District of- Norfolk and Portsmonth. News. from the point forming the south shore of the mouth of the Rappahannock River, along the coast of the Chesapeake Bay, via Old Point Comfort, Hampton and Newport News, thence along the south shore of the James River to a point on the peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers opposite Williamsburg, and thence across said peninsula to the south bank of the York River, so as to embrace in said district, in addition to the ports heretofore included, Hampton and Newport News; in which Newport News shall be the port of entry and Yorktown a port of delivery." SEC. 2. That paragraph five of section twenty-five hundred and fiftytwo of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read: "The district of Norfolk and Portsmouth, to comprise all the waters, including Hampton Roads, and shores within the State of Virginia, southward of the district of Yorktown, as hereinbefore described, and not included in the districts of Yorktown, Petersburg and Richmond, in which Norfolk and Portsinouth shall be the sole port of entry, and Suffolk and Smithfield the ports of delivery." Collector; resi- SEC. 3. That paragraph four of section twenty-five hundred and fiftydence, Newport three be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read: Surveyor; resi"In the district of Yorktown, a collector who shall reside at Newport dence, Yorktown. News, and a surveyor who shall reside at Yorktown." Approved, June 15, 1882. June 15, 1882. CHAP. 220.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Masonic Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Masonic Mutual States of America in Congress assembled, That section five of the act entiRelief Association tled "An act to incorporate the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of of the District of the District of Columbia," as amended, is hereby amended by adding to said section the words not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars." Columbia. Act of incorporation, as amended, amended. SEC. 2.-That in order further to extend the benefits of this association, an additional class or classes may be formed paying to the widow, orphans, heirs, assignee or legatees of a deceased member a dollar for each and every member of the special class in good standing on the books of the corporation, not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 3.-That the funds and account of each class shall be kept separate, and each class shall bear its own expenses and its pro rata share, according to its membership, of the general expenses of this associa tion. Approved, June 15, 1882. June 16, 1882. Howard Univer sity. Preamble. Lands conveyed CHAP. 222.-An act for the relief of Howard University. Whereas the Howard University is an educational institution incorporated by act of Congress, the grounds and buildings of which were obtained, under the authority of the United States, with funds appropriated by Congress; and Whereas the said university, in consideration of the provisions of this to United States act, proposes to convey by a sufficient deed to the United States the for purposes of parcel or square of ground bounded by Pomeroy street, Fourth-and-apublic park. half street, College street, and Sixth street, known as University Park, containing about eleven acres, to be used as a public park under the superintendence of the United States, provided that whenever the same shall cease to be used as a public park the title thereto shall revert to the Howard University: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the conveyance of the premises described in the preamble to this act, in the manner and upon the terms and consideration therein mentioned, be, and is hereby, accepted by the United States. Acceptance. Conditions. SEC. 2. That all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs upon the real and personal property of the Howard University due, or to become due, and Remission of taxes, penalties, unpaid at the date of the passage of this act, be, and the same are hereby, etc. remitted. tax. Proviso. SEC. 3. That the property, real and personal, of the said university Exemption from shall be exempt from taxation so long as such property shall be used only for the purposes set forth in the charter of said institution: Provided, That nothing in this act shall exempt any real estate of said university from assessment and liability for special improvements authorized by law: Provided also, That this act shall not include any real estate sold or contracted to be sold by said university to any other person than the United States, the title to which may be still in the said university. Approved, June 16, 1882. CHAP. 223.-An act to amend sections twenty-five hundred and eighty-two, twentyfive hundred and eighty-three, twenty-six hundred and seven, and twenty-six bundred and eighty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the collection districts of California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-five hun dred and eighty-two of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: "SECTION Twenty-five hundred and eighty-two. There shall be in the State of California four collection districts, as follows: "First. The district of San Diego; to comprise all the waters and shores of the county of San Diego; in which San Diego, on the Bay of San Diego, shall be the sole port of entry. Proviso. "Second. The district of Wilmington; to comprise all the waters and shores of the counties of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Wilmington, and San Bernardino, in which Wilmington, on the Bay of Wilmington, shall be the sole port of entry, and Santa Barbara, San Buena Ventura and Huenerue, ports of delivery "Third. The district of San Francisco; to comprise all the waters and shores of the State north of the counties embraced in the second district and south of the county of Humboldt; in which San Francisco shall be the port of entry and Vallejo and San Luis Obispo ports of delivery. "Fourth.-The district of Humboldt; to comprise all the waters and shores of the counties of Humboldt and Del Norte; in which Eureka, on the Bay of Humboldt, shall be the sole port of entry, and Crescent City a port of delivery." That section twenty-five hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. Two thousand five hundred and eighty-three.