together with the executive officers of said commission, shall constitute a committee of finance. In this election each subscriber shall be entitled to a vote for each Meeting of stockshare subscribed for, on which at least ten per centum in cash shall holders: who may have been previously paid, under such regulations as may be prescribed vote at. by said commission. Upon the organization of said committee of finance, said commission Commission to shall transfer to it the stock-books and moneys collected, together with transfer moneys, all papers and business pertaining to the receiving and collecting of &c., to finance committee; and subscriptions of stock, and shall furnish to said committee a full state- may require bonds. ment of all its financial transactions up to that date; And the commission may require good and sufficient security from all its collecting and disbursing agents, including those of the finance committee. Committee of SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the committee of finance so elected to select suitable depositories for the deposit of all moneys received for said finance; duties. commission; to devise methods for raising funds for the commission with which to carry out the provisions of this act; to confer and advise with the commission as to all contracts to be made involving the expenditure of moneys; to carefully audit all accounts; to recommend a system of checks and safeguards, with a view of enforcing economy and efficiency in the financial administration of the said commission, and to make full reports to the commission at least once in every three months. It shall also be the duty of said committee of finance, from time to - may open books time, as occasion may require, to open the books for further subscrip- for further subtions to the capital stock, and take all measures that are needful to scriptions. secure a collection of the same, using, if necessary, the name of the commission for the purpose, but the moneys so collected shall at all times be subject to control of the commission. SEC. 12. That the officers of said commission and the members of said Term of office committee of finance shall hold their respective positions for the term of and election of members of comone year from the day of their election, before the expiration of which mission and of time and for each year during which the commission shall exist a new finance committee. election shall be held at such time and place as said commission shall designate by due public notice, and in the mode following, to wit: the members of the committee of finance shall first be elected by the shareholders, immediately after which the commission shall proceed to the election of its officers. Any person elected as a member of said committee of finance or an officer of said commission shall be eligible to re-election." - members may be re-elected. Vacancies in and in commission. Said commission shall have power at any time to fill any vacancy occurring among the officers, and said shareholders shall have like power finance committee to fill any vacancy occurring in the members of said committee of finance, and said commission shall also have the power of removing any officer for cause. Vacancies in the commission may be filled in the same manner as provided herein for the original appointment, and vacancies occurring in the place of the commissioners named in this act shall be filled by the said commission. Commission to SEC. 13. That the United States International Commission shall prepare a complete classification of exhibits, and shall appoint all judges classify exhibits, and examiners, guards and other subordinate officers of the exhibition, other officers. appoint judges and and award all premiums, and generally have charge of all intercourse with the representatives of foreign nations. It may, at any regular meeting, elect an executive committee, which, may elect execuin the absence of the commission, shall have full power to act in its tive committee. stead until its next meeting. may issue bonds SEC. 14. That the corporation hereby created shall have authority to issue bonds not in excess of the amount actually paid in upon its capital stock, and secure the payment of the same, principal and interest, by mortgage upon its property, and income, present and prospective. SEC. 15. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, as soon as practicable, after the passage of this stock; how prepared, &c. Certificates of United States incurred. act, to cause to be prepared, at the cost of the said commission, in accordance with a design approved by the United States International Commission and the Secretary of the Treasury, a sufficient number of certificates of stock to meet the requirements of this act; And any person found guilty of counterfeiting, or attempting to counterfeit or knowingly circulating false certificates of stock, herein authorized, shall be subject to the same pains and penalties as are or may be provided by law for counterfeiting United States notes; But nothing in this act shall be so construed as to create any liability not liable for debts of the United States, direct or indirect, for any debt or obligation incurred, nor for any claim by the United States International Commission for aid or pecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support or liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said commission: Contracts sub And provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to ject to laws of override or interfere with the laws of any State; and all contracts made in any State for the purposes of the international exhibition shall be subject to the laws thereof: States. Stockholders not for debts. And provided further, That no member of said corporation, whether personally liable shareholder or otherwise, shall be personally liable for any debt or obligation which may be created or incurred by the United States International Commission. At close, corporation