Jan. 28, 1875. CHAP. 27.—An act to provide an appropriation for continuing the construction of the post office and custom house at Saint Louis, Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred Appropriation. and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available immediately, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Custom-house custom-house and post office at Saint Louis, Missouri, now in course of and post office at construction. Saint Louis, Mo. Jan. 29, 1875. Patchogue, Long Island, to be a port of delivery. Surveyor at. Power to enroll, &c., vessels. Jan. 30, 1875. 1855, c. 128, v. 10, p. 616. Difference of pay to be paid certain officers dropped or furloughed, and afterward pro moted and re stored. Approved, January 28, 1875. CHAP. 29.—An act to constitute Patchogue on the south side of Long Island, in the State of New York, a port of delivery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the village of Patchogue, on the south side of Long Island, State of New York, shall be, and the same is hereby, made a port of delivery within the collection district of the port of New York, and shall be subject to the same regulations as other ports of delivery in the United States; that a surveyor be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to reside at the said port of Patchogue, who shall have the power to enroll and license vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, and who shall give the usual bond, perform the usual duties in the manner prescribed, and receive the fees he may be entitled to by law as allowed to surveyors for the same duties, and no more. Approved, January 29, 1875. CHAP. 30.-An act for the relief of certain officers of the Navy who were dropped, furloughed, or retired under the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all officers now in the Navy, and the widows or heirs of those who have died while attached to the Navy, including the widow of Captain Elisha Peck relieved by special act of March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, who were dropped, furloughed, or retired under the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and who were afterward promoted and restored to the active list of the Navy, under the operations of the act 1855, c. 128, v. 10, of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, or by the President under the operation of subsequent laws, shall be entitled to receive out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the differ1857, c. 12, v. 11, ence between the pay respectively received by them and the pay at that time designated by law for officers on the active list of the rank to which they were respectively promoted, for and during the time they 1873, c. 465, v. 17, were affected by the operation of the said acts of February twentyp. 791. eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. p. 616. P. 153. Jan. 30, 1875. Authority to appoint Holmes Wikoff assistant-surgeon in the Navy. Approved, January 30, 1875. CHAP. 31.-An act authorizing the President to nominate Holmes Wikoff an assistant surgeon in the Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint Holmes Wikoff, an assistant surgeon in the Navy, waiving his disqualification by age, but subject in all other respects to existing law and regulations. Approved, January 30, 1875. CHAP. 32.-An act for the relief of John T. Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint, upon the retired list of the Navy, with the rank of first assistant engineer, John T. Smith, now a second assistant engineer on the active list of the Navy. Approved, January 30, 1875. Jan. 30, 1875. Authority to appoint John T. Smith first assisttired list of Navy. ant-engineer on re CHAP. 33.—An act for the payment of interest on three-sixty-five bonds of the District of Columbia. Feb. 1, 1875. Appropriation. Payment of inter Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred and eighty-two thousand and five hundred dollars, in currency or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the interest on the bonds of the District of Columbia, est on three-sixtyknown as three-sixty-five bonds, due on February first, eighteen hun- five bonds of D. C., dred and seventy-five, issued under the act entitled "An act for the due Feb. 1, 1875. government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," ap- 1874, c. 337; ante, proved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; said inter- p. 116. est to be paid by the Treasurer of the United States, or the assistant treasurer of the United States in New York, on surrender of the proper coupons: Provided, That the said sum hereby appropriated shall be considered and adjusted as a part of the proper proportional sum to be paid by the United States toward the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, and toward the payment of the interest on the funded debt of the District. Approved, February 1, 1875. CHAP. 34.-An act to grant title to certain lands in the Territory of Arizona. Whereas, certain lands in Santa Cruz Valley, county of Pima, and Territory of Arizona, have for many years been occupied and possessed by persons of Mexican birth, who became citizens of the United States under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden treaty; and whereas the said persons desire to secure patents for said lands in the small and irregular tracts in which they were originally taken up under Mexican authority, and have been held and cultivated to the present time, and they cannot do so under the existing land laws of the United States; Therefore, Feb. 5, 1875. Relinquishing certain lands in Pima County, Ari Facts to be de Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right and title of the United States to the land embraced in sections two, eleven, and fourteen, and the east half of sections three, ten and fifteen of town- zona, to certain ocship fourteen south, range thirteen east, Gila and Salt River meridian, cupants. in the county of Pima, Territory of Arizona, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and granted to the person or persons who have been in the actual bona-fide occupancy or possession of said land, by themselves or their ancestors or grantors for twenty years next preceding the date of the passage of this act; and it shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of the United States land-office for the district in which termined by regissaid land lies, to hear and determine, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the rights of the