Jan. 30, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 304. stored. Stat. L., 616). CHAPTER 30. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE NAVY WHO WERE DROPPED, Difference of pay given to certain officers of Navy dropped, &c., and afterward promoted and restored. Difference of pay Be it enacted, &c., That all officers now in the Navy, and the widows given to certain or heirs of those who have died while attached to the Navy, including officers of Navy the widow of Captain Elisha Peck relieved by special act of March three, dropped, &c., and afterward' pro- eighteen hundred and seventy-three, who were dropped, furloughed, or moted and re- retired under the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and who were afterward promoted and restored to the active 1855, ch. 127 (10 list of the Navy, under the operations of the act of January sixteenth, 1857, ch. 12 (11 eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, or by the President under the operaStat. L., 153). tion of subsequent laws, shall be entitled to receive out of any money in 1873, ch. 465 (17 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the difference between the pay Stat. L., 791). R. S., $5 1457, respectively received by them and the pay at that time designated by law for officers on the active list of the rank to which they were respectively promoted, for and during the time they were affected by the operation of the said acts of February twenty-eiglith, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. [January 30, 1875.] 1461, 1593, 1594. Feb. 5, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 305. Citizen of United lands in Santa CHAPTER 34. AN ACT TO GRANT TITLE TO CERTAIN LANDS IN THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. Whereas, certain lands in Santa Cruz Valley, county of Pima, and TerStates of Mexican ritory of Arizona, have for many years been occupied and possessed by perbirth occupying sons of Mexican birth, who became citizens of the United States under the Cruz Valley, Ari- treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden treaty; and whereas the said persons desire to secure patents for said lands in the small and irreguTreaties (9 Stat. lar tracts in which they were originally taken up under Mexican authority, L., 922; 10 Stat. and have been held and cultivated to the present time, and they cannot do so L., 1031). under the existing land laws of the United States; Therefore, zona, &c. to have release Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That all the right and title of the United States to the of title to lands oc- land embraced in sections two, eleven, and fourteen, and the east half cupied by them, of sections three, ten and fifteen of township fourteen south, range thirupon proof of facts to be determined teen east, Gila and Salt River meridian, in the county of Pima, Territory by register and re- of Arizona, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and granted to the person or persons who have been in the actual bona-fide occupancy or possession of said land, by themselves or their ancestors or grantors for twenty years next preceding the date of the passage of this act; ceiver. -claims to be filed within one year. And it shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of the United States land-office for the district in which said land lies, to hear and determine, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the rights of the parties claiming under this act; and for that purpose the said register and the said receiver shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony relative to such occupancy or possession: Provided, That no claim as aforesaid shall be of any validity under this act unless it shall have been duly filed with the said register and the said receiver within one year after the passage of this act : And provided further, That this grant shall not extend to any reser- Reservations vation of the United States, nor prejudice any valid adverse right or and grants not afclaim, if such exist, to said land, or any part thereof, nor preclude a ju- fected by act. dicial examination and adjustment thereof. SEC. 2. That whenever it shall have been determined by the said regis Claims to be sur ter and the said receiver, or on appeal by the Commissioner of the Gen- veyed and patents eral Land Office or Secretary of the Interior that any tract has been oc- issued. cupied as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general for said Territory to cause the said claims to be surveyed in accordance with the lines of such occupancy, and to furnish approved plats of the same, upon the receipt and approval of which said plats, and the field-notes thereof by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, patents shall issue as in other cases. Lands not occu to settlement. SEC. 3. That any part or parts of said designated lands that are not shown, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land pied for twenty Office, to have been so occupied for twenty years, shall be held by him years to be open as open to settlement under the provisions of the preemption or home. stead laws of the United States, and patents may be issued therefor for any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty that parties complying with said legal provisions may desire to hold: Provided, That all existing occupants who have settled on said lands within a period of less than twenty years shall have the prior right to cupants for less acquire the same under the homestead laws of the United States. [February 5, 1875.] Prior right of oc time. