CHAPTER 141. SECTION AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACTS IN RELATION TO IMMIGRATION. 1. Consular officers in certifying to voluntary emigration from China and Japan to ascer tain whether immigrants have contracted to serve for immoral purposes. 2. Transportation of subjects of China or Japan, &c., without free consent; how punished. Contracts for term of service void. 3. Importation of women for purposes of pros titution: penalty. 4. Contracting to supply labor of cooly in viola tion of law; how punished. Be it enacted, &c. SECTION 5. Immigration of convicts and of women for Vessels to be inspected when obnoxious im- Aliens of forbidden classes not to land, ex- may appeal from inspectors, &c. if inspection sustained, persons to be re- -to be sent back in certain cases. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 477. SECTION 1], That in determining whether the immigration of any Consular officers, subject of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, to the United States, in certifying to is free and voluntary, as provided by section two thousand one hundred voluntary emigraand sixty-two of the Revised Code, title "Immigration," it shall be the tion from China and Japan, to asduty of the consul-general or consul of the United States residing at certain whether the port from which it is proposed to convey such subjects, in any vessels emigrants have enrolled or licensed in the United States, or any port within the same, contracted to serve for immoral purbefore delivering to the masters of any such vessels the permit or certificate provided for in such section, to ascertain whether such immigrant has entered into a contract or agreement for a term of service within the United States, for lewd and immoral purposes; and if there be such contract or agreement, the said consul-general or consul shall not deliver the required permit or certificate. poses. R. S., § 2162. SEC. 2. That if any citizen of the United States, or other person Transportation amenable to the laws of the United States, shall take, or cause to be of subjects of Chitaken or transported, to or from the United States any subject of China, without free conna or Japan, &c., Japan, or any Oriental country, without their free and voluntary con- sent; how punsent, for the purpose of holding them to a term of service, such citizen ished. or other person shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and, on conviction R. S., § 2161. of such offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one year; And all contracts and agreements for a term of service of such persons Contracts for in the United States, whether made in advance or in pursuance of such term of service illegal importation, and whether such importation shall have been in American or other vessels, are hereby declared void. void. SEC. 3. That the importation into the United States of women for Importation of the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all contracts and women for puragreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of poses of prostitution; penalty. such illegal importation and purposes, are hereby declared void; and whoever shall knowingly and willfully import, or cause any importation of, women into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall knowingly or willfully hold, or attempt to hold, any woman to such purposes, in pursuance of such illegal importation and contract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years and pay a fine not exceed ing five thousand dollars. Contracting to SEC. 4. That if any person shall knowingly and willfully contract, or attempt to contract, in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importa- supply labor of tion, to supply to another the labor of any cooly or other person brought of law; how puncooly in violation into the United States in violation of section two thousand one hundred ished. and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes, or of any other section of the R. S., § 2158laws prohibiting the cooly-trade or of this act, such person shall be 2164. deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, in any United States court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following classes to Immigration of immigrate into the United States, namely, persons who are undergoing convicts, and of a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious crimes other women for prostitition, forbidden. than political or growing out of or the result of such political offenses, Vessels to be inspected when obnoxious immigrants believed to be on board, &c. R. S., § 4272. Aliens of forbid den classes not to land, except, &c. may appeal from inspectors, &c. or whose sentence has been remitted on condition of their emigration, and women "imported for the purposes of prostitution." Every vessel arriving in the United States may be inspected under the direction of the collector of the port at which it arrives, if he shall have reason to believe that any such obnoxious persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall certify the result thereof to the master or other person in charge of such vessel, designating in such certificate the person or persons, if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either of the classes whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such inspection is required by the collector as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful, without his permission, for any alien to leave any such vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign country until the inspection shall have been had and the result certified as herein provided; And at no time thereafter shall any alien certified to by the inspecting officer as being of either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, be allowed to land in the United States, except in obedience to a judicial process issued pursuant to law. