restrictions, and limitations, and possess the rights, privileges, and franchises, now or hereafter to be prescribed by law as to national banking associations, with the same power to amend, alter, and repeal provided by "the national bank act:" Provided, That the whole amount of circulation withdrawn and redeemed from banks transacting business shall not exceed fifty-five million dollars, and that such circulation shall be withdrawn and redeemed as it shall be necessary to supply the circulation previously issued to the banks in those States having less than their apportionment: And provided further, That not more that thirty million dollars shall be withdrawn and redeemed as herein contemplated during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five] [June 20, 1874.] CHAPTER 344. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LIFE-SAVING STATIONS AND HOUSES June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 125. life-boat stations [SECTION 1], That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized Life-saving and to establish life-saving stations, life-boat stations, and houses of refuge, and houses of reffor the better preservation of life and property from shipwreck, at or in uge to be estabthe vicinity of the following-named points upon the sea and lake coasts lished on coast of. of the United States, namely: 1881, March 2, ch. 111. R. S., §§ 4242-4251. ON THE COAST OF DELAWARE. Cape Henlopen, a complete life-saving station; Indian River, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF MARYLAND. Green Run Inlet, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF VIRGINIA. Delaware; 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. Maryland; 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. Virginia; 1878, June 18, Chincoteague, a complete life-saving station; Watchapreague Inlet, a complete life-saving station; Hog Island, a complete life-saving station; Sandy Shoal Island, a complete life-saving station; Smith's ch. 265, § 1. Island, a complete life-saving station. ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA. About eighteen miles north of Indian River Inlet, a house of refuge; Florida; Gilbert's Bar, a house of refuge; near Orange Grove, a house of ref uge; between Hillsborough and New River Inlet, a house of refuge; about ten miles south of New River Inlet, a house of refuge. ON THE COAST OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Washington Neah Bay, a life-boat station; Shoalwater Bay, a life-boat station; Territory; Cape Disappointment, a life boat station. ON THE COAST OF OREGON. Oregon; Cape Arago, a life-boat station. California; See 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. Lake Ontario; Lake Erie; Lake Huron; 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. Humboldt Bay, a life-boat station; (Rep.) [Point Reyes,] a lifeboat station; between Point Lobos and Point San Pedro, a life-boat station; Point Concepcion, near the light house, a life-boat station. ON THE COAST OF LAKE ONTARIO. Mexico Bay, about seven miles westward of Stony Point, a complete life-saving station; Mexico Bay, about seven miles eastward of Nine Mile Point, a complete life-saving station; Oswego, a life-boat station; Charlotte, a life-boat station. ON THE COAST OF LAKE ERIE. Buffalo, a life-boat station; Presque Isle, a complete life-saving station; Fairport, a life-boat station; Cleveland, a life-boat station; Marblehead, (Sandusky,) a life-boat station. ON THE COAST OF LAKE HURON. Point aux Barques, a complete life-saving station; Tawas, a complete life saving station; Sturgeon Point, a complete life-saving station; North Poiut, Thunder Bay, a life-boat station; Forty-Mile Point, a complete life-saving station. Lake Michigan; ON THE COAST OF LAKE MICHIGAN. 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. Lake Superior. 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 1. Superintendents &c. R. S., § 4243. Beaver Island, a life boat station; North Manitou Island, a life-boat station, Point aux Bec Scies, a complete life-saving station; Grande Pointe au Sauble, a complete life-saving station. Grand Haven, a life-boat station; Saint Joseph's, a life-boat station; Chicago, a lifeboat station; Grosse Point, a complete life-saving station; Racine, a life-boat station; Milwaukee, a life-boat station; Sheboygan, a life-boat station; Twin Rivers Point, a life-boat station. ON THE COAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR. Between White Fish Point and Point au Sauble, four complete lifesaving stations. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, whenon the coasts and ever, in his opinion, it may become necessary for the proper administrakeepers of stations, tion of the Life-Saving Service, and the protection of the public property at the stations and houses of refuge herein authorized to be established, to appoint one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware and Virginia, one for the coast of Florida, one for the coasts of Lakes Erie and Ontario, one for the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, and one for the coast of Lake Michigan, and also a keeper for each of said stations and houses of refuge; their compensation. And the said superintendents shall have the powers, and perform the duties of inspectors of customs. SEC. 3. That the compensation of each of the superintendents, to be appointed under the provisions of the preceding section, shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum; and the compensation of the keepers shall not exceed two hundred dollars per annum, except that those employed at the houses of refuge on the Florida coast shall reside in said houses and receive a compensation at the rate of forty dollars per month. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to apintendent for coast point an assistant to the superintendent of the coast of Long Island and of Long Island and Rhode Island, who shall perform the duties required of the superintendent at the life-saving stations within the State of Rhode Island, and reside on Block Island, and for his services he shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars. Assistant super Rhode Island. Crews and surf men. Volunteer crews SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ crews of experienced surfmen at such of the stations herein denominated complete stations and at such of the life-boat stations on the Pacific coast as he may deem necessary and proper, for such periods, and at such compensation, not to exceed forty dollars per month, as he may deem necessary and reasonable. SEC. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury may accept the services of may be accepted, volunteer crews at any of the life-boat stations herein authorized, whọ shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing the Life-Saving paid, and given Service; and a list of the names of each crew shall be kept in the office medals in certain of the Secretary of the Treasury. cases. 1878, June 18, ch. Such volunteers shall receive no compensation except a sum of not more 265, § 10. than ten dollars each for every occasion upon which they shall have been instrumental in saving human life, and such of the medals herein authorized as they may be entitled to under the provisions hereinafter made: Provided, That no payment shall be made to any person who shall not have actually participated in the efforts to save the life or lives rescued. SEC. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to cause to be prepared medals of honor, with suitable devices, to be distinguished may be given to as life-saving medals of the first and second class, which shall be bestowed persons who endanger their own upon any persons who shall hereafter endanger their own lives in saving, lives to save others or endeavouring to save lives from perils of the sea, within the United at sea. States, or upon any American vessel: Medals of honor 1878, June 18, ch. Provided, That the medal of the first class shall be confined to cases of 265, §12. extreme and heroic daring; and that the medal of the second class shall be given in cases not sufficiently distinguished to deserve the medal of the first class: Provided, also, That no award of either medal shall be made to any person until sufficient evidence of his deserving shall have been filed with the Secretary of the Treasury and entered upon the records of the Department. Regulations for SEC. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make all necessary regulations for the government of the Life-Saving Service life-saving service. not inconsistent with law. SEC. 9. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to dispose of, to the best advantage, after due condemnation by board of survey, such articles or materials belonging to the Life-Saving Service as may, from long continued use or other cause, become unserviceable and the proceeds of such sale shall be covered into the Treasury. Disposal of condemned articles. R. S., §§ 3618, 3672, 3692. 1878, June 18, ch. 265, § 3. Owners, agents, SEC. 10. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, whenever any vessel of the United States has sustained or masters of vesor caused any accident involving the loss of life, the material loss of prop; dents to collectors sels to report accierty, or any serious injury to any person, or has received any material of customs. damage affecting her seaworthiness or her efficiency, the managing owner, agent, or master of such vessel, shall within five days atter the happening of such accident or damage, or as soon thereafter as possible, send, by letter to the collector of customs of the district wherein such vessel belongs or of that within which such accident or damage occurred, a report thereof, signed by such owner, agent, or master, stating the name and official number (if any) of the vessel, the port to which she belongs, the place where she was, the nature and probable occasion of the casualty, the number and names of those lost, and the estimated amount of loss or damage to the vessel or cargo; and shall furnish, upon the request of either of such collectors of customs, such other information concerning the vessel, her cargo, and the casualty as may be called for; And if he neglect or refuse to comply with the foregoing requirements -penalty on, for after a reasonable time, he shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars. neglect. SEC. 11. That whenever the managing owner or agent of any vessel of to report to colthe United States has reason, owing to the non-appearance of such ves- lector probable loss sel, or to any other circumstance, to apprehend that such vessel has been of vessels, &c. lost, he shall, as soon as conveniently may be, send notice, in writing, to the collector of customs of the port to which said vessel belonged, of such loss, and the probable occasion thereof stating the name and the official number (if any) of the vessel, and the names of all persons on board, so far as the same can be ascertained, and shall furnish, upon request of the collector of such port, such additional information as he may be able; And it he neglect to comply with the above requirements within a reasonable time, he shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars. - penalty on, for neglect. SEC. 12. That it shall be the duty of the collectors of customs to im- Collectors to mediately transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury such reports and transmit to Secre tary of Treasury information as they may receive under the provisions of the two prereports received, ceding sections, and they shall also report to the Secretary of the Treasand to report neg- ury any neglect or refusal on the part of the managing owner, agent, or lects, refusals, &c. master of any vessel of the United States to comply with the require Penalties, how may be remitted, mitigated, &c. -how prosecuted for. 3. ments thereof. SEC. 13. That the Secretary of the Treasury may, upon application therefor, remit or mitigate any penalty provided for in this act, or discontinue any prosecution to recover the same, upon such terms as he, in his discretion, shall think proper, and shall have authority to ascertain the facts upon all such applications in such manner and under such regulations as he may think proper; All penalties herein before provided shall be prosecuted by indictment R. S., 563, par. States. [June 20, 1874.] or information before the proper district court for the use of the United June 20, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 129. Preamble. 