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT GRANTING THE RIGHT OF WAY AND DEPOT-GROUNDS TO THE OREGON CEN- [SECTION 1], That for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railway and telegraph-line from a point at or near Winnemucca, on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the State of Nevada; thence northwesterly to and across Goose Lake Valley, and by way of Sprague River Valley, to the waters of the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, in the Cascade Mountains; thence down said river, on the north side, to Springfield; thence crossing to and continuing upon the west side of said river to the waters of the Columbia River, via Portland, Oregon, there is hereby granted to the Oregon Central Pacific Railway Company, organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Oregon on the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to their successors and assigns, a strip of land, one hundred feet wide, on each side of the central line of said road, through the public lands, and the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and telegraph, not exceeding twenty acres at any one place: Feb. 5, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 306. Grant of right of way to Oregon Central Pacific Provided, That the locations for depots, stations, and side-tracks shall --limitation for not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of depots, &c. twenty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to the Government surveys thereof: And provided further, That the State or States, within the limits of which said road or any part thereof shall be hereafter situated, shall States may limit cost of transporta tion. Plat and location to be filed. Line to be completed in ten years. Rights of home. served. have the power to regulate and limit the cost of transportation of persons or freight over the same. SEC. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the location of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and if upon unsurveyed lands, then within six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with the register of the land-office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the townshipplats in said office; and thereafter all lands over which the line of said road shall pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United States, subject to such right of way so located as aforesaid: Provided, That the line of said road shall be completed within ten years thereafter: Provided further, That this act shall not take effect on any lands to stead and pre-emp- which any bona fide preëmption or homestead claim has attached betion locators pre- fore the definite location of the line of road, and the notice of the same has been given to the land-office in the district where the same is located. SEC. 3. That the rights herein granted shall not preclude the construction of other railroads or telegraph lines through any canyon, defile, or pass on the route of said road, or the crossing of the same at grade by other railroads. -to build other roads and telegraph-lines not precluded. Road to be lo years. SEC. 4. That said company shall locate its road within three years from cated within three the passage of this act, and complete the said railroad within ten years from the same date, failing in which, this act shall be null and void. SEC. 5. That Congress hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act at any time that the public interest may require it. [February 5, 1875.] Act may be amended, &c. Feb. 8, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 307. AN ACT TO AMEND EXISTING CUSTOMS AND INTERNAL-REVENUE LAWS, AND FOR Be it enacted, &c. in gum, floss-silk, [SECTION 1], That from and after the date of the passage of this act, Customs-duties in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed on the importation of the goods, on spun silk, silk wares, and merchandise hereinafter specified, the following rates of duty shall be exacted, namely: On spun silk, for filling, in skeins or cops, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; On silk in the gum, not more advanced than singles, tram, and thrown or organzine, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; On floss-silks, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; ; On sewing-silk, in the gum or purified, forty per centum ad valorem On lastings, mohair cloth, silk twist, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, or form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for buttons exclusively, ten per centum ad valorem; On all goods, wares, and merchandise not otherwise herein provided for, made of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, irrespective of the classification thereof for duty by or under previous laws, or of their commercial designation, sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That this act shall not apply to goods, wares, or merchandise which have, as a component material thereof, twenty-five per centum or over in value of cotton, flax, wool, or worsted. SEC. 2. That from and after the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the merchandise hereinafter enumerated, imported from foreign countries, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following duties, that is to say: On all still wines imported in casks, forty cents per gallon. On all still wines imported in bottles, one dollar and sixty cents per case of one dozen bottles, containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles, containing each not more than one pint; and any excess beyond those quantities found in such bottles shall be subject to a duty of five cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be collected on the bottles: Provided, That any wines imported containing more than twenty. four per centum of alcohol shall be forfeited to the United States: sewing-silk, and other silks. 