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the certificate of such inspecting officer stating him or her to be within either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, and shall apply for release or other remedy to any proper court or judge, then it shall be the duty of the collector at said port of entry to detain said vessel until a hearing and deter- if inspection sus- mination of the matter are had, to the end that if the said inspector (1) tained, persons to shall be found to be in accordance with this section and sustained, the be returned to vessel, unless, &c. obnoxious person or persons shall be returned on board of said vessel, and shall not thereafter be permitted to land, unless the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel shall give bond and security, to be approved by the court or judge hearing the cause, in the sum of five hundred to be sent back dollars for each such person permitted to land, conditioned for the return by collector in cer- of such person, within six months from the date thereof, to the country whence his or her emigration shall have taken place, or unless the vessel bringing such obnoxious person or persons shall be forfeited, in which event the proceeds of such forfeiture shall be paid over to the collector of the port of arrival, and applied by him, as far as necessary, to the return of such person or persons to his or her own country within the said period of six months. tain cases. Forfeiture of tions of act. And for all violations of this act, the vessel, by the acts, omissions, vessel for viola- or connivance of the owners, master, or other custodian, or the consignees of which the same are committed, shall be liable to forfeiture, and may be proceeded against as in cases of frauds against the revenue laws, for which forfeiture is prescribed by existing law. [March 3, 1875.] NOTE. (1) This word is so written on the roll. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 478. Adjutant-Gener CHAPTER 142. AN ACT TO REDUCE AND FIX THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. 1. Adjutant-General's Department of Army; of Be it enacted, &c. SECTION 2. Repeal. [SECTION 1], That the Adjutant General's Department of the Army al's Department of shall hereafter consist of one Adjutant General, with the rank, pay, and Army; of what offi- emoluments of a brigadier general; two assistant adjutants general, cers to consist, and with the rank, pay, and emoluments of colonels; four assistant adju their rank and pay. tants general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of lieutenant colonels; and ten assistant adjutants general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of majors. R. S., §§ 1094, 1128, 1194. Repeal. R. S., § 1194. SEC. 2. That so much of section six (1) of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending NOTE.-(1) Section 6 of the act of 1869, ch. 124 (15 Stat. L., 318), forms § 1194 of the Revised Statutes. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as applies to the Adjutant General's Department, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [March 3, 1875.] CHAPTER 143. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COINAGE OF A TWENTY CENT PIECE OF SILVER AT THE March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 478. SECTION 4. Twenty-cent pieces, existing laws applicable to. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], (Rep.) [That there shall be, from time to time, coined at the mints of the United States, conformably in all respects to the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1) a coin of silver of the denomination of twenty-cents and of the weight of five grams.] 63. 1876, April 17, SEC. 2. (Rep.) [That the twenty cent piece shall be a legal tender at its nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.] SEC. 3. (Rep.) [That in adjusting the weight of the twenty-cent piece, the deviation from the standard weight shall not exceed one and one half grains; and in weighing a large number of pieces together, when delivered by the coiner to the superintendent and by the superintendent to the depositor the deviation from the standard weight shall not exceed two hundredths of an ounce in one thousand pieces.] Twenty-cent silver piece to be coined. R. S., § 3513. 1876, April 17, ch. Res. No. 17, P. -. to be legal tender for $5. R. S., § 3586. deviations from standard weight. R. S., § 3514, 3516, 3536. SEC. 4. (Rep.) [That all laws now in force in relation to the coins of existing laws the United States, and the coinage of the same, shall, as far as applica- applicable to. R. S., §§ 3495ble, have full force and effect in relation to the coin herein authorized 3570, 3586. whether the said laws are penal or otherwise and whether they are for preventing counterfeiting or abasement, for protecting the currency, for regulating the process of coining and the preparation therefor, or for the security of the coin, or for any other purpose.] [March 3, 1875.] NOTE-(1) The coinage act here referred to, 1873, ch. 121 (17 Stat. L., 424), is incorporated into Revised CHAPTER 144. AN ACT TO PUNISH CERTAIN LARCENIES, AND THE RECEIVERS OF STOLEN GOODS. SECTION 1. Embezzling, stealing, &c., public property deemed felony; how punished. 2. Receivers, concealers, &c., of stolen property, how punished. Be it enacted, &c. SECTION Receivers, &c., of stolen property may be tried March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 479. [SECTION 1], That any person who shall embezzle, steal, or purloin Embezzling, any money, property, record, voucher, or valuable thing whatever, of stealing, &c., public property the moneys, goods, chattels, records, or property of the United States, deemed felony; shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof before the how punished. district or circuit court of the United States in the district wherein said R. S., § 1342, offense may have been committed, or into which he shall carry or have art. 60. in possession of said property so embezzled, stolen, or purloined, shall art. 14. R. S., 1624, be punished therefor by imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary R. S., §§ 5439, not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dol- 5453, 5475, 5477, lars, or both, at the discretion of the court before which he shall be con- 5483, 5488-5496, victed. 