or before any com by a fine not more eived, and by im 29 CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Invitation to other nations. Preparation of medals. Engraving and printing stock. Preamble. Whereas by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1871, providing Proclamation. for a National Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States, by the holding of an International 1871, ch. 105, vol. Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, xvi, p. 470. in the city of Philadelphia, in the year eighteen hundred and seventysix, it is provided as follows: "That whenever the President shall be informed by the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania that provision has been made for the erection of suitable buildings for the purpose, and for the exclusive control by the Commission herein provided for of the proposed Exhibition, the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the Exhibition will open, 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 Commissioners, for publication in their respective countries;" And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the said State of Pennsylvania did, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1873, inform me that provision has been made for the erection of said buildings and for the exclusive control by the Commission provided for in the said act of the proposed Exhibition; And whereas the President of the United States Centennial Commission has officially informed me of the dates fixed for the opening and closing of the said Exhibition, and the place at which it is to be held: bition at Phila Now, therefore, be it known that I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of Centennial Inthe United States, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Con- ternational Exhi gress aforesaid, do hereby declare and proclaim that there will be held, delphia, from at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, an Inter- April 19 to Octonational Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and ber 19, 1876. Mine, to be opened on the nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and to be closed on the nineteenth day of October, in the same year. com And, in the interest of peace, civilization, and domestic and inter- Celebration and national friendship and intercourse, I commend the celebration and exhibition exhibition to the people of the United States; and, in behalf of this mended to all naGovernment and people, I cordially commend them to all nations who may be pleased to take part therein. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. [SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington this third day of July, one thousand By the President: HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State. An act in relation to the Centennial Exhibition. U. S. GRANT. tions. Whereas, at various international exhibitions which have been held June 5, 1874. in foreign countries, the United States have been represented in pursuance of invitations given by the governments of those countries, and accepted by our own Government, therefore, Preamble. to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Invitation States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be requested foreign governments to particito extend, in the name of the United States, a respectful and cordial pate in Centeninvitation to the governments of other nations, to be represented and nial Exhibition. take part in the international exposition to be held at Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Government of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six: Provided, however, That the United United States States shall not be liable, directly or indirectly, for any expenses attend- not liable for exing such exposition, or by reason of the same. Approved, June 5, 1874. penses of exposition. June 16, 1874. Medals com 30 An act to authorize medals commemorating the One hundredth anniv first meeting of the Continental Congress, and of the Declaration of Ind Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of States of America in Congress assembled, That medals with a memorating the devices, emblems, and inscriptions, commemorative of the one hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence be prepa anniversary of Mint at Philadelphia for the Centennial Board of Finance sub independence. provisions of the fifty-second section of the Coinage act of eig dred and seventy-three,* upon the payment of a sum not les cost thereof, and all the provisions whether penal or otherw Protection coinage act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of against counter- States shall apply to the medals struck and issued under the of this act. feits. March 3, 1875. nial stock. Approved, June 16, 1874. For engraving and printing certificates of Centennial stoc printing Centen. International Exhibition to be held in the city of Philadelph year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, thirty thousand seven and fifty dollars: Provided, That that this appropriation sha construed as in any manner committing the Government of th States to any other payment whatever to meet the expense exhibition. partments and * Participation of SEC. 5. To enable the Executive Departments of the Govern Executive De the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the International Smithsonian In- tion of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the following sums ar stitution in In- appropriated, namely: For the Interior Department, one hund ternational Exhi- fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, five t bition. Proviso. dollars; for the Post-Office Department, five thousand dollars; Agricultural Department, fifty thousand dollars; for the Smi Institution, sixty-seven thousand dollars; for the United Stat mission of Food-Fishes, five thousand dollars; for the War Depa one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars; for the Navy ment, one hundred thousand dollars; for show-cases, shelving, ery, postage, telegrams, expressage, and other necessary incider penses, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, five hundred a thousand dollars; to be disbursed under the direction of the b Executive Departments appointed in pursuance of the presidenti of January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. A thority is hereby given to the heads of the several Executive I ments to display at the International Exhibition of eighteen h and seventy-six, under such conditions as they may prescribe, sul the provisions of section seven of the act of June first, eighteen h and