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CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE LOCATION OF THE CONSULATES AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE AND
AT OMOA AND TRUXILLO.

Consulates removed to Cologne and Utila, in Bay Islands.

Feb. 18, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 4.

Consulates re

R. S., § 1690.
1874, June 11, ch.

Be it enacted, &c., That the consulate now established at Aix-la-Chapelle, in class five, in schedule B of consulates, be removed to Cologne, moved to Cologne, and Utila, in Bay within the same consular district; and the consulate now established at Islands. Omoa and Truxillo, in class seven, in schedule C of consulates, be removed to Utila in the Bay Islands; and that such removals shall in no manner affect the appropriations for such consulates, or the existing 275, 1, pp. 34, 35. provisions of law applicable thereto, except as modified hereby. [Feb 14. ruary 18, 1876.]

1878, Feb. 11, ch.

CHAPTER 13.

Feb. 25, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 5.

Stamps may be

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR STAMPING UNSTAMPED INSTRUMENTS. Stamps may be affixed prior to January, 1877, to unstamped instruments heretofore made. Be it enacted, &c., That the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the stamping of unstamped instruments, documents, or affixed prior to papers," approved the twenty-third day of June, in the year eighteen uustamped instruJanuary, 1877, to hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the ments heretofore first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. made. [February 25, 1876.]

R. S., § 3422. 1874, June 23, ch. 462.

105 Mass., 49.

Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ 17.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ENABLE THE PEOPLE OF COL-
ORADO TO FORM A CONSTITUTION AND STATE GOVERNMENT, AND FOR THE ADMIS-
SION OF SAID STATE INTO THE UNION ON AN EQUAL FOOTING WITH THE ORIGINAL
STATES" APPROVED MARCH 3, 1875

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March 3, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 5.

In Colorado:

first election.

1875, March 3, ch. 139, § 3.

[SECTION 1], That so much of section three of the act entitled “An act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State who may vote at government, and for the admission of the said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States" approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as reads "and also to vote upon the acceptance or rejection of such constitution as may be formed by said convention" be amended so as to read as follows:

"And all who are qualified voters of said Territory under the laws thereof at such time as the constitution to be framed shall be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection shall be entitled to vote upon the question of such ratification or rejection."

SEC. 2. That section thirteen of said act be amended by adding at the end of said section thirteen the following:

Appropriation. 1875, March 3,

"And if the balance of said legislative appropriations does not amount ch. 139, § 13. to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, then there shall be, and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient, with the said unexpended appropriations, to make the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which shall be used for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That any money hereby appropriated not necessary for such purposes shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. [March 3, 1876.]

March 14, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 7.

Imports for

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT TO EXTEND TO THE PORT OF GENESSEE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK THE
PRIVILEGES OF SECTIONS TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY TO TWENTY-NINE
HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN OF THE REVISED STATUTES INCLUSIVE.

Imports for transportation in bond may be entered at or transported to Genessee, N. Y.

Be it enacted, &c., That the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred transportation in and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised bond may be en- Statutes inclusive be, and they are hereby extended to the port of Gentered at or trans- essee, in the State of New York. (1) [March 14, 1876.]

ported to Genessee,

N. Y.

NOTE.-(1) See act of 1880, June 10, ch. 190, §§ 7, 8, by which R. S. §§ 2990–2997 are repealed, and other R. S., § 2990- provisions made on the same subject.

2997.

16 Opin. Att'y

Gen., 548.

April 10, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 28.

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[SECTION 1], That with the consent and concurrence of the Pawnee Pawnee reserva- tribe of Indians, (1) expressed in open council in the usual manner, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be Treaty (11 Stat. appraised and sold the entire reservation set apart for said Indians, in L., 729). the State of Nebraska, by the provisions of the first article of a treaty with them, concluded September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in the following manner:

Purchasers com

The said Secretary shall appoint three disinterested and competent persons, who, after being duly sworn to perform said service faithfully and impartially, shall personally examine and appraise said lands at their actual cash value, by legal subdivisions of one hundred and sixty acres, separately from the value of any improvements on the same, and shall also examine and appraise the value of said improvements, and make return thereof to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

After the appraisement of said lands as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to offer the same for sale on the following terms and conditions, to wit:

After advertising the time of sale for three months in one newspaper published in each of the cities of New York, Washington, Chicago, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Nebraska, and Omaha, he shall offer the lands at public sale to the highest bidder for one-third cash in hand, the balance in two equal annual payments, drawing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the day of sale.

Said land shall be sold in separate tracts of one hundred and sixty acres, and none of it shall be sold for less than its appraised value, or for less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Said sale to take place at some point in Nebraska as near as may be to said land, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior.

If any person shall commit waste or damage upon said lands before mitting waste; full payment therefor, his rights to the lands purchased by him shall penalty. cease, and the same, together with all of said lands not sold at said public sale, shall be sold under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, at private sale, on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as those sold at said public sale:

Patents, when to issue.

