CHAPTER 57. April 20, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 75. The census ch. 195. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR TAKING THE TENTH [SECTION 1], That all mail matter of whatever class, relative to the 1879, March 3, census and addressed to the Census Office, to the Superintendent, his chief clerk, supervisors or enumerators, and indorsed, "Official business, Mail matter for, Department of the Interior, Census Office", shall be transported free to pass free; penalty for unauthor- of postage; and if any person shall make use of any such indorsement ized use of indorse- to avoid the payment of postage on his private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a 1879, March 3, misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of three hundred dollars, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction. mert. ch. 195, § 16. Information as not to be taken. SEC. 2. That the seventeeth section of an act entitled "An act to proto naturalization vide for the taking of the tenth and subsequent censuses" be amended by striking out so much thereof as provides that schedule one contain an inquiry as to the naturalization of foreign-born persons, and that schedule four contain an inquiry relating to the ownership of the public debt of the United States, by whom owned, and the respective amounts: Inquiries con- Provided, That the Superintendent of the Census shall collect and cerning ownership collate, as far as possible, by experts and agents and from officers of the of public debt. R. S., § 2206, government, information in relation to the ownership of the public debt "of the United States. Sched. 1, 4. 1879, March 3, ch. 195, § 17. Fiscal year of corporations. SEC. 3. That section seventeen of the act aforesaid be so amended as to allow the report which the Superintendent of the Census is required 1879, March 3, to obtain from railroad corporations, incorporated express companies, ch. 195, § 17. telegraph companies, and insurance companies to be made for the fiscal year of the incorporation or company having its termination nearest to the first of June, eighteen hundred and eighty. tion in certain Enumeration; SEC. 4. That section nineteen of the aforesaid act shall be amended when to com- so as to require the enumeration to commence upon the first day of June, mence. Popula- eighteen hundred and eighty, and further so as to require that the cities to be taken enumeration of population in cities having over ten thousand inhabitants shall be taken within two weeks from the first day of June, eighteen 1879, March 3, hundred and eighty. ch. 195, § 19. in two weeks. 1879, March 3, ch. 195, § 5. Enumerator not SEC. 5. That section five of the act aforesaid shall be amended so as resident in dis- to allow that in case it shall occur in any enumeration district that no trict; when may person qualified to perform and willing to undertake the duties of be appointed. enumerator resides in that district, the supervisor may appoint any fit person, resident in the county, to be the enumerator of that district. Enumerator of SEC. 6. That section nine of the act aforesaid be, and the same hereby population of dis- is, so amended as to require each enumerator, immediately after comtrict to file lists pleting the enumeration of the population of his district and before forwarding the same to the supervisor, to make and file in the office of the 1879, March 3, clerk of the county court or in the office of the court or board adminisch. 195, § 9. tering the affairs of the county to which his district belongs a list of the names, with age, sex, and color, of all persons enumerated by him, which he shall certify to be true, and for which he shall be paid at the rate of ten cents for each one hundred names. with clerk of court, &c. Enumerators: to He shall give notice by written advertisement at three or more public places in his district that he will be at the court house of said county on give notice of time the fifth day after filing said list, not including Sunday, from nine o'clock and place for corante meridian to six o'clock post meridian and the following day for the &c. purpose of correcting his enumeration by striking out or adding the designation of persons improperly enumerated or omitted; and on the days so designated he shall, in accordance with said notice, proceed to correct, on such reliable information as he may obtain, all omissions and mistakes in such enumeration, and to that end he may swear and examine witnesses, who shall testify subject to the pains and penalties of perjury. to make known result. The result of such inquiry for correction and the whole number of persons by him enumerated, he shall make known to the bystanders, if any, to bystanders the And the time given enumerators by said act to make return to supervisors is hereby extended fifteen days. And each enumerator shall be paid for his services in correcting his schedule of inhabitants as required by this act a sum to be fixed by the Superintendent of Census, in no case to exceed two dollars and fifty cents per day. And that the oath of office prescribed by section seven of said act be so amended as to authorize and require the making and filing the list of inhabitants as required by this act. -time for return extended. 1879, March 3, ch. 195, § 19. -pay. 1879, March 3, ch. 195, § 10. oath of office amended. 1879, March 3, ch. 195, § 7. Appropriation to 1879, March 3, SEC. 7. That to pay the enumerators for the additional services required by this act, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand pay enumerators. