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SEC. 4. That no insurance company organized or incorporated under Foreign insurance the laws of any of the United States of America, or of any foreign state or companies not to transact business country, shall transact the business of insurance in any of its branches until an attorney within the District of Columbia until such company shall have duly in fact be appointconstituted some proper person domiciled in the District their agent ed. and attorney-in-fact for the purpose of receiving for them summonses, writs, and processes issuing out of any court having any jurisdiction in said District, and until the evidence of such appointment of such agent and attorney-in-fact, authenticated in a manner satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District, or any two of them, shall be filed in the office of such Commissioners.

SEC. 5. That any insurance company, or any officer or agent of any insurance company, effecting any contract of insurance in behalf of such company when the written authority required by this act shall not have been given by said Commissioners, or after such authority has been revoked, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for every offense, to be recovered by due process in the courts of the District. SEC. 6. That each insurance company doing business in the District of Columbia shall attach to each policy issued by such company a copy of the application made by the insured, so that the whole contract may appear in said application and policy.

SEC. 7. That this act shall take effect and be in full force after ninety days from its passage.

Approved, January 26, 1887.

Penalty for trans

acting business without authority.

Application to beattached to policy.

To take effect in 90 days:

CHAP. 47.-An act to amend the third section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the sale of the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian Reservations, in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of the act entitled “An act to provide for the sale of the Sac and Fox and Iowa Reservations, in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

Jan. 26, 1887.

Sale of Sac and

Fox and Iowa In

dian reservations.

Vol. 23, p. 352,

amended.

Enrolled Indians allowed to select

allotment of land.

Head of family.
Single person.

Minor child.

Lands selected to

"SEC. 3. That if any member of said Sac and Fox or Iowa tribe of Indians, properly enrolled at the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha Agency, shall elect to remain upon the reservation of his respective tribe, he shall be allowed to select an allotment of land in quantity as follows: If he be the head of a family, one hundred and sixty acres; if a single person over eighteen years of age, or orphan child under eighteen years of age, eighty acres; and if a minor child under eighteen years of age, forty acres; heads of families selecting the land for themselves and minor children, and the United States Indian agent for orphan children. The lands so selected shall be held from sale as provided for herein, and shall be accepted at their fair valuation, to be be held from sale. ascertained by the Secretary of the Interior, in part satisfaction of his interest in and to said reservation, and of the moneys or fund realized from the sale thereof: Provided, That his right to share in the other funds and credits of the tribe shall not be impaired thereby; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to issue to each of the allottees, under the provisions of this act, and the act to which this act is an amendment, for the lands selected by or for such allottee, which patent shall be of the legal effect, and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus patented for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the allottee, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State in which said land is situated, and that at the expiration of said period the United veyed free of inStates will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or his heirs as cumbrances.

Proviso.

Distributive share not impaired. Patent to issue.

Lands to be held in trust for 25 years.

Fee then con

aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever; and if any conveyance shall be made of the lands thus allotted, or any contract made touching the same, before the expiration of the time above mentioned, such conveyance or contract Exempt from shall be absolutely null and void; and such lands, during such time, shall not be subject to taxation, alienation, or forced sale, under execution or otherwise."

taxation.

Approved, January 26, 1887.

Jan. 26, 1887.

tax and bond.

CHAP. 48.-An act to repeal parts of an act relating to tax on the business of real-estate agents in the District of Columbia, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Tax on real es- States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of clause thirtytate agents. Repeal of former eight of section twenty-one of the act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia entitled "An act imposing a license on trades, bus(Laws D. C., 1 iness, and professions practiced or carried on in the District of ColumLeg. Assem., pp. 91 bia," approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and 99; 2 Leg. As- requiring real-estate agents to pay twenty-five dollars annually, and in sem., p. 63:)

addition a monthly tax of one-fourth per centum on gross receipts, as amended by the act amendatory thereof, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as requires real-estate agents in said District to pay a tax of one per centum on their commissions in lieu of said monthly tax of one-fourth per centum on gross receipts, and so much of section fifteen of said act approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as requires said real-estate agents to give bond to said District, and all other laws and acts, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and from and after the passage of this act real-estate agents in the DisLicense-fee im- trict of Columbia shall pay a license-fee of fifty dollars per annum, to posed. be collected as other licenses are collected in said District. Approved, January 26, 1887.

Jan. 26, 1887.

tions, District of Columbia.

CHAP. 49.-An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make police regulations for the government of said District.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Police regula States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered Commissioners to make, modify, and enforce usual and reasonable police regulations in authorized to make and for said District as follows: regulations con

cerning:

Pawnbrokers,

First. For causing full inspection to be made, at any reasonable times, junk dealers, and of the places where the business of pawnbroking, junk-dealing, or second hand second-hand clothing business may be carried on.

clothes dealers.

Inflammable sub

stances.

Street venders.

Carriage stands.

Second. To regulate the storage of highly inflammable substances in the thickly populated portions of the District.

Third. To locate the places where licensed venders on streets and public places shall stand, and change them as often as the public interests require, and to make all the necessary regulations governing their conduct upon the streets in relation to such business.

Fourth. To make needful regulations for the orderly disposition of carriages or other vehicles assembled on streets or public places, and to require vehicles upon such streets and avenues as they deem necessary to pass along on the right side thereof.

Fifth. To establish and regulate the charges to be made by owners of hacks and hackney carriages of any kind whatsoever.

Hack charges.

Droves of ani

Sixth. To prohibit conducting droves of animals upon such streets and avenues as they may deem needful to public safety and good order. mals. Seventh. To regulate the keeping and running at large of dogs and fowls.