to dispose of property, &c. -commission to SEC. 16. That as soon as practicable after the said exhibition shall have been closed, it shall be the duty of said corporation to convert its property into cash, and, after the payment of all its liabilities, to divide its remaining assets among its stockholders, pro rata, in full satisfaction and discharge of its capital stock. And it shall be the duty then of the United States International make report of Commission to submit, in a report to the President of the United States, the financial results of the international exhibition. financial results. Act may be altered. SEC. 17. That it shall be the duty of the United States International Commission to make report, from time to time, to the President of the United States of the progress of the work, and, in a final report, present a full exhibit of the results of the United States International Exhibition. SEC. 18. The corporation hereby authorized shall exist no longer than until the first day of January eighteen hundred and eighty-five. SEC. 19. That the United States shall not in any manner or under any circumstances be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or representations of the said commission, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for the services, salaries, labors, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any certificates of [of] stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said commission, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses of any kind whatever attending such commission or exhibition, or accruing by reason of the same. SEC. 20. Congress may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act, as in its judgment the public good shall require: Appointment or Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to acceptance of com- require the governor of any state to appoint the commissioners promissioners not re- vided for in section two, nor shall said commissioners or any of them quired. incur any liability for their failure or refusal to accept such position or perform the duties thereof Stock to be sub- SEC. 21. Not less than one million of dollars shall be subscribed and scribed and part not less than ten per centum thereof shall be paid in before said corpayment made before corporation poration shall do any corporate act other than the acts necessary to its organization. acts. --not to be withdrawn, &c. And no part of the capital stock or assets of said corporation shall be withdrawn by, refunded to, or divided among the stockholders or any of them, until all the debts and liabilities of said corporation shall be fully discharged. [April 23, 1880.] CHAPTER 61. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE REMOVAL OF CERTAIN IN- SEVENTY-EIGHT. Removal of Apaches at Cimarron to New Mexico; repeal of former provisions as to removal, &c. April 23, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 81. Be it enacted, &c., That the proviso to the act approved June twen- Removal of tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, making an appropriation for Apaches at Cimarthe removal of the band of Apaches at Cimarron, New Mexico, to the ron to New Mexico. Repeal of former Mescalero Apache Reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, requiring provisions as to rethe removal of said Indians within thirty days after the passage of the moval in thirty act, and forbidding the issue of rations and annuities to said Indians, days and issue of except at the Mescalero Apache Agency, New Mexico, be, and the same New Mexico. is hereby, repealed, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and 1878, June 20, ch. directed to issue to said Indians their supplies and annuities at the 359, § 1, par. 16. Abiquiu Agency, New Mexico. [April 23, 1880.] rations only in CHAPTER 71. AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LAND-OFFICE IN THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA. April 30, 1880. SECTION lished, with land-office at Miles City. SECTION 1. Yellowstone land district in Montana estab- 2. Register and receiver for. 21 Stat. L., 81. Montana estab Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That all that portion of the Territory of Montana which Yellowstone lies east of the twenty-seventh range east of the principal meridian which land district in is not now or hereafter may be included in any Indian reservation, be, and the same is hereby, designated as the district of the Yellowstone, and constituted a separate land district, with a United States land-office at Miles City, within said district. lished, with landoffice at Miles City. R. S., § 2256, 2d ed., p. 413. SEC. 2. The President shall appoint a register and receiver for said -register and reoffice, who shall be entitled to such compensation as is now provided by ceiver for. R. S., § 2234. law, which compensation shall be paid from the fund appropriated for such purposes. [April 30, 1880.] CHAPTER 73. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NAVAL SERVICE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR In Navy rations, Secretary of Navy may substitute desiccated tomatoes for desiccated potatoes. That the Secretary of the Navy may substitute for the ration of "two ounces of desiccated potatoes" six ounces of desiccated tomatoes if he shall believe such substitution to be conducive to the health and com. fort of the Navy, and not to be more expensive to the government than the present ration, provided the same shall be acceptable to the men. In the event the Secretary of the Navy orders such substitution he is authorized to have sold at public auction any desiccated potatoes on hand, the proceeds of which sale shall be used in the purchase of desiccated tomatoes for the use of the Navy. [May 3, 1880.] May 3, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 86. In Navy rations, Secretary of Navy may substitute desiccated tomatoes for desiccated potatoes. R. S., § 1580. May 4, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 111. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ARMY FOR THE FISCAL In Army, 10 per cent. to be added to cost of stores -except subsistence supplies to companies, &c., and tobacco. In Army, 10 per Be it enacted, &c. cent. to be added to cost of stores men. R. S., § 1144, 1145. That to the cost of all stores and other articles sold to officers and sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges, save that subsistence supplies may be sold to companies, detachments, and hospitals at cost prices, not including cost of transportation, upon the certificate of an officer commanding a company or detachment, or in charge of a hospital, that the supplies are necessary for the exclusive -except subsist- use of such company, detachment, or hospital. ence supplies to 1879, June 23, ch. 35, § 1. 1881, Feb. 24, ch. 79, § 1, par. 2. companies, &c., and tobacco. [May 4, 1880.] CHAPTER 84. ог SECTION May 8, 1880. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SALE OF FORT LOGAN, MONTANA TERRITORY, AND TO tana. 2. Fort Logan reservation in Montana to be sold, &c. [SECTION 1], That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorbe established at ized and empowered to establish a new military post at or near the Musnear Mussel sel Shell River in the Territory of Montana, as he may deem best for Shell River, Mon- the protection of the frontier from Indian incursions: Provided, The total cost of the same shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Fort Logan res- SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, after ervation in Mon- due notice, to sell at public auction or otherwise dispose of in parcels or tana to be sold, otherwise, as he may deem most advantageous to the government, the site, reservation and buildings of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and re-invest the proceeds of such sale in the erection of the post authorized by the first section of this act: &c. Provided, That such portion of said buildings, or of the materials thereof, as can be profitably removed to said new post, may be reserved from sale and so removed. [May 8, 1880.] May 11, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 131, 132. CHAPTER 85. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CURRENT AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES SECTION SECTION 1. Par. 1. Secretary of Interior may purchase Par. 2. Limitation of annual expenditures at 4. Indians not to be granted permits to go into - -Secretary of Interior to prevent Indians going there. 6. Secretary of Treasury to place semi-annual interest to credit of L'Anse and Vieux de Sert bands of Chippewas. * terior may pur Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1.] [Par. 1.] That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, au- Secretary of Inthorized, whenever it can be done advantageously, to purchase for use chase articles made in the Indian service, from Indian manual and training schools, in the at Indian training manner customary among individuals such articles as may be manufact- schools. ured at such schools, and which are used in the Indian service. Ac- R. S., § 2083. counts of such transactions shall be kept in the Indian Bureau and in the training schools, and reports thereof made from time to time. [Par. 2.] That teachers and Indians employed at agencies in any capacity shall not be construed as part of agency employees named in section five of the act making appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Limitation of an nual expenditures and Indians. be granted permits SEC. 4. And provided further, That all officers and agents of the Army and Indian Bureaus are prohibited, except in a case specially directed by the President, from granting permission in writing or otherwise to any Indian or Indians on any reservation to go into the State of Texas under any pretext whatever; and any officer or agent of tion. the Army or Indian Bureau who shall violate this provision shall be dismissed from the public service. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed and required to Secretary of Intake at once such other reasonable measures as may be necessary in con- terior to prevent nection with said prohibition to prevent said Indians from entering said Indians going State. there. est to credit of SEC 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, Secretary of authorized and directed, semi-annually, to place to the credit of the Treasury to place L'Anse and Vieux de Sert bands of Chippewas, of Lake Superior, under semi-annual interthe provisions of the act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of L'Anse and Vieux the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in de Sert bands of lieu of investment", approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty, Chippewas. interest upon twenty thousand dollars, being the unexpended balance of 1874, June 22, ch. R. S., § 3659. money belonging to the said Indians appropriated under the provisions 388, par. 2. of the act entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies 1876, June 10, ch. in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal 122. years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and 1880, April 1, ch. eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes", approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now to their credit on the books of the Treasury, said unexpended balance and interest thereon to be applied as provided in said act. [May 11, 1880.] 41. When claimant [SECTION 1], That when a pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture claimant shall file a written relinquishment of his claim in the local land- files relinquishoffice, the land covered by such claim shall be held as open to settlement ment of claim, land and entry without further action on the part of the Commissioner of R. S., §§ 2257the General Land Office. open to entry. 2288. R. S., § 22892317, 2464-2668. 1878, June 14, ch. 190. |