Who may enter by agent. Cultivation of stead tracts. services therein shall, in the administration of such homestead laws, be construed to be equivalent, to all intents and purposes, to a residence for the same length of time upon the tract so entered. And if his entry has been canceled by reason of his absence from such tract while in the military or naval service of the United States, and such tract has not been disposed of, his entry shall be restored; but if such tract has been disposed of, the party may enter another tract subject to entry under the homestead laws, and his right to a patent therefor may be determined by the proofs touching his residence and cultivation of the first tract and his absence therefrom in such service. SEC. 2309. Every soldier, sailor, marine, officer, or other person coming within the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and four, may, as well by an agent as in person, enter upon such homestead by filing a declaratory statement, as in pre-emption cases; but such claimant in person shall within the time prescribed make his actual entry, commence settlements and improvements on the same, and thereafter fulfill all the requirements of law. SEC. 2317. Every person having a homestead on the public domain, trees on home under the provisions of this chapter, who, at the end of the third year of his residence thereon, shall have had under cultivation, for two years, one acre of timber, the trees thereon not being more than twelve feet apart each way, and in a good, thrifty condition, for each and every sixteen acres of such homestead, shall, upon due proof of the fact by two credible witnesses, receive his patent for such homestead. Sec. 431. Establishment of office. 432. Maps, charts, &c. Title 10. Hydrographic Office. Maps, charts, &c. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. Sec. 433. Money received from sale. 3686. Foreign hydrographic surveys. SEC. 431. There shall be a Hydrographic Office attached to the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the Navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of the United States, and for the benefit and use of navigators generally. SEC. 432. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause to be prepared, at the Hydrographic Office attached to the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, maps, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation, and to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper, and to purchase the plates and copyrights of such existing maps, charts, navigators, sailing directions and instructions, as he may consider necessary, and when he may deem it expedient to do so, and under such regulations and instructions as he may prescribe. Money received SEC. 433. All moneys which may be received from the sale of maps, from sales of charts, and nautical books shall be returned by the Secretary of the Navy maps, charts, &c. into the Treasury of the United States, to be used in the further preparation and publication of maps, charts, navigators, sailing directions, and instructions for the use of seamen, to be sold at the rates as set forth in the preceding section. Title 41. Foreign hydro SEC. 3686. All appropriations made for the preparation or publication of foreign hydrographic surveys shall only be applicable to their object graphic surveys. upon the approval by the Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers, to the effect that the original data for proposed charts are such as to justify their publication; and it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to order a board of three naval officers to examine and report upon the data, before he shall approve of any application of money to the preparation or publication of such charts or hydrographic surveys. Cooly-trade SEC. 2158. No citizen of the United States, or foreigner coming into or Title 29. residing within the same, shall, for himself or for any other person, either as master, factor, owner, or otherwise, build, equip, load, or otherwise prohibited. prepare, any vessel, registered, enrolled, or licensed, in the United States, for the purpose of procuring from any port or place the subjects of China, Japan, or of any other oriental country, known as "coolies," to be transported to any foreign port, or place, to be disposed of, or sold, or transferred, for any time, as servants or apprentices, or to be held to service or labor. SEC. 2159. If any vessel, belonging in whole or in part to a citizen of Vessels emthe United States, and registered, enrolled, or otherwise licensed therein, trade shall be ployed in coolybe employed in the "cooly-trade," so called, contrary to the provisions forfeited. of the preceding section, such vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and other appurtenances, shall be forfeited to the United States, and shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned in any of the circuit courts or district courts of the United States for the district where the vessel may be found, seized, or carried. SEC. 2160. Every person who so builds, fits out, equips, loads, or otherwise prepares, or who sends to sea, or navigates, as owner, master, factor, agent, or otherwise, any vessel, belonging in whole or in part to a citizen of the United States, or registered, enrolled, or licensed within the same, knowing or intending that such vessel is to be or may be employed in that trade, contrary to the provisions of section twenty-one hundred and fifty-eight, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year. SEC. 2161. Every citizen of the United States who, contrary to the provisions of section twenty-one hundred and fifty-eight, takes on board of any vessel, or receives or transports any such subjects as are described in that section, for the purpose of disposing of them in any way as therein prohibited, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one year. Building ves sels to engage in cooly-trade, how punished. Punishment for violation of sec tion 2158. SEC. 2162. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to apply to any This Title not voluntary emigration of the subjects specified in section twenty-one hun- to interfere with voluntary e midred and fifty-eight, or to any vessel carrying such person as passenger gration. on board the same, but a certificate shall be prepared and signed by the consul or consular agent of the United States residing at the port from which such vessel may take her departure, containing the name of such person, and setting forth the fact of his voluntary emigration from such port, which certificate shall be given to the master of such vessel; and the same shall not be given until such consul or consular agent is first personally satisfied by evidence of the truth of the facts therein contained. Examination SEC. 2163. The President is empowered, in such way and at such time as he may judge proper, to direct the vessels of the United States, and of vessels. the masters and commanders thereof, to examine all vessels navigated or owned in whole or in part by citizens of the United States, and registered, enrolled, or licensed under the laws thereof, whenever, in the judgment of such master or commanding officer, reasonable cause exists to believe that such vessel has on board any subjects of China, Japan, or other oriental country, known as "coolies;" and, upon sufficient proof particular persons immigrat that such vessel is employed in violation of the preceding provisions, to ing, &c. cause her to be carried, with her officers and crew, into any port or district within the United States, and delivered to the marshal of such district, to be held and disposed of according to law. SEC. 2164. No tax or charge shall be imposed or enforced by any State upon any person immigrating thereto from a foreign country, which is not equally imposed and enforced upon every person immigrating to such State from any other foreign country. No charge upon March 3, 1875. purposes. CHAP. 141.