Clerks of courts present an ac SEC. 3. That at each regular and stated session of said courts the at each term to clerks thereof shall present an account to said courts of all moneys remaining therein, or subject to the order thereof, stating in detail in what causes said moneys are deposited and in what causes payments have been made, which account and the vouchers thereof shall be filed in court. count of said moneys to the court, &c. The depositing of any money in violation of this act, or the re tention or con SEC. 4. That if any clerk or other officer of a court of the United States shall deposit any money belonging in the registry of the court, in violation of this act, or shall retain or convert any such money to his own use, or to the use of any other person, he shall be deemed guilty of emversion thereof, bezzlement, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than the amount embezzled, or by imprisonment for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years, or both, at the discretion of the court. to be embezzle ment. Penalty The knowingly receiving from the clerk, &c. such money, in violation of this act, to be embezzlement. Penalty. Repeal of acts 1814, ch. 62, Vol. iii. p. 127, 1817, ch. 108, Vol. iii. p. 395. March 24, 1871. Condemne cannon, &c. for Cemetery Association of San Francisco. SEC. 5. That if any person shall knowingly receive from a clerk or other officer of a court of the United States, any money belonging in the registry of said court, as a deposit, loan, or otherwise, in violation of this act, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished as provided in the last preceding section. SEC. 6. That the act entitled "An act directing the disposition of money paid into the courts of the United States," approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and the act supplementary thereto, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, March 24, 1871. CHAP. III. — An Act relating to condemned Cannon for Cemetery at San Francisco. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to deliver to the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Association, of San Francisco, California, six pieces of condemned iron cannon and thirty cannon balls, to be used in the embellishment of the burial-grounds of said association. APPROVED, March 24, 1871. March 24, 1871. CHAP. IV. — An Act to authorize the Commissioners to revise the Statutes to print their the statutes may Reports. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Each commis- States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in the act sioner to revise of March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, directing "that no have his work printing shall hereafter be executed except on written order under the printed on his direction of heads of departments, or by the two houses of Congress, as written order. authorized by law," shall not be construed to affect the printing required Vol. xvi. p. 517. by the commissioners to revise the statutes, in the execution of their duties; but their reports, indexes, and other papers immediately incidental to their work, may be printed upon the written order of the commissioner by whom the same may have been prepared. APPROVED, March 24, 1871. 1871, ch. 115. March 24, 1871. specifications CHAP. V.- An Act to further regulate the Publication of the Specifications and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Publication of States of America in Congress assembled, That if, in the judgment of the joint committee on printing, the provisions of the joint resolution providing for publishing specifications and drawings of the patent-office, approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, can be performed under the direction of the commissioner of patents more and drawings of the patentoffice. Vol. xvi. p. 590. advantageously than in the manner provided in said joint resolution, it shall be so done, under such limitations and conditions as the joint committee on printing may from time to time prescribe. fications and SEC. 2. That the price of the printed copies of specifications and Price of printed drawings of patents, when uncertified, shall be determined by the com- copies of specimissioner of patents, ten cents being hereby fixed as the minimum, and drawings of patfifty cents as the maximum price of the same; certified copies to be sold ents when uncertified, &c. at the price fixed by the patent act of eighteen hundred and seventy. APPROVED, March 24, 1871. CHAP. VI. - An Act authorizing the President to nominate R. H. Lamson a Lieutenant March 27, 1871. in the United States Navy. R. H. Lamson Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized to nominate R. H. Lamson a lieuten- to be nominated ant in the United States navy. a lieutenant in the navy. March 30, 1871. Office of sur Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the office of surveyor at the port of Eastport, formerly existing by law and abolished by the veyor of Eastport, Me., re-esSecretary of the Treasury, be, and is hereby, re-established and created, tablished; and shall hereafter exist, subject to the same laws and restrictions that appertained to the same before it was abolished; but it shall hereafter be known as the office of surveyor of Eastport and the district of Passa- to be known. maquoddy bay. APPROVED, March 30, 1871. by what name CHAP. VIII. — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to divide the State of April 4, 1871. Virginia into two judicial Districts." 