Clerks of courts. Salaries allowed to additional naturalization clerks. Ante, p. 765. Provisos. the said Secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "And in case the clerk of any court exercising naturalization jurisdiction collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any fiscal year the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow salaries, for naturalization purposes only, to pay for clerical assistance, to be selected and employed by that clerk, additional to the clerical force, for which clerks of courts are required by this section to pay from fees received by such clerks in naturalization proceedings, if in the opinion of said Secretary the naturalization business of such clerk warrants further additional assistance: Provided, That in no event shall the whole amount allowed the clerk of a court and his assistants exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of the office of said clerk from Continuance at be- naturalization fees during such fiscal year: Provided further, That when, at the close of any fiscal year, the business of such clerk of court indicates in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor that the naturalization fees for the succeeding fiscal year will exceed six thousand dollars the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may authorize the continuance of the allowance of salaries for the additional clerical assistance herein provided for and employed on the last day of the fiscal year until such time as the remittances indicate in the opinion of said Secretary that the fees for the then current fiscal year will not be sufficient to allow the additional clerical assistance authorized by this Act. ginning of fiscal year. Mode of payment, etc. Payment for clerical assistance September 1907. Vol. 34, p. 596. Provisos. Restriction. "That payment for the additional clerical assistance herein authorized shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe." SEC. 2. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby 27, 1906, to June 30, authorized to make requisition on the Treasurer of the United States for such amount as may be necessary in his opinion to pay the clerks of the several courts exercising jurisdiction under section three of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page five hundred and ninety-six), for any additional clerical assistance employed by them during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, if in the opinion of said Secretary the business of such clerks, during the aforesaid period, warranted any allowance for such additional clerical assistance: Provided, That no allowance shall be made by said Secretary to any clerk for additional clerical assistance who has not collected fees in naturalization proceedings in excess of the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, and that the total salaries of such additional clerical assistance shall in no instance exceed the fees received by the United States from the clerk of that court during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive. Such amount as may be necessary to pay the additional clerical assistance herein provided for, not exceeding two thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That payment for the clerical assistance herein provided for shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: Provided further, That no moneys shall be paid to any clerk in excess of the aggregate of the sums paid out by him. Appropriation. Regulations. Limit. Petitions for citizenship. amended. SEC. 3. That paragraph two of section four of an Act entitled "An Vol. 34, p. 597, Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States," approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred Issue of tion cases. and six, be amended by adding after the proviso in paragraph two of section four of said Act the following: "Provided further, That any person belonging to the class of persons on papers, without authorized and qualified under existing law to become a citizen of the declaration in certain United States who has resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May first, nineteen hundred and ten, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on the part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens." Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 402.-An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six. June 25, 1910. [H. R. 16877.] [Public, No. 284.] Steamboat-Inspec- tion Service. cates. spection. certifi Certificates of inR. S., sec. 4421, p. 857 amended. amended. Vol. 34, p. 230, Temporary certifi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, be, and it is hereby, further amended, so as to read as follows, to wit: "SEC. 4421. When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed and the inspectors approve the vessel and her equipment throughout, they shall make and subscribe a certificate to the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the district in which such inspection has been made, in accordance with the form and regulations prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors. Such certificate shall be verified by the oaths of inspectors signing it, before the chief officer of the customs of the district or any other person competent by law to administer oaths. If the inspectors refuse to grant a certificate of approval, they shall make a statement in writing, and sign the same, giving the reasons for their disapproval. Upon such inspection and cate. approval the inspectors shall also make and subscribe a temporary certificate, which shall set forth substantially the fact of such inspection and approval, and shall deliver the same to the master or owner of the vessel, and shall keep a copy thereof on file in their office. The said temporary certificate shall be carried and exposed by vessels tificates. in the same manner as is provided in section forty-four hundred and twenty-three for copies of the regular certificate, and the form thereof and the period during which it is to be in force shall be as prescribed by 853. the board of supervising inspectors, or the executive committee thereof, as provided in section forty-four hundred and five. And such tem- lar certificate. porary certificate, during such period and prior to the