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Dec. 17, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 311.

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT OF THE re-
VISED STATUTES IN RELATION TO FEES FOR FINAL CERTIFICATES IN DONATION
CASES.

Fees of registers and receivers for final land certificates in donation cases.

Fees of registers Be it enacted, &c., That the sixth paragraph of section twenty-two and receivers for hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States final land certifi- be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that in lieu thereof the folcates in donation lowing paragraph be substituted:

cases.

R. S., § 2238, par. 6.

"A fee in donation cases of two dollars and fifty cents for each final certificate for one hundred and sixty acres of land, five dollars for three hundred and twenty acres, and seven dollars and fifty cents for six hundred and forty acres." [December 17, 1880.]

Dec. 23, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 312.

Sessions of Ter

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO OF THE REVISED
STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES.

Sessions of Territorial legislatures limited to sixty days.

Be it enacted, &c., That section eighteen hundred and fifty-two be, and ritorial legisla- the same hereby is, so amended as to read as follows:

tures limited to

sixty days. Substitute for

R. S., § 1852.

"SEC. 1852. The sessions of the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the United States shall be limited to sixty days' duration." [December 23, 1880.]

Dec. 23, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 313.

Bridge over Saint Mary's River

CHAPTER 10.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FIXED BRIDGE OVER THE SAINT
MARY'S RIVER AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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[SECTION 1], That the Waycross and Florida Railway Company and in Charlton Coun- the East Florida Railroad Company be, and they are hereby, authorized ty, Georgia, au- to construct a fixed bridge with one span over the Saint Mary's River

thorized.

at the point selected by said companies for crossing said river with their railroad line, about one and one-half miles below Trader's Hill, in Charlton County, Georgia, and to make such bridge of such height as they may see fit:

Provided, The height be sufficient to permit the passage of timber

-declared to be rafts under said bridge;

head of naviga

tion.

Act may be al

&c., to be made if

structed.

And such proposed railroad crossing and bridge are hereby declared to be the head of navigation on the said Saint Mary's River.

tered by Congress, SEC. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter or amend or repeal and Secretary of this act at any time and that if at any time the navigation of the said War may cause river shall in any way be obstructed or impaired by the said bridge the changes in bridge, Secretary of War shall have authority and it shall be his duty to require navigation is ob- the said railroad companies to alter and change the said bridge at their own expense in such manner as may be proper to secure free and complete navigation without impediment, and if upon reasonable notice to said railroad companies to make such change or improvements they shall fail to do so the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same and all the rights conferred by this act shall be forfeited, and Congress shall have power to do any and all things necessary to secure the free navigation of the river. [December 23, 1880.]

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN SETTLERS ON RESTORED RAILROAD LANDS.
Settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain permitted to purchase within limited time.

Jan. 13, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 315.

Settlers on rail

Be it enacted, &c., That all persons who shall have settled and made valuable and permanent improvements upon any odd numbered section road lands restored of land within any railroad withdrawal in good faith and with the per- permitted to purto public domain mission or license of the railroad company for whose benefit the same chase same within shall have been made, and with the expectation of purchasing of such limited time. company the land so settled upon, which land so settled upon and improved, may, for any cause, be restored to the public domain, and who, at the time of such restoration, may not be entitled to enter and acquire title to such land under the pre-emption, homestead, or timber culture acts of the United States, shall be permitted, at any time within three months after such restoration, and under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, to purchase not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in extent of the same by legal sub-divisions, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and to receive patents therefor. [January 13, 1881.]

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS IN WISCONSIN, AND TO AID
THEM TO OBTAIN SUBSISTENCE BY AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS, AND TO PROMOTE
THEIR CIVILIZATION.

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Jan. 18, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 315.

Preamble.

Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin

Whereas a large number of the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin have selected and settled in good faith upon homestead claims, under section fifteen of the act entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in who have settled the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred upon homestead and seventy-five, and prior years, and for other purposes", approved March claims under act of third, eighteen hundred and seventy five, and all said Indians having signified their desire and purpose to abandon their tribal relations and adopt the habits and customs of civilized people, and avail themselves of the benefits of the aforesaid act, but in many instances are unable to do so on account of their extreme poverty; and

1875, March 3, ch. 131, §§ 15, 16.

Whereas a portion of the funds belonging to said Winnebago Indians of-fund in TreasWisconsin, and accruing under the act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hun- ury belonging to. dred and sixty-four, "providing for deficiencies in subsi tence and expenses Stat. L., 172). 1864, ch. 148 (13 of removal and support of the Sioux and Winnebago Indians of Minnesota", amounting to the sum of ninety thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dol lars and ninety-three cents, is now in the Treasury of the United States to their credit; and

Whereas the major portion of the fund belonging to said Indians under said act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, together with the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the principal fund of the tribe, has since said date been expended for the benefit of that portion of the Winnebago Indians residing in Nebraska; and

Whereas the location of said Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin has, under the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, become permanent: Therefore

Census of tribe

Wisconsin to be taken.

