June 23, 1910. [S. 1119.] [Public, No. 248.] Army. Frank de 1. Carring major, retired. CHAP. 362.-An Act To authorize the appointment of Frank de 1. Carrington as a major on the retired list of the United States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and ton may be appointed he is hereby, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Frank de 1. Carrington, late a major of infantry in the United States Army, to be a major on the retired list, United States Army, as of date of the approval of this Act. Approved, June 23, 1910. June 23, 1910. [S. 8222.1 [Public, No. 249.] Northern Pacific may bridge, Dawson County, Mont. CHAP. 363.-An Act Granting to the Northern Pacific Railway Company the right to construct and maintain a bridge across the Yellowstone River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Yellowstone River. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Northern Pacific RailRailway Company way Company, or any railway corporation controlled by it, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Yellowstone River in section thirtyfour, township sixteen north, range fifty-five east, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: Provided, That the location and plans of the said bridge may Approval by Secre- be approved by the Secretary of War and Chief of Engineers, and if built in accordance therewith the bridge shall be a lawful structure, notwithstanding actual construction was commenced before the passage of this Act. Vol. 34, p. 84. Proviso. tary of War. Amendment. June 23, 1910. [S. 8316.] [Public, No. 250.] Columbia River. may bridge, between SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 364.-An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River between the counties of Grant and Kittitas, in the State of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Northern Pacific Railway Company Railway Company, or any railway corporation controlled by it, is Grant and Kittitas hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Columbia River between the counties. of Grant and Kittitas, in the State of Washington, at a point, suitable to the interests of navigation, in section twenty, township seventeen north, range twenty-three east, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Vol. 34, p. 84. Amendment. June 23, 1910. [S. 8425.] [Public, No. 251.] Missouri River. Saint Charles, Mo. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 365.—An Act To authorize the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the town of Saint Charles, Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway City Electric Railway Company, a corporation organized under the Company may bridge, laws of the State of Missouri, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near the town of Saint Charles, in the State of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construc Vol. 34, p. 84. tion of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 366.-An Act To authorize the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the town of Arrow Rock, Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near the town of Arrow Rock, in the State of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. June 23, 1910. [S. 8426.] [Public, No. 252.] Missouri River. Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company may bridge, Vol. 34, p. 84. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 367. An Act To authorize the Southern Development Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River. June 23, 1910. {S. 8615.] [Public, No. 253.] Southern Development Company may Arkansas River. bridge, Pine Bluff, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Southern Develop ment Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Colorado and duly authorized to Ark. transact business in the State of Arkansas, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Pine Bluff, in the county of Jefferson and State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Vol. 34, p. 84. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 368.-An Act To authorize the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California, to construct a bridge across the Stockton diverting canal, connecting Mormon Channel with the Calaveras River, in the county of San Joaquin, State of California. June 23, 1910. [S. 8697.] [Public, No. 254.] Stockton Canal. Stockton Terminal Company may bridge, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the and Eastern Railroad laws of the State of California, is hereby authorized to construct, in San Joaquin Coun maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, across the ty, Cal. Stockton diverting canal, connecting Mormon Channel with Calaveras River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation in the county of San Joaquin, in the State of California, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Vol. 34, p. 84. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 23, 1910. June 23, 1910. [H. R. 22642.] [Public, No. 255.] Cheyenne River In dian Reservation, S. Dak. Sale of lands on, to Milwaukee Land site. Payment. CHAP. 369. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell a portion of the unallotted lands in the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, to the Milwaukee Land Company for town-site purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as he may prescribe, to sell to the Milwaukee Land Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Iowa and doing business in the State of South Dakota, the northeast quarter and north half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two; the northwest quarter and north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-three, all in township seventeen, north of range twenty-two east, containing four hundred and eighty acres, and lots one and two, and the south half of the northeast quarter and south half of the northwest quarter and north half of the southwest quarter, all in section two, township twelve, north of range eighteen east, containing three hundred and twenty-three and two one-hundredths acres of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, for town-site purposes. The price of the lands shall be fixed by appraisement, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, which price shall not be less than twenty-five dollars per acre; that upon payment of the price fixed as herein provided patent shall issue to the said Milwaukee Land ComProceeds to Indians. pany for the lands purchased; the proceeds thereof except as hereinafter provided shall be credited to the Indians in the manner and form prescribed in section six of the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight: Provided, That the Secretary of the Reservation for pub- Interior is hereby authorized to set apart and reserve for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres in each town site herein sold and conveyed, and patents shall be issued for the lands so set apart and reserved for school, park, and other purposes to the municipality legally charged with the care and custody Construction of of lands donated for such purposes; and he shall cause at least twenty per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the lands herein provided for to be set apart and expended under his direction in the construction of school houses or other public buildings or in improvements in the respective town sites. Vol. 35, p. 463. Proviso. lic purposes. buildings, etc. June 23, 1910. [H. R. 10280.] [Public, No. 256.] Army. Massachusetts may Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 370.