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby ch. 195, $ 20. is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not, otherwise appropriated. Statistics of lected. SEC. 8. The Superintendent of Census shall collect and publish the statistics of the population, industries resources of the district of Alaska, Alaska to be colwith such fullness as he may deem expedient, and as he shall find practicable under the appropriations made, or to be made, for the expenses of the tenth census. [April 20, 1880.] CHAPTER 58. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHING OF TERMS OF COURT IN THE DISTRICT April 20, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 76. SECTION 1. In Colorado, circuit and district courts; when and where to be held. 2. Summons and attendance of jurors. 3. Records of district court in divisions to be kept by clerk of district court. Be it enacted, &c. SECTION Jurisdiction of district court. 4. Repeal of former act. [SECTION 1], That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Colorado shall be held at the times and places hereinafter designated, namely: At Denver, on the first Tuesday in May and the first Tuesday in October in each year; At Pueblo, on the first Tuesday in March in each year; At Del Norte, on the first Tuesday in September in each year. shall be held at the same time and place, grand and petit jurors sum- attendance of jumoned to attend in either of said courts may serve in the other of said rors. courts, and but one grand or petit jury shall be summoned to attend on said courts at one and the same time; But this provision shall not prevent either of said courts from procuring the attendance of several panels of jurors successively, as the business of the courts may require. Records of dis- SEC. 3. The records of the district court in the several divisions of the trict court in di- district of Colorado, as declared by the act approved February fifteenth, visions to be kept by clerk of district eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to provide for holding terms of the circuit and district courts in the district of Colorado", shall be kept and retained in the clerk's office of the district court of Colorado; court. Jurisdiction of listrict court. And the district court sitting at the places mentioned in this act respectively, shall have jurisdiction of actions, civil and criminal, heretofore brought and now pending at any such place. Pending actions Actions, suits, and proceedings pending and undetermined in the disin southern and trict court for the southern and western divisions, as declared by said western divisions. act, of which a circuit court has jurisdiction exclusive of the district court, may be certified into the circuit court sitting at the same place, for further proceedings therein and for final hearing or trial thereof. 82. Repeal of act of 1879, Feb. 15, ch. SEC. 4. The act mentioned in the last section is repealed, but such repeal shall not affect the power of the courts to proceed according to the terms thereof in any action, suit, or proceeding now pending therein and undetermined, or according to the terms of this act. [April 20, 1880.] April 23, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 77. Centennial inter CHAPTER 60. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR CELEBRATING THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SECTION [SECTION 1], That in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of national exhibi- the treaty of peace and the recognition of American Independence, an tion to be held in international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil New York in 1883. and mine, be held under the direction of the United States Internation Commissioners Commission, a corporation to be created by this act, in the city of New York, in the State of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and eightythree, to be continued so long as shall be in its judgment advantageous, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained and subject always to the supervision and under the auspices of the Government of the United States. SEC. 2. That a commission, to consist of two commissioners from each and incorporators. State and one from each Territory of the United States, and one from the District of Columbia, together with the members of the committee of finance, as provided in section ten, and the following named persons, to wit, Hugh J. Jewett, Edwin D. Morgan, William Hoyt, Henry G. Stebbins, Marshall O. Roberts, Hugh McCulloch, James F. Wenman, Commissioners. United States International Commission, whose functions shall continue — duties and powuntil the close of the exhibition, whose duty it shall be, among other ers of. things, to fix the precise date of, and to prepare for and to superintend the holding of, the exhibition upon a site within the corporate limits of the said city of New York. SEC. 3. That the said United States International Commission is hereby Incorporation of created a body corporate, and by that name shall have a corporate existence, until the object for which it is formed shall have been accomplished, and as such it shall be competent for it to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity in the United States, and may make and have a corporate seal, and may purchase, take, have, and hold, and may grant, sell, and at pleasure dispose of all such real and personal estate as may be required in order to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Appointment of President. SEC. 4. That said commissioners, two for each State and one from each Territory and the District of Columbia, shall be appointed within commissioners