When act takes effect. the same shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [June 3, 1880.] CHAPTER 120. June 4, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 155. Circuit court for Iowa; when and where to be held. 24. R. S., §§ 572, 658. 1874, Feb. 9, ch. Civil suits in cir AN ACT PROVIDING THE TIMES AND PLACES OF HOLDING THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SECTION 1. Circuit court for Iowa; when and where to 2. Civil suits in circuit or district court of Iowa Issues of fact; where to be tried. Be it enacted, &c. SECTION Non-resident defendants. 3. Boundaries of northern, southern, western, and central divisions. 4. Clerk. [SECTION 1], That the circuit court of the United States in and for the district of Iowa shall hereafter be held at the times and places provided by law for holding the United States district court in and for said district.(1) Causes removed from any court of the State of Iowa into said circuit court within said district shall be removed to the circuit court in the division in which such State court is held, unless the parties thereto shall otherwise agree, or the court, for good cause, shall otherwise order. SEC. 2. That all civil suits not of a local nature which shall be herecuit or district after brought in the circuit or district court of the United States in said court of Iowa to district must be brought in the division of the district where the defendvision where one ant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants residof defendants re- ing in different divisions the plaintiff may sue in either one of the divisions in which a defendant resides. be brought in di sides. R. S., § 740. Issues of fact; where tried. Non-resident defendants. Northern divis All issues of fact triable in either of said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendants resides, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. Where the defendant is a non-resident of the district suit may be brought in any division where property or the defendant is found. SEC. 3. That the northern division of said district shall contain the ion; boundaries of. following counties: Alamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Mitchell, Floyd, R. S., § 537. Chickasaw, Fayette, Clayton, Butler, Bremer, Grundy, Blackhawk, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Benton, Linn, Jones, Jackson, and Clinton. Southern divis ion. R. S., § 537. Western divis ion. R. S., § 537. Central division. R. S., § 560. Repeal. The southern division shall contain the counties of Cedar, Scott, Muscatine, Louisa, Washington, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren, Davis, and Appanoose. The western division shall contain the counties of Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Guthrie, Audubon, Shelby, Harrison, Pottawattamie, Cass, Adair, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Mills, Fremont, Page, Taylor, and Ringgold. The central division shall contain the remaining counties of the State. SEC. 4. That the clerk of the district court shall be the clerk of the circuit court at all the places where the same is held in said district except at Des Moines. SEC. 5. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. [June 4, 1880.] NOTE. (1) The times and places for holding the courts are: At DUBUQUE on the third Tuesday in April and November; at KEOKUK on the third Tuesday in January and June; at DES MOINES on the second Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in October; at Council Bluffs on the fourth Mondays of March and September.-Revised Statutes, § 572, and act of 1874, February 9, ch. 24. CHAPTER 121. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE GOVERN- SECTION 1. Par. 1. One of Commissioners of District of Par. 2. of Columbia Hospital and Lying-in 2. All revenues of District to be deposited in Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1.] For Reform School: SECTION 2.-appropriations not to be exceeded in ex- Commissioners limited in making requisitions. June 4, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 155. One of Commis [Par. 1.] That one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Board of Commissioners, shall be a trustee, with sioners of District all the powers, privileges, and duties of other trustees of said Reform Reform School. School. [Par. 2.] That one of the commissioners of the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Board of Commissioners, shall be a trustee of said Hospital and Lying-in Asylum, with all the powers, privileges, and duties of other trustees of the same. * to be trustee of 1876, May 3, ch. 90, § 1. of Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum. 1872, June 10, ch. 415 (17 Stat. L., 360). All revenues of SEC. 2. That all moneys appropriated by this act, together with all revenues of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, shall be District to be dedeposited in the Treasury of the United States as required by the pro- posited in United visions of section four of an act approved June eleventh, eighteen hun- except, &c.; how States Treasury, dred and seventy-eight, and shall be drawn therefrom only on requisi- drawn. tion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia (except that the 1878, June 11, ch. moneys appropriated for interest and the sinking fund shall be drawn 180, 4. therefrom only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United States), ch. 182, § 3, par. 3. such requisition specifying the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; 1879, March 3, And in no case shall such appropriation be exceeded either in requisi--appropriation tion or expenditure, and the accounts for all disbursements of the Com- not to be exceeded missioners of said District shall be made monthly to the accounting in expenditures. officers of the Treasury by the auditor of the District of Columbia, on vouchers certified by the Commissioners as now required by law: Provided, That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon Commissioners the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger limited in making amount during said fiscal year than they make on the appropriations requisitions. arising from the revenues of said District: And provided further, That they shall submit their annual estimates to the Secretary of the Treasury by the first day of October of each year. [June 4, 1880.] to submit annual estimates to Secretary of Treasury. 