Provided, That said lands shall not be sold for less than their appraised value, or for less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.

And patents in fee-simple shall be issued to the purchasers of lands under the seals herein provided for upon the payment to the Secretary of the Interior in full of the purchase price of the same:

NOTE. (1) This consent was given June, 1876.

Improvements to

Provided, That if any of said tracts of land shall contain valuable improvements thereon, made by or for the Indians, or for Government be sold separately. purposes, said improvements may be sold separately from the lands on which they are situated, or may be sold with the land, as the Secretary of the Interior may deem best:

And provided further, That the second section of the act of Congress, Repeal of. approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, making pro- (Stat. L. 391). 1872, ch. 436, § 2 vision for the sale of a portion of these lands, be, and the same is hereby, (17 Stat. L., 391). repealed.

SEC. 2. [Appropriates three hundred thousand dollars for removal of Pawnees.]

SEC. 3. That any surplus that may remain from the proceeds of the sale of the lands described in said first section, after the reimbursement to the United States of said sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and after the purchase of a suitable reservation in the Indian Territory for the Pawnee tribe of Indians, shall be placed to the credit of said Indians on the books of the Treasury of the United States, and bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, payable semi annually, except such portion thereof as the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the President of the United States, may deem necessary to be expended for their immediate use for subsistence or other beneficial objects.

Appropriation

for removal of Pawnees. Application of proceeds of sale of lands.

New reservation

SEC. 4. That the following described reservation in Indian Territory be, and the same is hereby, set apart for the use and occupation of the for Pawnees. Pawnee tribe of Indians, namely:

All that tract of country between the Cinnarron and Arkansas Rivers embraced within the limits of townships twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and twenty-four north, of range four east, townships eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty-two, twenty three, and twenty-four north, of range five east, townships eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twentyone, twenty-two, and twenty-three north, of range six east of the Indian meridian:

Provided, That the terms of the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be complied with so far as the same may be applicable, thereto:

Cherokee treaty to be complied

with.

Treaty (14 Stat. L., 804).

Pawnees to make

certain payments. Treaty (14 Stat.

And provided further, That the sum to be paid to the Cherokees by the Pawnees for such quantity of the land herein described as may be within the limits of the Cherokee country west of the ninety-sixth merid- L.,785). ian of west longitude shall not exceed seventy cents per acre:

And provided also, That the portion of the reservation herein described lying within the territory ceded to the United States by the third article of the Creek treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be paid for by said Pawnees at the rate of thirty cents per acre. SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be made to each head of a family or single person over twenty-one years of age belonging to said Pawnee tribe, and residing upon said reserve, who shall so elect, an allotment within said reservation, of one hundred and sixty acres of land, as near as may be, to be governed by the lines of public survey; and upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of such allotments, certificates shall be issued therefor by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs:

Allotments to heads of families,

&c.

Provided, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfac-patents for, tion of the Secretary of the Interior that any allottee has occupied and when to issue. cultivated any portion of his or her allotment for the period of five successive years, and has at least twenty-five acres of the same fenced and in crop, such allottee shall be entitled to receive a patent for his or her allotment, with the condition that the same shall not be aliened or conveyed within fifteen years from the date thereof, and then only with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules and regulatious as he may prescribe. [April 10, 1876.]

April 13, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 32.

Offenses not capital, except not to be prosecuted after three years.

R. S., § 1044, 1045.

2 Cr., 336.

17 Wall., 168.
3 McLean, 89.
1 Cr. C C., 485.
3 Cr. C. C., 442.

5 Cr. C. C., 38, 73, 116. 98 U. S.,'

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1044 OF THE REVISED STATUTES RELATING TO LIMITA-
TIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES. (1)

Offenses not capital, except under revenue and slave-trade laws, not to be prosecuted after three years.
Be it enacted, &c., That section one thousand and forty-four of the
Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as fol-
lows: (1)

No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense, not capital, except as provided in section one thousand and forty-six, unless the indictment is found, or the information is instituted within three years next after such offense shall have been committed.

But this act shall not have effect to authorize the prosecution, trial or punishment for any offense, barred by the provisions of existing laws. [April 13, 1876.]

450. 100 U. S., 33. 102 U. S., 201.

NOTE. (1) The amendments made by this act are incorporated into the second edition of the Revised Statutes in section 1044.

CHAPTER 63.

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AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A DEFICIENCY IN THE PRINTING AND ENGRAVING BUREAU
OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, AND FOR THE ISSUE OF SILVER COIN OF THE
UNITED STATES IN PLACE OF FRACTIONAL CURRENCY.