Dogs and fowls.

Deposits on

Eighth. To prohibit the deposit upon the streets or sidewalks of fruit, or any part thereof, or other substance or articles that might lit- streets and sideter the same, or cause injury to or impede pedestrians.

walks.

Ninth. To regulate or prohibit loud noises with horns, gongs, or other Noises and fireinstruments, or loud cries, upon the streets or public places, and to pro- works. hibit the use of any fireworks or explosives within such portions of the District as they may think necessary to public safety.

Passage of ve

Tenth. To regulate the movements of vehicles on the public streets and avenues for the preservation of order and protection of life and hicles. limb.

Penalties for vio

Eleventh. To prescribe reasonable penalties for the violation of any of the regulations in this act mentioned; and said penalties may be lations. enforced in any court of the District of Columbia having jurisdiction of minor offenses, and in the same manner that such minor offenses are now by law prosecuted and punished.

Regulations to

SEC. 2. That the regulations herein provided for shall, when adopted, be printed in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the be printed. District of Columbia; and no penalty prescribed for the violation of said regulations shall be enforced until thirty days after such publication.

Approved, January 26, 1887.

CHAP. 50.—An act to provide for an American register for the steamer Nuevo Moctezuma, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jan. 26, 1887.

American register to foreign steamer

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built Nuevo Moctezuma. steamer Nuevo Moctezuma, formerly Madrid, owned at the port of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, by L. and R. Wister and Company, American citizens, and rebuilt by them at Philadelphia, to be registered as a vessel of the United States.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, au- Inspection thorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steam-vessel, steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, and cause to be granted the proper and usual certificate issued to steam-vessels of the merchant marine, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests to be applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances will be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances not being constructed pursuant to the requirements of the laws of the United States, and are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the grauting of the usual certificate if said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety.

Approved, January 26, 1887.

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Jan. 29, 1887.

Site.

Plans, etc.

Proviso.

CHAP. 67.—An act providing for the erection of a public building at Los Angeles, California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Los Angeles, Cal. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Public-building. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post-office and internal revenue and other Government offices, at the city of Los Angeles, California. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and ap proved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings, by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of California shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. Approved, January 29, 1887.

Open space.

Title.

Jan. 29, 1887.

Site.

Plans, etc.

Proviso.

CHAP. 68.—An act for the erection of a public building at Worcester, Massachusetts.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Worcester, Mass. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the TreasPublic-building. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices, at the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. The plans, specifications, and full estimates of said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Massachusetts shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. Approved, January 29, 1887.

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Title.

Jan. 29, 1887.

CHAP. 69.—An act for the completion of a public building at Fort Scott, Kansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fort Scott, Kans. States of America in Congress assembled, That the additional sum of Public building. forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the completion of a Appropriation to suitable building, with fire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office, United States courts, and other Government offices, at the city of Fort Scott, State of Kansas, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the requirements of an act for that purpose approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. The

complete.

Vol. 23, p. 482.

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limit of cost prescribed in said act is hereby extended as aforesaid. And
no plan shall be approved which will involve an expenditure for site creased.
and building complete, including approaches, greater than the limit
herein fixed

Approved, January 29, 1887.

CHAP. 70.—An act granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war, and for other purposes.

ed.

Jan. 29, 1887.

Mexican war

Persons includ

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pensions. pension-roll the names of the surviving officers and enlisted men, including marines, militia, and volunteers, of the military and naval services of the United States, who being duly enlisted, actually served sixty days with the Army or Navy of the United States in Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier thereof, or en route thereto, in the war with that. nation, or were actually engaged in a battle in said war, and were hon. orably discharged, and to such other officers and soldiers and sailors as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress for any specific service in said war, and the surviving widow of such officers and enlisted men: Provided, That such widows have not remarried: Provided, That every such officer, enlisted man, or widow who is or may become sixty-two years of age, or who is or may become subject to any disability or dependency equivalent to some cause prescribed or recog nized by the pension laws of the United States as a sufficient reason for the allowance of a pension, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act; but it shall not be held to include any person not within the rule of age or disability or dependence herein defined, or who incurred such disa- ed. bility while in any manner voluntarily engaged in or aiding or abetting the late rebellion against the authority of the United States.

SEC. 2. That pensions under section one of this act shall be at the rate of eight dollars per month, and payable only from and after the passage of this act, for and during the natural lives of the persons entitled thereto, or during the continuance of the disability for which the same shall be granted: Provided, That section one of this act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pension of less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference between the pension now received (if less than eight dollars per month) and eight dollars per month.

SEC. 3. That before the name of any person shall be placed on the pension-roll under this act, proof shall be made, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, of the right of the applicant to a pension; and any person who shall falsely and corruptly take any oath required under this act shall be deemed guilty of perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken from the pension-roll the name of any person whenever it shall be made to appear by proof satisfactory to him that such name was put upon such roll through false and fraudulent representations, and that such person is not entitled to a pension under this act. The loss of the cer tificate of discharge shall not deprive any person of the benefits of this act, but other record evidence of enlistment and service and of an honorable discharge may be deemed sufficient: Provided, That when any person has been granted a land-warrant, under any act of Congress, for and on account of service in the said war with Mexico, such grant shall be prima facie evidence of his service and honorable discharge; but such evidence shall not be conclusive, and may be rebutted by evidence that such land warrant was improperly granted.

Provisos.
Widows.

Disabilities.

Persons exclud

Rate.

Proviso.

Effect on existing pensions.

Secretary of the Interior to pre

scribe rules, etc.

Proviso. Land-warrant to dence of service. be prima facie evi

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