Be it enacted, &c.

[SECTION 1], That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby in Nebraska and authorized and directed to cause a census of the tribe of Winnebago Indians, now residing in Nebraska and Wisconsin to be taken; said enrollment to be made upon separate lists; the first to include all of said tribe now residing upon or who draw their annuities at the tribal reservation in Nebraska, and the second to embrace all of said tribe now residing in the State of Wisconsin.

rata.

Stat. L., 172).

Annuities, &c., SEC. 2. That upon the completion of the census of the Winnebago heretofore appro- Indians in Wisconsin, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and priated to be disbursed by Secreta- directed to expend for their benefit the proportion of the tribal annuities ry of Interior pro due to and set apart for said Indians under the act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, of the appropriations for the tribe of 1864, ch. 148 (13 Winnebago Indians for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy1874, ch. 389; four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen hundred and seventy1875, ch. 132 (18 six, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventyStat. L., 170, 444). eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred and 1876, ch. 289; 1877, ch. 101 (13 eighty, amounting to ninety thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dolStat. L., 194, 288). lars and ninety-three cents; 1878, ch. 142; 1879, ch. 87 (20 Stat. L., 82, 312). 1880, ch. 85 (21

Stat. L., 128).

And the Secretary of the Interior shall also expend for the benefit of said Indians, out of the sum of forty-one thousand and twelve dollars and seventy-four cents now in the Treasury to the credit of the Winnebago tribe of Indians, and accruing under treaty appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, such sum as may upon the completion of said census, be found necessary to equalize the payments between the two bands on account of the payment of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two from the principal funds of the tribe to the Winnebagoes in Nebraska. And all of the said sums shall be paid prorata to those persons whose names appear upon the census-roll of the Winnebagoes of Wisconsin, heads of families being permitted to receive the full amount to which all the members of the family are entitled: Provided, That before any person shall be entitled to the benefits that they have accruing under this act, it shall be made to appear that the person claimtaken up home- ing its benefits, or the head of the family to which such person belongs, steads, &c. has taken up a homestead in accordance with the said act of March 1875, March 3, third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, or that, being unable to fully ch. 131, § 15. comply with the said act by reason of poverty, he or she has made a selection of land as a homestead, with a bona fide intention to comply with said act, and that the money applied for will be used to enter the lands so select d, and for the improvement of the same.

Claimants to

benefits to show

Future distribu

how made.

Stat. L., 658).

SEC. 3. That in the future distribution of the annuities of the said tions of annuities; tribe of Winnebago Indians, a pro-rata division, according to the num1863, ch. 53 (12 ber of each band as shown by said census, shall be made between that portion of said tribe in Nebraska and that portion in Wisconsin; and the moneys belonging to each shall be annually distributed to the members of said bands respectively, in the manner provided by the fifth section of the act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act for the removal of the Winnebago Indians, and for the sale of their reservation in Minnesota for their benefit.”

Nebraska.

Adjustment of SEC. 4. That for the purpose of equitably adjusting the amount due amount between to the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin, under the act of June twentyIndians in Wisconsin and those in fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, from that portion of the tribe residing in Nebraska, and arising from the failure of the Department of 1864, ch. 148 (13 the Interior to set aside from year to year the proportion of the tribal Stat. L., 172). fund belonging to said Wisconsin Winnebagoes, as provided in said act, from the date of the passage of the same to the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the payment of the full amount of the same to the Winnebagoes of Nebraska for such period, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to have an account between said portions of the Winnebago tribe of Indians stated, basing the same upon the census herein provided for, charging the Winnebagoes in Nebraska with the full

amount found to be due to the Wisconsin Winnebagoes under said act for the period named, and crediting them with the amount actually expended in the removal and subsistence of the Wisconsin Winnebagoes at the date of their removal to Nebraska in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three;

Balance found

And the balance found in favor of the Winnebagoes of Wisconsin, whatever the amount may be, shall hereafter be held and considered as in favor of Indians a debt due to them from that portion of the tribe residing in Nebraska; secured, &c. in Wisconsin; how and until said debt shall have been extinguished the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be deducted annually from the proportion of annuity moneys due to the Winnebagoes in Nebraska, and to be paid to the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin, such proportion of the share of annuities belonging to the said Winnebagoes of Nebraska as he may deem right and proper:

Provided, however, That such sum shall not be less than seven thousand dollars per annum.

amount of.