1871, ch. 35, § 6. Vol. xvi. p. 463. Clerk of court for eastern dis Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second clause of the sixth section of the act aforesaid, of which this act is an amendment, trict of Virginia be amended as follows: "That the clerk of the circuit or district court to transmit paof the eastern district of Virginia shall transmit the original papers and pers, &c. certified copies of all orders in any suit or proceeding which shall be removed for further proceedings from the eastern to the western district of Virginia, as authorized by the first clause of the said sixth section of the act aforesaid, to the clerk of the court to which such suit or proceeding shall be removed, together with a statement of all costs; and all further proceedings shall be had in the court to which the same shall be ceedings. removed as if the said suit or proceeding had originally been commenced therein." APPROVED, April 4, 1871. Further pro - An Act authorizing the President to appoint Commissioners to examine and April 4, 1871. report upon the Sutro Tunnel in the State of Nevada. to examine and report upon the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United Commissioners States is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a board of three commissioners, two of whom shall be officers of engineers of the army Sutro tunnel in and one a mining or civil engineer, to examine and report upon the Sutro Nevada. tunnel in the State of Nevada, authorized to be constructed by an act of 1866, ch. 244. Congress approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with Vol. xiv. p. 242. special reference to the importance, feasibility, cost, and time required to Report of com- construct the same; the value of the bullion extracted from the mines on missioners to state what. April 15, 1871. Contract for harbor at Buffalo the Comstock lode; their present and probable future production; also the geological and practical value of said tunnel as an exploring work, and its general bearing upon our mining and other national interests in ascertaining the practicability of deep mining. APPROVED, April 4, 1871. CHAP. XIV. - An Act relating to the Harbor at Buffalo, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be improvement of authorized, when in his judgment he thinks it will be for the interest of may be extended the United States, to extend or continue the contract for the improveby Secretary of ment of the harbor at Buffalo, made and entered into upon the twentieth War. day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. APPROVED, April 15, 1871. April 15, 1871. CHAP. XV.- An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to place at the Disposal of the Lyons Monument Association, of Missouri, certain condemned Cannon. Condemned cannon for the Lyon Monument Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place at the disposal of the Lyon Monument Association, of the State of Missouri, twelve condemned the State of Mis- cannon, to be used for the purpose of erecting a monument in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, to the memory of the late Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon. Association of souri. APPROVED, April 15, 1871. April 19, 1871. CHAP. XVI. Duplicate checks for pen sions may be issued in place of original checks of not over $500 lost or destroyed. Bonds of indemnity. An Act to authorize the Payment of duplicate Checks of disbursing Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United April 19, 1871. CHAP. XVII.—An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Potomac, Virginia, and for collection dis other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Portion of the States of America in Congress assembled, That all the waters, shores, bays, Tappahannock harbors, creeks, and inlets on the south side of the river Potomac, comprehended between Boyd's Hole and Cockpit Point, now a part of the collection district of Tappahannock, Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, annexed to the collection district of Alexandria, Virginia. trict annexed to that of Alexan dria. Potomac made a port of delivery. SEC. 2. That Potomac, in the State of Virginia, shall be, and is hereby, constituted and created a port of delivery within the collection district of Alexandria, and there shall be appointed, at a compensation not exceeding the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, a deputy collector of customs, to reside at said port, who shall perform such duties as may be CHAP. XVIII. Deputy collector, salary, duties, &c. Port of delivery at Dumfries abolished. - An Act for the Restoration of Commander George A. Stevens, United April 19, 1871. States Navy, to the active from the retired List. Commander George A. Ste vens restored to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate appoint, George A. Stevens to the the active list of active list of the navy, with the rank of lieutenant-commander. APPROVED, April 19, 1871. CHAP. XIX. the navy. An Act to enable the Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad April 19, 1871. Lawrence, and portion of its Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Leavenworth, Lawrence, Leavenworth, and Galveston Railroad Company, for the purpose of improving its route Galveston Railand accommodating the country, may relocate any portion of its road road Company south of the town of Thayer, within the limits of its grant, as prescribed may relocate a by the act of Congress entitled "An act for a grant of lands to the State road. of Kansas, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain rail- 1863, ch. 98. Vol. xii. p. 772. roads and telegraphs in said State," approved March third, eighteen hunLand grant dred and sixty-three, but not thereby to change, enlarge, or diminish said not changed. land grant. APPROVED, April 19, 1871. CHAP. XXI. — An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appro- April 20, 1871. priations for the Service of the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyone, and for additional Appropriations for the Service of the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other Purposes. appropriation for Payment of necessary by Be it eracted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to carry into effect Deficiency appropriation for the provisions