seventy-two, all such articles in store or under the control Departments as may be necessary or desirable to render such col complete and exhaustive: Provided, That should it become necess erect any building or part of a building for said exhibition, on th of the Government, the same shall be paid for, pro rata, out of the appropriated to the several Departments, the United States Comu of Food-Fishes and the Treasury and Post-Office Departments exc the cost of the building not to exceed one hundred and fifty tho dollars; and at the close of the exhibition, said building shall b and the proceeds covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous rec And provided further, That the sums hereby appropriated shall cov entire expense to which the United States Government shall be sub on account of said exhibition, except the sum appropriated in th for printing the certificates of stock of said exhibition; and the boa Executive Departments is forbidden to expend any larger sum th Limitation of set down herein for each Department, or to enter into any contra expenditures. engagement that shall result in any such increased expenditure; a money shall be taken by any Department for the purposes of this bition as aforesaid from any other appropriations except the one he made: And further provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated sum of two hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately availab Approved, March 3, 1875. Erection of buildings. Proviso. Proviso. * See § 3551, under COINAGE. 31 Sec. 1395. Number and appointment of. 1396. Qualifications of. 1397. Form of worship. CHAPLAINS. Sec. 1398. Annual report. 1479. Rank. 1556. Pay. SEC. 1395. There shall be in the Navy, for the public armed vessels of Title 15, Chap. 1. the United States in actual service not exceeding twenty-four chaplains, Number and who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. appointment of. of. Qualificati o n s SEC. 1396. A chaplain shall not be less than twenty one nor more than thirty-five years of age at the time of his appointment. SEC. 1397. Every chaplain shall be permitted to conduct public wor- Form of worship according to the manner and forms of the church of which he may ship. be a member. SEC. 1398. Chaplains shall report annually to the Secretary of the Navy Annual report. the official services performed by them. SEC. 1479. Chaplains shall have relative rank as follows: Four, the Title 15, Chap. 4. relative rank of captain; seven, that of commander; and not more than Rank. seven, that of lieutenant-commander or lieutenant. SEC. 1556. Chaplains, during the first five years after date of commis- Title 15, Chap. 8. sion, when at sea, two thousand five hundred dollars; on shore duty, Pay. two thousand dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand six hundred dollars; after five years from such date, when at sea, two thousand eight hundred dollars; on shore duty, two thousand three hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Allowance of SEC. 300. Whenever the disbursing officer, or agent by whom was Title 7, Chap. 4. issued any check which has been lost, destroyed, or stolen, is dead, or no longer in the service of the United States, the proper accounting lost checks. officer shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, state an account in favor of the owner of such original check for the amount thereof, and charge such amount to the account of such officer or agent. Liabilities out SEC. 306. At the termination of each fiscal year all amounts of moneys Title 7, Chap. 5. that are represented by certificates, drafts, or checks, issued by the Treasurer, or by any disbursing officer of any Department of the Gov- standing three or ernment, upon the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer, or designated more years. depositary of the United States, or upon any national bank designated as a depositary of the United States, and which shall be represented on the books of either of such offices as standing to the credit of any disbursing officer, and which were issued to facilitate the payment of warrants, or for any other purpose in liquidation of a debt due from the United States, and which have for three years or more remained outstanding, unsatisfied, and unpaid, shall be deposited by the Treasurer, to be covered into the Treasury by warrant, and to be carried to the credit of the parties in whose favor such certificates, drafts, or checks were respectively issued, or to the persons who are entitled to receive pay therefor, and into an appropriation account to be denominated "outstanding liabilities." Vouchers for drafts remaining SEC. 307. The certificate of the Register of the Treasury, stating that drafts. tion, shall be, when attached to any such warrant, a suffici in satisfaction of any such warrant or part of any warrant, if the drafts correctly indorsed and fully satisfied were attac warrant or part of warrant. And all such moneys mentio and in the preceding section shall remain as a permanent a for the redemption and payment of all such outstanding and tificates, drafts, and checks. Payment upon SEC. 308. The payee or the bona-fide holder of any draft o presentation of outstanding amount of which has been deposited and covered into th pursuant to the preceding sections, shall, on presenting the proper officer of the Treasury, be entitled to have it paid by ment of an account and the issuing of a warrant in his fa ing to the practice in other cases of authorized and liquid against the United States. Accounts of SEC. 309. The amounts, except such as are provided for disbursing offi- three hundred and six, of the accounts of every kind of cers unchanged officer, which shall have remained unchanged, or which sha for three years. been increased by any new deposit thereto, nor decreased drawn thereon, for the space of three years, shall in like covered into the Treasury, to the proper appropriation to belong; and the amounts thereof shall, on the certificate of urer that such amount has been deposited in the Treasury, by the proper accounting officer of the Department of the T the books of the Department, to the officer in whose name it on the books of any agency of the Treasury, if it appears entitled to such credit. Title 40. drafts. SEC. 3645. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the T issue and publish regulations to enforce the speedy presenta Regulations for presentment of Government drafts, for payment, at the place where paya prescribe the time, according to the different distances of taries from the seat of Government, within which all drafts u respectively, shall be presented for payment; and, in defau presentation, to direct any other mode and place of payment may deem proper; but, in all these regulations and direction be his duty to guard, as far as may be, against those drafts b or thrown into circulation as a paper currency or a medium of [See §§ 5495, 5496. EMBEZZLEMENT.] Duplicates for SEC. 3646. Whenever any original check is lost, stolen, or lost or stolen disbursing officers and agents of the United States are author checks authorized. the expiration of six months, and within three years from t such check, to issue a duplicate check; and the Treasurer, treasurers, and designated depositaries of the United States ar to pay such duplicate checks, upon notice and proof of the l original checks, under such regulations in regard to their issue ment, and upon the execution of such bonds, with sureties, to i the United States, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall This section shall not apply to any check exceeding in amount of one thousand dollars. issued is dead. Duplicate check SEC. 3647. In case the disbursing officer or agent by whom when officer who destroyed, or stolen original check was issued, is dead, or no the service of the United States, it shall be the duty of the p counting officer, under such regulations as the Secretary of the shall prescribe, to state an account in favor of the owner of such check for the amount thereof, and to charge such amount to the of such officer or agent. Exchange of SEC. 3651. No exchange of funds shall be made by any di funds restricted. officer or agent of the Government, of any grade or denominatio soever, or connected with any branch of the public service, ot an exchange for gold, silver, United States notes, and nation notes; and every such disbursing officer, when the means for bursements are furnished to him in gold, silver, United States national-bank notes, shall make his payments in the money nished; or when they are furnished to him in drafts, shall caus drafts to be presented at their place of payment, and properly cording to law, and shall make his payments in the money so rece the drafts furnished, unless, in either case, he can exchange th in his hands for gold and silver at par. And it shall be the dut head of the proper Department immediately to suspend from duty sufficient voucher arrant, the same as e attached to such mentioned in this -ent appropriation g and unpaid cer raft or check the to the Treasury the same to the id by the settleis favor, accordiquidated claims d for in section nd of disbursing shall not have ased by drafts like manner be to which they ce of the Treasiry, be credited e Treasury on me it had stood ars that he is e Treasury to ntation of all yable, and to of the deposi Es upon them, fault of such ent which he ions, it shall s being used of exchange. r destroyed, orized, after the date of er, assistant are directed loss of the ne and payindemnify prescribe. nt the sum such lost, longer in proper acTreasury a original e account sbursing on whather than al-bank his disotes, or so fur e those paid acved for means of the ny dis 33 bursing officer or agent who violates the provisions of this section, and counted for. SEC. 3652. No officer of the United States shall, either directly or in- Premiums on directly, sell or dispose of to any person, for a premium, any Treasury sales of public note, draft, warrant, or other public security, not his private property, moneys to be acor sell or dispose of the avails or proceeds of such note, draft, warrant, or security, in his hands for disbursement, without making return of such premium, and accounting therefor by charging the same in his accounts to the credit of the United States; and any officer violating this section shall be forth with dismissed from office.. Sec. 1992. Who are citizens. CITIZENSHIP. 1993. Citizenship of children of citizens born 1994. Citizenship of married women. 1996. Rights as citizens forfeited for desertion, &c. 1998. Avoiding the draft. 1999. Right of expatriation declared. 5425. Using false certificate of citizenship, &c. 5427. Aiding or abetting violation of preceding sec- 2000. Protection to naturalized citizens in foreign 5429. Provisions applicable to all courts of naturalization. states. SEC. 1992. All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. SEC. 1993. All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States. Title 25. Who are citi zens. Citizenship of children of citizens born abroad. SEC. 1994. Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a Citizenship of citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully natural- married women. ized, shall be deemed a citizen. SEC. 1995. All persons born in the district of country formerly known. Of persons born as the Territory of Oregon, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United in Oregon. States on the 18th May, 1872, are citizens in the same manner as if born elsewhere in the United States. SEC. 1996. All persons who deserted the military or naval service of the United States and did not return thereto or report themselves to a provost-marshal within sixty days after the issuance of the proclamation by the President, dated the 11th day of March, 1865, are deemed to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship, as well as their right to become citizens; and such deserters shall be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof. Rights as citizens forfeited for desertion, &c., SEC. 1997. No soldier or sailor, however, who faithfully served accord- Certain soldiers ing to his enlistment until the 19th day of April, 1865, and who, without and sailors not to incur the forfeitproper authority or leave first obtained, quit his command or refused to ures of the last serve after that date, shall be held to be a deserter from the Army or section. Navy; but this section shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred, under the preceding section, by the loss of citizenship and of the right to hold office, in consequence of his desertion. SEC. 1998. Every person who hereafter deserts the military or naval Avoiding the service of the United States, or who, being duly enrolled, departs the draft. jurisdiction of the district in which he is enrolled, or goes beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval service, lawfully ordered, shall be liable to all the penalties and forfeitures of section nineteen hundred and ninety-six. SEC. 1999. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inher- Right of expaent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of triation declared. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition 3 NL |