-There shall be in the collection districts of California the following officers: "First. In the district of San Diego, a collector, who shall reside at San Diego. "Second. In the district of Wilmington, a collector, who shall reside at Wilmington; a deputy collector who shall reside at Wilming ton; and one inspector, to be appointed by the collector, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, for each of the ports of Santa Barbara, San Buena Ventura and Huenerne. "Third.-In the district of San Francisco, a collector, a naval officer, a surveyor, who shall reside at San Francisco; two appraisers, two assistant appraisers, and a special examiner of drugs, medicines, and San Francisco, Humboldt. Officers and their official residence. R. S., 2607, 515, amended. chemicals; a deputy collector who shall reside at Vallejo; a deputy collector who shall reside at San Luis Obispo; an inspector at Monterey, an inspector at Sacramento, an inspector at Benicia, and an inspector at Stockton. "Fourth.-In the district of Humboldt; a collector who shall reside at Eureka, and one inspector to be appointed by the collector, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the port of Crescent City." That section twenty-six hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. Twenty-six hundred and seven.-At the Port of Wilmington, in the district of Wilmington, and at the port of San Diego, in the district of San Diego, and at the port of Eureka, in the district of HumSecretary of the boldt, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to appoint such Treasury to ap- inspectors, weighers, gaugers, measurers, and other officers as may be point the necesnecessary for the collection of the revenue of those ports. Also such sary officers. inspectors as he may deem necessary to enforce the custom laws along the boundary between the Republic of Mexico and the counties of San Diego and San Bernardino." Compensation. That section twenty-six hundred and eighty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. Twenty-six hundred and eighty-four.-The collector of the district of San Diego shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year; the collector of the district of Wilmington shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year, and the deputy collector of said district shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars a year; and the collector of the district of Humboldt shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year. Approved, June 16, 1882. June 19, 1882. CHAP. 230.-An act to create two additional land-districts in the State of Nebraska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Establishment of States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the Minuekadusa land- State of Nebraska bounded and described as follows: Beginning where district, Nebraska. the second guide-meridian west intersects the northern boundary of the Hitchcock landdistrict. Register and receiver to be appointed. Duties. Compensation. State of Nebraska; thence south along said guide-meridian to the southeast corner of township twenty-six north, range seventeen west; thence west to the southeast corner of township twenty-six north, range twentyone west; thence south to the southeast corner of township twenty-five north, range twenty-one west; thence west to the western boundary of the State; thence north to the north line of the State; thence east along said line to the place of begining, be, and hereby is, constituted a new land-district, to be called the Minnekadusa land-district, the land-office for which shall be located at such place as the President may direct. SEC. 2. That all that portion of the State of Nebraska bounded and described as follows: Beginning on the south boundary of the State of Nebraska, on the range-line between ranges twenty five and twenty-six west; thence north along said range-line to the second standard parallel; thence west along said standard parallel to the western boundary of the State; thence south along said boundary to the south line of the State; thence along said south line east to the place of begining, is hereby constituted an additional land-district, to be called the Hitchcock landdistrict, the land-office for which shall be located at such place as the President may direct. SEC. 3. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint a register and a receiver for each of said land-districts, who shall discharge like and similar duties and receive the same amount of compensation as other officers discharging like duties in the other land-offices of said State. Approved, June 19, 1882. CHAP. 231.—An act for the government and control of the harbor of refuge at Sand June 19, 1882. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the pas Harbor of refsage of this act, and until the completion of the work of construction uge. Sand Beach, the Secretary of War is directed to assume full control over the harbor Lake Huron, Mich. of refuge on Lake Huron at Sand Beach, Michigan, now in course of Secretary of War construction by the United States Government, and of the piers, break. to have full control until complewaters, docks, wharves, buildings, and other improvements made by tion of work. the United States appertaining to said harbor of refuge, and to facilitate the use thereof, including the channels of and approaches to said harbor of refuge, so far as may be necessary to the protection and use ments. of said harbor and the improvements aforesaid; and said Secretary of Regulations for War, for the purpose aforesaid, and for the preservation of said harbor preservation of in the interests of commerce, shall prescribe such regulations not in- work and improveconsistent with the laws of the United States respecting the use of said harbor and its channels, and the approaches thereto, and respecting the use of the piers, breakwaters, docks, wharves, buildings, and other improvements of said harbor, made by the United States, as he shall deem needful to fully protect and preserve the said harbor and its several channels and approaches, and the said piers, breakwaters, docks, wharves, buildings, and other improvements. Such regulations shall be promulgated by publication thereof for ten days consecutively in one daily newspaper published in each of the cities of Detroit, Port Huron, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago, and said regulations may be changed in like manner from time to time. He shall also cause four copies of such regulations to be kept posted in conspicuous places on said piers and breakwaters. Custodian to be Duties. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War shall appoint, upon the recommendation of the engineer officer in charge of the work, a custodian of appointed. said harbor and the improvements aforesaid, whose duty it shall be to preserve and protect the same under the regulations made as aforesaid by the Secretary of War, and to enforce the observance of said regulations and to guard and preserve the property of the United States at said harbor of refuge. Said custodian shall also have power to direct and regulate the stationing and anchoring of steam vessels and watercraft in said harbor, and the mooring thereof at the piers, breakwaters, docks, and wharves of said harbor, and the laying out and discharging of cargoes and ballast in said harbor, piers, breakwaters and docks; and it shall be the duty of said custodian to report to the United States District Attorney for the eastern district of Michigan all violations of this act, and of the said regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War; and said custodian shall receive such compensation, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month, as the Secretary of War may allow. Compensation. Penalties for vio tions. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of all persons using or navigating said harbor, its channels and approaches, or using any of the piers, break- lation of regula waters, docks, wharves, or other improvements made by the United States, to observe the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War as aforesaid; and any person who shall willfully or negligently strand or sink any steam-vessel, boat, or craft in said harbor, or in the channels or approaches, or who shall willfully obstruct or oppose the custodian of said harbor in the enforcement of the regulations aforesaid, or who shall willfully or negligently,, or by failure or neglect to observe the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War for the use thereof, obstruct or impair said harbor, or cause any impediment, injury, filling up, or shoaling therein, or shall deposit any earth, ashes, stone, ballast, or other substances in said harbor, channels or approaches tending to obstruct or impair the navigation thereof, or who shall willfully damage or injure the piers, break-waters, wharves, docks, or other improvements of said harbor made by the United States, or who shall fail to obey and observe Steam launch bor duty. any of said prescribed regulations, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by information or by action of debt in the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Michigan, with costs of suit, and shall, in addition thereto, be liable to the United States, or to any person aggrieved by such obstructions, or injuries, or unlawful acts or omissions in a civil action for all damages occasioned thereby, or by any of said unlawful acts, to said United States or such aggrieved person. And if such damage or injury to said harbor, channels, approaches, piers, breakwaters, docks, wharves, and other property of the United States in said harbor of refuge be committed by any steamer, vessel, or water-craft, or by the master or person in charge thereof, or if such master or other person in charge of such vessel shall willfully violate the regulations aforesaid, the aforesaid penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars shall be incurred, and such vessel shall be liable for the penalty aforesaid, and may be proceeded against by way of libel for the recovery thereof in any court of the United States within whose jurisdiction such vessel may be found. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, purchase or authorized for har hire a steam launch or tug, to be stationed at and used about said harbor, under the direction of said custodian, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act; and such a sum as may be necessary, not exceedAppropriation. ing ten thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purchase or hire of said steam-launch; and the expense of running and maintaining said launch or tug and the salary of the custodian shall be paid out of the appropriation' made for said harbor of refuge. Transfer of SEO. 5. That after the completion of said harbor by the United States works and im- Government the control shall be transferred to the Secretary of the provements to Sec- Treasury. retary of Treasury. Approved, June 19, 1882. June 22, 1882. in certain contingencies. CHAP. 236.—An act to provide for the payment of the salaries and compensation of members of the houses of Congress and their officers and employees in certain contingencies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Disbursment of States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any appropriaCongressional pay tion made for the payment of the salaries of Senators, Members, and Delegates in Congress, or the officers and employees of both or either of the houses thereof, or for the expenses of the same, or any committees thereof, cannot be lawfully disbursed by or through the officers specially charged with such disbursements, such disbursements may be made for the purposes named in said appropriations by the Treasurer of the United States, who shall take proper vouchers therefor and charge such disbursements against such appropriations; and the accounts therefor shall be audited and passed or rejected, as the law may require, in the same manner that similar accounts are or may be required by law to be audited and passed or rejected. Approved, June 22, 1882. June 27, 1882. Erie, Pa. CHAP. 239.-An act to provide a building for the use of the United States circuit and district courts and post-office at Erie Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas Public building. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for and cause to be erected a suitable building, with fire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the circuit and district courts of the United |