and tobacco on scribe, of special-tax stamps to persons carrying on the business of railway-trains, retail dealers in liquors, retail dealers in malt liquors, or (1) dealers in tobacco, upon passenger railroad-trains or upon steamboats or other vessels engaged in the business of carrying passengers. [May 8, 1876.] vessels, &c. July 3, 1876. 19 Stat. L., 214. Arms to be issued to Territories and border States. R. S., § 1667. -kind of arms. -manner of issue. NOTE. (1) Special taxes upon dealers in tobacco are repealed by 1890, Oct. 1, ch. 1244, §26, post, p. 862. NUMBER 13.-Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to the Territories, and the States bordering thereon, such arms as he may deem necessary for their protection, not to exceed one thousand to said States [and Territories] (1) each [and ammunition for the same, not to exceed fifty ball-cartridges for each arm], [and not more than five hundred to each of said Territories] (1): Provided, That such issues shall be only from arms owned by the Government which have been superseded and no longer issued to the Army: Provided however, That said arms shall be issued only in the following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely, upon the requisition of the governors of said States or Territories showing the absolute necessity of arms for the protection of the citizens and their property against Indian raids into said States or Territories also that militia companies are regularly organized and under control of the governors of said States or Territories to whom said arms are to be issued, and that said governor or governors shall give a good and sufficient bond for the return of said arms or payment for the same at such time as the Secretary of War may designate. [July 3, 1876.] NOTE (1). The words in brackets indicate the amendments made by the resolution of 1877, March 3, No. 7, and the act of 1878, May 16, ch. 106; the words in italics being stricken out and those in Roman inserted; see also resolution of 1878, June 7, No. 26, post, pp. 148, 164, 205. See also special provisions of 1878, March 9, Res. No. 13 (20 Stat. L., 248), and 1889, Jan. 16, chs. 47, 48 (25 Stat. L. 646). July 22, 1876. R. S., §§ 3513, 3572. NUMBER 17.-Joint resolution for the issue of silver coin. (1) 19 Stat. L., 215. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury, under such Silver coin to be limits and regulations as will best secure a just and fair distribution issued in exchange of the same through the country, may issue the silver coin at any for legal-tender notes, &c. time in the Treasury to an amount not exceeding ten million dollars, in exchange for an equal amount of legal-tender notes; and the notes so received in exchange shall be kept as a special fund separate and apart from all other money in the Treasury, and be re-issued only upon the retirement and destruction of a like sum of fractional currency received at the Treasury in payment of dues to the United Fractional cur- States; rency to be destroved. 1879. June 9, ch. 34, § 3. post, pp. 12; June 21, ch. 264, 267. 1876, April 17, ch. 63,2, ante, p. 98. Trade dollar not to be legal tender. R. S..$3513.3586. ch.396, post, p. 568. Fifty million dollars of subsidiary silver coin 1887, March 3, may be issued. R. S., § 3513. And said fractional currency, when so substituted, shall be destroyed and held as part of the sinking fund, as provided in the act approved April seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. SEC. 2. That the trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to limit from time to time, the coinage thereof to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for the same. SEC. 3. That in addition to the amount of subsidiary silver coin authorized by law to be issued in redemption of the fractional currency it shall be lawful to manufacture at the several mints, and issue through the Treasury and its several offices, such coin, to an NOTE.-(1) See note on silver coinage to 1890, July 14, ch. 708, post, p. 774. amount, that, including the amount of subsidiary silver coin and of fractional currency outstanding, shall, in the aggregate, not exceed, at any time, fifty million dollars. 1875, Jan. 14, ch. 15, ante, p. 58. 1876, Apr. 17, ch. 63, ante, p. 98. 15 Opins., 312. Purchase of sil ed for. R. S., § 3526. SEC. 4. That the silver bullion required for the purposes of this resolution shall be purchased, from time to time, at market-rate, by the Secretary of the Treasury, with any money in the Treasury not ver bullion; price otherwise appropriated; but no purchase of bullion shall be made limited; seigniorunder this resolution when the market-rate for the same shall be age to be accountsuch as will not admit of the coinage and issue, as herein provided, without loss to the Treasury; and any gain or seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury, as provided under existing laws relative to the subsidiary coinage: Provided, That the amount of money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars. [July 22, 1876.] Amount to be in vested in silver bullion limited. R. S., § 3526. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION, IN THE YEAR 1877. CHAP. 18.-An act providing for the sale of Saline lands. (1) Jan. 12, 1877. 19 Stat. L., 221. Saline lands to Be it enacted, &c., That whenever it shall be made appear to the register and the receiver of any land office of the United States that be examined by any lands within their district are saline in character, it shall be the registers and reduty of said register and said receiver, under the regulations of the ceivers. General Land Office, to take testimony in reference to such lands to ascertain their true character, and to report the same to the General Land office; R. S., § 2258. And if, upon such testimony, the Commissioner of the General -to be sold at Land office shall find that such lands are saline and incapable of R. S., SS 2353being purchased under any of the laws of the United States relative 2379. to the public domain, then, and in such case, such lands shall be offered for sale by public auction at the local land office of the district in which the same shall be situated, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land