Provided, however That nothing herein contained shall be so con- Second-class strued as to prevent publishers of the second class and news agents matter. from inclosing, in their publications, bills, receipts and orders for inclose bills and -publishers may subscription thereto; but such bills, receipts, and orders shall be in receipts. such form as to convey no other information than the name, location, and subscription price of the publication or publications to which they refer. SEC. 24. That the Postmaster General may prescribe, by regula--regulations for tion, the manner of wrapping and securing for the mails all pack- wrapping. ages of matter not charged with first class postage, so that the contents of such packages may be easily examined; and no package the contents of which cannot be easily examined shall pass in the mails, or be delivered at a less rate than for matter of the first class. SEC. 25. That publications of the second class, one copy to each publications free actual subscriber residing in the county where the same are printed, to subscribers in in whole or in part, and published, shall go free through the mails; county of publicabut the same shall not be delivered at letter carrier offices, or distributed by carriers, unless postage is paid thereon at the rate prescribed in section thirteen (6) of this act: Provided, That the rate of postage on newspapers, excepting weeklies, and periodicals not exceeding two ounces in weight, when the same are deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by its carriers, shall be uniform at one cent each; Periodicals weighing more than two ounces shall be subject, when delivered by such carriers, to a postage of two cents each, and these rates shall be prepaid by stamps affixed. tion. when deposited offices for delivery to pay postage, ex in letter-carrier cept, &c. Part-paid letters payment of defi ciency by special stamps. R. S., § 3898. SEC. 26. That all mail-matter of the first class upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid shall be forwarded to its desti- to be delivered on cation, charged with the unpaid rate, to be collected on delivery; But postmasters, before delivering the same, or any article of mail-matter upon which prepayment in full has not been made, shall affix, or cause to be affixed, and canceled, as ordinary stamps are canceled, one or more stamps equivalent in value to the amount of postage due on such article of mail-matter, which stamps shall be of such special design and denomination as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, and which shall in no case be sold by any postmaster nor received by him in prepayment of postage. * SEC. 27. That any postmaster or other person engaged in the Penalty for failpostal service who shall collect, and fail to account for, the postage ure to account for due upon any article of mail-matter which he may deliver, without postage, or to canhaving previously affixed and canceled such special stamps, as here- celstamps, &c., by inbefore provided, or who shall fail to affix such stamp, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars. officials. stamped envel opes, &c. SEC. 28. That any person who shall use, or attempt to use, in pay-- for washing ment of postage, any canceled postage-stamp or postage-stamps, selling, using, &c., whether the same have been before used or not, or who shall by canceled stamps, any means remove, or attempt to remove, or assist in removing, marks from any postage-stamp or postage-stamps, with intent to R. S., $$ 3922use the same in payment of postage, or who knowingly shall have 3925. in his possession any postage-stamp or postage-stamps canceled, with intent to use the same, or from which such cancellation-marks have been removed, or who shall sell or offer to sell any such stamp or stamps, or who shall use or attempt to use the same in payment of postage, or who shall remove the superscription from any stamped envelope or postal card that has once been used in the payment of postage, with intent to again use the same for a like purpose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor NOTE.-(6) § 11 is here meant. For substitute for that section see 1885, March 3, ch. 342, par. 4. post, p. 483. New sureties for mail contracts may be required. Substitute for R. S., § 3955. Acting postmasters during vacancy of office to receive pay. velopes. more than five hundred dollars for each offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 30. That section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "The Postmaster-General, whenever, he may deem it consistent with the public interest, may accept or require new surety upon any contract existing or hereafter made for carrying the mails, in substitution for and release of any existing surety". SEC. 31. Any person performing the duties of postmaster, by authority of the President, at any post-office where there is a vacancy for any cause, shall receive for the term for which the duty is performed the same compensation to which he would have been entitled if regularly appointed and confirmed as such postmaster; and all services heretofore rendered in like cases shall be paid for under this provi sion. SEC. 32. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to take the necessary steps to introduce and furnish for public use a lettersheet envelope, on which postage-stamps of the denominations now in use on ordinary envelopes shall be placed. Double postal And the Postmaster-General is also authorized to introduce and cards and double- furnish for public use a double postal card, on which shall be placed letter envelopes. two one-cent stamps, and said card to be so arranged for the address R. S., §§ 3914, that it may be forwarded and returned, said cards to be sold for two 3917. but no royalty for patent. When act takes effect; repeal. cents apiece; and also to introduce and furnish for public use a double-letter envelope, on which stamps of the denominations now in use may be placed, and with the arrangement for the address similar to the double postal card; Said letter-sheet and double postal card and double envelope to be issued under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe: * * And provided, That no money shall be paid for royalty or patent on any of the articles named. SEC. 33. That so much of this act as is embraced in sections four to thirty-one both inclusive, shall take effect from the first day of May, 1879, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. [March 3, 1879.] March 3, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 377. Light vessels, CHAP. 182.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. * [Par. 1.] The expense of maintaining expenses of main- the vessels of the light-house establishment, may be paid from any taining and repair may be paid from surplus of the appropriation for the works, general or special, on appropriations for which the respective vessels are, for the time being, employed; and works on which the cost of repairs to such vessels may be paid from the appropriaemployed. tion under which they respectively were employed when they were R. S.. SS 3678, injured or became deteriorated to such an extent as to render the repairs necessary; or, if such appropriation be exhausted, then from the appropriation under which they are respectively to be next employed. 4653-4680. 1884, July 7, ch. 332, par. 2, post, p. 469. * * Members of Con- [Par. 2.] That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the gress to have ten House of Representatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts of Coast charts published by the Coast Survey, for each regular session of sion. R. S., 4691. Congress. Survey each ses * * 1878, June 20, ch. 359, par. 3, ante, p. 202. Issue of coin [Par. 3.] And so much of the act "making appropriations for the certificates for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for bullion, except at the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventynine, and for other purposes", approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as authorizes the Secretary of the Treas New York re pealed. 1878, June 19, ury to issue coin certificates in exchange for bullion deposited for R. S., SS 254, coinage at mints and assay-offices other than those mentioned in 3545. section thirty-five hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes, ch. 329, par. 4, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; said repeal to take effect at the ante, p. 200. end of the present fiscal year. 1882, July 12,ch. 290, § 12, post, p. 356. [Par. 4.] That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Secretary Secretary of of the Treasury to lease, at his discretion for a period not exceeding lease unproducTreasury may five years, such unoccupied and unproductive property of the United tive public properStates under his control, for the leasing of which there is no author- ty. ity under existing law, and such leases shall be reported annually to R. S., § 3749. Congress. * * [Par. 5.] Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments Department tel and the Government Printing Office: * * and the engineer in egraph, condemn charge of public buildings and grounds is hereby authorized to sell ed material may any condemned material or lines not needed by the departments, and cover the proceeds in the Treasury. * * be sold. 50; June 23, ch. 461, 1874, Feb. 4, ch. 22; March 7, ch. ante, pp. 3, 5, 46. for Army. [Par. 6.1 Support and improvement of the Leavenworth military Military prison prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: * * That the Secretary of to make supplies War shall cause to be fabricated at the said prison such supplies for the Army as can be economically and properly manufactured at the said prison. * * R. S., § 1351. 1874, May 21,ch. 186, ante, p. 9. Home for Disabled Volunteers; purchases to be [Par. 7.] Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Current expenses, including repairs: * * That all purchases of supplies exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars at any made after adverone time shall be made upon public tender after due advertisement, tisement; expenand that the expenditure for new buildings shall be expressly au- ditures for new thorized in writing: buildings esti R. S., § 4831. Provided, That the estimates hereafter submitted for the support of mates. the National Home shall be made in detail, specifying the several items 1875, March 3, of expenditure, and separating the cost of food and other supplies ch. 129, and note in the form usually adopted for the Army, and that this specifica- ante, p. 71. tion be made for each soldiers' home separately. * ** [Par. 8.] And hereafter the disbursing clerk of the Department of Disbursements the Interior is hereby required to act as disbursing clerk of the archi- Capitol extension, tect of the Capitol, and to disburse all moneys appropriated for the &c., to be by disUnited States Capitol extension and improvement of the grounds, terior. bursing clerk In and to receive an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to be paid out of said appropriation. * * ch. 287, R. S., § 1816. 