869). CHAPTER 346. AN ACT TO ASCERTAIN THE POSSESSORY RIGHTS OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY Whereas it was stipulated by article one of the treaty concluded at WashTreaty (9 Stat. ington on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, between the United States and Great Britain, that the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along said parallel of north latitude "to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean;" Treaty, Art. 34 (17 Stat. L., 874). List of British And whereas by article three of the treaty aforesaid, it was stipulated that "in the future appropriation of the territory south of the forty-ninth paral lel of north latitude, as provided in the first article of this treaty, the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay Company, and of all British subjects who may be in the occupation of land or other property lawfully acquired within the said territory, shall be respected;" And whereas by article thirty-four of the treaty concluded at Washington on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the question of where "the boundary which runs southerly through the middle of the channel aforesaid" should be located was submitted to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, whose decision was to be final and without appeal; And whereas by the award of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy two, said boundary was established, and it now devolves upon the United States to discharge its treaty obligations: Therefore, Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That a commissioner be appointed by the President of subjects in occu- the United States, to make, and report to the Secretary of the Interior, pancy of lands a list of all British subjects who, on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen confirmed to Uni- hundred and forty-six, were in the occupation of land, lawfully acquired, award of Emperor within the limits which were the subject of the award of His Majesty of Germany to be the Emperor of Germany, together with a description of the land actu ted States by ally occupied by each at said date; and said commissioner shall proceed made by commisto the vicinity of the land in question, and there receive proof of the sioner, &c. occupancy of such land and of the mode by which such occupancy was acquired, after first giving reasonable notice as to the said matters to be so reported by him. Such proof shall consist of oral testimony under oath and such documentary proofs as the said occupants may present. Testimony, how The testimony of all witnesses shall be reduced to writing and all documentary proof offered by the parties and received by the commis- taken, &c. sioner shall be attached to the deposition of the party offering such proofs, which testimony and proofs shall be submitted by said commissioner with his report, and such report shall be subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, whose action thereon shall be final. Witnesses may Compensation of For the purposes of this act, the said commissioner shall have authority to subpoena witnesses and to administer oaths and take testimony. be summoned. SEC. 2. That said commissioner shall receive for his services ten dollars per diem, together with traveling expenses at the rate of ten cents commissioner. per mile, for the distance actually traveled in the execution of said commission; and the sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from any unappropriated money in the Treasury to defray such expenses. SEC. 3. That all British subjects whose claims shall be approved by the Secretary, as provided in section one of this act, shall be allowed to purchase from the United States the land so designated at any time within one year from such approval, at the ordinary minimum price per acre where the lands are situated outside railroad limits, and at double minimum price where the lands are within railroad limits. British subjects, whose claims are approved, may purchase lands. Entries, how SEC. 4. That such entries shall be according to legal subdivisions, so as to include the improvements of such occupants; and where two or made. more parties shall have improvements on the same smallest legal subdivision, they may make a joint entry thereof: Provided, That in case entry and payment are not made within one year from the date of such approval by the Secretary of the Interior, then all possessory rights named in article three of the treaty of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, shall be considered forfeited, and the lands shall thereafter be deemed and treated as a part of the public domain, to be disposed of as other lands. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to make all needful regulations to give effect to the provisions of this act. [June 20, 1874.] Rights forfeited under entry and payment made, &c. Regulations to be made by Secretary of Interior. CHAPTER 388. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES IN THE APPROPRIATIONS Par. 1. Extra sessions of Territorial legislatures not to be called without approval by 2. Money received for lands in township 51 Be it enacted, &c., Par. 3. Orphans' Home in Washington; what 4. Contracts for rent of buildings in Wash- 5. Pay for reporting proceedings of Congress June 22, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 133. Extra sessions of [Par. 1.] Hereafter no extraordinary session of the legislature of any Territorial legislaTerritory, wherever the same is now authorized by law, shall be called tures not to be calluntil the reasons for the same have been presented to the President of ed without approv the United States, and his approval thereof has been duly given. al by President. R. S., §§ 1846, 1923. [Par. 2.] For the L'Anse and Vieux de-Sert bands of Chippewas of Money received Lake Superior, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre for lands in town |