tonnage of any ship or vessel shall be ascertained by any person appointed for that purpose, such person shall be paid a reasonable compensation therefor out of the fees aforesaid, before any distribution thereof as aforesaid. (Act of February 27, 1877, amending section 4381, R. S.) Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1.] [PAR. 1.] That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the House of Representatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey, for each regular session of Congress. R. S. § 4691, 1878, June 20, ch. 359, § 1, par. 5. [See page 149.] [PAR. 5.] That the charts published by the Coast Survey, shall be sold at the office at Washington, at the price of the printing and paper thereof, and elsewhere at the same price with the average cost of delivery added thereto. And hereafter there shall be no free distribution of such charts except to the Departments of the United States and to the several States and officers of the United States requiring them for public use, in accordance with the act of June third, eighteen hundred and fortyfour. (1) R. S., § 4691, 1879, March 3, ch. 182 [see page 149]. AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of vessels under certain circumstances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to permit the owner or owners of any vessel duly enrolled and found seaworthy and free from debt to change the name of the same, when, in his opinion, there shall be sufficient. cause for so doing. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such rules. and regulations and procure such evidence as to the age, condition,. where built, and pecuniary liability of the vessel as he may deem necessary to prevent injury to public or private interests; and when permission is granted by the Secretary, he shall cause the order for the change of name to be published at least in four issues in some daily or weekly paper at the place of register; and the cost of procuring evidence and advertising the change of name to be paid by the person or persons desiring such change of name.* Approved March 2, 1881. AN ACT to create a district for the inspection of hulls and boilers of steam-vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the inspection of hulls and boilers of steam-vessels there is hereby created a local board of inspectors to be located at Gallipolis, Ohio, in which there shall be one inspector of hulls and one inspector of boilers, one of whom shall be transferred from the office of the local board of inspectors at Cincinnati, Ohio, and one from the office of the local board of inspectors at Wheeling, See act July 5, 1884, page 40., West Virginia, each of whom shall receive per annum the same com pensation he may be receiving at the time of the passage of this act and thereafter in case of a vacancy in the office of inspector of hulis or in the office of inspector of boilers, such vacancy shall be filled in the manner provided in section forty-four hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes. Approved, July 7, 1882. (No. 22.) JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the termination of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty be tween the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Wash ington May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy one. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled, That in the judgment of Congress the provisions of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and of article thirty of the treaty between the United States and Her Bri tannic Majesty, for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, concluded at Washington on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ought to be terminated at the earliest possible time, and be no longer in force; and to this end the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give notice to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the provisions of each and every of the articles aforesaid will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of two years next after the time of giving such notice. SEC. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give and communicate to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty such notice of such termination on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or as soon thereafter as may be. SEC. 3. That on and after the expiration of the two years' time re quired by said treaty, each and every of said articles shall be deemed and held to have expired and be of no force and effect, and that every department of the Government of the United States shall execute the laws of the United States (in the premises) in the same manner and to the same effect as if said articles had never been in force; and the act of Congress approved March first, anno Domini eighteen hun dred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to carry into effect the pro visions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain. signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," so far as it relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated shall be and stand repealed and be of no force on and after the time of the expiration of said two years. Approved, March 3, 1883. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section fifty-five hundred and seventy-four, title seventy-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, be and the same is hereby, further suspended, as therein set forth, for the period of five years next from and after the passage of this act. Approved, April 18, 1884. ABOLITION OF CAPITATION TAX ON IMMIGRANTS FROM CONTIGUOUS FOREIGN TERRITORY. SEC. 22. That until the provisions of section one, chapter three hundred and seventy-six, of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be made applicable to passengers coming into the United States by land carriage, said provisions shall not apply to passengers coming by vessels employed exclusively in the trade between the ports of the United States and the ports of the Dominion of Canada or the ports of Mexico. (Act June 26, 1884.) AN ACT relating to the licensing of vessels engaged in towing to carry persons in addition to their crews. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any steam vessel engaged in the business of towing vessels, rafts, or water craft of any kind, and not carrying passengers, may be authorized and licensed by the supervising inspector of the district in which said steamer shall be employed, to carry on board such number of persons, in addition to its crew, as the supervising inspector in his judgment, shall deem necessary to carry on the legitimate business of such towing steamers, not exceeding, however, one person to every net ton of measurement of said steamer: Provided, however, That the person so allowed to be carried shall not be carried for hire. SEC. 2. That every steam-vessel licensed under the foregoing section shall carry and have on board, in accessible places, one life-preserver for every person allowed to be carried, in addition to those provided for the crew of such vessel. SEC. 3. That steam-vessels of one hundred tons burden or under, engaged in the coastwise bays and harbors of the United States, may be Icensed by the United States local inspectors of steam-vessels to carry passengers or excursions on the ocean or upon the Great Lakes of the North or Northwest, not exceeding fifteen miles from the mouth of such bays or harbors, without being required to have the three water-tight cross-bulkheads provided by section forty-four hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes for other passenger steamers: Provided, That in the judgment of the local inspector such steamers shall be safe and suitable for such navigation without danger to human life, and that they shall have one water-tight collision bulkhead not less than five feet abaft the stem of said steamer. Approved July 9, 1886. PART X. 1. FOREIGN RELATIONS. 3. EXTRADITION. 4. NEUTRALITY. 1.-FOREIGN RELATIONS. (Revised Statutes, Title XLVII.) SEC. 4071. The testimony of any witness residing within the United States, to be used in any suit for the recovery of money or property depending in any court in any foreign country with which the United States are at peace, and in which the Government of such foreign country shall be a party or shall have an interest, may be obtained, to be used in such suit. If a commission or letters rogatory to take such testimony, together with specific written interrogatories, accompanying the same, and addressed to such witness, shall have been issued from the court in which such suit is pending on producing the same before the district judge of any district where the witness resides or shall be found, and on due proof being made to such judge that the testimony of any witness is material to the party desiring the same, such judge shall issue a summons to such witness requiring him to appear before the officer or commissioner named in such commission or letters rogatory, to testify in such suit. SEC. 4074. Every witness who shall so appear and testify shall be allowed, and shall receive from the party at whose instance he shall have been summoned, the same fees and mileage as are allowed to witnesses in suits depending in the district courts of the United States. SEC. 4111. The President is authorized to appoint marshals for such of the consular courts in those countries* as he may think proper, not to exceed seven in number, namely: one in Japan, four in China, one in Siam, and one in Turkey, each of whom shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars a year, in addition to the fees allowed by the regula tions of the ministers, respectively, in those countries. SEC. 4113. Each marshal, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bond for the faithful performance thereof in a penal sum not to exceed ten thousand dollars, with two sureties to be approved by the Secretary of State. Such bond shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and a certified copy thereof be lodged in the office of the minister. *See Acts June 22, 1860, chap. 179, secs. 1, 17, 25, and 26; July 28, 1866, chap. 296, sec. 11: and July 1, 1870, chap. 194, sec 1 |