-no additional fee for. Ports to which merchandise may be so transported in bond. -if there be the twenty-eight hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, and shall then deliver to the person producing the same two of the quadruplicates, one to be used in making entry at the port of first arrival of the merchandise in the United States, and one to be used in making entry at the port of destination, file another in his office, there to be carefully preserved and as soon as practicable transmit the remaining one to the collector or surveyor of the port of final destination of the merchandise: Provided, however, That no additional fee shall be collected on account of any service performed under the requirements of this section. SEC. 5. [Substitute enacted for this by 1884, July 2, ch. 142, (23 Stat. L., 63), and superseded by a later substitute, 1887, Feb. 23, ch. 215, post, p. 540.] SEC. 6. Superseded by substitute, 1884, July 2, ch. 142, post, p. 447.] SEC. 7. (1) That the privilege of immediate transportation shall extend to the ports of New York and Buffalo, in New York; Burlington, in Vermont; Boston, in Massachusetts; Providence and Newport in Rhode Island; New Haven, Middletown, and Hartford in Connecticut; Philadelphia and Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Crisfield and Annapolis, in Maryland; Wilmington, and Seaford, in Delaware; Salem, Massachusetts; Georgetown in the District of Columbia; Norfolk, Richmond and Petersburgh, in Virginia; Wilmington and Newberne, in North Carolina; Charleston and Port Royal, in South Carolina; Savannah and Brunswick, in Georgia; New Orleans, in Lousiana; Portland and Bath, in Maine; Portsmouth, in New Hampshire; Chicago, Cairo, Alton, and Quincy, in Illinois; Detroit, Port Huron, and Grand Haven in Michigan; Saint Louis, Kansas City, and Saint Joseph in Missouri; Saint Paul, in Minnesota; Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo, in Ohio; Milwaukee, and La Crosse, in Wisconsin; Louisville, in Kentucky; San Francisco, San Diego and Wilmington in California; Portland, in Oregon; Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville, in Tennessee; Mobile, in Alabama; and Evansville, in Indiana; and Galveston, Houston, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and Indianola, in Texas; Omaha, in Nebraska; Dubuque, Burlington and Keokuk, in Iowa; Leavenworth, in Kansas; Tampa Bay, Fernandina, Jacksonville, Cedar Keys, Key West, and Apalachicola, in Florida: Provided, That the privilege of transportation herein conferred necessary officers shall not extend to any place at which there are not the necessary officers for the appraisement of merchandise and the collection of duties. there. Repeal of 2997. SEC. 8. That sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety, twentyR. S., § 2990- nine hundred and ninety-one, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-two, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-three, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-four, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-five, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-six, and twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Merchandise not SEC. 9. That no merchandise shall be shipped under the provisions to be so transport- of this act after such merchandise shall have been landed ten days ed when it has from the importing vessel, and merchandise not entered within been landed ten days, &c. such time shall be sent to a bonded warehouse by the collector as unclaimed, and held until regularly entered and appraised. NOTE. (1) The privileges of this section are extended to other ports by the following acts: SEC. 10. That section twenty-nine hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: cured. how se That whenever the proper officer of the customs shall be duly Lien for freight notified in writing of the existence of a lien for freight upon im- on imported ported goods, wares or merchandise in his custody, he shall, before goods; delivering such goods, wares, or merchandise to the importer, owner, or consignee thereof, give seasonable notice to the party or parties claiming the lien; And the possession by the officers of customs shall not affect the discharge of such lien, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and such officer may refuse the delivery of such merchandise from any public or bonded warehouse or other place in which the same shall be deposited, until proof to his satis faction shall be produced that the freight thereon has been paid or secured; But the rights of the United States shall not be prejudiced thereby, nor shall the United States or its officers be in any manner liable for losses consequent upon such refusal to deliver. Substitute for 905. When goods If merchandise so subject to a lien regarding which notice has been filed, shall be forfeited to the United States and sold, the freight due subject to lien are thereon shall be paid from the proceeds of such sale in the same man- sold by United States, freight to ner as other charges and expenses authorized by law to be paid be paid. therefrom are paid. When act takes SEC. 11. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty. effect. [June 10, 1880.] CHAP. 203.-An act to establish a district and circuit court at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to add the county of Grundy to the eastern district of Tennessee. Be it enacted, &c. [Sec. 1 is superseded by 1884, Dec. 27, ch. 7, § 1, post, p. 471.] SEC. 2. A term of the circuit court and of the district court for the eastern district of Tennessee shall be held at Chattanooga in said state in each year on the first Mondays of April and October, after the passage of this act. SEC. 3. Said eastern district shall be and hereby is divided into two divisions, to be known as the Northern and Southern divisions of the eastern district of Tennessee. The southern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit, Hamilton, James, Polk, McMinn, Bradley, Meigs, Rhea, Marion, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, (1) Grundy, and Cumberland, And the northern division shall consist of the remaining counties in said district. But no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district. SEC. 4. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the Clerks, marshal, eastern district of Tennessee, and the marshal and district attorney and attorney for for said district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices eastern district; respectively for said courts. duties. And the said clerks and marshals shall each appoint a deputy to shall each apreside and keep their offices in the city of Chattanooga, and who point deputy at shall, in the absence of their principals, do and perform all the duties Chattanooga. appertaining to their offices respectively. SEC. 5. All suits not of a local nature in the circuit and districts Suits to be courts against a single defendant, inhabitant of said state, must be brought in divibrought in the division of the district where he resides; but if there sion of district are two or more defendants residing in different divisions of the dis- where one of defendants reside. trict, such suits may be brought in either division. NOTE.-(1) Grundy County attached to middle district by 1884, Dec. 27, ch. 7, § 2 post, p. 471. R. S., § 740. -issues of fact; All issues of fact in said suits shall be tried at a term of the court where to be tried. held in the division where the suit is so brought. Prosecution for SEC. 6. All prosecutions for crimes or offences hereafter committed crimes; where in either of the sub-divisions shall be cognizable within such divicognizable. * [Words omitted relate to past offences.] sion; * Residence of ju * * SEC. 7. All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions herein before contained, issued in either of said divisions may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. SEC. 8. In all cases of removal of suits from the courts of the State of Tennessee to the courts of the United States in the eastern district of Tennessee such removal shall be to the United States courts in the division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made; and the time within which the removal shall be perfected in so far as it refers to or is regulated by the terms of the United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the United States courts in such division. SEC. 9. [Superseded by 1885, Feb. 25, ch. 147, 23 Stat. L., 320.] SEC. 10. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [June 11, 1880.] June 11, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 177. Post office in spectors: names of CHAP. 206.-An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. * Be it enacted, &c. * [Par. 1.] Section four thousand and seventeen of the Revised Statutes is hereby so amended as to insert in lieu of the words "special agents" and the word "agents", wher1878, June 17,ch. ever they occur in said section, the words "post-office inspect259, pars. 1,3, ante, ors". pp. 186, 187. 1881, Mar. 1, ch.96, par. 1, post, p. 319. * * Postal cards and [Par. 2.] And the Postmaster-General is hereafter authorized to stamps for foreign furnish and issue to the public, postal cards with postage-stamps mail-matter may impressed upon them, for circulation in the mails exchanged with be furnished by Postmaster-Gen- foreign countries under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention of June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at a postage charge of two cents each, including the cost of their manufacture. * * [June 11, 1880.] *eral. June 14, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 197. Sunken vessels CHAP. 211.—An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, completion, and preservation of certain works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. * * SEC. 4. Whenever hereafter the navigaobstructing navi- tion of any river, lake, harbor, or bay, or other navigable water of moved by Secre- the United States, shall be obstructed or endangered by any sunken tary of War. vessel or water-craft, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, 1882, Aug. 2, ch. upon satisfactory information thereof, to cause reasonable notice, of 375, post, p. 369. not less than thirty days, to be given, personally or by publication, 1890, Sept. 19, at least once a week in the newspaper published nearest the locality ch. 907, §8, post, of such sunken vessel or craft, to all persons interested in such ves1890, Oct. 1, ch. sel or craft, or in the cargo thereof, of the purpose of saiu Secretary, 1244, § 23, post, p. unless such vessel or craft shall be removed as soon thereafter as practicable by the parties interested therein, to cause the same to be removed. p. 802. 361. - unless removed If such sunken vessel or craft and cargo shall not be removed by by parties inter- the parties interested therein as soon as practicable after the date of ested, after notice. the giving of such notice by publication, or after such personal serv ice of notice, as the case may be, such sunken vessel or craft shall be treated as abandoned and derelict, and the Secretary of War shall proceed to remove the same. Such sunken vessel or craft and cargo and all property therein after removal to when so removed shall, after reasonable notice of the time and place be sold, with carof sale, be sold to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, and the go, &c., and proceeds deposited in proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the the Treasury. United States to the credit of a fund for the removal of such obstructions to navigation, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be paid out for that purpose on his requisition therefor. The provisions of this act shall apply to all such wrecks whether removed under this act or under any other act of Congress. Such sum of money as may be necessary to execute this section of this act is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the requisition of the Secretary of War. [June 14, 1880.] Act extends to other wrecks. Appropriation. CHAP. 213.