1876, Aug. 15, par. 4, ante, p. 119. Private works of [Par. 9.] No work of art or manufacture other than the property of the United States shall be exhibited in the National Statuary art, &c., excluded Hall, the Rotunda, or the corridors of the Capitol. from Capitol. R. S., § 1815. 1875, March 3, ch. 130, par. 7, ante, p. 73. [Par. 10.] For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, Director of Geo which office is hereby established, under the Interior Department, logical Survey, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and appointment, duconsent of the Senate, six thousand dollars: ties, &c. Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the Geolog- 1887, March 3, ical Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examina- ch.362, par. 6, post, tion of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of p. 563. the national domain 1888, Oct. 2, ch. 1069, par. 4, post, And that the Director and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth p.626. 1889, March of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or exam- 2, ch. 411, par. 4, inations for private parties or corporations; (1) post, p. 698. Certain surveys And the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain discontinued. Region, under the Department of the Interior, and the Geographical Surveys West of the One hundreth Meridian, under the War Department, are hereby discontinued, to take effect on thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. NOTE. (1) Two officers of Ordnance Corps may be detailed for Geological Survey duty, 1880, June 16, ch. 235, par. 5, post, p. 298. Scientific employees to be selected exclusively for professional qualifications, 1884, July 7, ch. 332, par. 4, post, p. 469. Collections from al Museum. And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of surveys to be de- natural history, Archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and posited in Nation- Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for 1882, Aug. 7, ch. the Government of the United States, when no longer needed 433, par. 15, post, for investigations in progress shall be deposited in the National Museum. * p. 382. veys. * Publications of [Par. 11.] The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist geological sur- of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps 1886, Aug. 4, ch. illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports 902, pars. 3,4, post, upon general and economic geology and paleontology. p 513. 1887, March 3, Res. No. 16, post, p. 575. - copies to be printed, distrib uted, &c. Proceeds of sale. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication; and all literary and cartographic materials, received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization: And the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; * * Half of support [Par. 12.] Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane: of indigent insane * * * Provided, That one half of the expense of the indigent pain Government tients from the District of Columbia shall be reported to the TreasHospital to be paid by District of Co- ury Department, and charged against the appropriations to be paid toward the expenses of the District by the general government, with* out regard to the date of their admission. lumbia. * R. S., § 4844. 1877, March 3, ch. 105, ante, p. 136. 1878, June 11, ch. 180, § 3, ante, p. 176. Archives, &c., [Par. 13.] That all the archives, records and materials relating to relating to Indians the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and collected by Geographical and Ge- Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, shall be turned ological Surveys over to the Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be comto be turned over pleted and prepared for publication under its direction; Provided to Smithsonian That it shall meet the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and R.S., § 5579-5594. of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Institution. Allowances to * * [Par. 14.] That hereafter no contestee or contestant for a seat in the House of Representatives shall be paid exceeding two thousand dollars for expenses in election contests; And before any sum whatever shall be paid to a contestant or concontestants of testee for expenses of election contest, he shall file with the clerk of seats in House of the Committee on Elections a full and detailed account of his exRepresentatives. R. S., SS 128,130, penses, accompanied by the vouchers and receipts for each item, 1875, March 3, which account and vouchers shall be sworn to by the party presentch. 130, par. 13, ing the same, and no charges for witness fees shall be allowed in ante, p. 74. said accounts unless made in strict conformity to section one hundred and twenty eight Revised Statutes of the United States. Bounty to col ored soldiers; how -identity claimant. 