parties claiming under this act; and for that purpose the said register and the said receiver shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony relative to such occupancy or possession: Provided, That no claim as aforesaid shall be of any validity under this act unless it shall have been duly filed with the said register and the 43-2- -PUB 20 ter and receiver. Grant not to extend to Claim to be filed said receiver within one year after the passage of this act: And prowithin one year. vided further, That this grant shall not extend to any reservation of the United States, nor prejudice any valid adverse right or claim, if such tions, nor affect ad- exist, to said land, or any part thereof, nor preclude a judicial examiverse rights. nation and adjustment thereof. reserva SEC. 2. That whenever it shall have been determined by the said register and the said receiver, or on appeal by the Commissioner of the General Land Office or Secretary of the Interior that any tract has been occupied as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general Survey of claims. for said Territory to cause the said claims to be surveyed in accordance with the lines of such occupancy, and to furnish approved plats of the same, upon the receipt and approval of which said plats, and the fieldPatent; when to notes thereof by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, patents shall issue as in other cases. be issued. Lands not occu pied for twenty years to be open for settlement. Prior right of occupants for less than twenty years. SEC. 3. That any part or parts of said designated lands that are not shown, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to have been so occupied for twenty years, shall be held by him as open to settlement under the provisions of the preemption or homestead laws of the United States, and patents may be issued therefor for any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty that parties complying with said legal provisions may desire to hold: Provided, That all existing occupants who have settled on said lands within a period of less than twenty years shall have the prior right to acquire the same under the homestead laws of the United States. Approved, February 5, 1875. Feb. 5, 1875. CHAP. 35.-An act granting the right of way and depot-grounds to the Oregon Central Pacific Railway Company through the public lands of the United States, from Winnemucca, in the State of Nevada, to the Columbia River, via Portland, in the State of Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding Grant of right in the construction of a railway and telegraph-line from a point at or of way and depot- near Winnemucca, on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the State of Negrounds to Oregon vada; thence northwesterly to and across Goose Lake Valley, and by Railway Company. way of Sprague River Valley, to the waters of the Middle Fork of the Central Pacific Willamette River, in the Cascade Mountains; thence down said river, on the north side, to Springfield; thence crossing to and continuing upon the west side of said river to the waters of the Columbia River, via Portland, Oregon, there is hereby granted to the Oregon Central Pacific Railway Company, organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Oregon on the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to their successors and assigns, a strip of land, one hundred feet wide, on each side of the central line of said road, through the public lands, and the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and telegraph, not exceeding twenty acres at any one place: Provided, That the locations for depots, stations, and side-tracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of twenty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall Power of States conform to the Government surveys thereof: And provided further, That to regulate cost of the State or States, within the limits of which said road or any part transportation. thereof shall be hereafter situated, shall have the power to regulate and limit the cost of transportation of persons or freight over the same. Limitation of grant for depotgrounds, &c. Plat and proof of located sections of twenty miles, when to be filed. SEC. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the location of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and if upon unsurveyed lands, then within six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with the register of the land office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, Time for com and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the township- Lands to be sold plats in said office; and thereafter all lands over which the line of said subject to located road shall pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United right of way. States, subject to such right of way so located as aforesaid: Provided, That the line of said road shall be completed within ten years thereafter: pleting road. Provided further, That this act shall not take effect on any lands to which any bona fide preëmption or homestead claim has attached before Prior homestead the definite location of the line of road, and the notice of the same has and pre-emption been given to the land-office in the district where the same is located. rights protected. SEC. 3. That the rights herein granted shall not preclude the construc- Rights reserved tion of other railroads or telegraph-lines through any canyon, defile, or to other companies. pass on the route of said road, or the crossing of the same at grade by other railroads. SEC. 4. That said company shall locate its road within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the said railroad within ten years from the same date, failing in which, this act shall be null and void. SEC. 5. That Congress hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act at any time that the public interest may require it. Approved, February 5, 1875. Location and construction, when to be completed. Right of amend, ment or repeal. CHAP. 36.—An act to amend existing customs and internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes. Feb. 8, 1875. Customs duties imposed. Spun silk, silk in gum, floss-silk, sewing silk. