those for the use of the President of the United States, Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of partment to of board of ap SEC. 15. That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is Secretary of Agriculture to authorized to have applied scientific tests, and to decide be a member whether any substances used in the manufacture of filled peal in filledcheese contain ingredients deleterious to health. But in cheese cases. case of doubt or contest his decision in this class of cases may be appealed from to a board hereby constituted for the purpose, and composed of the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, and the decision of this board shall be final in the premises. |29 Stat. L. 256.] Act of June 6, 1896, ch. 337. expert from Bureau of tory. SEC. 5. That there shall be an advisory board for the Secretary of Agriculture to hygienic laboratory provided by the Act of Congress ap- detail proved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for con- Animal Indussultation with the Surgeon-General of the Public Health try as member of advisory and Marine-Hospital Service relative to the investigations board of hyto be inaugurated, and the methods of conducting the gienie laborasame, in said laboratory. Said board shall consist of three competent experts, to be detailed from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry by the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively. which experts, with the director of the said laboratory, shall be ex officio members of the board, and serve without additional compensation. * * * [32 Stat. L. 713.] Act of July 1, 1902, ch. 1370. The Postmaster-General * * * shall contract. for a Envelopes for use by the * * for Departto be * contracted for by Postmaster General. period not exceeding four years, for all envelopes, stamped ments * * plain or with such printed matter as may be prescribed Act of June 26, 1906, ch. 3546. Penalty en- SEC. 2. * * * And it shall be the duty of the revelopes for inclosure of an- spective departments to inclose to Senators, Representacial communi- tives and Delegates in Congress, in all official communi swers to offi cations. packages, etc., ness sent free. cations requiring answers, or to be forwarded to others, penalty envelopes addressed as far as practicable, for forwarding or answering such official correspondence. [22 Stat. L. 563.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 3, 1883, ch. 128. First part of this section, here omitted, is superseded by act of July 5, 1884. Letters, SEC. 5. That it shall be lawful to transmit through the on official busi- mail, free of postage, any letters, packages, or other matmay be ters relating exclusively to the business of the Government of the United States: Provided, That every such letter or package to entitle it to pass free shall bear over the words "Official business" an endorsement showing also the name of the Department, and, if from a bureau or office, the names of the Department and bureau Penalty for or office, as the case may be, whence transmitted. And envelopes to if any person shall make use of any such official envelope avoid payment to avoid the payment of postage on his private letter, using official of postage. Departments to provide offi package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of three hundred dollars, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction. [19 Stat. L. 335.] Act of March 3, 1877, ch. 103. SEC. 6. That for the purpose of carrying this act into cial envelopes. effect, it shall be the duty of each of the Executive Departments of the United States to provide for itself and Designation its subordinate oflices the necessary envelopes: and in ment and state- addition to the endorsement designating the Department ment of pen in which they are to be used, the penalty for the unlawful envelopes. use of these envelopes shall be stated thereon. [19 Stat. L. 336.] of Depart alty on official Letters, packages, etc., ness sent free by all Act of March 3, 1877, ch. 103. SEC. 3. ** * * The provisions of the fifth and sixth on official busi- section of the act entitled "An act establishing post-routes, may be and for other purposes" approved March third, eighteen officers of the hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official Government. mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, not including Official en- members of Congress, the envelopes of such matter in velopes to bear all cases to bear appropriate indorsements containing the office and state proper designation of the office from which or officer ment of pen- from whom the same is transmitted, with a statement designation of alty. * ** Penalty en Provided, velopes may be from whom is matter. of the penalty for their misuse. That any Department or officer authorized to use the pen- sent to persons alty envelopes may inclose them with return address to to be received any person or persons from or through whom official in- official formation is desired, the same to be used only to cover such official information, and indorsements relating thereto: Provided further, That any letter or packet to be registered by either of the Executive Departments or Bureaus thereof, or by the Agricultural Department, * * * may be registered without the payment of any registry fee; and any part-paid letter or packet addressed to either of said Departments or Bureaus may be delivered free; but where there is good reason to believe the omission to prepay the full postage thereon was intentional, such letter or package shall be returned to the sender: Provided further, That this act shall not extend or apply to * * * officers who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, including expenses of postages. And section thirty-nine hundred Official mail and fifteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, registered free. so far as the same relates to stamps and stamped envelopes for official purposes, is hereby repealed. [23 Stat. L. 158.] Act of July 5, 1884, ch. 234. * ** matter may be SEC. 4. * The franking privilege, as the same Franking is regulated by law, shall extend to the Hawaiian Islands. tended to Ha[30 Stat. L. 966.] Act of March 1, 1899, ch. 327. waiian Islands. ilege limited to That hereafter no article, package, or other matter, Penalty privexcept postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper strictly mailwrappers, postal cards, and internal-revenue stamps, shall able matter. be admitted to the mails under a penalty privilege, unless such article, package, or other matter, except postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and internal-revenue stamps would be entitled to admission to the mails under laws requiring payment of postage. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person Loan of entitled under the law to the use of a frank to lend said mittees, organfrank or permit its use by any committee, organization, izations, or association, or permit its use by any person for the benefit or use of any committee, organization, or associa* [34 Stat. L. 477.] tion: * * Act of June 26, 1906, ch. 3546. frank to com prohibited. matter; etc., re as That mailable matter of the fourth class shall embrace Official mail all matter not embraced in the first, second, or third class strictions to character which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface, and weight. or otherwise damage the contents of the mail bag or harm the person of anyone engaged in the postal service, and is not above the weight provided by law, which is hereby declared to be not exceeding four pounds for each pack free. age thereof, except in case of single books weighing in Act of June 8, 1896, ch. 370. * * * [29 Stat. Seeds and re- SEC. 7. That seeds transmitted by the Commissioner of ports from Department of Agriculture, or by any member of Congress or delegate Agriculture receiving seeds for distribution from said Department, together with agricultural reports emanating from that Department, and so transmitted, shall, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General shall prescribe, pass through the mails free of charge. And the provisions of this section shall apply to ex-members of Congress and ex-delegates for the period of nine months after the expiration of their terms as members and delegates. [18 Stat. L. 343.] to have prior Act of March 3, 1875, ch. 128. Government SEC. 5266. Telegrams between the several Departments ity in trans- of the Government and their officers and agents, in their mission of tel- I transmission over the lines of any telegraph company to sages: penalty which has been given the right of way, timber, or station refusal. lands from the public domain shall have priority over all egraph mes for neglect or transmit tele. other business, at such rates as the Postmaster-General shall annually fix. And no part of any appropriation for the several Departments of the Government shall be paid to any company which neglects or refuses to transmit such telegrams in accordance with the provisions of this section. [R. S.] Refusal to SEC. 5269. Whenever any telegraph company, after graph messages having filed its written acceptance with the Postmasterfor Govern General of the restrictions and obligations required by the ment; penalty. act approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and 66 sixty-six, entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," or by this Title, shall, by its agents or employés, refuse or neglect to transmit any such telegraphic communications as are provided for by the aforesaid act, or by this Title, or by the provisions of section two hundred and twentyone, Title THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR," authorizing the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations and other points of the interior of the continent, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and sea-board of the approach and force of storms, such telegraph company shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each such refusal or negleet. To be recovered by an action or actions at law in any district court of the United States. [R. S.] literary collec Government students. to Whereas, large collections illustrative of the various Scientific and arts and sciences and facilitating literary and scientific tions of the research have been accumulated by the action of Congress through a series of years at the national capital; and Whereas it was the original purpose of the Government thereby to promote research and the diffusion of knowledge, and is now the settled policy and present practice of those charged with the care of these collections specially to encourage students who devote their time to the investigation and study of any branch of knowledge by allowing to them all proper use thereof; and Whereas it is represented that the enumeration of these facilities and the formal statement of this policy will encourage the establishment and endowment of institutions of learning at the seat of Government, and promote the work of education by attracting students to avail themselves of the advantages aforesaid under the direction of competent instructors: Therefore, * ** Resolred. * Two. Of the National Museum. Four. Of the Bureau of Education. Five. Of the Bureau of Ethnology. Six. Of the Army Medical Museum. Seven. Of the Department of Agriculture. Nine. Of the Botanic Gardens. Ten. Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Eleven. Of the Geological Survey. Twelve. Of the Naval Observatory. [27 Stat. L. 395.]. Resolution of April 12, 1892, No. 8. Government gators, stu * ** That facilities for study and research in the Facilities of Government Departments, the Library of Congress, the institutions afNational Museum, the Zoological Park, the Bureau of forded investiEthnology, the Fish Commission, the Botanic Gardens, dents, etc. and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States and Territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restric |