delivery to the master or owner of the copies of the regular certificate, shall take the place of, and be a substitute for, such copies of the regular certificate of inspection, as required by sections forty-four hundred and twenty: 4426, pp. 857, 858. three, forty-four hundred and twenty-four, and forty-four hundred and twenty-six, and for the purposes of said sections, and shall also, Exhibition of cerR. S., sec. 4423, p. 857. Form, etc. R. S., sec. 4405, p. Substitute for regu R. S., secs. 4423, 4424, 869. during such period, be a substitute for the regular certificate of R. S., sec. 4498, p. inspection, as required by section forty-four hundred and ninetyeight, and for the purposes of said section until such regular certificate of inspection has been filed with the collector or other chief officer of customs. Such temporary certificate shall also be subject to revocaR. S., sec. 4453, P. tion in the manner and under the conditions provided in section forty 862. Revocation. Restriction. Provisos. Completing voyage after certificate pires. ex four hundred and fifty-three. No vessel required to be inspected under the provisions of this title shall be navigated without having on board an unexpired regular certificate of inspection or such temporary certificate: Provided, however, That any such vessel, operated upon a regularly established line from a port of the United States to a port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States, whose certificate of inspection expires at sea, or while said vessel is in a foreign port or a port of the Philippine Islands or Hawaii, may lawfully complete her voyage without the regular certificate of inspection or the temporary certificate required by this section, and no liability for penalties imposed by this title for want of such certificate shall be incurred until her voyage shall have been completed: Provided, That said voyage shall be so completed within thirty days after the expiracertificate tion of said certificate or temporary certificate: Provided further, expires within 15 days That no such vessel whose certificate of inspection shall expire within fifteen days of the date of her sailing shall proceed upon her voyage to such port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States without first having procured a new certificate of inspection or the temporary certificate required by this section." Condition. When of sailing date. June 25, 1910. [H. R. 17560.] [Public, No. 285.] Choctaw coal lands, Okla. Savanna Coal Com pany may lease additional lands. Denison Coal Company. asaw coal lease. Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 403.-An Act Granting to Savanna Coal Company right to acquire additional acreage to its existing coal lease in the Choctaw Nation, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, and for other 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, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, shall grant to the Savanna Coal Company the right to add to its existing coal lease, within the area of the segregated coal and asphalt lands, an additional acreage of two hundred acres of land adjoining said lease and described as follows: North half of the northwest quarter of section sixteen; north half of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen; north half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section sixteen; west half of the southeast quarter of section seventeen; all in township four north, range fourteen east of the Indian base and meridian. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, May relinquish part authorized to permit the Denison Coal Company to relinquish certain ofChoctaw and Chick- lands embraced in its existing Choctaw and Chickasaw coal lease which have been demonstrated to be not valuable for coal, as follows: The south half of the north half of section thirty-six, township one north, range nine east; and north half of section one, township one south, range nine east; and northwest quarter of section six, township one south, Additional lands in range ten east, seven hundred and twenty acres, more or less, and to include within the lease in lieu thereof the following-described land, which is within the segregated coal area and unleased: The south half of the north half, and south half of section thirty-six, township one north, range nine east, and northeast quarter and north half of the southeast quarter and east half of the west half, and lots numbered two, three, and four of section thirty-one, township one north, range ten east, nine hundred and sixty acres, more or less. lieu. Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 404.-An Act In relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof. June 25, 1910. [H. R. 17744.] District of Columbia. veigling female into Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who, by threats by himself, or through another, induces, or by any device or Punishment for inscheme inveigles, any female into a house of prostitution, or of assigna- house of prostitution, tion, in the District of Columbia, against her will, or by any threats etc. or duress detains her against her will, for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, or takes or detains a female against her will with intent to compel her by force, threats, menace, or duress to marry him, or to marry any other person, or if any parent, guardian, or other person having legal custody of the person of a female consents to her taking or detention by any person for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, is guilty of pandering, and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than one nor more than five years and fined not more than one thousand dollars. for placing female in SEC. 2. That any person who, against her will, shall place any female Punishment in the charge or custody of any other person or persons or in a house house of prostitution, of prostitution with the intent that she shall live a life of prostitution, etc. or any person who shall compel any female, against her will, to reside with him or with any other person for the purposes of prostitution, or compel her against her will to live a life of prostitution, is guilty of pandering and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years. SEC. 3. That any