-An Act To authorize the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, to receive twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining equipment from the State of Massachusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief of Ordnance, return field guns, etc. United States Army, is hereby authorized and empowered to receive back from the State of Massachusetts the twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining material which were sold to the State by the Ordnance Department for the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-one cents in the year nineteen hundred. SEC. 2. That no part of the value of this material shall be paid to the State of Massachusetts, but the value of all the material returned to the Ordnance Department by the State under the terms of this Act. shall stand as a quota of the State, the same as though allotted from R.S., sec. 1661, p. 290. the annual appropriations under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, and subject to all the conditions thereof. Value credited state quota. to Proviso. sold for militia. re SEC. 3. That the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty- Appropriation. three dollars and twenty-one cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect: Provided, That hereafter whenever articles of government property are sold for cash to any State, Territory, or to the District ceiving back articles of Columbia, for the use of the organized militia, thereby ceasing to be the property of the United States, none of the articles so sold shall be received back by any department of the Government upon the basis of allowing any credit therefor, except when such articles form part of the equipment of troops mustered into the service of the United States in time of war. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 371.—An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas at the city of Jonesboro in said district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. SECTION 1. That from and after the passage of this Act there shall be held at the city of Jonesboro, in the eastern division in the eastern district of Arkansas, a term of both the circuit and district courts of said division and district on the second Monday of May and the second Monday of November in each year. June 23, 1910. [H. R. 20487.] [Public, No. 257.] Arkansas eastern judicial district. Terms of court, Jonesboro. SEC. 2. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts for the、 Duties of officials. eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas, and the marshal and attorney of the United States for said district shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices, respectively, in and for the courts held at the city of Jonesboro; and the clerks' offices for said court shall be at Helena, where all the records of said court shall be kept and all the office duties performed, except when said courts are in session at Jonesboro. SEC. 3. That the court, or judge thereof, in vacation may order a grand jury for either term of the court herein provided for at the city of Jonesboro. SEC. 4. Prosecution for crimes or offenses bereafter committed in any part of said division shall be cognizable at either of the terms of court held in the city of Helena or in the city of Jonesboro. SEC. 5. That suits may be brought to be tried in the court held at the city of Helena, or at the city of Jonesboro, as the plaintiff may elect; and trials, civil and criminal, may be transferred by the court or judge thereof from Helena to Jonesboro or from Jonesboro to Helena, in said division and district, when the convenience of parties or the ends of justice would be promoted by the transfer; or such transfer may be made upon the written stipulation of the parties or their attorneys; and any interlocutory order may be made by the court or judge in either place. Records, etc.. Helena. at Grand juries. Criminal tions. prosecu Civil suits. Transfers. Causes removed SEC. 6. That all causes removed from state courts held within said from State courts. division to the circuit court of the United States shall be sent to said court at Helena or at Jonesboro, at the option of the adverse party, and be subject to transfer as prescribed in section five. SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions Inconsistent laws of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, but not otherwise. repealed. Approved, June 23, 1910. June 23, 1910. [S. 6877.] [Public, No. 258.] CHAP. 372.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the American National Red Cross," approved January fifth, nineteen hundred and five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United American National States of America in Congress assembled, That section four of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the American National Red Cross,' approved January fifth, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby amended to read as follows: Red Cross. Unauthorized use of insignia, etc., unlaw ful. 600, "SEC. 4. That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to falsely or fraudulently hold himself out as or represent or pretend himself to be a member of or an agent for the American National Red Cross for the purpose of soliciting, collecting, or receiving money or material; or for any person to wear or display the sign of the Red Cross or any insignia colored in imitation thereof for the fraudulent purpose of inducing the belief that he is a member of or an agent for Extension of pro- the American National Red Cross. It shall be unlawful for any per hibition, etc. Proviso. son, corporation, or association other than the American National Red Cross and its duly authorized employees and agents and the army and navy sanitary and hospital authorities of the United States for the purpose of trade or as an advertisement to induce the sale of any article whatsoever or for any business or charitable purpose to use within the territory of the United States of America and its exterior possessions the emblem of the Greek Red Cross on a white ground, or any sign or insignia made or colored in imitation thereof, or of the words Red Cross' or 'Geneva Cross' or any combination of these words: ProIn use prior to 1905, vided, however, That no person, corporation, or association that actually used or whose assignor actually used the said emblem, sign, insignia, or words for any lawful purpose prior to January fifth, nineteen hundred and five, shall be deemed forbidden by this Act to continue the use thereof for the same purpose and for the same class of goods. If any person violates the provision of this section he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in any federal court shall be liable to a fine of not less than one or more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both, for each and every offense." excepted. Punishment. Endowment fund. June 23, 1910. [H. R. 15812.] [Public, No. 259.] Shipping. supplies, etc. on SEC. 2. That the following section is hereby added to said Act: "SEC. 8. That the endowment fund of the American National Red Cross shall be kept and invested under the management and control of board of nine trustees, who shall be elected from time to time by the incorporators and their successors under such regulations regarding terms and tenure of office, accountability, and expense as said incorporators and successors shall prescribe. a Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 373.—An Act Relating to liens on vessels for repairs, supplies, or other necessaries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person furnishing vessels for repairs, repairs, supplies, or other necessaries, including the use of dry dock or marine railway, to a vessel, whether foreign or domestic, upon the order of the owner or owners of such vessel, or of a person by him or them authorized, shall have a maritime lien on the vessel which may be enforced by a proceeding in rem, and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that credit was given to the vessel. Persons presumed to have authority. SEC. 2. That the following persons shall be presumed to have authority from the owner or owners to procure repairs, supplies, and other necessaries for the vessel: The managing owner, ship's husband, master, or any person to whom the management of the vessel at the |