, &c., but pension Provided, That the Commissioner of Pensions shall have the same power as heretofore to order special examinations, whenever, in his judgment, the same may be necessary, and to increase or reduce the ers to have notice pension according to right and justice; but in no case shall a pension before reduction be withdrawn or reduced except upon notice to the pensioner and a of pensions. hearing upon sworn testimony, except as to the certificate of the ex- R. S., §§ 4775, amining surgeon. 4776. as In order to provide for the speedy payment of arrearages of pensions, Notes held the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue fund for redemption of fractional immediately in payment thereof, as they may be adjusted, the legal- currency to be istender currency, now in the United States Treasury, held as a special sued, &c. fund for the redemption of fractional currency under section one of joint resolution number seventeen of the Congress of the United States, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; And fractional currency presented for redemption shall be redeemed in any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. [June 21, 1879.] * 1876, July 22, Res. No. 17, § 1, p. 254. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ARMY FOR THE FISCAL June 23, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 30. Army to consist Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1.] [Par. 1.] And no money appropriated by this act shall be paid for of not more than recruiting the Army beyond the number of twenty-five thousand en25,000 enlisted listed men, including Indian scouts and hospital stewards; and thereafter there shall be no more than twenty-five thousand enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise authorized by law. men. R. S., § 1115. Signal force. Service 1878, June 20, ch.359, par. Nothing however, in this act shall be construed to prevent enlistments for the Signal Service, which shall hereafter be maintained, as now organized and as provided by law, with a force of enlisted men not exceeding four hundred and fifty, after present terms of enlistment have expired. Commutation for [Par. 2.] Provided, That no allowance shall be made for claims for officers' quarters. quarters for servants heretofore or hereafter; and that the rate of comNo allowance for mutation shall hereafter be twelve dollars per room per month for offiservants' quarters. cers' quarters, in lieu of ten dollars, as now provided by law. R. S., § 1270. 1878, June 18, ch. 263, § 9. 1881, Feb. 24, ch. 79, § 1, par. 1. * Telegrams may [Par. 3.] For cost of telegrams; and telegrams are authorized to be be transmitted by transmitted by railroad companies which may have telegraph lines, and certain railroad which shall file their written acceptance of the restrictions and obligacompanies having tions imposed on telegraph companies by title sixty-five of the Revised R. S., §§ 5256- Statutes, for the government and for the general public, at rates to be fixed by the government, according to the provisions of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes; lines, &c. 5262, 5263-5269. Stores sold to officers and men of * [Par. 4.] Provided, That to the cost of all stores and other articles Army to be charged sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one at ten per cent. thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other inciR. S., § 1144, dental charges. above cost. 1145. Army Regula- SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to cause tions to be codified all the regulations of the Army and general orders now in force to be and published. codified and published to the Army, and to defray the expenses thereof 1875, March 1, out of the contingent fund of the Army. ch. 115. 1876, Aug. 15, Res. No. 21, p. 255. 13 Ct. Cls., 6. Examiner of State claims in War Department; salary. R. S., § 215. 16 Opin. Att'y Gen., 378. In Military fessor of modern SEC. 3. And the examiner of State claims in the office of the Secretary of War shall have, while on such duty, the pay, emoluments, and allowances of mounted officers one grade higher than that held by him in his regiment or corps. SEC. 4. That when a vacancy occurs in the office of professor of the Academy one pro French language or in the office of professor of the Spanish language in languages estab- the Military Academy, both these offices shall cease, and the remaining lished in place of one of the two professors shall be professor of modern languages; and professor of French thereafter there shall be in the Military Academy one, and only one, and Spanish. professor of modern languages; R. S., § 1309. -professors who And that section thirteen hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statserve as such ten utes be, and is hereby, amended by inserting, after the word "service" years to have pay in the first line, the words "as professor”. of colonels. R. S., § 1336. -graduates of take $750 each and SEC. 5. That each member of the graduating classes of the Military 18799 and 1880 may Academy, of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred become ineligible and eighty, after graduation, may elect, with the assent of the Secretary to appointment for of War, to receive the gross sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars and mileage to his place of residence; two years. And the acceptance of this gross sum shall render him ineligible to appointment in the Army, except in the event of war, until two years after his graduation; and the amount required to defray the expenditure herein provided for shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 6. That no money appropriated in this act is appropriated or Money not to be shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or com- used to keep any of pensation of any portion of the Army of the United States to be used Army as police as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State. SEC. 7. That the Secretary of War shall be authorized to detail an officer of the Army, not above the rank of captain, for special duty with reference to Indian education. SEC. 8. That section six of the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, making appropriations for the support of the Army, be, and is hereby, repealed: force at clections. Army officer to be detailed for duty relating to Indian education. R. S., § 2071. Military headquarters; where may be establish. ed. Repealing 1878, June 18, ch. Provided, That when the economy of the service requires, the Secretary of War shall direct the establishment of military headquarters at points where suitable buildings are owned by the government. [June 263, § 6. 23, 1879.] CHAPTER 38. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO EX- Impounding animals in District of Columbia; Commissioners may make rules for. Be it enacted, &c., That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to prescribe rules for taking up and impounding of domestic animals found running at large in the District of Columbia. [June 27, 1879.] June 27, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 35. Impounding animals in District Columbia; Commissioners may make rules for. CHAPTER 40. AN ACT CONCERNING THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES OF THE SEVERAL TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES Act relating to Territorial legislatures not to impair tenure of existing officers. June 27, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 35. Be it enacted, &c., That the provisions of an act entitled "An act Act relating to making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial ex- Territorial legislapenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- tures not to impair een hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes", approved June officers. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, pertaining to govern- 1878, June 19, ment in the several Territories of the United States, shall not be so con- ch. 329, § 1, par. 10. strued as to impair or shorten the tenure of office of any member of such legislative assemblies until the redistricting and reapportionment of such Territories as is therein provided, nor until at the next regular election thereafter the twelve members of the council and twenty-four members of the house of representatives of such Territories shall have been elected and their term of office begun. [June 27, 1879.] |