office, and sold to the highest bidder for cash, at a price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; And in case said lands fail to sell when so offered, then the same may be sold at shall be subject to private sale, at such land office, for cash, at a private sale; price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the same manner as other lands of the United States are sold, when. &c. Provided, That the foregoing enactments shall not apply to any Act not to apply State or Territory which has not had a grant of salines by act of to certain States, Congress, nor to any State which may have had such a grant, until either the grant has been fully satisfied, or the right of selection thereunder has expired by efflux of time. (2) Patents to be But nothing in this act shall authorize the sale or conveyance of any title other than such as the United States has, and the patents only a release, &c. issued shall be in the form of a release and quit-claim of all title of the United States in such lands. SEC. 2. That all executive proclamations relating to the sales of Public Lands shall be published in only one newspaper, the same to be printed and published in the State or Territory where the lands are situated, and to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior. [January 12, 1877.] NOTES.-(1) This act is retained, although it may be repealed by 1891, March 3, ch. 561, § 9, post, p. 943. (2) The grant of salines is made to Colorado by 1876, Mar. 3, ch. 139, § 11 (18 Stat. L., 476), and North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming are expressly excluded from such grants in the acts admitting them, 1889, Feb. 22, ch. 180, § 17, post, p. 648, 1890, July 3, ch. 656; § 11, July 10, ch. 664, § 11, post, pp. 766, 770. Provisions in regard to the other States will be found in the earlier volumes of the Statutes at Large. CHAP. 22.-An act to amend section ten hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia. Proclamation of sale of public lands; where to be published. R. S., § 2359. 1876, July 4, ch. 165, ante, p. 109. Jan. 16, 1877. 19 Stat. L., 222. Be it enacted, &c., That section ten hundred and thirty-six of the, In District of Columbia, constables Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia be amended to to take oath and read as follows: (1) give bond. NOTE. (1) The approval of bonds by the clerk seems to be superseded by 1878, June 8, ch. 162, § 3, post, p. 171. Substitute for. 1036. R. S. of D. C., 1878, June 8, ch. 162, post, p. 171. "Each constable shall, before performing any of the duties of his § office, take the oath prescribed for civil officers in the District, and shall enter into a bond to the United States in the sum of five thousand dollars, with security, to be approved by the clerk of the supreme court of the District, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and for the punctual payment of all moneys coming into his hands to the persons entitled to receive the same. And the clerk of said supreme court shall approve of no bond of any constable until at least three bondsmen shall sign said constable's bond, and each of said bondsmen shall file with said constable's bond an affidavit that he is the owner in fee-simple of unincumbered real estate, situated in the District of Columbia, of the cash value of at least five thousand dollars." [January 16, 1877.] Jan. 16, 1877. 19 Stat. L., 222. deeds in District of 467-471. Deputy to act in case of vacancy. No additional CHAP. 23.—An act authorizing the recorder of the District of Columbia to appoint an assistant with certain powers. Be it enacted, &c., That the recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia is authorized to appoint a deputy recorder; and all deeds of conveyance, leases, powers of attorney, and other written instruments required to be filed and recorded, and all copies of instruments and records, and certificates authorized by law, filed, recorded, made, and certified by the deputy recorder, shall have the same legality, force, and effect as if performed by the recorder. In case of a vacancy in the office of recorder by death, resignation, or other cause, the deputy recorder shall act until a recorder shall be duly appointed and qualified: Provided, That no additional expense shall be incurred by the expense or fees al- District for said deputy, and no other fees shall be allowed than are now provided by law. [January 16, 1877.] lowed. Jan. 16, 1877. 19 Stat. L., 223. Counterfeiting, &c., gold or silver CHAP. 24.—An act to amend section fifty-four hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to counterfeiting. (1) Be it enacted, &c., That Section fifty-four hundred and fifty-seven coin or bars; how of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is punished. Substi- hereby amended so as to read as follows: (1) tute for R. S., § 5457. 1891, Feb. 10, ch. 127, post, p. 889. 10 Pet., 618. 9 How., 560. 5 McLean, 23, 208. 4 Wash., 733. 18 Fed. Rep.,823. 31 Fed. Rep., 68. "Every person who falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aids or assists in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin or bars in resemblance or similitude of the gold or silver coins or bars which have been, or hereafter may be, coined or stamped at the mints and assay-offices of the United States, or in resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or silver coin which by law is, or hereafter may be, current in the United States, or are in actual use and circulation as money within the United States, or who passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States from any foreign place, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeit, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any other person or persons whatsoever, or has in his possession any such false, forged or counterfeited coin or bars, knowing the same to be false, forged or counterfeited, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any other person or persons whatsoever, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. [January 16, 1877.] NOTE. (1) This amendment has been incorporated into the second edition of the Revised Statutes in § 5457. |