further conditions and limitations as will observe all the provisions of this Act in relation to the working thereof and the payment of taxes on the gross proceeds of the same: Provided, That all expense incurred in complying with said order shall be borne by the owner or owners of such mine or mines: And provided further, That where it shall appear to said Commission that hydraulic mining may be carried on without injury to the navigation of said navigable rivers and the lands adjacent thereto, an order may be made authorizing such nining to be carried on without requiring the construction of any restraining or impounding works or any settling reservoirs: And provided also, That where such an order is made a license to mine, no taxes provided for herein on the gross proceeds of such mining operations shall be collected." [34 Stat. L. 1001.]

For the Act of March 1, 1893, sec. 13, above amended, see 5 Fed. Stat. Annot. 64.

706

WEATHER.

Act of March 4, 1907, Ch. 2907.

Employees of Weather Bureau - Leaves of Absence.
Sale of Maps and Publications.

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[SEC. 1.] [Employees of Weather Bureau- leaves of absence.] and the employees of the Weather Bureau outside of the city of Washington, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year; [34 Stat. L. 1258.]

This and the following paragraph are from the Agricultural Department Appropriation Act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2907.

[Sale of maps and publications.] * and hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell any surplus maps or publications of the Weather Bureau, and the money received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes notwithstanding; [34 Stat. L. 1258.]

For R. S. sec. 227, see 6 Fed. Stat. Annot. 153.

707

WITNESSES.

Act of June 29, 1906, Ch. 3608, 708.

United States Courts Witnesses in Civil Cases, etc.

R. S. Section 858 Amended, 708.

Act of June 30, 1906, Ch. 3920, 708.

Witnesses - Immunity of, in Anti-trust, etc., Cases-Limit to Natural
Persons, 708.

Act of May 27, 1908, Ch. 200, 709.

Sec. 1. Double Mileage Fees Prohibited, 709.

An Act To amend section eight hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United

States.

[Act of June 29, 1906, ch. 3608, 34 Stat. L. 618.]

[United States courts - witnesses in civil cases, etc. - competency of R. S. sec. 858 amended.] That section eight hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

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Sec. 858. The competency of a witness to testify in any civil action, suit, or proceeding in the courts of the United States shall be determined by the laws of the State or Territory in which the court is held." [34 Stat. L. 618.]

For R. S. sec. 858, see 7 Fed. Stat. Annot. 1116.

An Act Defining the right of immunity of witnesses under the Act entitled “An Act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission," and so forth, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and an Act entitled “Ar Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an Act entitled "An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes," approved February twentyfifth, nineteen hundred and three.

[Act of June 30, 1906, ch. 3920, 34 Stat. L. 798.]

[Witnesses-immunity of in anti-trust, etc., cases- limit to natural persons.] That under the immunity provisions in the Act entitled "An Act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission," and so forth, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in section six of the Act entitled "An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and in the Act entitled "An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending

June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, immunity shall extend only to a natural person who, in obedience to a subpoena, gives testimony under oath or produces evidence, documentary or otherwise, under oath. [34 Stat. L. 798.]

[SEC. 1.] [Double mileage fees prohibited.]

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That no constructive or double mileage fees shall be allowed by reason of any person being summoned as both a witness and juror, or as a witness in two or more cases pending in the same court and triable at the same term thereof. [35 Stat. L. 377.]

This is from Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of May 27, 1908, ch. 200.

709

WRECKS AND
AND WRECKERS.

Act of May 12, 1906, Ch. 2454.

Removal of Derelicts - Revenue Cutter Authorized for- Limit of Cost.

CROSS-REFERENCE.

Registry of Repaired Wrecks, see SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION.

An Act To provide for the removal of derelicts and other floating dangers to navigation. [Act of May 12, 1906, ch. 2454, 34 Stat. L. 190.]

[Removal of derelicts revenue cutter authorized for limit of cost.] That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have constructed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, a steam vessel specially fitted for and adapted to service at sea in bad weather, for the purpose of blowing up or otherwise destroying or towing into port wrecks, derelicts, and other floating dangers to navigation, said vessel to be operated and maintained by the Revenue-Cutter Service under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. [34 Stat. L. 190.]

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