person who shall receive any money or other valuable thing for or on account of procuring for or placing in a house of prostitution or elsewhere any female for the purpose of causing her illegally to cohabit with any male person or persons shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years. Punishment for receiving money, etc., for causing illegal cohabitation of female. Punishment for prostitution, etc. causing a wife to live in taining inmate in dis SEC. 4. That any person who by force, fraud, intimidation, or threats places or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave, his wife in a house of prostitution, or to lead a life of prostitution, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than ten years. SEC. 5. That any person or persons who attempt to detain any girl Punishment for deor woman in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of orderly house for debt any debt or debts she has contracted, or is said to have contracted, there contracted. while living in said house of prostitution or disorderly house shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof be imprisoned for a term not less than one nor more than five years. Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 405.-An Act To authorize the cancellation of trust patents in certain cases. June 25, 1910. [H. R. 18013.] [Public, No. 287.] Lands in severalty Trust patents to LouLorena Rolfe, allot to Indians. iza Phelix and Mary 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 is hereby authorized, if satisfied that the allotments made, to Louiza Phelix and Mary Lorena Rolfe, numbered forty-five and forty-four, respectively, Ashland, Wisconsin, series, for the north tees, canceled. half of southwest quarter, and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section twenty-one, township forty-seven north, range ten west, are illegal, to cancel the trust patents issued thereon June twentyninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to reinstate cash entry cash entry. numbered sixty-five hundred and ninety-five. Approved, June 25, 1910. Lands reinstated to June 25, 1910. [H. R. 18176.] [Public, No. 288.] grants. nies. Provisos. Secretary of Interior CHAP. 406.-An Act Making an appropriation for the survey of public lands lying within the limits of land grants, to provide for the forfeiture to the United States of unsurveyed land grants to railroads, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Railroad land States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary Deposits for cost of of the Interior to complete the adjustment of land grants made by surveying, etc., re: Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and to subject the lands granted to taxation by States, Territories, and municipal authorities, any railroad corporation required by law to pay the costs of surveying, selecting, or conveying any lands granted to such company or corporation, or for its use and benefit, by any Act of Congress, shall be, and is hereby, required, within ninety days from demand by the Secretary of the Interior, to deposit in a proper United States depository to the credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying any of the unsurveyed lands granted to such company, or for its use and benefit, under any act of Congress: Provided further, That the to specify amount, etc. Secretary of the Interior shall determine and specify in the notice or demand to such company the amount of the required deposit, and may, in his discretion, demand a sum sufficient to cover the cost of the survey, selection, and conveyance of the entire area granted to any company, or for its use and benefit, then unsurveyed, or for such townships or fractional townships as he may prescribe and designate Disbursement of de- in the notice or demand to such company, as aforesaid: And provided further, That the amount deposited shall, subject to the rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, be disbursed for the surveying, including office and field work, selection, and conveyance of the lands granted and designated in the notice of the Repayment of ex- Secretary of the Interior, as aforesaid: And provided further, That in the event the money deposited by any railroad corporation under the provisions of this act shall exceed the cost of said surveys, the said excess thereof shall be repaid to the corporations so depositing the same, or to its assigns. posits. cess. Forfeiture of grant on failure to make deposit. Proceedings. Public surveys, etc., not affected. SEC. 2. That if any railroad corporation required by law to pay the costs of surveying, selecting, or conveying any lands granted to such corporation, or for its use and benefit, by any Act of Congress, shall, for ninety days from notice or demand by the Secretary of the Interior, as provided in this Act, neglect or refuse to deposit an amount sufficient to meet the expense of surveying, selecting, and conveying the unsurveyed lands granted to such company, or for its use and benefit, by any Act of Congress, and designated in the notice or demand by the Secretary of the Interior, as aforesaid, the rights, title, and interests of such company, and all those claiming by, through, or under it, in and to the unsurveyed lands designated in the notice of the Secretary, as aforesaid, shall cease and forfeit to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior shall notify the Attorney-General, who shall at once commence proceedings to declare the forfeiture and to restore the lands forfeited to the public domain. SEC. 3. That this Act shall not affect the right of the Secretary of the Interior to cause the public surveys to be extended over any lands granted to any railroad or corporation by any Act of Congress in the manner now otherwise provided by law, nor shall any claim, right, interest, or demand of the Government of the United States be waived or annulled by the provisions hereof: Provided, ject to taxation, etc. That all granted lands surveyed under the provisions of this Act shall be subject to taxation by States, Territories, and municipal authorities, and the right of the Government to reimburse itself for the survey, selection, and conveyance of such lands otherwise provided by law shall remain in full force and effect. Proviso. |