Reports of court SEC. 7. That reports of the Court of Claims to Congress under to Congress shall this act, if not finally acted upon during the session at which they be continued till are reported, shall be continued from session to session and from Congress to Congress until the same shall be finally acted upon. [March 3, 1883.] acted upon. March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 487. Public lands in CHAP. 118.-An act to exclude the public lands in Alabama from the operation of the laws relating to mineral lands. Be it enacted, &c., That within the State of Alabama all public Alabama, mineral lands, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal or otherwise, sub- only as agricultural lands: as agricultural lands. ject to sale only Provided however, That all lands which have heretofore been reported to the General Land Office as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale. [Remainder of act relates to pending homestead entries.] [March 3, 1883.] R. S., § 2318. 1889, March 2,ch. 381, post, p. 682. March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 487. Secretary of War CHAP. 120.-An act to amend chapter fifty-eight of volume twenty of the United States Statutes at Large, relating to contracts under the War Department. Be it enacted, &c., That chapter fifty-eight of volume twenty of may make rules the United States Statutes at Large, entitled "An act to authorize respecting bids for the Secretary of War to prescribe rules and regulations to be obcontracts, require bonds, &c. served in the preparation, submission, and opening of bids for conR. S., §§ 3709, tracts under the War Department," be amended by striking therefrom everything following the words "War Department," and sub1878, April 10, stituting for the part of the act so stricken out the following words: 3714-3717. Failure of bid contract. "And he may require every bid to be accompanied by a written guarantee, signed by one or more responsible persons, to the effect that he or they undertake that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will, at such time as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War or the officer authorized to make a contract in the premises, give bond, with good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed or to perform the service required. If after the acceptance of a bid and a notification thereof to the der to enter into bidder he fails within the time prescribed by the Secretary of War or other duly authorized officer to enter into a contract and furnish a bond with good and sufficient security for the proper fulfillment of its terms, the Secretary or other authorized officer shall proceed to contract with some other person to furnish the supplies or perform the service required, and shall forthwith cause the difference between the amount specified by the bidder in default in the proposal and the amount for which he may have contracted with another party to furnish the supplies or perform the service for the whole period of the proposal to be charged up against the bidder and his guarantor or guarantors, and the sum may be immediately recovered by the United States for the use of the War Department in an action of debt against either or all of such persons." [March 3, 1883.] March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 488. Repeal of internal-revenue taxes on capital and deposits of banks. R. S., SS 3408, 5214. CHAP. 121.-An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That the taxes herein specified imposed by the laws now in force be, and the same are hereby, repealed, as herein after provided, namely: On capital and deposits of banks, bankers, and national banking associations, except such taxes as are now due and payable; And on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and Stamp on bank eighty-three, the stamp tax on bank checks, drafts, orders, and vouch- checks, &c., ers, and the tax on matches, perfumery, medicinal preparations, and matches, perfumother articles imposed by Schedule A following section thirty-four ery, medicinal hundred and thirty-seven of the Revised Statutes: * [Remainder of section temporary.] * * SEC. 2, 3. [Superseded 1890, October 1, ch. 1244, § 26, post, p. 862.] SEC. 4. * *[Words omitted, superseded, 1890, October 1, ch. 1244, § 30, post, p. 864.] preparations, &c. R. S., Schedule A, following § 3437, p. 678. Tax on cigars On cigars which shall be manufactured and sold or removed for consumption or sale on and after the first day of May, eighteen and cigarettes. hundred and eighty-three, there shall be assessed and collected the following taxes, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof: On cigars of all descriptions, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor, three dollars per thousand; On cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds per thousand, fifty cents per thousand; On cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, three dollars per thousand; * * [Omitted words are temporary and executed.] R. S., § 3368. 1879, March 1, 125, § 14, ante, p. 240. 864. Label to be SEC. 5. That from and after the passage of this act every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall, in addition to all other require- pasted on each ments of law, print on each package, or securely affix by pasting on package, &c., of each package containing tobacco or snuff manufactured by or for tobacco and snuff. him, a label on which shall be printed the number of the manufactory, the district and State in which it is situated, and these words; NOTICE.-The manufacturer of this tobacco has complied with all requirements of law. Every person is cautioned, under penalties of law, not to use this package for tobacco again. [Remainder of act superseded 1890, June 10, ch. 407; October 1, ch. 1244, post, pp. 744, 812.] [March 3, 1883.] R. S., § 3364. CHAP. 123.