-An act supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Inquiry by con- States of America in Congress assembled, That in determining whether the sular officer as to immigration of any subject of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, contract of immi- to the United States, is free and voluntary, as provided by section two grant from China thousand one hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Code, title "Immior Japan for service for immoral gration," it shall be the duty of the consul-general or consul of the United States residing at the port from which it is proposed to convey such subjects, in any vessels enrolled or licensed in the United States, or any port within the same, before delivering to the masters of any Conditions of such vessels the permit or certificate provided for in such section, to ascertain whether such immigrant has entered into a contract or agreeR. S., 2162, p. 378. ment for a term of service within the United States, for lewd and immoral purposes; and if there be such contract or agreement, the said consul-general or consul shall not deliver the required permit or certificate. certificate. Citizen of Uni consent. SEC. 2. That if any citizen of the United States, or other person ted States trans amenable to the laws of the United States, shall take, or cause to be porting subject of China or Ja- taken or transported, to or from the United States any subject of China, pan without free Japan, or any Oriental country, without their free and voluntary consent, for the purpose of holding them to a term of service, such citizen or other person shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and, on conviction of such offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand Contract for dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one year; and all contracts and agreements for a term of service of such persons in the United States, whether made in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importation, and whether such importation shall have been in American or other vessels, are hereby declared void. Penalty. service void. tion. Importation of SEC. 3. That the importation into the United States of women for the women for pur- purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all contracts and poses of prostitu- agreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of such Contract void. illegal importation and purposes, are hereby declared void; and whoever shall knowingly and willfully import, or cause any importation of, women into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall knowingly or willfully hold, or attempt to hold, any woman to such purposes, in pursuance of such illegal importation and contract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years and pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars. Penalty. Revised Statutes. Contracting to SEC. 4. That if any person shall knowingly and willfully contract, or supply labor of attempt to contract, in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importacooly in violation tion, to supply to another the labor of any cooly or other person brought of section 2158 into the United States in violation of section two thousand one hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes, or of any other section of the laws prohibiting the cooly-trade or of this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, in any United States court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Penalty. vessels. Immigration of SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following classes to alien convicts, immigrate into the United States, namely, persons who are undergoing and of women for a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious crimes other purposes of pros than political or growing out of or the result of such political offenses, titution, forbidden. or whose sentence has been remitted on condition of their emigration, and women "imported for the purposes of prostitution." Every vessel Inspection of arriving in the United States may be inspected under the direction of the collector of the port at which it arrives, if he shall have reason to believe that any such obnoxious persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall certify the result thereof to the master or Certificate of other person in charge of such vessel, designating in such certificate inspector. the person or persons, if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either When inspec- of the classes whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such tion required, alien not to land inspection is required by the collector as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful, until, &c. without his permission, for any alien to leave any such vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign country until the inspection shall have been had and the result certified as herein provided; and at no Alien of forbid- time thereafter shall any alien certified to by the inspecting officer as den classes not to being of either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this land, except, &c. section, be allowed to land in the United States, except in obedience to a judicial process issued pursuant to law. If any person shall feel Bond of master aggrieved by the certificate of such inspecting officer stating him or her Hearing of into be within either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by spector's charge. this section, and shall apply for release or other remedy to any proper court or judge, then it shall be the duty of the collector at said port of entry to detain said vessel until a hearing and determination of the matter are had, to the end that if the said inspector shall be found to be in accordance with this section and sustained, the obnoxious person or persons shall be returned on board of said vessel, and shall not thereafter be permitted to land, unless the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel shall give bond and security, to be approved by the court or judge hearing the cause, in the sum of five hundred dollars for each or owner, &c., of such person permitted to land, conditioned for the return of such person, vessels, for rewithin six months from the date thereof, to the country whence his or immigrants. her emigration shall have taken place, or unless the vessel bringing such obnoxious person or persons shall be forfeited, in which event the proceeds of such forfeiture shall be paid over to the collector of the port of arrival, and applied by him, as far as necessary, to the return of such person or persons to his or her own country within the said bid den immiperiod of six months. And for all violations of this act, the vessel, by grant by collector the acts, omissions, or connivance of the owners, master, or other cus- in certain cases. todian, or the consignee of which the same are committed, shall be turn of forbidden Return of for liable to forfeiture, and may be proceeded against as in cases of frauds Forfeiture of against the revenue laws, for which forfeiture is prescribed by existing vessel for viola law. tions of this act. 2512. Certain paintings, statuary, &c., to be admitted free of duty. 2513. Importation of materials for construction, &c., of vessels. 