5504. ished. Receivers, con- SEC. 2. That if any person shall receive, conceal, or aid in concealing, cealers, &c., of or have, or retain in his possession with intent to convert to his own use stolen public property; how pun- or gain, any money, property, record, voucher, or valuable thing whatever, of the moneys, goods, chattels, records, or property of the United States, which has theretofore been embezzled, stolen, or purloined from the United States by any other person, knowing the same to have been so embezzled, stolen, or purloined, such person shall, on conviction before the circuit or district court of the United States in the district wherein he may have such property, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, one or both, at the discretion of the court before which he shall be convicted; - may be tried before or after conviction of principal. And such receiver may be tried either before or after the conviction of the principal felon, but if the party has been convicted, then the judgment against him shall be conclusive evidence in the prosecution against such receiver that the property of the United States therein described has been embezzled, stolen, or purloined [March 3, 1875.] March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 479. Convicts for of United States laws CHAPTER 145. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DEDUCTIONS FROM THE TERMS OF SENTENCE OF UNITED [SECTION 1], That all prisoners who have been, or shall hereafter be, fenses against convicted of any offence against the laws of the United States, and conto have deduction fined, in execution of the judgment or sentence upon such conviction, in from sentence for any prison or penitentiary of any State or Territory which has no system good conduct in of commutation for its own prisoners, shall have a deduction from their prison. several terms of sentence of five days in each and every calendar month during which no charge of misconduct shall have been sustained against each severally, who shall be discharged at the expiration of his term of sentence less the time so deducted, and a certificate of the warden or keeper of such prison penitentiary of such deduction shall be entered on the warrant of commitment: 5544. R. S., §§ 5543, 14 Blatch., 344. -unless they com Provided, That, if during the term of imprisonment the prisoner shali mit offenses during commit any offence for which he shall be convicted by a jury, all remissions theretofore made shall be thereby annulled. their term. -to be furnished with clothes and money in certain cases. SEC. 2. That on the discharge from any prison of any person convicted under the laws of the United States on indictment, he or she shall be provided by the warden or keeper of said prison with one plain suit of clothes and five dollars in money, for which charge shall be made and allowed in the accounts of said prison with the United States: Provided, That this section shall not apply to persons sentenced for a term of imprisonment of less than six months. [March 3, 1875.] CHAPTER 146. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 480. Port of Noble AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PORT OF NOBLEBORO TO DAMARISCOTTA. Port of Nobleboro, Me., to be called Damariscotta. Be it enacted, &c., That the name of the port of Nobleboro, in the boro, Me., to be county of Lincoln, State of Maine, is hereby changed to the port of called Damaris- Damariscotta. [March 3, 1875.] cotta. R. S., § 2517, par. 8. CHAPTER 147. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF GAUGERS FOR THE CUSTOMS SERVICE Three gaugers for port of Philadelphia to be appointed; compensation, &c. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 480. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Three gaugers hereby, authorized to appoint three gaugers for the customs service at for port of Philathe port of Philadelphia from the list of officers now under appointment delphia to be appointed; compenas inspectors, whose compensation shall be the same as that paid to the sation, &c. gaugers of the port of Boston: Provided, That the number of officers or employees in the customs 1. service at said port of Philadelphia shall not be hereby increased. [March 3, 1875.] R. S., § 2544, par. CHAPTER 148. AN ACT TO TRANSFER THE COUNTY OF PERRY, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, FROM March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 480. R. S., § 547. [SECTION 1], That the county of Perry, in the western judicial dis- Perry County, trict of the United States, in the State of Tennessee, be, and the same Tenn., added to middle judicial is hereby set to, and shall hereafter compose a part of the middle judi- district. cial district of the United States in said State; and all cases now commenced or depending in said western district, affected by this act, shall be heard, tried and determined in the same manner as if this act had not been passed; and the prosecution of all crimes heretofore committed in said western district shall be prosecuted and punished in the same manner as if this act had not been passed. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect on the fourth Monday of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [March 3, 1875.] When act takes effect. CHAPTER 149. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DEDUCTING ANY DEBT DUE THE UNITED STATES FROM ANY Judgments and claims against United States sub ject to offset of debt from creditors; proceedings in such cases. -proceedings when claimant denies legality of set-off. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 481. United States sub Be it enacted, &c., That when any final judgment recovered against Judgments and the United States or other claim duly allowed by legal authority, shall claims against be presented to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment, and the ject to offsets of plaintiff or claimant therein shall be indebted to the United States in debts from creditany manner, whether as principal or surety, it shall be the duty of the ors; proceedings Secretary to withhold payment of an amount of such judgment or claim in such cases. R. S., § 1065, equal to the debt thus due to the United States; and if such plaintiff 1089, 1766, 4734. or claimant assents to such set off, and discharges his judgment or an 14 C. Cls., 484. amount thereof equal to said debt or claim, the Secretary shall execute a discharge of the debt due from the plaintiff to the United States. But if such plaintiff, or claimant, denies bis indebtedness to the proceedings United States, or refuses to consent to the set-off, then the Secretary when claimant deshall withhold payment of such further amount of such judgment, or set-off. nies legality of |