—An act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., [SEC. 1. For substitute, see 1887, January 3, ch. 13, post, p. 517.] March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 526. Postal notes: SEC. 2. That the provisions of section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-four, title forty-six, chapter one, and the provisions of sections money-order laws four thousand and twenty-seven, four thousand and thirty, four applicable to. R. S., SS 3834, thousand and thirty-nine, four thousand and forty-one, four thou- 4027, 4030, 4039, sand and forty-two, four thousand and forty-three, four thousand 4041-4046, 4048. and forty-four, four thousand and forty-five, four thousand and 1887, Jan. 3, ch. forty-six, and four thousand and forty-eight, title forty-six, chapter 13. post, p. 517. thirteen, of the Revised Statutes, edition of eighteen hundred and 1888, June 18, ch. 394, § 2, post, p. seventy-eight, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to postal 593. notes as well as to money-orders; And that in addition to the authority granted by section four Agent and assisthousand and forty-eight of said Revised Statutes to the Postmaster- tants to distribute General to pay out of the proceeds of the money-order business the postal notes, aucost of stationery and such incidental expenses as are necessary for the transaction of that business, he is hereby authorized to pay out of the proceeds of said business the compensation of an agent and the necessary assistanis to distribute postal notes to postmasters, and also the necessary incidental expenses of the agency; and such agent shall, before entering upon his duties, give bond for the faithful performance thereof in such sum and form and with such security as the Postmaster-General may approve. thorized. Bond. And all blanks, blank-books, and printed or engraved matter sup- Blanks, blankplied to postmasters by the Postmaster-General or used in his depart- books, &c., to be obtained from ment for the transaction of the money-order business shall be oblowest responsible tained from the lowest responsible bidders for furnishing printed bidder. Public Printer and engraved matter, respectively, under separate advertisements calling for proposals to furnish the same for a period of four years, upon such conditions as the Postmaster-General may prescribe: Provided, That the Public Printer and the Chief of the Bureau of and Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department shall submit, Engraving may respectively, estimates of the cost of furnishing such printed and submit estimates. engraved matter as may be required for use in the money-order business, and they shall furnish such printed and engraved matter whenever upon their estimates of cost the expenditure therefor will be less than upon proposals made as above provided for. Money-order; not for more than $100. Fees for issues. R. S., § 4032. 1886, June 29, ch. 568, post,p.498. Postmasters at SEC. 3. That a money-order shall not be issued for more than one hundred dollars, And that the fees for money-orders shall be as follows, to wit: For orders exceeding ten dollars and not exceeding fifteen dollars, ten cents. For orders exceeding fifteen dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, fifteen cents. For orders exceeding thirty dollars and not exceeding forty-dollars, twenty cents. For orders exceeding forty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, twenty-five cents. For orders exceeding fifty dollars and not exceeding sixty dollars, thirty cents. For orders exceeding sixty dollars and not exceeding seventy-dollars, thirty-five cents. For orders exceeding seventy dollars and not exceeding eighty dollars, forty cents. For orders exceeding eighty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, forty-five cents. SEC. 4. That postmasters at money-order post-offices whose annual certain money-or- salary is not less than three thousand dollars may be allowed by the der offices may Postmaster-General to employ such number of clerks in the transemploy clerks, &c. action of their money-order business, and at such rates of compensation, respectively, as he may deem expedient; 4048. Pay for clerical And at all other money-order post-offices the compensation for the labor in money- clerical labor employed in the money-order business, including the order business. issue and payment of postal notes, shall be three and one-half cents R. S., SS 4047, for each domestic or international money-order issued, paid, or re1886, June 29, paid, and one cent for each postal note issued, and three-quarters of ch. 569, § 2, post, one cent for each postal note paid thereat, and in case any office is designated to receive on deposit surplus money-order funds from other post-offices, three and one-half cents for each certificate issued in acknowledgment of the receipt of such funds; p. 499. 1889, March 2, ch.374,par. 1.post, p. 679. But the total allowance made by the Postmaster-General for moneyorder clerks at any first-class office shall be based, as nearly as possible, upon the number of transactions, at the same rate for each transaction as is above fixed for the compensation of clerical labor at other post-offices, and the compensation of the postmasters and the clerks provided for in this section shall be paid out of the fees received for the issue of money-orders and postal notes: Additional al- Provided, That in addition to an allowance for clerical service at lowances to cer- the rates above mentioned, the Postmaster-General may allow to tain postmasters. the postmaster at New York, New York, to the postmaster at San Francisco, California, to the postmaster at Portland, Oregon, and to the postmaster at each international exchange office, such amount in each case, out of the proceeds of the money-order business, as he may deem expedient to enable these postmasters to obtain the clerical labor necessary for the performance of such special duties as are imposed NOTES.-(1) On orders not exceeding $5, reduced to 5 cents by 1886, June 29, ch. 568, post, p. 498. upon them by the operations of the money-order system, and are not required of other postmasters: And provided further, That credit shall not be allowed to a post- Credit allowed master at a first-class office on account of any expenditure in pay- only upon vouchment of clerical service in the money-order business of his office ex- ers, &c. cept upon a voucher duly receipted by the person by whom such service shall have been performed: And provided further, That the salaries of postmasters, as fixed by law, shall be deemed and taken to be full compensation for the responsibility and risk incurred and for the personal services rendered by them as custodians of the money-order and other funds of the Post-Office Department. Salaries to be in full. R. S., § 4047. ch. 142, §§ 1, 2, 1883, March 3, post, pp. 417, 419. seven years to be SEC. 5. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office De- Amount of unpartment shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the present paid money-orfiscal year, transmit to the Postmaster-General a statement of the ders outstanding aggregate amount of all money-orders which at the beginning of reported by Sixth said year shall have remained unpaid for a period of seven years or Auditor. more after the date of their issue; And as soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year thereafter he shall transmit in like manner a statement of the aggregate amount of all money-orders and postal notes which at the commencement of such year shall have remained unpaid for less than eight and not less than seven years after the date of their issue; R. S., § 276. to be deposited And the Postmaster-General shall cause the aggregate amount of such unpaid orders and postal notes as reported annually by the in Treasury, &c. Auditor to be deposited in the Treasury, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, for the service of the Post-Office Department. But nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to pre- Payment of duvent the payment, out of current money-order funds, by duplicate plicates, &c. issued under the authority of the Postmaster-General, of any lost. S., SS 4036or invalid money-order or of any invalid postal note more than seven years old, upon the presentation of satisfactory proof to the Postmaster-General of the ownership of such money-order or upon the production of such invalid postal note in accordance with the provisions of (2) section one of this act; And the total amount of such lost or invalid money-orders and invalid postal notes more than seven years old paid during each year by duplicate shall be deducted from the aggregate amount of unpaid money-orders and postal notes to be deposited at the close thereof in the Treasury as herein before provided 4040. SEC. 6. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provi- Repeal. sions of this act shall be void in so far as they may apply to cases which may arise under this act : Provided, That the provisions of this act shall be put into operation by the Postmaster-General within six months after the date of its approval by the President. [March 3, 1883.] NOTE.—(2) See substitute, 1887, Jan. 3, ch. 13, §1, post, p. 517. CHAP. 124.-An act to amend certain sections of the Revised Statutes relating to the March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 529. Religious societies, District of Columbia; name of and number of trustees. Substitute for Be it enacted, &c., That section five hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 534. Such society or congregation may assume a name, and any number of trustees, not exceeding ten, who shall be styled trustees of such society or congregation by the name so assumed, may be elected or appointed according to the rules or discipline governing the church or denomination to which said society or congrega- ch. 72, ante, p. 7. tion may belong.' 1884, April 23, ch. 28, post, p. 425. R. S. of D. C., § 534. 1874, March 27, Trustees' term of That section five hundred and thirty-six be, and is hereby, office, vacancies, amended so as to read as follows: rules, &c. Substitute for R. S. of D. C., $536. 43. "SEC. 536. The trustees shall hold office during the period stated in their certificates, and vacancies in the office of trustee may be filled by election or appointment as provided in section five hundred and 4 Mackey (D.C.), thirty-four; and rules and regulations may be adopted in relation to the management of the estate and the duties of trustees, or for their removal from office, in accordance with the rules or discipline governing the church or denomination to which such society or congregation may belong, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States and the laws in force in the District." 137 U. S., 568. -election on ex That section five hundred and thirty-seven be, and is hereby, piration of serv- - amended so as to read as follows: ice. Substitute for SEC. 537. At the expiration of the term of service of any of the trustees, one or more successors may be elected or appointed, as proR. S. of D. C., vided in section five hundred and thirty-four, and a certificate of their appointment or election shall be made, verified, filed, and recorded as provided in section five hundred and thirty-five.” § 537. - powers and du ties of, as to sale of lands. Substitute for § 541. That section five hundred and forty-one be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 541. The trustees shall have power, under the direction of the society or congregation or the authority by whom they were R. S. of D. C., elected or appointed, to sell and execute deeds and conveyances of the property authorized to be held by the society or congregation; and such deeds or conveyances shall have the same effect as like deeds or conveyances made by natural persons; but no deed or conveyance shall be made so as to defeat or destroy the interest or effect of any grant, donation, or bequest, and all grants, donations and bequests shall be appropriated and used as directed by the person making the as to mortgag ing lands. Substitute for R. S. of D. C., § 542. March 3, 1883. 22 Stat. L., 530. same. That section five hundred and forty-two be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 542. The trustees shall have power, under the direction of the society or congregation or the authority by whom they were elected or appointed, to execute mortgages, or deeds of trust in the nature of mortgages, upon the estate and property which any society or congregation are authorized to hold or to lease the same for a term not exceeding ten years. And such mortgages, deeds, and conveyances_shall have the same effect and be enforced by the same remedies and proceedings as like mortgages, deeds, leases, and conveyances made by natural persons." [March 3, 1883.] CHAP. 125.-An act to punish larceny from the person in the District of Columbia. Dist. of Col.; larBe it enacted, &c., That whoever, in the District of Columbia, ceny from person commits larceny from the person of another shall be deemed guilty in, made a felony, of a felony, and shall on conviction thereof, be punished by impris R. S. of D. C., SS onment not more than six years, or by a fine not exceeding one 1158-1161, 1173. thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. -attempt to commit from person, a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. That whoever, in the District of Columbia, attempts to commit larceny from the person of another by any overt act, done with the intent to commit a larceny, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished in the police court of the District of Columbia by imprisonment in the District jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [March 3, 1883.] |