safe and ordinary navigation of registered, enrolled, and licensed ves- rolled, and licensed sels of the United States, basing such schedule upon the differences in vessels, of 40 cents for each of average rig, tonnage, and kind of traffic. number of seamen And from and after the completion and publication of said schedule, required, &c. hospital-dues, at the rate and for the periods prescribed in sections four thousand five hundred and eighty-five and four thousand five hundred 4587. and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be assessed and collected, from the master or owner of each vessel subject to such dues, upon the average number of seamen as set forth in said schedule: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be held to debar masters or owners of vessels from deducting such dues from each seaman's wages, as by law now authorized. R. S., § 4585, Hospital dues may be deducted from wages. SEC. 2. That from and after May first, eighteen hundred and seventy- Vessels subject five, every vessel subject to hospital-tax, except vessels required by law to hospital-tax, to carry crew-lists, shall have and keep on board, subject to inspection keep seaman's except, &c., to and verification at all times by any officer of the customs, a seaman's time-book. time-book, which shall be furnished by the Treasury Department; and in which time-book shall be entered the name, date of shipment, and date of discharge of every seaman employed on board such vessel; And the master or owner of any vesssl subject to hospital-tax, vessels Penalty on mascarrying crew-lists as above excepted, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ter for neglect to fifty dollars for each and every seaman found employed on board his keep book, &c. vessel without a corresponding entry in said time-book; and the sums so forfeited shall be collected by the collector of customs upon the sworn statement of the customs-officers who make the inspections, and shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of the marine-hospital fund, for the general purposes of which fund said sums are hereby appropriated. "seaman" as used SEC. 3. That term "seaman," wherever employed in legislation relat- Meaning of word ing to the marine-hospital service, shall be held to include any person in marine-hospital employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any ves- laws. sel, or in the service, on board, of those engaged in such care, preserva- R. S., §§ 4801tion, or navigation. 4813. leased. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury may rent or lease such Marine-hospital marine-hospital buildings, and the lands appertaining thereto, as he may buildings may be deem advisable in the interests of the marine-hospital service; and the proceeds of such rents or leases are hereby appropriated for the said service. R. S., § 4806. SEC. 5. That insane patients of said service shall be admitted into In marine-hosthe Government Hospital for the Insane upon the order of the Secre- pital service patients may be adtary of the Treasury, and shall be cared for therein until cured or until mitted to Governremoved by the same authority; and the charge for each such patient ment Hospital for shall not exceed four dollars and fifty cents a week, which charge shall Insane; charge be paid out of the marine-hospital fund. SEC. 6. That sick and disabled seamen of foreign vessels and of vessels not subject to hospital-dues may be cared for by the marine-hospital service at such rates and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. SEC. 7. That the compensation of the Supervising Surgeon of the United States marine-hospital service shall be paid out of the marinehospital fund, and the salary of the supervising surgeon shall be four thousand dollars a year. SEC. 8. That all acts and part of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. [March 3, 1875.] therefor. R. S., § 4843. 1880, June 16, ch. 235, par. 2. -sick and disa bled seamen of vessels, foreign or not, subject to dues, may be admitted. R. S., §§ 4801– 4813. Salary of Supervising Surgeon. R. S., § 4802. 1875, March 3, ch. 130, $ 1, par. 7. Repeal. CHAPTER 157. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 486. Consulate at Amoor River dis continued. 275. at Vladivostock Consuls at Vla AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE CONSULATE AT AMOOR RIVER AND ESTABLISH A CONSULATE Consulate at Amoor River discontinued. Consuls of Vladivostock, Fayal, and Auckland may engage in trade. Be it enacted, &c., That Amoor River, in Russia, be discontinued as a consulate of class five, in schedule B, as the same was amended by chapter two hundred and seventy-five of the laws of the first session of the Forty-third Congress; And that Vladivostock be a consulate of class five, in schedule B, and be of class five. that the consul at Vladivostock and the consuls at Fayal and Auckland divostock, Fayal, be, and they severally hereby are, exempted from the prohibition to enand Auckland may gage in business and trade embraced in sections one thousand six hunengage in trade. dred and ninety-nine and one thousand and seven hundred of the ReR. S., §§ 1699, vised Statutes of the United States. [March 3, 1875.] 1700. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 497. CHAPTER 159. AN ACT APPROVING THE ACTION TAKEN BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER THE Officers mustered out as supernumeraries under act of 1870, ch. 294, § 3, and reappointed; to refund one Officers mustered SEC. 2. That hereafter whenever any person, who was mustered out out as supernu- as a supernumerary officer of the Army with one years pay and allowmeraries under act ances, in addition to the pay and allowances due him at the date of his of 1870, ch. 294, § 3 (16 Stat. L., 317), discharge, under the provisions of the act making appropriations for the and reappointed; support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth eighteen hunto refund one dred and seventy-one and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth year's pay, &c. eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be re-appointed by the President, an officer of the Army, such appointment shall be under and with the express condition, that fifty per cent of such officers pay shall be stopped monthly, until the sum total of the extra years pay and allowances received by him, when mustered out as aforesaid, shall have been refunded to the United States. [March 3, 1875.] 