CHAPTER 367. June 20, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 243. Attorneys, agents, &c., in pension cases not to receive more than $10 fee, and AN ACT RELATING TO CLAIM AGENTS AND ATTORNEYS IN PENSION CASES SECTION 1. Attorneys, agents, &c., in pension cases not Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], It shall be unlawful for any attorney, agent or other person to demand or receive for his services in a pension case a greater sum than ten dollars. No fee contract shall hereafter be filed with the Commissioner of Penfee-contracts not sions in any case. R. S., 4786. to be filed, &c. In pending cases in which a fee contract has heretofore been filed, if 4785, the pension shall be allowed, the Commissioner of Pensions shall ap prove the same as to the amount of the fee to be paid at the amount specified in the contract. 1879, Jan. 25, ch. 23, § 4. 1881, March 3, ch. 130, par. 2. - fees of, not to be Sections forty-seven hundred and sixty-eight forty-seven hundred and deducted and paid sixty-nine and forty-seven hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statto, by pension utes shall not apply to any case or claim hereafter filed, nor to any pendR. S., §§ 4768, ing claim in which the claimant has not been represented by an agent 4769, 4786. or attorney prior to the passage of this act. agent. Repeal of SEC. 2. Section forty-seven hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed. [June 20, 1878.] RESOLUTIONS. March 9, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 248. NUMBER 13. JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR ISSUING ARMS AND AMMUNITION TO THE TERRI- AND SEVENTY-SIX. Arms to be issued to Idaho. Arms to be is sued to Idaho. R. S., § 1667. Be it resolved, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, empowered to issue arms and ammunition to said Territory, upon the 1878, May 16, ch. requisition of its governor, under provision of joint resolution approved July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [March 9, 1878.] 106. See Res. 1876, No. 13, p. 253; 1877, No. 7, p. 302. NUMBER 16. March 28, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 249. JOINT RESOLUTION TO PRESCRIBE THE TIME FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE TAX ON SECTION 1. Tax on spirits payable on withdrawal from 2. Time for payment of tax and withdrawal of Be it resolved, &c. SECTION 3. Tax to bear interest after spirits are warehoused one year. -how collected in such case. 4. Act not to apply to grape-brandy. Tax on spirits payable on with- entered for deposit in distillery warehouses shall be due and payable [SECTION 1], (Rep.) [That the tax on all distilled spirits hereafter drawal from ware- before and at the time the same are withdrawn therefrom, and within house within three NOTE. (1) This resolution is repealed by act of 1880, May 28, ch. 108, § 4. three years from the date of the entry for deposit therein; and ware- years, and bond housing bonds hereafter taken under the provisions of section thirty-two given accordingly. R. S., § 3293. hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States 1879, March 1, shall be conditioned for the payment of the tax on the spirits as specified ch. 125, § 5. in the entry, and the interest on the tax, if any has accrued under the provisions of this resolution, before removal from the distillery warehouse, and within three years from the date of said bonds.] Time for pay R. S., § 3293. SEC. 2. (Rep.) [That the time within which distilled spirits hereto- ment of tax and fore entered for deposit in distillery warehouses are required to be withdrawal of spirwithdrawn therefrom pursuant to the conditions of any warehousing its now in warebond, taken within one year prior to the passage of this resolution, upon houses; how may the entry of such spirits into such warehouse under the provisions of be extended. section thirty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall, on written request being made, as herein specified be extended for a period not exceeding three years from the date of the entry of such spirits into the warehouse; but such extension shall not be made in any case unless there shall be indorsed upon, or appended to, the warehousing bond a written request therefor, and an acknowledgment of their liability, under the terms of said bond, for the period for which the extension is granted, together with interest on the tax if any has accrued under the provisions of this resolution, as if the same were inserted in the body of said bond, to be duly executed by the principal and sureties in the bond, and acknowledged by each of them before a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue, or some other officer authorized by law to take the acknowledgment of deeds: Provided, That the sureties on said bond are, at the time of such request, satisfactory to the collector, and, if not satisfactory, or if the sureties shall refuse to make the request and acknowledgment aforesaid, that an additional or new warehousing bond, with sureties satisfactory to the collector, shall be given.] Tax to bear iu SEC. 3. (Rep.) [That in case of the non-payment of the tax on any terest after spirits distilled spirits within one year from the date of the original warehousing are warehoused bond for such spirits, interest shall accrue upon said tax at the rate of one year. five per centum per annum from and after the expiration of said year until the tax shall be paid. Such interest shall be collected with the tax in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe: such case. Provided, That the tax or duty paid on all distilled spirits when the how collected in same are withdrawn shall be the amount of duty and tax which would have been paid, if paid when such distilled spirits was placed in bond with such accrued interest thereon.] Act not to apply 1877, March 3, SEC. 4. (Rep.) [That the provisions of this resolution shall not apply to grape-brandy warehoused under the provisions of an act entitled to grape-brandy. "An act relating to the production of fruit-brandy, and to punish frauds ch. 114. connected with the same", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.] [March 28, 1878.] NOTE.-The above act is repealed by act of 1880, May 28, ch. 108, § 4. NUMBER 22. JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF THE NEW EDI- Distribution of second edition of Revised Statutes. -may make arrangements with booksellers. May 22, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 251. Distribution of Resolved, &c., That the fifteen thousand copies of the new edition of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States required second edition Revised Statutes. by the fourth section of the "Act to provide for the preparation and 1877, March 2, publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United ch. 82. 