1, attorney's fee. of * * SEC. 2. [Par. 1.] That all sums due upon certificates issued, or which may be issued by the accounting officers of the Treasury in settlement of claims for pay, bounty, prize money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors or marines, or their legal representatives, shall be paid by the officers of the Pay Department of the Army, under the direction of the Paymaster General, who is already charged with the payment of like dues to white soldiers: Provided, first, That no such certificate shall be issued until it shall have been ascertained that the application is made by the original claimant, or, if he be dead, by his true living legal representative, nor until the identity of such claimant or representative as the case may be, shall have been duly established: Provided, That if an agent or attorney be employed, the allow ance for his services shall not in any case exceed that contemplated 1866, July 26, in the scale of fees and allowances fixed by the second section of Res. No. 86 (14 a joint resolution approved July twenty sixth, eighteen hundred Stat. L., 368). and sixty six, entitled "Joint resolution amendatory of a joint resolution respecting bounties to colored soldiers, and the pensions, bounties, and allowances to their heirs", approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, and such allowance shall be stated in a separate certificate in favor of the agent or attorney simultaneously with the issue of a certificate for the amount due the claimant: (1) * *[Part omitted is repealed by 1888, Feb. 1, ch. 4 (25 Stat. L., 9).] * * Assignments [Par. 2.] An[d] no power of attorney, transfer or assignment of the amount of such claims, or any part thereof, shall in any case be void. recognized; * * [The rest of the section has been executed or has expired.] DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. * * * Reform School, D. C., payment by pealed. SEC. 3. * * [Par. 1.] Reform School, District of Columbia: Salaries, fuel, and incidental repairs and improvements, and section thirteen of the act entitled, "An act revising and amend District not reing the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia, approved May third, eighteen hundred 90, § 13, ante, p. and seventy-six," is hereby continued in full force. * * 1876, May 3, ch. 103. 1879, March 3 ch. 183, par. post, p. 254. [Par. 2.] That the inspector of buildings of the District shall In D. C., inspechave authority and control over and supervision of the construction tor of buildings to control repair of and repairs of all school buildings if the Commissioners deem best to school buildings. delegate the same to him. * * * * * * the 3-65 bonds. 1878, June 11, ch. 180, §6, ante, p. 178; 1885, Feb. 25, ch. 145, par. 7, post, p. 477. [Par. 3.] For the Metropolitan police, as follows: That all Appointments of new appointments shall be made to class one. (2) police to be to class one. [Par. 4.] And there is hereby appropriated, out of the proporPermanent aptional sum which the United States may contribute toward the ex- propriation for penses of the District of Columbia in pursuance of the Act of Con- sinking fund of gress, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, 1874, June 20,ch. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sev- 337. §7, ante, p. 24; enty nine, and annually thereafter, such sums as will, with the 1875, Feb. 20,ch.94, interest thereon at the rate of three and sixty-five hundredths per gue: Pich. 180. ante, p. 64; 1878, centum per annum, be sufficient to pay the principal of the three- § 4, ante, p. 176. sixty-five bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the act 1891, March 3, ch. of Congress approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sev- 563, post, p. 947. enty-four, at maturity; Which said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually invest in said bonds at not exceeding the par value thereof; and all bonds so redeemed shall cease to bear interest, and shall be cancelled and destroyed in the same manner that United States bonds are cancelled and destroyed. [March 3, 1879.] * * NOTE. (1) The fees allowed by the resolution here referred to (1866, July 26, Res. No. 86, 14 Stat. L., 368), are "for the preparation and prosecution of claims for, and the collection and remittances of all sums not exceeding fifty dollars, five dollars; for sums exceeding fifty and less than one hundred dollars, seven dollars and fifty cents; and for all sums exceeding one hundred dollars, the sum of ten dollars." (2) See note (3) to 1878, June 20, ch. 359, par. 2. ante, p. 202. CHAP. 183.-An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, and for other purposes. * * March 3, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 410. Arms and am Be it enacted, &c. [Par. 1.] That upon the request of the head of any department, the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, munition may be authorized and directed to issue arms and ammunition whenever they furnished to the may be required for the protection of the public money and property, protect public departments to and they may be delivered to any officer of the department desig- property. |