15 Opin. Att'yGen., 177. CHAPTER 160. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF DESERT LANDS IN LASSEN COUNTY, CALI- Citizens may reclaim and pur 1. Citizens may reclaim and purchase desert filing certain certificates, &c. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age who may be entitled to become a chase desert land citizen, and who has filed his declaration of intention to become such, to in Lassen County, file a declaration with the register and the receiver of the proper land Cal., upon filing district for the county of Lassen, California, in which any desert land is certain certificate, situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land situated in R. S., § 2367. said county, not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the 1877, March 3, same, so as to reclaim all of said land within the period of two years thereafter; and said declaration shall be under oath and shall describe &c. ch. 107. particularly said section of land, if surveyed, and, if unsurveyed, shall describe the same as nearly as possible without a survey; which said declaration shall be supported by the affidavit of at least two credible witnesses, establishing to the satisfaction of the register or receiver the fact that said lands are of the character described in this act. And at any time within the period of two years after filing said decla- Lassen County, ration, and upon making satisfactory proof of the reclamation of said Cal.; when entry of lands in may be tract of land in the manner aforesaid, before the register and the re- made, location, ceiver of said land office, such person shall be entitled to enter or locate &c. the reclaimed section, or any part thereof, in the same manner as in cases where public lands of the United States are subject to entry, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and shall receive a patent therefor. -lands in said SEC. 2. That all lands within said county of Lassen, exclusive of timber lands and of mineral lands, which do not produce grass, or which county defined. will not, without such reclamation, produce some agricultural crop, shall be deemed desert lands within the meaning of this act. [March 3, 1875.] CHAPTER 162. AN ACT FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SECTION 13. Moneys of District to be deposited in United States Treasury; how drawn. 14. Commissioners may reduce, adjust, and equalize salaries. 15. Notice of sales for special-improvement taxes to be advertised twice a week for three weeks. Be it enacted, &c. (1) * | SECTION 16. Bonds, certificates, &c., redeemed, to be 18. Registered bonds may be issuedi n deuomina- March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 501. ited in United SEC. 13. (2) That the treasurer of the District, upon receiving any Moneys of Dismoneys, shall forthwith deposit the same in the Treasury of the United trict to be deposStates; and said moneys thus deposited shall be drawn, from the Treas- States Treasury; ury of the United States, only in such sums and at such times as the how drawn. same shall be actually required, and only for the expenditures author- 1878, June 11, ch. ized by law, and only upon warrants of the accounting officers of the 180, $4. District, issued under the direction of the commissioners of the District ch. 134. § 2. or their successors in office. 1881, March 3, salaries. SEC. 14. (2) That the commissioners of the District or their successors Commissioners in office are hereby authorized to reduce, adjust, and equalize the pay may reduce, ador salaries of all officers or employees payable from the funds of the Dis- just, and equalize trict government in whole or in part: Provided, however, That the aggregate sum of pay and salaries shall not be increased beyond the present aggregate amount of pay and salaries. to be advertised SEC. 15. (2) That the third section of the act of the legislative assem- Notice of sales bly of the District of Columbia entitled "An act prescribing the mode for special-imof assessment for special improvements, and providing for the collec-provement taxes tion thereof," approved August tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- twice a week for one, shall be, and is hereby, amended so that the sales under said law three weeks. shall be advertised twice a week for three successive weeks, instead of as heretofore required. SEC. 16. (2) That the commissioners of the District of Columbia and Bonds, certifithe commissioners of the sinking fund of said District shall destroy by cates, &c., reburning all bonds, sewer certificates and other obligations of every kind deemed to be destroyed. of the city of Washington the city of Georgetown or the District of NOTES.-(1) The omitted sections of this act provide for the assessment and collection of a tax for one year. (2) These sections (13-16) are repeated in the act of 1876, ch. 180, where the sections of these samo numbers are identical with those found in this act. denominations of Columbia whatsoever heretofore paid or redeemed by either of said boards under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and shall preserve the evidence thereof as shall be prescribed by said Secretary. * Registered bonds SEC. 18. That the three-sixty-five registered bonds of the District of may be issued in Columbia, authorized by acts of Congress, approved June twentieth, $1,000 and $5,000, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and February twentieth, eighteen 1874, June 20, ch. hundred and seventy-five, in lieu of coupon bonds, may be issued in de337, § 7. nominations of one thousand dollars and five thousand dollars. [March 94. 1875, Feb. 20, ch. 3, 1875.] CHAPTER 167. March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 507. Tax on circulat AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO ADJUST AND REMIT Tax on circulating notes, &c., of mining and other Ten per cent. tax on notes of persons, State banks, &c., to apply to evidences of indebtedness. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is ing notes, &c., of hereby, authorized and directed to settle and release any claims for tax mining and other on circulation of evidences of indebtedness made against any mining, corporations, except banks, prior manufacturing or other corporations other than against any national to Nov., 1873, to be banking-association, State bank, or banking-association, by such corporemitted. rations paying the tax, without penalty, that shall have accrued thereon since November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; Ten per cent. tax on notes of persons, State banks, &c., to apply to debtedness. And that the provisions of section three thousand four hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed in pending cases, except as to national banking-associations, to apply to such evidences of indebtedness issued and reissued prior to the passage of this act, but said section shall be construed as applying to such evidences of indebtedness issued after the passage hereof. [March 3, 1875.] NOTE.-(1) This act is printed in full in the second edition of the Revised Statutes, after § 3412. March 3, 1875. CHAPTER 178. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF GENERAL SAMUEL W. CRAWFORD, AND TO FIX THE 18 Stat. L., 512. Officers retired before March 3, 1875, for disability -to be continued, although they accept office in diplomatic or consular service." * Officers retired from wounds in ac * SEC. 2. That all officers of the Army who have been heretofore retired before March 3, by reason of disability arising from wounds received in action shall be 1875, for disability considered as retired upon the actual rank held by them, whether in tion; rank of, on the regular or volunteer service, at the time when such wound was received, and shall be borne on the retired list and receive pay hereafter accordingly; and this section shall be taken and construed to include those now borne on the retired list placed upon it on account of wounds Provided, That no part of the foregoing act shall apply to those officers who had been in service as commissioned officers twenty-five years at the date of their retirement; nor to those retired officers who had lost an arm or leg, or has an arm or leg permanently disabled by reason of resection, on account of wounds, or both eyes by reason of wounds received in battle; And every such officer now borne on the retired list shall be continued thereon notwithstanding the provisions of section two (1) chapter thirty-eight act of March thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; And be it also provided that no retired officer shall be affected by this act, who has been retired or may hereafter be retired on the rank held by him at the time of his retirement; And that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and are hereby, repealed. [March 3, 1875.] NOTE.—(1) The provisions of § 2 of the act of 1868, ch. 38 (15 Stat. L., 58), here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes in § 1223, noted in the margin. CHAPTER 179. AN ACT EXTENDING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO THE REGENTS Regents of Smithsonian Institution may have use of Library of Congress. Be it enacted, &c., That the Joint Committee of both Houses of Congress on the Library be authorized to extend the use of the books in the Library of Congress to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution resi dent in Washington on the same conditions and restrictions as members of Congress are allowed to use the Library. [March 3, 1875.] March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 512. Regents of Smithsonian Institution may have use of Library of Congress. R. S., § 94. CHAPTER 188. AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE RESTORATION TO HOME- SECTION 1. Unoccupied, &c., lands of Ottawa and Chip- - remainder temporarily subject to home- Be it enacted, &c. SECTION 2. Certain Indians may enter 80 acres of land in Remaining lands to be restored to market. 3. Settlers on lands reserved by treaty with Ot- March 3, 1875. 18 Stat. L., 516. Unoccupied, &c., land of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians; patents to be issued of part to certain [SECTION 1], [Sup.] [That the act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled (1) "An act for the restoration to market of certain lands in Michigan," be, and hereby is, amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to cause patents to be issued to three hundred and twenty members of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Indians of Michigan, for the selections found to have been made by R. S., 2313them, but which were not, prior to the passage of said act, regularly Substitute 1876, reported and recognized by the Secretary of the Interior and Commis- May 23, ch. 105. sioner of Indian Affairs; 2317. Remainder temhomestead laws. And the remainder of said lands not disposed of, and not valuable mainly for pine-timber, shall be subject to entry under the homestead- porarily subject to laws, for one year from the passage of this act; And the lands remaining thereafter undisposed of shall be offered for sale at a price not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.] residue to be sold. Certain Indians SEC. 2. That all Indians who have settled upon and made improvements on section ten, in township forty-seven north, of range two east, may enter 80 acres and section twenty-four in township forty-seven north, of range three of land in Michiwest, Michigan, shall be permitted to enter not exceeding eighty acres gan, &c. each, at the minimum price of land, upon making proof of such settlement and improvement before the register of the land-office at Marquette, Michigan; NOTE (1) The act of 1872, ch. 424 (17 Stat. L., 381), here referred to, is incorporated into Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin. The first section of this act is superseded by a substitute; act of 1876, ch. 105. |