SEC. 5. That the titles acquired by said Winnebagoes of Wisconsin Titles of Wisconin and to the lands heretofore or hereafter entered by them under the sin Indians to lands inalienable, provisions of said act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- &c., and free from five, shall not be subject to alienation or incumbrance, either by volun- tax for twenty tary conveyance or by the judgment, decree, or order of any court, or years. subject to taxation of any character, but shall be and remain inaliena- 1875, March 3, ble and not subject to taxation for the period of twenty years from the ch. 131, §§ 15, 16. date of the patent issued therefor.

And this section shall be inserted in each and every patent issued under the provisions of said act or of this act. [January 18, 1881.]

This section to be inserted in patents under act.

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE

NAVY.

Professors of mathematics in Navy to pass physical and professional examination before appointment.

Jan. 20, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 317.

Professors of

Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter no person shall be appointed a professor of mathematics in the Navy until he shall have passed a physical mathematics in examination before a board of naval surgeons, and a professional examNavy to pass physical and profesination before a board of professors of mathematics in the Navy, to be sional examinaconvened for that purpose by the Secretary of the Navy, and received tion before apa favorable report from said boards. [January 20, 1881.]

pointment.
R. S., § 1400.

CHAPTER 25.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE AWARD OF AND COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC ADVERTISING
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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[SECTION 1], That all advertising required by existing laws to be done in the District of Columbia by any of the departments of the government shall be given to one daily and one weekly newspaper of each of the two principal political parties and to one daily and one weekly neutral newspaper:

Provided, That the rates of compensation for such service shall in no case exceed the regular commercial rate of the newspapers selected; nor shall any advertisement be paid for unless published in accordancé with section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Stat

utes.

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In District of Columbia: public advertising in; to what papers to be given and at what rate of pay. R. S., § 38263828.

1875, Feb. 18, ch. March 3, ch. 128. 80, 1, par. 1;

1876, July 31, ch. 246, par. 2.

1878, May 17, ch. 107, 4; June 20, ch. 359, par. 6.

SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby Repeal. repealed. [January 21, 1881.]

CHAPTER 27,

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF AN INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING IN AND
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Jan. 25, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 318.

In District of Columbia, inspector of plumbing to
be appointed.

Plumbing regulations to be enforced by health officer; penalty for violation of.

In District of Co

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Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be appointed by the Commissionlumbia, inspector ers of the District of Columbia an inspector of plumbing for said Disof plumbing to be trict, whose duty it shall be, to inspect all houses in course of erection, 1878, June 11, ch. and pass upon the plumbing and sewerage of said houses.

appointed.

180.

Plumbing regulations to be enforced by health officer.

1878, June 11, ch. 180, §§ 3, 8. -penalty for violation of.

And the health officer of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, under direction of the Commissioners, to execute and enforce regulations governing plumbing, house drainage, and the ventilation of house sewers;

And any person who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of the said regulations when promulgated shall be punishable by a fine of from twenty-five to two hundred dollars for each and every such offense, or in default of payment of fine to imprisonment for thirty days. [January 25, 1881.]

Jan. 28, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 321.

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE OF THE REVISED
STATUTES RELATING TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

In District of Columbia, telephone companies may be formed as other companies are formed. In District of CoBe it enacted, &c., That section five hundred and fifty-three of the lumbia, telephone Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, companies may be formed as other amended by inserting the word "telephone" after the word "transpor companies are tation", so as to read as follows:

formed.

Substitute for

§ 553.

"SEC. 553. Any three or more persons who desire to form a company for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacturing, agricultural, R. S. Dist. Col., mining, mechanical, insurance, mercantile, transportation, telephone, or marketing business, in the District, or savings bank therein, may make, sign, and acknowledge, before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of recorder of deeds, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated". [January 28, 1881.]

Feb. 1, 1881.

21 Stat. L., 322.

Assay-office established at Saint Louis, Mo.

R. S., §§ 343-345,

3495-3570, 3600,

3615..

- to be provided

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AN ASSAY-OFFICE IN THE CITY OF SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI.
SECTION

1. Assay-office established at Saint Louis, Mo.
Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

2. to be provided for in post-office building.

[SECTION 1], That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish an assay-office at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri; the said office to be conducted under the provisions of an act entitled (1) "An act revising and amending the laws relative to the mints, assay-offices, and coinage of the United States," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and for in post-office directed to set apart sufficient room for said assay-office in the governbuilding. ment building in Saint Louis, now used for a post-office and custom-house, and provide the same with the necessary fixtures and apparatus, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropri ated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. [February 1, 1881.]

NOTE. (1) The provisions of the act of 1873, ch. 131 (17 Stat. L., 424), here referred to, are incorporated into the Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin, and the act is thereby repealed.

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