15 Opin. Att'y Gen., 51. -on still wines. Sch. D., 2d ed., Wines imported with more than 24 per cent. alcohol to be forfeited. Deduction for Wines in store Provided also, That there shall be an allowance of five per centum, and no more, on all effervescing wines, liquors, cordials, and distilled spirits, breakage. in bottles, to be deducted from the invoice quantity in lieu of breakage. SEC. 3. That all imported wines of the character provided for in the preceding section which may remain in public store or bonded warehouse when act takes efon the day this act shall take effect shall be subject to no other duty upon the withdrawal thereof for consumption than if the same were imported after that day: Provided, That any such wines remaining on shipboard within the limits of any port of entry in the United States on the day aforesaid, duties unpaid, shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered as constructively in public store or bonded warehouse. fect. SEC. 4. That on and after the date of the passage of this act, in lieu Customs duties of the duties imposed by law on the articles in this section enumerated, on R. S., § 2504, 2d there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and mer- ed., 477. chandise in this section enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duties, that is to say: On hops, eight cents per pound. On chromate and bichromate of potassa, four cents per pound. - hops. -chromate, &c., of potassa. On macaroni and vermicelli, and on all similar preparations, two macaroni, &c. cents per pound. On nitro-benzole, or oil of mirbane, ten cents per pound. -nitro-benzole, &c. On tin in plates or sheets and on terne and tagger's tin, one and one--tin plates. tenth cents per pound. Customs duties: sardines. On anchovies and sardines, packed in oil or otherwise, in tin boxes, -on anchovies and fifteen cents per whole box, measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and three and one-half inches deep; seven and onehalf cents for each half-box, measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and one and five-eighths inches deep; and four cents for each quarter-box, measuring not more than four inches and threequarters long, three and one-half inches wide, and one and one-half inches deep; when imported in any other form, sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That cans or packages made of tin or other material containing fish of any kind admitted free of duty under any existing law or treaty, not exceeding one quart in contents, shall be subject to a duty of one cent and a half on each can or package; and when exceeding one quart, shall be subject to an additional duty of one cent and a half for each additional quart, or fractional part thereof. -on cans and -on yellow SEC. 5. That yellow sheathing-metal and yellow-metal bolts, of which sheathing-metal the component part of chief value is copper, shall be deemed manufacand bolts, with right to drawback tures of copper, and shall pay the duty now prescribed by law for manwhen used in re- ufactures of copper, and shall be entitled to the drawback allowed by pair of vessels. law to copper and composition-metal whenever the same shall be used R. S., § 2504, Sch. in the construction or equipment or repair of vessels built in the United States for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States. E, 2d ed., 464. on Moisic iron. R. S., § 2504, Sch. E., 2d ed., 464. -jute-butts, &c. SEC. 6. That (1) section four of the act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the thirtieth paragraph of said section in relation to the duty on Moisic iron; and from and after the passage of this act, the duty on Moisic iron, of whatever condition, grade, or stage of manufacture, shall be the same as on all other species of iron of like condition, grade, or stage of manufacture. SEC. 7. That the duty on juté butts shall be six dollars per ton: Provided, That all machinery not now manufactured in the United States adapted exclusively to manufactures from the fiber of the ramie, jute, or flax, may be admitted into the United States free of duty for two years from the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five: Foreign bags And provided further, That bags, other than of American manufacture, used in export of in which grain shall have been actually exported from the United States, grain may be returned free of may be returned empty to the United States free of duty, under regu lations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. duty. R. S., § 2505. Articles exempt from duty. R. S., § 2505. - Alizarine. - Quicksilver. -Ship-planking, &c. - Barrels, grain ted free of duty. SEC. 8. That on and after the date of the passage of this act, the importation of the articles enumerated and described in this section shall be exempt from duty, that is to say: Alizarine. Ship-planking and handle-bolts. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, stone, or crock. ery ware. Seed of the sugar-beet. SEC. 9. That barrels and grain-bags, the manufacture of the United bags, &c., used in States, when exported filled with American products, or exported empty exporting, admit- and returned filled, with foreign products, may be returned to the R. S., § 2505, 2d United States free of duty, under such rules and regulations as shall ed., 483. be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the provisions of this section shall apply to and include shooks, when returned as barrels or boxes as aforesaid. Drawback on SEC. 10. That where bullets and gunpowder, manufactured in the materials of cer- United States and put up in envelopes or shells in the form of cartridges, tain cartridges. such envelope or shell being made wholly or in part of domestic mateNOTE (1) The provisions of the act of 1872, ch. 315 (17 Stat. L., 233), here referred to, are incorpo rated into Revised Statutes in the sections referred to in the margin. R. S., § 3019. |