lic indebtedness of cities, counties, incorporated villages, and towns, cities, and counand school districts; ties. -ownership of And of the ownership of the public debt of the United States, by debt, &c. whom owned and the respective amounts; and such additional in- 1880, April 20, quiries respecting the same, as well as respecting the public paupers ch. 57, post, p. 281. and criminals, as the Superintendent of Census shall deem necessary to secure full information respecting the numbers and condition of these classes. -number five; Schedule number five shall contain inquiries as to the birthplace relative to deaths. of the father and mother of each person reported as having died during the year, and as to the usual occupation of each such person. Railroad corpo The Superintendent of Census shall require and obtain from every rations; facts conrailroad corporation, or the lessee or receiver thereof, the following cerning, to be obfacts, to exhihit the condition of such corporation, and the condi- tained. tion, characteristics, and operations of the railroad or railroads owned or controlled by such corporation, or the lessee or receiver thereof, on the first of June of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, to wit: The name of the corporation or company, with the corporate names of all leased lines; the number of miles projected or authorized by law or charter, with the several terminal points of the same; the number of miles completed, exhibiting separately the length of lines within each State; the number of miles operated during the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty; the capital stock allowed by law or charter, and the amount paid up; the amount of funded and of unfunded debt, with period of funded debt, and rate of interest thereon, and the amount of all sinking funds provided for the redemption of such debts; the number of acres of land derived from public grants remaining unsold; the total cost of construction, of equipment, and of all permanent investments, including the cost of purchase of other lines of road and of telegraph lines; the amount and character of rolling stock; the number and class of employees; the receipts of such corporation or company for the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty, exhibiting separately the earnings from through freight, from local freight, from passengers, from expresses, and from mails; the expenses of such corporation or company for said fiscal year, exhibiting separately the amount paid for salaries and wages, for fuel, for national, State, and municipal taxes, for interest on bonds and other debts, for dividends, for repairs, for damage to freight and personal injuries; also, the operations of said fiscal year, including mileage of freight, of passengers, and of construction and repair trains separately, the number of passengers carried, and the amount and class of freight transported each way; also, the number, character, and, so far as ascertained, the cause of all casualties by which life was lost, which occurred upon or within the trains, the tracks, or the buildings of said corporation or company during said fiscal year, and the extent of injury to life and limb resulting therefrom; also the terms of all agreements and contracts by which sleeping cars, palace and parlor cars, so called, express cars, and cars of transportation companies, not identical with the corporation or company making the return herein required, are run upon such road or roads, and the extent of such service, and the amount of all receipts therefrom during the said fiscal year. tained. The Superintendent of the Census shall require and obtain from Express compathe owners, proprietors, or managers of every incorporated express nies; facts concompany the following facts to wit: Name of corporation or com- cerning, to be obpany; capital paid up; total capital stock, and to what extent the same has been watered, and how often corners have been made on such watered stock; length of lines in miles; whether the business is conducted by rail, vessel, or otherwise; total amount paid to rail Telegraph companies; facts concerning. Life-insurance companies. Fire and marine nies. roads or vessels for use of line or lines; number of officers, number of persons engaged in general administration; number of agents and messengers; total receipts, total expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses. He shall also in like manner require and obtain, from the owners, proprietors, or managers of every telegraph company, the following facts, to wit: Name of corporation or company; terminal points connected; capital and capital paid up; length of lines in miles; miles of wire; number of officers; number of persons engaged in general administration; number of persons engaged as telegraph-operators; the number of messages transmitted by officers of the United States: the number of messages transmitted for the press; the number of messages transmitted for private parties; total number of messages transmitted; total receipts from messages; total expenditures of the company, exhibiting separately the amount expended for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses. He shall also, in like manner, require and obtain, from the officers or managers of all life-insurance companies, the following facts, to wit: Name of company; amount of capital and paid up capital; the number of persons employed in the general administration; the number employed as agents; the total gross assets of the company, exhibiting separately realized assets, deferred and unpaid premiums, and premium notes and loans; total liabilities of the company, exhibiting separately losses adjusted and unadjusted, losses resisted, scrip and other dividends, dividends to policy-holders not applied, reinsurance fund; all other claims, including capital; receipts from cash premiums; receipts from all other sources; total cash expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for losses and claims, dividends to stock-holders, dividends to policy-holders, commissions, officers' salaries, medical examiners' fees, national, State and local taxation, and all other cash expenditures; amount and character of deposits in each State to secure policy-holders; premium-note expenditures; the number and amount of policies issued during the year; also exhibiting policies terminating during the year, the number and amount terminating by death, by expiration, by surrender, by lapse, by change; total number and amount of policies in force, and the amount of the premiums; the amount of losses in cash and notes and the percentage of the loss to the total amount of policies in force; percentage of assets to risks in force. He shall in like manner, require and obtain, from every fire and insurance compa- marine insurance company, the following facts, to wit: Name of company; amount of capital stock; the amount paid up; the number of persons employed in general administration; the number employed as agents; the gross assets of company; the total liabilities, exhibiting separately the amount of losses adjusted, losses unadjusted, losses resisted, reinsurance fund; all other liabilities, including capital; also, the total receipts, exhibiting separately fire premiums, marine and inland premiums and receipts from all other sources, including interest, dividends, and rents: also the total expenditures, exhibiting separately the number and amount of fire losses, of marine and inland losses, dividends, commissions, officers' salaries, State, national, and municipal taxes, and all other expenses. He may require such other information, as to the subjects of this tion may be re- section, as, in his judgment, may be necessary to secure such required. turns as will exhibit the transactions of said several companies. * * [March 3, 1879.] Other informa CHAP. 200.