first day of June, inclusive, of this year." Or in lieu of the foregoing there shall be inserted so much of said period of time as may remain unexpired under this act. SEC. 3. That the penalty for the violation or attempted violation Penalty. of this act shall be forfeiture of license on the part of the vessel engaged in said violation, if a vessel of this country, and the forfeiture to the United States, according to law, of the mackerel imported or landed, or sought to be imported or landed. SEC. 4. That all laws in conflict with this law are hereby repealed. Repeal. [February 28, 1887.] CHAP. 311.—An act to organize the Hospital Corps of the Army of the United States, to define its duty and fix its pay. March 1, 1887. 24 Stat. L., 435. Hospital Corps of the army; of atta consist, Be it enacted, &c., That the Hospital Corps of the United States Army shall consist of hospital stewards, acting hospital stewards, and privates; and all necessary hospital services in garrison, camp, or field (including ambulance service) shall be performed by the members thereof, who shall be regularly enlisted in the military 1180, 1181. service; R. S., §§ 1179, 1874, June 23, ch. Said Corps shall be permanently attached to the Medical Depart-attached to medment, and shall not be included in the effective strength of the ical department. Army nor counted as a part of the enlisted force provided by law. 458, § 4, ante, p.45. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is empowered to appoint as many hospital stewards as, in his judgment, the service may require; ards. but not more than one hospital steward shall be stationed at any post or place without special authority of the Secretary of War. Hospital stew SEC. 3. That the pay of hospital stewards shall be forty-five -pay. dollars per month, with the increase on account of length of service as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law to other enlisted men. They shall have rank with ordnance-sergeants and be entitled to ―rank. all the allowances appertaining to that grade. SEC. 4. That no person shall be appointed a hospital steward -examination. unless he shall have passed a satisfactory examination before a board of one or more medical officers as to his qualifications for the position, and demonstrated his fitness therefor by service of not less than twelve months as acting hospital steward; and no person shall be designated for such examination except by written authority of the Surgeon-General. Privates, enlist SEC. 5. That the Secretary of War is empowered to enlist, or cause to be enlisted, as many privates of the Hospital Corps as the ment of. service may require, and to limit or fix the number, and make such regulations for their government as may be necessary; and any enlisted man in the Army shall be eligible for transfer to the Hospital Corps as a private. They shall perform duty as wardmasters, cooks, nurses, and at- -duties. tendants in hospitals, and as stretcher-bearers, litter-bearers, and ambulance attendants in the field, and such other duties as may by proper authority be required of them. SEC. 6. That the pay of privates of the Hospital Corps shall be -pay. thirteen dollars per month, with the increase on account of length of service as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law to other enlisted men; They shall be entitled to the same allowances as a corporal of the ―rank. arm of service with which on duty. SEC. 7. That privates of the Hospital Corps may be detailed as act-detailed as acting hospital stewards by the Secretary of War, upon the recom- ing hospital stewmendation of the Surgeon-General, whenever the necessities of the ards, pay of, &c. service require it; and while so detailed their pay shall be twentyfive dollars per month, with increase as above stated. -promotion. Repeal. Acting hospital stewards, when educated in the duties of the position, may be eligible for examination for appointment as hospital stewards as above provided. SEC. 8. That all acts and parts of acts in so far as they contravene the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. [March 1, 1887.] March 2,1887. CHAP. 314.-An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the 24 Stat. L., 440. colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto. State agricul- Be it enacted, &c., That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing tural experiment among the people of the United States useful and practical informastations at agri- tion on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific cultural colleges aided by U. S. investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applica1862, July 2, ch. tions of agricultural science, there shall be established, under direc130, (12 Stat. L., tion of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges 503.) in each State or Territory established, or which hereafter may be established, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating 1890, Aug. 30, public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide ch.841, post, p.797. colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to said act, a department to be known and designated as an "agricultural experiment station:" 209 (14 Stat. L. 208). Where two col leges in one State, aid to be divided. Object and duty of such station. 1889, March 2, ch.373, post, p.679. Secretary of Provided, That in any State or Territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so established the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; The diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; The chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; The comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; The capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; The analysis of soils and water; The chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; The adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; The composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; The scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; And such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories. SEC. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity Agriculture to ad- of methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the vise, assist, furnish duty of the United States Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, &c. 1889, Feb. 9, ch. forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investi122, post, p. 641. gation or experiments: to indicate, from time to time, such lines of 1891, March 3, inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in general, to ch. 544, par. 1, furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes post, p. 930. of this act. Stations to make nnual reports. It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Bulletins to be SEC. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall issued. be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. to be mailed free Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge of postage. for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe. ch. 103, § 5, ante, p. 135. 1884, July 5, ch. 234, § 3, ante, p. 467. 1877, March 3, SEC. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of Annual approconducting investigations and experiments and printing and distrib- priation of $15,000 uting the results as herein before prescribed, the sum of fifteen thou- to each State from sales of public sand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, to be lands. specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year 1891, March 3, to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of sec- ch. 544, par. 1, tion eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding post, p. 930. from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty seven: Provided, however, That out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended. SEC. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support. Buildings. Unexpended balance of any year to be deduct ed next year. Legal relation to SEC. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges States not affectand the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located. ed. SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section Application to to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations estabstations established by law separate from said colleges, such States lished separate from colleges or shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations from those not agso established by such States; And in case any State shall have established under the provisions. of said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural department or experimental station, in connection with any university, college or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such State shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such State may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college, or school, and no legislature shall by contract express or implied disable itself from so doing. ricultural. Legislative assent necessary. 1888, June 7, ch. 373, post, p. 589. No permanent obligation imposed on U.S. SEC. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants: Provided, That payment of such instalments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Čongress may at any time amend suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act. [March 2, 1887.] CHAP. 315-An act to amend section five hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the division of the State of Illinois into judicial districts, and to provide for holding terms of court of the northern district at the city of Peoria. Be it enacted, &c., That the counties of McDonough, Fulton, and Tazewell be detached from the southern district of Illinois and be included in the northern district of Illinois. SEC. 2. That the northern district of Illinois shall be divided into two divisions, to be known as the northern and southern divisions. The counties of Peoria, Stark, Henry, Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Knox, McDonough, Fulton, Putnam, Marshall, Woodford, Tazewell, Livingston, and Iroquois shall constitute the southern division of said northern district of Illinois, the courts for which shall be held at the city of Peoria. SEC. 3. That the terms of the circuit and district courts in and for said northern district of Illinois shall be held at the city of Chicago, as now provided by law, And at the city of Peoria, in the southern division of said district, on the third Mondays of April and October of each year. SEC. 4. That all civil suits not of a local nature, and criminal prosecutions, must be brought in the division of the said northern district of Illinois where the defendant or defendants reside or the offence is committed; but if there are two or more defendants in civil suits residing in the different divisions or districts, the action may be brought in either in which either of the defendants may reside. When the defendant is a non-resident of the district, action may be brought in either division of said district wherein the defendant may be found. SEC. 5. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the northern district of Illinois shall be respectively the clerks of the courts of both divisions of the said district; That each of said clerks, or his deputies, shall keep an office open at all times at each of the places of holding said court, and shall there keep the records, files, and documents pertaining to the court of that division; and said clerk shall be entitled to the same fees now allowed him by law. In addition to his powers to appoint deputies, as now prescribed by law, each of said clerks shall be required to appoint a chief deputy for the court of that division in which he himself may not reside, who shall have all the powers of the clerk in his absence. SEC. 6. That the marshal and clerk for said northern district of Illinois shall respectively appoint at least one deputy residing in the said southern division, unless he shall reside there himself, and also maintain an office at that place of holding court. SECS. 7, 8, 9. [Relates to pending causes.] Illinois. southern division SEC. 10. That the judge of the United States circuit or district court for said northern district of Illinois may, by order, from time to Special terms in time, appoint and hold additional special terms of said court in said of northern dissouthern division of said district, for the disposal of the unfinished trict. business thereof, whenever the interest of the public and condition of the docket shall so require. SEC. 11. [Relates to past offenses.] [March 2, 1887.] CHAP. 316.—An act to provide for the location and erection of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers west of the Rocky Mountains. March 2, 1887. 24 Stat. L., 444. National Home for Disabled Vol Be it enacted, &c., That the Board of Managers of the (1) National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized, em- unteer Soldiers; powered, and directed to locate, establish, construct, and perma- branch to be esnently maintain a branch of said National Home for Disabled Vol- tablished west of unteer Soldiers to be by such Board located at (2) such place in the Rocky Mountains. States west of the Rocky Mountains as to said Board shall appear 4837. R. S., SS 4825most desirable and advantageous; [words omitted make appropriation]. SEC. 2. That all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served in the regular and volunteer forces of the United States, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living, shall be entitled to be admitted to said home for disabled volunteer soldiers, subject to like regulations as they are now admitted to existing branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. SEC. 3. [Executed.] * SEC. 4. * That hereafter the number of managers of the said Admissions. 1884, July 5, ch. 223, §5,ante, p.463. 1890, June 27,ch. 634, §1,post, p.760. One manager to Home elected by Congress, shall be (3) ten instead of nine, as at pres- be from west of ent, one of whom shall be a resident of a State or Territory west of Rocky Mountains. the Rocky Mountains. [March 2, 1887.] NOTES.-(1) See note on National Soldiers' Homes, appended to 1875, March 3, ch. 129, par. 6, ante, March 2, 1887. 24 Stat. L., 445. Contested elec Be it enacted, &c., That section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be so amended as to read tions, House of as follows: Representatives; 66 1875, March 2, "All officers taking testimony to be used in a contested election testimony, how case, whether by deposition or otherwise, shall, when the taking of House and opened. the same is completed, and without unnecessary delay, certify and Substitute for carefully seal and immediately forward the same, by mail or by ex- R. S., press, addressed to the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the ch. 119, ante, p. United States, Washington, District of Columbia; and shall also in- 69. dorse upon the envelope containing such deposition or testimony 1879, March 3, the name of the case in which it is taken, together with the name of ch. 182, par. 14, the party in whose behalf it is taken, and shall subscribe such en- ante, p. 252. dorsement. "The Clerk of the House of Representatives, upon the receipt of such deposition or testimony, shall notify the contestant and the contestee, by registered letter through the mails, to appear before him at the Capitol, in person or by attorney, at a reasonable time. to be named, not exceeding twenty days from the mailing of such letter, for the purpose of being present at the opening of the sealed Notice to parties. |