1878, Dec. 21, Res. No. 1, p. 481. Secretary of States", approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to be printed and bound, shall be disposed of by the Secretary of State as follows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion, and one copy for the use of the Commissioner of Public Buildings; To the Vice-President of the United States, two copies; To each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, to the Secretary of the Senate and to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, one copy; To the librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and twenty copies; To the librarian of the House, for the use of Representatives and Delegates, four hundred and ten copies; To the Senate of the United States, for distribution, seven hundred and sixty copies; To the House of Representatives, for distribution, two thousand nine hundred and twenty copies; To the Library of Congress, fourteen copies, including four copies for the law library; To the Department of State, for the use of legations and consulates, three hundred and eighty copies; To the Treasury Department, including those for the use of officers of customs, two hundred and eighty copies; To the War Department, including five copies for the use of the Military Academy at West Point, fifty-five copies; To the Navy Department, including three copies for the library of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, a copy for the library of each navy-yard in the United States, a copy for the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and a copy for the library of the Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts, seventy copies; To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of land offices, two hundred and fifty-five copies; To the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the Chief and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the judges and officers of the United States and Territorial courts, four hundred and fifty copies; To the Department of Agriculture, five copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, two copies; To the Government Printing Office, two copies; And the Secretary of State shall supply deficiencies and offices newly created. And that the residue of said fifteen thousand volumes, together with State to keep cop- any further number thereafter printed and bound, shall, by the Secretary of State, be sold at the cost of paper, press-work, and binding, with ten per centum added thereto; ies for sale. -may make arrangements with booksellers. Additional cop And said Secretary is authorized to make arrangements with booksellers to keep on sale said Revised Statutes, to be sold as aforesaid, for such part of the ten per centum above actual cost as he may deem just and reasonable. And whenever the said residue of said fifteen thousand copies shall be ies to be printed exhausted, said Secretary shall cause another five thousand copies to be printed and bound, at the expense of the United States, to be sold in like manner, unless otherwise disposed of by order of Congress; when needed. The cost of the same to be paid from the general appropriation for printing. [May 22, 1878.] NUMBER 24. JOINT RESOLUTION TO PAY THE LABORERS KNOWN AS CLOAK-ROOM MEN AND TO * * * Eight cloak-room men of House of Representatives to be employed, &c. Be it resolved, &c., That ten laborers known as cloak-room men of the House of Representatives, who clean the hall of the House daily, are entitled to pay as laborers Provided, That hereafter eight laborers only be employed as session laborers on the roll of the Doorkeeper of the House, to perform said labor and that they be paid at the same rate as other session laborers. [May 31, 1878.] May 31, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 252. Eight cloakroom men of House of Representatives to be employed, &c. R. S., § 53. NUMBER 26. JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR ISSUE OF ARMS TO TERRITORIES. Be it resolved, &c., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to each of the Territories of the United States (in addition to arms and ammunition the issue of which has been heretofore provided for), such arms not to exceed one thousand in number as he may deem necessary, and ammunition for the same not to exceed fifty ball cartridges for each arm: Provided, That such issue shall be only from arms owned by the Gov. ernment of the United States which have been superseded and no longer issued to the Army: And provided further, That said arms shall be issued only in the following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely, upon the requisition of the governors of said Territories showing the absolute necessity for arms for the protection of citizens and their property against hostile Indians within or of Indian raids into such Territories: And provided further, That the said governor or governors of said Territories to whom the said arms may be issued shall give good and sufficient bond or bonds for the return of said arms, or payment therefor, at such time as the Secretary of War may designate, as now provided for by law. [June 7, 1878.] NUMBER 30. JOINT RESOLUTION TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TO PURCHASE PLATE Materials for steam-boilers for Navy may be purchased without advertisement. - notices of, to principal dealers. - subject to test. Materials for Be it resolved, &c., That on and after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby authorized to purchase at the steam-boilers for lowest market price, such plate iron and other material as may enter Navy may be purinto the construction of steam boilers for the Navy without advertising for bids to furnish the same: Provided, That he shall cause to be sent to the principal dealers and manufacturers of iron and such other materials as may be required specifications of the quality description and character of such iron and materials so required: And provided further, That such plate iron and materials shall be subjected to the same tests and inspection as now provided for and which inspection and tests shall be made publicly and in presence of such bidders or their authorized agents as may choose to attend at the making thereof. [June 14, 1878.] chased without advertisement. R. S., § 3718. notices of, to principal dealers. subject to test. R. 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