-An act for the relief of soldiers and sailors becoming totally blind in the service of the country. March 3, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 484. Pension on ac Be it enacted, &c., That the act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, entitled "An act to increase the pensions count of total of certain soldiers and sailors who have lost both their hands or both blindness. R. S., SS 4697, their feet, or the sight of both eyes, in the service of the country", , 4698. 1878, June be so construed as to include all soldiers and sailors who have become 17, ch. 261, ante, p. totally blind from causes occurring in the service of the United 188. 1890, March 4, States. [March 3, 1879.] ch. 25, post, p. 707. CHAP. 202.-An act to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the March 3, 1879. compensation, &c. 20 Stat. L., 484. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be established a National National Board Board of Health to consist of seven members, to be appointed by the of Health estabPresident, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not lished; members, more than one of whom shall be appointed from any one State, whose R. S., SS 4792compensation, during the time when actually engaged in the per- 4796. formance of their duties under this act, shall be ten dollars per diem 1882, Aug. 7, ch each and reasonable expenses, and of one medical officer of the Army, 433, par. 6, post, one medical officer of the Navy, one medical officer of the Marine P. 380. Hospital Service, and one officer from the Department of Justice, to ch.410,par. 2, post, be detailed by the Secretaries of the several Departments and the p. 697. Attorney General, respectively, and the officers so detailed shall receive no compensation. 1889, March 2, meetings, pres Said board shall meet in Washington within thirty days after the passage of this act and in Washington or elsewhere from time to ident of, rules, &c. time upon notice from the president of the board, who is to be chosen by the members thereof, or upon its own adjournments, and shall frame all rules and regulations authorized or required by this act, and shall make or cause to be made such special examinations and investigations at any place or places within the United States, or at foreign ports, as they may deem best, to aid in the execution of this act and the promotion of its objects. 1879, June 14, p. 273. SEC. 2. The duties of the National Board of Health shall be to duties of. obtain information upon all matters affecting the public health, to advise the several departments of the government, the executives Res. No. 6, post, of the several States, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on all questions submitted by them, or whenever in the opinion of the board such advice may tend to the preservation and improvement of the public health. SEC. 3. [Temporary and expired.] SEC. 4. [Appropriates $50,000 to pay salaries and expenses, &c.] [March 3, 1879.] NOTE. (1) Congress having ceased for several years past to appropriate for the current salaries and expenses of the National Board of Health, it is no longer in active operation, though never expressly abolished. For a review of legislation as to this Board see 22 C. Cls., 269; 23 Č., Cls.82. RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER 1.—Joint resolution for the distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States December 21,1878. to the Post Office Department. 20 Stat. L., 487. Revised Statutes distributed to Be it resolved, &c., That out of the fifteen thousand copies of the new edition of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United (2d edition) to be States required by the fourth section of the "Act to provide for the Post-Office Depreparation and publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes partment officers. of the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred 1877, March 2. and seventy-seven, to be printed and bound, the Secretary of State ch.82, ante, p.133. 1878, May 22, shall furnish to the Post-Office Department, upon the requisition of Res. No. 22, ante, the Postmaster-General not exceeding two hundred and fifty copies p. 204. for the use of the officers and special agents of the department and of postmasters at offices of free delivery; no provision having been made for the Post Office Department in the "Joint resolution providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States," approved May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [December 21, 1878.] FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS-FIRST (EXTRA) SESSION, IN THE YEAR 1879. CHAP. 5.—An act to amend section fourteen hundred and seventeen, fourteen hundred and eighteen, fourteen hundred and nineteen, fourteen hundred and twenty, and sixteen hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the Navy. Be it enacted, &c., That section fourteen hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 1417. The number of persons who may at one time be enlisted into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, mechanics, firemen, and coal-heavers, and including seven hundred and fifty apprentices and boys, hereby authorized to be enlisted annually, shall not exceed eight thousand two hundred and fifty: May 12, 1879. 21 Stat. L., 3. Enlisted men of Navy not to exceed 8,250. Substitute for R. S. 1417. Apprentices, Provided, That in the appointment of warrant-officers in the naval service of the United States, preference shall be given to men who &c., to be preferred in appointhave been honorably discharged upon the expiration of an enlistment ment of warrantas an apprentice or boy, to serve during minority, and re-enlisted officers. within three months after such discharge, to serve during a term of three or more years: Promotion of Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be held to abrogate the provisions of section fourteen hundred and seven of the seamen as warRevised Statutes of the United States." That section fourteen hundred and eighteen be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 1418. Boys between the ages of fifteen (1) and eighteen years may be enlisted to serve in the Navy until they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years; other persons may be enlisted to serve for a period not exceeding five years, unless sooner discharged by direction of the President." rant-officers not affected. R. S., § 1407. Enlistment of boys and others. Substitute for R. S., § 1418. 137 U. S., 157. That section fourteen hundred and nineteen be amended so as to between ages of read as follows: "SEC. 1419. Minors between the ages of fifteen (1) and eighteen years shall not be enlisted for the naval service without the consent of their parents or guardians." That section fourteen hundred and twenty be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 1420. No minor under the age of fifteen (1) years, no insane or intoxicated person, and no deserter from the naval or military service of the United States, shall be enlisted in the naval service." That article nineteen of section sixteen hundred and twenty-four be amended so as to read as follows: 15 and 18 years. Substitute for R. S., § 1419. What persons are prohibited from enlisting. Penalty for enlisting prohibited Substitute for "SEC. 1624. ARTICLE 19. Any officer who knowingly enlists into persons. the naval service any deserter from the naval or military service R. S., § 1624, art. of the United States, or any insane or intoxicated person, or any 19. minor between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years, without the consent of his parents or guardian, or any minor under the age of fifteen years, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct." [May 12, 1879.] NOTE. (1) Changed to "fourteen" by 1881, Feb. 23, ch. 73, § 2, post, p. 318. |