Deportation of alien be imprisoned not more than ten years and pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars. Jurisdiction for the trial and punish- Jurisdiction. ment of the felonies herein before set forth shall be in any district to or into which said alien is brought in pursuance of said importation by the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section occur. Any inmates of houses of alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the manage- prostitution, etc. ment of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; or who is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists, protects, or promises to protect from arrest any prostitute, shall be deemed to be unlawfully within the United States and shall be deported in the manner provided by sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act. That any alien who shall, after tempts to return. he has been debarred or deported in pursuance of the provisions of this section, attempt thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned for not more than two years. Any alien who shall be convicted under any of the provisions of this section shall, at the tence. expiration of his sentence, be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came, or of which he is a subject or a citizen in the manner provided in sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act. In all prosecutions under this section the testimony of a band or wife admishusband or wife shall be admissible and competent evidence against sible. a wife or husband. Approved, March 26, 1910. Vol. 34, p. 904. Deportation after expiration of sen Evidence of hus CHAP. 129.-An Act For the relief of homestead settlers under the Acts of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four; June fifth and twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six; March second, nineteen hundred and seven; and May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That two years' additional time for paying the installments due or to become due is hereby given to the purchasers of homestead lands sold pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the sale of a part of what is known as the Red Lake Indian Reservation in the State of Minnesota," approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four; and no homestead entries under said Act shall be canceled for nonpayment of installments of the purchase price until the expi-. ration of the two additional years above named. March 26, 1910. [H. R. 10321.] [Public, No. 108.] Public lands. ime extended for payments by homeVol. 33, p. 49. stead settlers on. Rosebud Indian payments by home SEC. 2. That the time within which all unpaid payments which Reservation, S Dak. have heretofore or may hereafter become due and payable under the Time extended for Act entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of a portion stead settlers on. of the surplus or unallotted lands in the Rosebud Indian Reserva- Vol. 34, p. 1230. tion, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect," approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, except the cash payment required at the time of entry, be, and the same is hereby, postponed and extended for one year from the date on which such payments are now by law required to be made: Provided, That any payment not made within the time required by the Act above stated and extended by the pro- payments. visions of this Act shall draw interest at five per centum per annum, and the interest, when paid, shall be credited to the proceeds of the sale of the land as provided in said Act: Provided further, That such extension shall be subject to a full compliance by the entrymen with Provisos. Residence, etc., required. Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian all requirements of the homestead laws as to residence and improve ment. SEC. 3. That all payments heretofore due and extended, and the reservations, Okla. payments due or to become due during the year nineteen hundred Time extended for and ten from entrymen who have made entry under an Act entitled "An Act to open to settlement five hundred and five thousand acres opened pasture, etc., of land in Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian reservations, in payments by homestead settlers on lands of. Vol. 34, p. 213. Oklahoma Territory," approved June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act entitled "An Act giving preference right to actual settlers on pasture reservation numbered three to purchase land leased to them for agricultural purposes in Comanche County, Oklahoma," approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, are hereby postponed and extended as follows: One of said payments shall be made in nineteen hundred and eleven at the time when a payment would become due under existing law or one year after such payment became due in nineteen hundred and ten, and the other payments shall be made annually thereafter until all payments are Interest on deferred made: Provided, That all payments postponed and extended by the provisions of this Act shall draw interest at five per centum per annum from the date of such extension, and the interest when paid shall be credited to the proceeds of the sale of the land as provided Residence, etc., re- in said Acts: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall Provisos. payments. quired. Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian and N. Dak. Vol. 35, p. 462, amended. extend the time of payments in any case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that the law in regard to residence and improvement, as provided by the homestead law, has not been fully performed. SEC. 4. That section four of an Act entitled "An Act authorizing reservations, S. Dak. the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect," approved May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: Time of payment for homestead entries on Forfeiture. Provisos. Commutation. SEC. 4. That the price of said lands shall be paid in accordance ceded landsextended. with the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One-fifth of the purchase price to be paid at the time of entry, and the balance in five equal installments, the first within two years and the remainder annually in three, four, five, and six years, respectively, from and after the date of entry. In case any entryman fails to make the annual payments, or any of them, when due, all rights in and to the land covered by his entry shall cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry canceled, and the lands shall be reoffered for sale and entry under the provisions of the homestead law at the appraised price thereof: And provided, That nothing in this Act shall prevent R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421. homestead settlers from commuting their entries under section twentythree hundred and one, Revised Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receiving credit for payments previFees and commis- ously made. In addition to the price to be paid for the land the entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final entry as now provided by law, where the price of land is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and when the entryman shall have complied with all the requirements and terms of the homestead laws as to settlement and residence and shall have made all the required payments aforesaid he shall be entitled to a Reappraisal of lands patent for the lands entered: And provided further, That all lands remaining undisposed of at the expiration of four years from the opening of said lands to entry may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be reappraised in the manner provided for in this Act. sions. Patents. undisposed. lands. And it is further provided that any lands remaining unsold after said, Sale of remaining lands have been open to entry for seven years may be sold to the highest bidder for cash without regard to the prescribed price thereof fixed under the provisions of this Act, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Approved, March 26, 1910. CHAP. 130.