SECTION

2. Silver coins to be issued in redemption of
fractional currency.

Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

Currency so redeemed to be part of sinking. fund.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue silver coins of the United States of the denomination of ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty cents of standard value, in redemption of an equal amount of fractional currency, whether the same be now in the Treasury awaiting redemption, or whenever it may, be presented for redemp tion; and the Secretary of the Treasury may, under regulations of the Treasury Department, provide for such redemption and issue by substitution at the regular sub-treasuries and public depositories of the United States until the whole amount of fractional currency outstanding shall be redeemed.

And the fractional currency redeemed under this act shall be held to be a part of the sinking-fund provided for by existing law, the interest to be computed thereon as in the case of bonds redeemed under the act relating to the sinking-fund [April 17, 1876.]

CHAPTER 66.

April 18, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 34.

Oaths to Sen

AN ACT FURTHER TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTERING OF OATHS IN THE SENATE.
SECTION

1. Oaths to Senators, officers, and witnesses may
be administered by presiding officer.

Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

2. Oaths, how administered to officers and witnesses by Secretary of Senate and chief clerk.

[SECTION 1], That the Presiding Officer, for the time being, of the ators, officers, and Senate of the United States, shall have power to administer all oaths witnesses may be administered by and affirmations that are or may be required by the Constitution, or by presiding officer. law, to be taken by any Senator, officer of the Senate, witness, or other R. S., §§ 28, 1758. person, in respect of any matter within the jurisdiction of the Senate. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Senate, and the chief clerk thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced before it. [April 18, 1876.]

-to officers and

witnesses by Secretary of Senate and chief clerk.

R. S., 52, 1758.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT TO CONFIRM PRE-EMPTION AND HOMESTEAD ENTRIES OF PUBLIC LANDS WITHIN
THE LIMITS OF RAILROAD GRANTS IN CASES WHERE SUCH ENTRIES HAVE BEEN
MADE UNDER THE REGULATIONS OF THE LAND DEPARTMENT.

SECTION

1. Entries of lands in limits of land-grants prior to notice of withdrawal of lands, &c., confirmed.

2. Claims abandoned on account of decision of Land Office may be re-entered.

Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

3. Claims entered after the expiration of land.
grant deemed valid.

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Entries of lands

notice of with

[SECTION 1], That all pre-emption and homestead entries, or entries in compliance with any law of the United States, of the public lands, in limits of landmade in good faith, by actual settlers, upon tracts of land of not more grants prior to than one hundred and sixty acres each, within the limits of any land- drawal of lands, grant, prior to the time when notice of the withdrawal of the lands em- &c., confirmed. braced in such grant was received at the local land-office of the district R. S., §§ 2257, in which such lands are situated, or after their restoration to market by 2259, 2289, 2297. 15 Opin. Att'yorder of the General Land-Office, and where the pre-emption and home- Gen., 583. stead laws have been complied with, and proper proofs thereof have been made by the parties holding such tracts or parcels, they shall be confirmed, and patents for the same shall issue to the parties entitled thereto.

of decision of

SEC. 2. That when at the time of such withdrawal as aforesaid valid Claims abanpre-emption or homestead claims existed upon any lands within the doned on account limits of any such grants which afterward were abandoned, and, under Land Office may the decisions and rulings of the Land Department, were re-entered by be re-entered. pre-emption or homestead claimants who have complied with the laws governing pre-emption or homestead entries, and shall make the proper proofs required under such laws, such entries shall be deemed valid, and patents shall issue therefor to the person entitled thereto.

valid.

SEC. 3. That all such pre-emption and homestead entries which may entered after exhave been made by permission of the Land Department, or in pursuance piration of landof the rules and instructions thereof, within the limits of any land-grant at grant deemed a time subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid, and a compliance with the laws and the making of the proof required shall entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor. [April 21, 1876.]

CHAPTER 78.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A LAND-OFFICE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF UTAH TERRITORY,
TO BE KNOWN AS THE BEAVER DISTRICT, and for OTHER PURPOSES.

SECTION

1. Beaver land district in Utah established.
-office to be located by President.
Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

2. Register and receiver for

April 25, 1876.

19 Stat. L., 36.

Beaver land

district, in Utah,

established.

R. S., § 2256, 2d ed., p. 413.

[SECTION 1], That so much of the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Utah, beginning at the southwestern boundary of said Territory, thence running north on the line between said Territory and the State of Nevada to the Fourth Standard parallel of latitude, thence easterly along said line to the eastern boundary of [of] said Territory, thence southerly to the southern boundary of said Territory, thence westerly to the place of beginning, be formed into a land district, to be called the Beaver land district, the land office for which shall be located office of, to be loat such point as the President may direct, and may be removed from cated by Presitime to time to other points within said district whenever, in his opinion, it may be expedient.

SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver for said district, who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of said office; and they shall have the same powers, perform

dent.

Register and receiver for.

R. S., §§ 2234

2247.

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