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts", approved February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. June 14, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 198. Judicial districts of Texas; in which Be it enacted, &c., That the above recited act be amended by adding to and at the end of the fifth section thereof the following divisions offenses words, to wit: to be tried. And all prosecutions in either of said districts for offenses against the laws of the United States shall be tried in that division of the district to which process for the county in which said offenses are 97, §5,ante, p. 219. committed is by said section required to be returned. And all writs and recognizances in said prosecutions shall be returned to that division in which said prosecutions by this act are to be tried. SEC. 2. That said act be further amended by adding to and at the end of section third thereof the words "and Aransas. R.S., § 548. 1879, Feb. 24, ch. 97, § 3, and notes SEC. 3. This act shall not apply to prosecutions now pending.' [June 14, 1880.] Aransas County added to western district. ante, pp. 217, 218. Pending cases. CHAP. 214-An act to amend an act entitled "An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes." Be it enacted, &c., That in the act entitled "An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes", approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the words "section four" where they occur in the first section of the act, be changed to "section five". [June 14, 1880.] CHAP. 225.—An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. * * June 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 226. Secretary of Treasury to report annually fines, &c., received, and Be it enacted, &c. * * And the Secretary of the Treasury shall make to Congress each year a statement giving the amount received under section thirty-six hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes, and also a statement showing in detail how the how expended. money appropriated under said section has been expended. [June 15, 1880.] * * R.S., § 3687. June 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 237. Alternate sec CHAP. 227.-An act relating to the public lands of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. [Sections 1, 2, temporary, and expired. (1)] SEC. 3. That the price of lands now subject to entry which were tions of railroad raised to two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and put in market prior lands reduced to to January, eighteen hundred and sixty one, by reason of the grant of alternate sections for railroad purposes is hereby reduced to one 1079, March 3, dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. 60, ante, pp. 257, 271. 1889, March 3, ch. 381, §4, post, p. 683. $1.25. R. S., § 2357. ch. 191: July 1, ch. Act not to apply to mineral lands. SEC. 4. This (1) act shall not apply to any of the mineral lands of the United States; and no person who shall be prosecuted for or proceeded against on account of any trespass committed or material taken from any of the public lands after March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine shall be entitled to the benefit thereof. [June 15, 1880.] NOTE. (1) The first section of this act relieved under conditions named certain trespassers upon public lands from proceedings by the United States for acts done prior to March 1, 1879. The second section relates to homestead entries heretofore" made. The provisions of § 4 would seem more especially applicable to § 1, but as they apply in terms to the whole act, they are here retained. June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 259. No pay to collectors for certain CHAP. 235.-An act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. * * [Par. 1.] And so much of section fortylight-house serv- six hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States as provides compensation to collectors of the customs for servRepealing in ices as superintendents of lights or as disbursing agents for the Lightpart R. S.. 4672. House Establishment is hereby repealed. ices. Masters of light house tenders to [Par. 2.] That masters of light-house tenders shall have police have certain po- powers in matters pertaining to government property and smuggling. lice powers. Chief Signal [Par. 3.] And from and after the passage of this act, the Chief Officer to be brig- Signal Officer shall have the rank and pay of a brigadier-general. adier-general. R. S., § 1195. 1890, Oct. 12, ch. 1266, post, p. 879. may be sold. Commercial re- [Par. 4.] For printing and distributing more frequently the pubports printed by lications by the Department of State of the consular and other comState Department mercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, R. S., § 211. *That such publications may be sold at such rates as may be 1884, July 7, ch. fixed by said department, and the proceeds of all sales to be paid 333, post, p. 469. into the Treasury; * * Two officers of * [Par. 5.] And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail Ordnance Corps not exceeding two officers of the Ordnance Corps to serve with the for Geological Geological Survey: Provided, That in his judgment it can be done without injury to the service. may be detailed Survey. 1879, March 3, ch. 182, par. 10, ante, p. 251. R. S., § 3800. Biennial Regis- [Par. 6.] That section two of the act of December fifteenth, ter to be made up eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act providing for as of July first. the printing and distribution of the Biennial Register," is hereby so 1877, Dec. 15, ch. amended as to read "the first day of July" instead of "the last day 4, § 2,ante, p. 150. of June," as the day upon which the lists of the Biennial Register 1882, Aug. 5, ch. shall in future be made up. 390, par. 3, post, p. 376. sane in District of Columbia. * * That here Admissions to [Par. 7.] Government Hospital for the Insane. Hospital for In- after the admissions to the hospital shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment thercin under the provisions of R. S., SS 4843- title fifty-nine, chapter four, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred 1875, March 3, and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, ch. 156, § 5, ante, Forty-third Congress. 4854. * * * p. 94. 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 433, par. 14; 1884, July 7, ch. 332, par. 5, post, pp. 381, 469. Feeble-minded [Par. 8.] Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. children in D. C. That when any indigent applicant for admission to the institution, to be instructed. |