by sixty days from the passage of this act, by the President of the United States, on the nomination of the governors of the States and Territories respectively, and by the President from the District of Columbia; And in the same manner and within the same time there shall be appointed two alternate commissioners from each State and one from each missioners and their duties. Territory of the United States and the District of Columbia, as provided in section two, who shall assume and perform the duties of such commissioner or commissioners as may be unable to attend the meetings of the said commission. Alternate com SEC. 5. That the said United States International Commission shall Commission, hold its meetings in the city of New York, and that a majority of mem- where to meet; bers present at the first meetings provided for in section nine shall be may make rules, competent for the transaction of business, and the commission shall indicate by by-law the number requisite thereafter for a quorum. The commission shall have full power to make all needful rules for its government, and to appoint such officers as in its judgment shall be advisable. &c. Commissioners gress date for tion. SEC. 6. That the said commission shall submit to Congress for their to submit to Con- consideration at the first session after the appointment of commissionopening exhibition ers, as herein provided, a suitable date for opening and closing the exhiand requisite cus- bition; a schedule of appropriate ceremonies for opening and dedicating toms regulations. the same; the requisite custom-house regulations for the introduction into this country of any articles from foreign countries intended for exhibition, and such other matters as in their judgment may be important. President to SEC. 7. That whenever the President of the United States shall be make proclama- informed by the governor of the State of New York that provision has been made for the erection of suitable buildings for the purpose, and 1881, March 1, Res. No. 22. for the exclusive control of the grounds and buildings by the corporation herein provided for, the President, if after due examination he shall deem the preparations adequate, shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open and close, and the place at which it will be held; and he shall communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations, copies of the same, together with such regulations as may be adopted by the commission, for publication in their respective countries, and shall in behalf of the government and people commend the exhibition to all foreign nations who may choose to take part therein. Capital stock. -holders of, entitled to vote. Proceeds, of SEC. 8. That the said commission shall have authority and is hereby empowered to receive subscriptions of capital stock to an amount not exceeding twelve millions of dollars, to be divided into shares of ten dollars each, and each subscriber shall pay not less than ten per cent of his subscription at the time he subscribes; and said commission shall issue to the subscribers of the stock certificates therefor, under its corporate seal, which certificates shall bear the signature of its president, secretary, and treasurer, and be transferable under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed for the purpose. All holders of said stock shall be entitled to one vote on each share in the election of a finance committee, to be elected as hereinafter provided. The proceeds of said stock, together with the receipts from any and stock sold and re- all other sources, shall be used by said corporation for the erection of ceipts; how used. suitable buildings, with their appropriate and necessary fixtures and appurtenances, and for all other expenditures required in carrying out the objects of this act. Corporation to And the said corporation shall keep regular minutes of its proceedkeep minutes of ings and full accounts with the vouchers thereof, and the same shall proceedings. always be open to the inspection of any member or shareholder in the corporation, or to any committee appointed by such members or shareholders authorized to examine the same. election of officers. First meeting of; SEC. 9. That the United States International Commission shall be how called; sub- called together by the Secretary of State of the United States in the scription to stock; city of New York as soon as convenient after the appointment of the commissioners as herein directed, and it shall then be their duty to open books for subscription to the capital stock, as herein provided, giving public notice of the time and place, and the terms upon which subscriptions may be made, and such books shall be kept open during sixty days, at the end of which time the members of said commission shall be called together by public notice by the president and secretary pro tempore of the same, for the election of permanent officers of said commission, to consist of a president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as said commission may designate, from among the members thereof; said election of officers to take place immediately after the election of the members of the committee of finance herein provided for. Meeting of share- SEC. 10. The first meeting of the shareholders shall be called at the holders and elec- same time and in the same manner as provided for in the last section, tion of finance and shall proceed to the election of twenty-five from their number, or from the members of the commission, who, when elected, shall, if not already so appointed, be ex officio members of said commission, and who, committee. |