of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain the year ending soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the June 30, 1871, widows of deceased soldiers," approved February fourteen, eighteen hun- and additional dred and seventy-one, there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any the year ending moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment, dur- June 30, 1872. ing the remainder of the present fiscal year, of two clerks of class three, additional clerks four clerks of class two, nineteen clerks of class one, and two assistant in the pension messengers in the pension office, to be appointed by the Secretary of the office, &c. (to be appointed by the Interior, eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; for office rent, Secretary of the furniture, and contingent expenses of said office for the same period, six Interior,) made thousand five hundred dollars; and for the payment, during the fiscal year act ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, of four clerks of 1871, ch. 50. class three, eight clerks of class two, forty-eight clerks of class one, and Vol. xvi. p. 411. three assistant messengers in said office, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; and for office rent, furniture, stationery, and contingent expenses of said office during the said year, seven thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing in any act contained shall be construed to alter or amend an act entitled "An act to define the duties of pension agents and prescribe the manner of paying pensions, and for other purposes," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy; but the provisions of said ton of claims act are hereby declared to be in full force and effect, and applicable to to, and payments the prosecution of claims to pension, and to the payment of pensions of, pensions. act Provisions of 1870, ch. 225, Vol. xvi. p. 193, made applicable to the prosecu of crimes may which may be allowed under any or all the various acts of Congress Appropriation granting the same; and that so much of the appropriation provided for for detection, &c. in the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, 66 to be expended in the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States," as may, in the judgment of the Attorney-General, be necessary, may be used during the current fiscal year. be used during the current fiscal 1871, ch. 114. year. Vol. xvi. p. 497. Certain books, That all books, records, papers, and documents relative to transactions records, &c. re- of or with the late so-called government of the confederate States, or the lating to transactions of or with government of any State lately in insurrection, now in the possession, or the confederate which may at any time come into the possession, of the government of states, or copies, the United States, or of any department thereof, may be resorted to for may be used by the commission- information by the board of commissioners of claims created by act approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and copies thereof, duly certified by the officer having custody of the same, shall be 1871, ch. 116. § 2, Vol. xvi. p. 524. treated with the like force and effect as the original. ers of claims under act Rebuilding For the rebuilding of the Catholic orphan asylum at Charleston, South Catholic orphan Carolina, twelve thousand dollars, in consideration of the services renasylum at Charleston, S. C. dered by the sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, of Charleston, South Carolina, to the sick and wounded Union officers and soldiers, while said city was under bombardment during the war. Salary of ad ditional assistant attorney-general. 1871, ch. 72. Vol. xvi. p. 432. Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives. Independent treasury at Baltimore; Cincinnati; Chicago; Louisville; New Orleans. Contingent expenses. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59. No part for SEC. 2. That there is hereby appropriated to pay the salary for the remainder of the present and for the next fiscal year, of the assistant attorney-general, authorized to be appointed by the act of the last session of Congress, six thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 3. The following stated sums are hereby appropriated for the purposes hereinafter expressed, viz.: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the present fiscal year, the same to be added to the appropriation "for miscellaneous items," five thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriations for the service of the independent treasury, for the fiscal year, as follows: For clerks and messengers in the office of the assistant treasurer at Baltimore, six thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For clerks and messengers in the office of the depositary at Cincinnati, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For clerks and messengers in the office of the depositary at Chicago, one thousand one hundred dollars. For clerks and messengers in the office of the depositary at Louisville, eight hundred dollars. For salary of the assistant treasurer at New Orleans, to make his compensation four thousand five hundred dollars, as provided by existing laws, five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no clerical services. part of said sum shall be expended for clerical services. Direct tax commissioners of South Carolina. District of Columbia. Governor. Secretary. For salaries and expenses of the direct tax commissioners of South Carolina, and of their clerks, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, until the closing of their office, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the support of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two: For salary of the governor of the District of Columbia, three thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars. |