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the date of the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed on the importation of the goods, wares, and merchandise hereinafter specified, the following rates of duty shall be exacted, namely: On spun silk, for filling, in skeins or cops, thirty five per centum ad valorem; on silk in the gum, not more advanced than singles, tram, and thrown or organzine, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on floss-silks, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on sewing-silk, in the gum or purified, forty per centum ad valorem; on lastings, mohair cloth, silk twist, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, or form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for buttons exclusively, ten per centum ad valorem; on all goods, wares, and merchandise not other silk is component wise herein provided for, made of silk, or of which silk is the compo- material of chief nent material of chief value, irrespective of the classification thereof value, &c. for duty by or under previous laws, or of their commercial designation, Goods, of which sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That this act shall not apply centum of compotwenty-five per to goods, wares, or merchandise which have, as a component material nent material in thereof, twenty-five per centum or over in value of cotton, flax, wool, or cotton, flax, wool, worsted. SEC. 2. That from and after the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the merchandise hereinafter enumerated, imported from foreign countries, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following duties, that is to say: Cloth fit for buttons exclusively. Goods, of which or worsted. Still wines. On all still wines imported in casks, forty cents per gallon. On all still wines imported in bottles, one dollar and sixty cents per case of one dozen bottles, containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles, containing each not more than one pint; and any excess beyond those quantities found in such bottles shall be subject to a duty of five cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be collected on Imported wines the bottles: Provided, That any wines imported containing more than containing more twenty-four per centum of alcohol shall be forfeited to the United States: than twenty-four Provided also, That there shall be an allowance of five per centum, and per centum of alcohol. no more, on all effervescing wines, liquors, cordials, and distilled spirits, Deduction for in bottles, to be deducted from the invoice quantity in lieu of breakage. breakage. Wines in public store when this act takes effect. Hops. Chromate of po tassa, &c. Macaroni, &c. Nitro-benzole. Tin plates, &c. Anchovies and` sardines. SEC. 3. That all imported wines of the character provided for in the preceding section which may remain in public store or bonded warehouse on the day this act shall take effect shall be subject to no other duty upon the withdrawal thereof for consumption than if the same were imported after that day: Provided, That any such wines remaining on shipboard within the limits of any port of entry in the United States on the day aforesaid, duties unpaid, shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered as constructively in public store or bonded warehouse. SEC. 4. That on and after the date of the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties imposed by law on the articles in this section enumerated, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise in this section enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duties, that is to say: On hops, eight cents per pound. On chromate and bichromate of potassa, four cents per pound. On macaroni and vermicelli, and on all similar preparations, two cents per pound. On nitro-benzole, or oil of mirbane, ten cents per pound. On tin in plates or sheets and on terne and tagger's tin, one and onetenth cents per pound. On anchovies and sardines, packed in oil or otherwise, in tin boxes, fifteen cents per whole box, measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and three and one-half inches deep; seven and onehalf cents for each half-box, measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and one and five-eighths inches deep; and four cents for each quarter box, measuring not more than four inches and threequarters long, three and one-half inches wide, and one and one-half inches deep; when imported in any other form, sixty per centum ad Packages of fish valorem: Provided, That cans or packages made of tin or other material containing fish of any kind admitted free of duty under any existing law or treaty, not exceeding one quart in contents, shall be subject to a duty of one cent and a half on each can or package; and when exceeding one quart, shall be subject to an additional duty of one cent and a half for each additional quart, or fractional part thereof. heretofore free. Yellow sheath ing-metal and yellow-metal bolts. SEC. 5. That yellow sheathing-metal and yellow-metal bolts, of which the component part of chief value is copper, shall be deemed manufactures of copper, and shall pay the duty now prescribed by law for manufactures of copper, and shall be entitled to the drawback allowed by law to copper and composition-metal whenever the same shall be used in the construction or equipment or repair of vessels built in the United States for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States. SEC. 6. That section four of the act entitled "An act to reduce duties 1872, c. 315, s. 4, on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," apv. 17, p. 233. proved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the thirtieth paragraph of said section in relation to the duty on Moisic iron; and from and after R. S., 2504, p. 467. the passage of this act, the duty on Moisic iron, of whatever condition, grade, or stage of manufacture, shall be the same as on all other species of iron of like condition, grade, or stage of manufacture. Moisic iron. Jute-butts. SEC. 7. That the duty on jute-butts shall be six dollars per ton: ProNew machinery vided, That all machinery not now manufactured in the United States for manufactures adapted exclusively to manufactures from the fiber of the ramie, jute, from ramie, &c. or flax, may be admitted into the United States free of duty for two years from the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five: And Foreign bags provided further, That bags, other than of American manufacture, iu nsed in export of which grain shall have been actually exported from the United States, grain. may be returned empty to the United States free of duty, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 8. That on and after the date of the passage of this act, the |