2791. Public vessels need not enter. SEC. 1624, Art. 12. No person connected with the Navy shall, under Title 15, Chap. any pretense, import in a public vessel any article which is liable to the 10. payment of duty. Importing in public vessels. Title 33. Prohibition up SEC. 2491. All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States, from any foreign country, any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other repre- on importation of sentation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, obscene articles. instrument, or other article of an iminoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion. No invoice or package whatever, or any part of one, in which any such articles are contained shall be admitted to entry; and all invoices and packages whereof any such articles shall compose a part are liable to be proceeded against, seized, and forfeited by due course of law. All such prohibited articles in the course of importation shall be detained by the officer of customs, and proceedings taken against the same as prescribed in the following section: Provided, That the drugs herein before mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any of the purposes herein before specified, are excepted from the operation of this section. [See § 1785, R. S.*] Mode of pro SEC. 2492. Any judge of any district or circuit court of the United States, within the proper district, before whom complaint in writing of ceeding. any violation of the preceding section is made, to the satisfaction of such judge, and founded on knowledge or belief, and, if upon belief, setting forth the grounds of such belief, and supported by oath or affirmation of the complainant, may issue, conformably to the Constitution, a warrant directed to the marshal, or any deputy marshal, in the proper district, directing him to search for, seize, and take possession of any such article or thing herein before mentioned, and to make due and immediate return thereof, to the end that the same may be condemned and destroyed by proceedings, which shall be conducted in the same manner as other proceedings in case of municipal seizure, and with the same right of appeal or writ of error. SEC. 2511. Machinery for repair may be imported into the United As to machinStates without payment of duty, under bond, to be given in double the ery imported for repair. appraised value thereof, to be withdrawn and exported after said ma * Officers, agents, or employés of the Government aiding or abetting any one in such importations may be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than one year nor more than ten, or both. chinery shall have been repaired; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect the revenue against fraud, and secure the identity and character of all such importations when again withdrawn and exported, restricting and limiting the export and withdrawal to the same port of entry where imported, and also limiting all bonds to a period of time of not more than six months from the date of the importation. Certain paint- SEC. 2512. All paintings, statuary, and photographic pictures imported ings, statuary, into the United States for exhibition by any association duly authorized &c., to be admit- under the laws of the United States or any State for the promotion and ted free of duty. encouragement of science, art, or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. But bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as are now imposed by law upon any and all of such articles as shall not be re-exported within six months after such importation. Importation of SEC. 2513. All lumber, timber, hemp, manila, and iron and steel rods, materials for con- bars, spikes, nails, and bolts, and copper and composition metal which struction, &c., of vessels. may be necessary for the construction and equipment 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, and finished after the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, may be imported in bond, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and, upon proof that such materials have been used for such purpose, no duties shall be paid thereon. But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States more than two months in any one year, except upon the payment to the United States of the duties on which a rebate is herein allowed. Title 34, Chap. 4. SEC. 2791. It shall not be necessary for the master of any vessel of war, or of any vessel employed by any prince, or state, as a public packet for Public vessels the conveyance of letters and dispatches, and not permitted by the laws of such prince or state to be employed in the transportation of merchandise, in the way of trade, to make report and entry. [See § 1624, Art. 12.] need not enter. Navy. Sec. 4849. Admission of insane persons having property. 4850. Admission of non-residents of District. 4851. Admission of insane persons accused of crime. 4852. Insane convicts. 4853. Private patients. 4854. Admission of pay patients. 4855. Insane criminals restored to sanity. 4856. Discharge of patients under bond." And Title 15, Chap. 7. SEC. 1551. The Secretary of the Navy may cause persons in the naval Insane of the service or Marine Corps, who become insane while in the service, to be placed in such hospital for the insane as, in his opinion, will be most convenient and best calculated to promise a restoration of reason. he may pay to any such hospital, other than the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, the pay which may from time to time be due to such insane person, and he may, in addition thereto, pay to such institution, from the annual appropriation for the naval service, under the head of contingent enumerated, any deficiency of a reasonable expense, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum. Title 59, Chap. 4. Government Hospital for the Insane. SEC. 4838. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Hospital for the Insane, and its objects shall be the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia. SEC. 4839. The chief executive officer of the Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be entitled to a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, in such sum and with such securities as may be required by |