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PRIZE-Continued.

Nothing to be taken from prizes before condemnation, 440, 70.

Punishment of pillaging, 440, 8 71.

Duties of district attorney in prize cases, 519, % 4.

Appointment of prize commissioners, 520, 5.

Duties of prize commissioners, 520,

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Duties of the marshal, 440, 74; 520, 8 7.

When prize property may be sold, 520, 8 8.

Mode of sale, 521, 8.

Court to decree what vessels shall share in the prize, 521, 9.
Distribution of prize-money, 439, 67; 521, 10.

What vessels to share, 439, 67; 521, 10.

Proportion of officers and seamen, 439, 67; 521, 10.

Bounty for destroying enemy's vessels, 440, 68; 522, ? 11.
Distribution of ransom-money and salvage, 440,

Assignments of prize-money, 440, 73; 522, 12.
Appeals in prize causes, 522,

Costs and expenses, 523,

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72; 522, 11.

Limitation of compensation of clerks and marshals, 524, 19.

Compensation of district attorneys and prize commissioners, 524, 20.

Annual accounts, 524, 21.

Limit of compensation, 524, 8 21.

Auctioneers' commissions, 524,

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Special counsel for captors, 524, 23.

Compensation, 524, 23.

Payment of counsel fees, 524, & 24.

Payment of witnesses' fees, 524, 25.

When prize property to be delivered on stipulation, 524, 26.

Proceedings where captured property is taken for government use, 525, 27.

Proceedings for adjudication where property is not sent in, 525, ¿ 28.

Salvage for recaptures, 525, 29.

Transfers to another district for sale, 525, 30.

Punishment of fraud, 526, 31.

What to be deemed "vessels of the navy," 526, 32.

Act to extend to all naval captures, 526, 33.

To apply to pending causes, 526, 34.

PRIZE COMMISSIONERS.

Appointment of, 520, % 5.

Their duties, 520, 6.

Compensation, 524, 20.

Annual reports, 524, 21.

Limit of compensation, 524, 21.

PROBATES.

Stamp duties on probates of wills, 380, 374.

PROCESS.

Service of duplicate writ may be made on a defendant in another district, 511, & 2.
Execution of, in the Indian country, 274,

PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS.

Pay of, in the navy, 446, 111.

PROMISSORY NOTES.

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PROMOTION-Continued.

Certain officers may present themselves for examination, 433, 23.

Officers may be advanced in their own grade for distinguished services, 432, 16; 433, 24; 434,
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Certain officers may be promoted, though the grade be full, 434, 33.

Of officers on the retired list, 451, ₫ 162, 168.

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Collected on the Pacific coast, to be paid in, without deduction, 527, 2 1.

Collectors to act as disbursing agents, 527,

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Superintendents to disburse where there is no collector, 527, 2.

Disbursing officers to deposit, 527, 3.

Designation of disbursing officers, 528, 6.

Moneys to pay outstanding drafts and checks, to be deposited in the treasury, 547, 22; 548, 23
Register's certificate to be a sufficient voucher, 548, 24.

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What punishments may be inflicted by commanding officers, 437, § 51.

PURSERS.

To be styled paymasters, 443, 88.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

Organization of the quartermaster's department, 37, § 11.

Promotions, 41, 42.

Permanent barracks not to be constructed until approved by congress, 41, 41.

Military storekeepers, 37, 12.

How contracts for supplies to be made, 41, 44.

Examination of officers, 52-3, 146-50.

QUICKSILVER.

Duties on imported, 250, 83.

RAILROADS.

Damage to locomotives and cars, in the military service, how compensated, 50, & 132.
Penalty for receiving and transporting deserters, 52,

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Transportation on, may be refused, on suspicion that goods are destined for places under the
control of rebels, 279, 21.

Security may be required from shippers, 279, 21.

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Acts giving a right of way through the public lands extended, 528, ? 1.

Excise duties on receipts of, 358, 281.

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Of warrant officers, in the navy, 434,

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Of engineer officers in the navy, 444, 102.

Relative rank of officers of the army and navy, 433, 18; 451, 164.

Of officers of the revenue service and navy, 530, % 9.

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Jurisdiction of the courts, 278, ? 17.

Clearances may be refused, on suspicion that goods are destined for a rebel port, 278, 19.
Forfeiture for attempt to depart without clearance, 279,

Collector may require bond that goods shall not be used to aid insurgents, 279, 20.

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Transportation of goods may be prohibited in like cases, 279,

Security may be required from shippers, 279, 21.

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Property brought from insurrectionary districts to be confiscated, 282, 39.
Proceedings for condemnation, 282, 39.

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Limitation of actions, 280, 29.

Orders of a superior officer to be a defence, 280, ? 30.

How such orders to be proved, 280, 31.

Property employed for insurrectionary purposes to be forfeited, 280, § 32.

Jurisdiction of the courts, 281, 33.

To be exclusive, 284, 8 50.

Proceedings for condemnation, 281, 34.

Bona fide claims of loyal citizens to be paid out of confiscated property, 281, 35.
Agents for captured and abandoned property, 281,

How appropriated, 281, 36.

Bonds of agents, 281, 37.

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Aliens not to maintain actions for acts done under the captured and abandoned property laws, 283,
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Exceptions, 283, 49.

Punishment of seditious conspiracy, 153, 1.

Enlisting persons to serve against the government, 153, 2.

Enlisting for such purpose, 153, 3.

Aiding rebels, 153, 5.

Corresponding with rebels, 154,

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Vessels fitted out for aggression on commerce to be liable to seizure and sale, 427, 9-11.

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When to commence, 391, 20.

Salaries and fees, 391, 21; 392, 8 27; 397, 8 59.

Allowance for extra clerk-hire abolished, 389, 6.

Additional compensation of, in certain districts, 391, 22.

Fees for locations under special grants, 391, 23.

Duties of, may be transferred to surveyor-general, 390, § 15.

RECEIVING OFFICERS.

Accounts of, to be settled monthly, 25, 1.

To be forwarded by mail, 25, ¿ 1.

When to be deemed defaulters, 25, 1.

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To pay moneys into the treasury, without deduction, 527, 1.

RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.

Punishment of, in the District of Columbia, 184, 8 70-1, 74.

RECORDER OF DEEDS.

To be appointed for the District of Columbia, 193, 154.

His duties and emoluments, 193,

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REGISTERS OF THE LAND OFFICE.

Compensation of, 391, ¿ 20.

When to commence, 391, 20.

Salaries and fees, 391, 21; 392, 27; 397, 59.

Additional fees for services in consolidated offices, 389, 2, 4.

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Repeal of act prescribing oath on granting register to a corporation, 532,
Fraudulent registry, &c., to incur a forfeiture, 534, 8 12.

REMOVAL.

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Of suits, for acts done by the president's orders, to the circuit courts, 112, 6; 116, 19.
Proceedings for removal, 112, 6.

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Certain actions may be removed, when from local prejudice, &c., justice cannot be bad in the

Actions against corporations may be removed, 116, 2 18.

Actions against common carriers, 117, 20.

Of suits, under the civil rights bill, 119, 3.

RENEWAL.

Stamp duties on renewals of contracts, 380, 371.
REPEALED STATUTES.

Act 24 September 1789,
Act 28 February 1795,
Act 2 March 1799,

29 (1 vol. 221, pl. 102); partially, 164, 53.
2-4 (1 vol. 621-2, pl. 18-20); 277, % 7.

89 (1 vol. 412, pl. 396); partially, 210,

Act 3 March 1800 (1 vol. 821-2); 526, 35.

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