-An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section six of an Act approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and four, authorizing the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company to construct a combined railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Missouri River at or near the city of Yankton, South Dakota, as amended by the Acts approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five: February fifth, nineteen hundred and six; March second, nineteen hundred and seven; February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eight; and March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and is hereby, amended by extending the time for commencing the construction of said bridge to March ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, and by extending the time for completing said bridge to March ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve. Approved, March 26, 1910. March 26, 1910. [S. 6229.] [Public, No. 109.] Missouri River. bridging, by Yank- ton, Norfolk and ton, S. Dak. Vol. 33, pp. 62, 621. CHAP. 134.-An Act To amend section eight hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes. March 28, 1910. [H. R. 16037.] [Public, No. 110.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section eight hundred United States courts. and ten of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read: R. S., sec. 810, p. 151, in special cases. "SEC. 810. No grand jury shall be summoned to attend any circuit or district court unless one of the judges of such circuit court, or the judge of such district, in his own discretion, or upon a notification by the district attorney that such jury will be needed, orders a venire issue therefor. If the United States attorney for any district which Second jury allowed has a city or borough containing at least three hundred thousand inhabitants, shall certify in writing to the district judge, or the senior district judge of the district, or one of the judges of said circuit court, that the exigencies of the public service require it, the judge may in his discretion also order a venire to issue for a second grand jury. Either of said courts may in term order a grand jury to be summoned at such time, and to serve such time as it may direct, whenever in its judgment it may be proper to do so. But nothing herein shall operate to extend beyond the time permitted by law the imprisonment before indictment found of a person accused of a crime or offense, or the time during which a person so accused may be held under recognizance before indictment found." Approved, March 28, 1910. Order by either circuit or district court. Time of imprisonment restricted. ment before indict March 28, 1910. [H. R. 19628.] [Public, No. 111.] Reservation, Okla. Company granted CHAP. 135.—An Act To authorize the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company to construct and operate a railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fort Sill Military States of America in Congress assembled, That the Lawton and Fort Sill Lawton and Fort Electric Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue Sill Electric Railway of the laws of the State of Oklahoma, be, and the same is hereby, right of way across. empowered to survey, locate, construct, maintain, and operate railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, in Comanche County, State of Oklahoma, upon such terms and in such location as may be determined and approved by the Secretary of War. Width, etc. Provisos. Restriction of use. SEC. 2. That said corporation is authorized to occupy and use for all purposes of railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines, and for no other purpose, a right of way fifty feet in width through said Fort Sill Military Reservation, with the right to use such additional ground where cuts and fills may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of the roadbed, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, or as much thereof as may be included in said cut or fill: Provided, That no part of the land herein authorized to be occupied shall be used except in such manner and for such purposes as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be so used such portion shall revert to the Approval of location United States: Provided further, That before the said railway company shall be permitted to enter upon any part of said military reservation a description by metes and bounds of the land herein authorized to be occupied or used shall be approved by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That the said railway company shall comply with such other regulations and conditions in the maintenance and operation of said road as may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of War. by Secretary of War. Maintenance, etc. Amendment. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 28, 1910. March 30, 1910. [H. R. 16332.] [Public, No. 112.] of highways. CHAP. 136.-An Act To provide for the condemnation of streets or parts of streets under the plan for the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Columbia. States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever in the subdivision Permanent system of a tract of land in the District of Columbia the owner or owners of Extending streets such tract shall reserve from subdivision any portion thereof, and shall fail to or refuse to dedicate the streets or highways within the reserved portion as shown on the plan of permanent system of highways, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized, in their discretion, to institute condemnation proceedings to acquire for street purposes in accordance with the highway plans any or all land comprised in the said streets within the limits of any portion reserved from subdivision, which the said Commissioners may deem desirable for the purpose of extending existing or proposed streets or of connecting streets already of record according to the said highway plan. Condemnation. Proviso. Damages assessed as benefits. SEC. 2. That the said condemnation proceedings shall be instituted under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: Provided, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for such streets or highways, plus the cost and expenses Permanent revenues. appro of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, under the provisions of said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said code. And there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, such amount or amounts as may be necessary to pay the priation from District cost and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Approved, March 30, 1910. CHAP. 139.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company," approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company," approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, as amended by Acts approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and is hereby, further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten." Approved, April 2, 1910. CHAP. 140.-An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. April 4, 1910. [H. R. 19028.] [Public, No. 114.] appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Indian Department and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely: Surveys, etc., for al lotments in severalty. Vol. 24, p. 388. SEC. 1. For the survey, resurvey, and classification of lands to be allotted in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey and allotment of lands in severalty to Indians, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto and to the issuance of all patents in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs, and to the delivery of trust patents for allotments under said Act or any such Act or Acts; and for the survey and sub- Surveying reservadivision of Indian reservations and lands to be allotted to Indians under authority of law, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, to be repaid proportionately out of any Indian moneys held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purpose and to remain available until expended: Provided, Proviso. That the unexpended balances of all continuing appropriations heretofore made for allotment work, general or specific, are hereby made available for the purposes enumerated herein. tions, etc., for allotments. Repayment. Use of balances. |