1878, June 11, ch. 180, § 3. 1881, March 3, ch. 134, § 1, par. 5. CHAPTER 129. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT TO APPOINT AN OFFICER OF THE NAVY OR Judge-Advocate-General of Navy to be appointed. | Office of, to be in Department; his duties. June 8, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 164. Judge-Advocate- the Marine Corps, a judge-advocate-general of the Navy, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy or a colonel in the Mariné Corps, as the case may be. Office of, to be in And the office of the said judge-advocate-general shall be in the Navy Department; his Department, where he shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the duties, &c. Navy, receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of all courtsmartial, courts of inquiry, and boards for the examination of officers for retirement and promotion in the naval service, and perform such other duties as have heretofore been performed by the solicitor and naval judge-advocate-general. [June 8, 1880.] June 8, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 166. Homestead and pre-emption set- 2288. 2317. CHAPTER 136. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ISSUING PATENTS FOR PUBLIC LANDS CLAIMED UNDER THE Homestead and pre-emption settlers becoming insane; how claims perfected. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases in which parties who regularly initiated claims to public lands as settlers thereon according to the provisions of the pre-emption or homestead laws, have become insane or shall hereafter become insane before the expiration of the time during 2257- which their residence, cultivation, or improvement of the land claimed by them is required by law to be continued in order to entitle them to R. S., §§ 2289- make the proper proof and perfect their claims, it shall be lawful for the required proof and payment to be made for their benefit by any person who may be legally authorized to act for them during their disability, and thereupon their claims shall be confirmed and patented, provided it shall be shown by proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the parties complied in good faith with the legal requirements up to the time of their becoming insane, and the requirement in homestead entries of an affidavit of allegiance by the applicant in certain cases as a prerequisite to the issuing of the patents shall be dispensed with so far as regards such insane parties. [June 8, 1880.] June 8, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 166. CHAPTER 137. AN ACT TO FURTHER AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REORGANIZE THE In District of Co criminal cases. [SECTION 1], That any justice of the supreme court of the District of lumbia, a judge Columbia holding a term of the circuit court for said District (whenever holding circuit the condition of the business in such circuit court and in the criminal court may hold sittings for trial of court, in the opinion of the general term of said supreme court, may render it proper and expedient so to do), may hold sittings for the trial of such criminal cases depending in the criminal court as the justice presiding therein may assign for that purpose, and may employ the petit juries drawn for such circuit court for such trials; and such sittings may be held during the regular sessions of the criminal court, or, in the recess thereof, during the term of such circuit court; and the business R. S. of Dist. Col., §§ 753-759. done at such sittings shall be recorded in the minutes of the criminal court. SEC. 2. That section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twentyfour of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: In Distrct of Columbia; jurors may be challenged who have served within a year before. "SEC. 861. It shall be good cause of principal challenge to any person called to serve as a talesman on a petit jury at any term of the criminal or circuit courts of the District of Columbia, that he has served as such juror in the trial of a cause in either of said courts at any time within Col., § 861. one year next before his being so called and challenged. And whenever a paper, on which is written the name of any person, -when persons shall be drawn from the jury-box, and such person by reason of being drawn as jurors do challenged, or for any other reason, shall not serve as a juror at the term names to be renot serve, their for or at which he shall have been so drawn, the clerk of the supreme turned to jurycourt of the District of Columbia (unless otherwise ordered by the justice box. presiding in the court for which such name was drawn) shall replace the said paper in the jury-box, folded or rolled up in the manner prescribed by section eight hundred and fifty-three of said chapter, subject to be drawn again from said jury-box with the other papers therein." SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith are herewith Repeal. repealed. [June 8, 1880.] R. S. of Dist. Col., § 853. CHAPTER 161. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE AND THIRTY- [SECTION 1], That section thirty-three hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out all of said section after the word "shipment" where it occurs in the twentyseventh line, and insert in lieu of the part stricken out the following: "Upon the presentation to the collector of internal revenue of a detailed report from the inspector of customs, and a certificate from the collector of customs at the port from which the goods are to be exported, that the goods removed from the manufactory under bond, and described in the permit of the collector of internal revenue, have been received by the said collector of customs, and that said goods were duly laden on board of a foreign-bound vessel, naming the vessel, and the said merchandise was entered on the outward-manifest of said vessel, and that said vessel and cargo were duly cleared from said port, and on the payment of the tax on deficiency, if any, the bonds which have been, or shall hereafter be, required to be given under the provisions of this section, shall be canceled. Every person who, with the intent to defraud the revenue laws of the United States, relands or causes to be relanded, within the jurisdiction of the United States, any manufactured tobacco, snuff, or cigars which have been shipped for exportation under the provisions of this act, without properly entering such tobacco, snuff, or cigars at a custom-house, and paying the proper customs and internal-revenue taxes thereon, or who receives such relanded tobacco, snuff, or cigars, and every person who aids or abets in such relanding or receiving of such tobacco, snuff, or cigars, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five thousand dol June 9, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 167. Bonds given on withdrawal of tocigars for export; bacco, snuff, and when and how may be canceled. R. S., § 3385. Penalty for relanding in United States tobacco, snuff, or cigars shipped for export. Collectors of in lars or imprisoned not more than three years; and all tobacco, snuff, or cigars so relanded shall be forfeited to the United States." SEC. 2. That section thirty-three hundred and fifty-seven of the Reternal revenue to vised Statutes of the United States be amended and re-enacted so as to keep record of read as follows: manufacturers of tobacco and snuff. Substitute for R. S., § 3357. -to enter copies of inventories and returns. -to cause manufactories to be numbered, &c. "Every collector shall keep a record in a book or books provided for the purpose, to be open to the inspection of any person, of the name and residence of every person engaged in the manufacture of tobacco or snuff in his district, the place where such manufacture is carried on, and the number of the manufactory. And he shall enter in said record, under the name of each manufacturer, a copy of every inventory required by law to be made by such manufacturer, and an abstract of his monthly returns. And he shall cause the several manufactories of tobacco or snuff in his district to be numbered consecutively, which numbers shall not be thereafter changed, except for reasons satisfactory to himself and approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue." [June 9, 1880.] June 9, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 168. between Wiscon CHAPTER 162. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SAINT PAUL AND CHICAGO SHORT LINE RAILWAY COM- Be it enacted, &c. Bridge across [SECTION 1], That it shall be lawful for the Saint Paul and Chicago Lake Saint Croix, Short Line Railway Company, a corporation created and existing under sin and Minnesota, and by virtue of the laws of the State of Wisconsin, to build a bridge may be built by across the Lake Saint Croix from such point in township number twentySaint Paul and six north, of range twenty west of the fourth principal meridian, in the Chicago Short Line Railway county of Pierce and State of Wisconsin, as may be hereafter selected by Company. said railway company, to such point in the county of Washington, in the State of Minnesota, as may hereafter be selected by said railway company, and to lay on or over said bridge, railway tracks for the more perfect connection of its railway tracks as they may hereafter be built to the points aforesaid on either side of said lake under the limitations and conditions herein: -not to interfere Provided, That said bridge shall not interfere with the free navigation with navigation. of said lake beyond what is necessary in order to carry into effect the rights and privileges hereby granted, -in case of litiga tion, in what court And in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said lake, the cause shall be tried actions may be before the district court of the United States for the district of Minbrought. nesota or the western district of Wisconsin. -how may be built. - if built with un SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, at the option of said railway company, be built as a draw-bridge with a pivot or other form of draw, or with unbroken or continuous spans : Provided, That if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and broken spans; ele- continuous spans, it shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty vation, &c. feet above extreme high-water mark as understood at the point of location to the bottom chord of the bridge; nor shall the span of said bridge be less than two hundred feet in length, and the piers of said bridge |