CHAP. 569.—An act to make the allowances for clerk-hire, to postmasters of the first and second-class post-offices cover the cost of clerical labor in the money-order business, and for other purposes. June 29, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 87. and second class Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of July, eight- Allowances for een hundred and eighty-six, the allowances for clerk-hire made to clerk hire of first postmasters of the first and second class post-offices, by the Post- post-offices to covmaster-General, out of the annual appropriation for clerks in post- er all clerical laoffices, shall cover the cost of clerical service of all kinds in such bor. post-offices, including the cost of clerical labor in the money-order 1883, March 3, business; and that all laws or parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict ch. 123, § 4, ante, herewith are hereby repealed. p. 406. be separately 1885, March 3, ch. 342, par. 1, ante, p. 483. 1889, March 2, ch. 374, par. 1, post, p. 679. SEC. 2. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hun--for money-ordred and eighty-six, the allowances for clerk-hire in money-order der clerks not to business shall not be separately made, but shall be included in the made. general allowances for clerk-hire, and shall be based upon, but not 1883, March 3, to exceed, the rates specified in the fourth section of the act of March ch. 123, § 4, ante, third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; And at all money-order exchange offices which are now or may hereafter be established, additional allowances for clerk-hire may be made as provided in said section for international exchange offices; And postmasters at offices of the first and second classes shall not receive any compensation in addition to their salaries for the transaction of the money-order and postal-note business. [June 29, 1886.] p. 406. Postmasters of first and second classes not to have extra pay for money-order business. CHAP. 572.—An act granting leave of absence to employees in the Government Printing Office (1). June 30, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 91. Leave of absence Be it enacted, &c., That the employees of the Government Printing Office, whether employed by the piece or otherwise, be allowed a to employees in leave of absence, with pay, not exceeding (2) fifteen days in any one fis- government printcal year, after the service of one year and under such regulations and ing office regulaat such time as the Public Printer may designate. Such employees R. S. § 3763. as are engaged on piece-work shall receive the same rate of pay for the said fifteen days' leave as will be paid the day-hands: ted. On Congression Provided, That those regularly employed on the Congressional Record shall receive leave, with pay, at the close of each session, pro al Record. rata for the time of such employment. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. [June 30, 1886.] NOTES.-(1) See the notes upon the following subjects: Employees of Government Printing Office, 1891, March 3, ch. 550, post, p. 934; leaves of absence, 1883, March 3, ch. 128, § 4, ante, p. 410; Congressional Record, 1874, June 20, Res. No. 12, ante, p. 56. (2) Increased to 30 by 1888, Aug. 1, ch. 722, post, p. 600. See Harrison's case, 26 C. Cls. When act takes effect. June 30, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 93. CHAP. 574.-An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., * That no expenditures exceeding five hun- Expenditures for dred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post, or buildings, &c., grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War over $500, to be for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster's De- approved. partment; R.S. §§ 1136,3714. made for all buildings after adver And the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and Contracts to be other public structures in the Quartermaster's Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement. (1) * * [June 30, 1886.] NOTE. (1) This provision is repeated in every subsequent Army appropriation act up to and including 1891, Feb. 24, ch. 284, 26 Stat. L.. 776. It is a question whether the continued repetition is a legislative expression that each enactment is limited to the single year. tisement. June 30, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 106. Courts for south ern Florida to be held CHAP. 581.—An act to change the time of holding United States circuit and district courts in the southern district of the State of Florida. Be it enacted, &c., That the United States circuit and district courts district of for the southern district of Florida, at Tampa, shall hereafter be held second Monday in on the second Monday in February of each year, instead of the first Feb., at Tampa. Monday in March; and so much of the act entitled "An act to extend R. S. $572, 658. the jurisdiction of the district and circuit courts of the United States 1879, Feb. 3, ch. for the southern district of Florida," approved February the third, 43, ante, p. 214. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as provides that the said courts shall be held on the first Monday in March, is hereby repealed. [June 30, 1886.] CHAP. 611.-An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. * * Hereafter the provisions of section three of the act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled, "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes," are hereby extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter of agents for the payment of pensions. * [July 2, 1886.] July 8, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 127. Mississippi. Attala County west to east divi transferred from sion, northern ju- July 9, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 129. Steam tow censed to carry pay. CHAP. 745.—An act to amend chapter two hundred and eighteen of the acts of the first ses sion of the Forty-seventh Congress, approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo. Be it enacted, &c., That the county of Attala, in the northern judicial district of the State of Mississippi, is hereby transferred from the western to the eastern division of said district. All crimes and offences heretofore committed within said western division shall be prosecuted tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. [July 8, 1886.] CHAP. 755.-An act relating to the licensing of vessels engaged in towing, to carry persons in addition to their crews. Be it enacted, &c. That any steam-vessel engaged in the business boats may be li- of towing vessels, rafts, or water-craft of any kind, and not carrylimited number of ing passengers, may be authorized and licensed by the supervising persons without inspector of the district in which said steamer shall be employed, to carry on board such number of persons, in addition to its crew, R. S., SS 4464, as the supervising inspector in his judgment, shall deem necessary to carry on the legitimate business of such towing steamers, not exceeding, however, one person to every net ton of measurement of said steamer: Provided, however, That the person so allowed to be carried shall not be carried for hire. 4465. - to carry life preservers. R.S., § 4482 SEC. 2. That every steam-vessel licensed under the foregoing section shall carry and have on board, in accessible places, one life-preserver for every person allowed to be carried, in addition to those provided for the crew of such vessel. Certain steam SEC. 3. That steam-vessels of one hundred tons burden or under, vessels may be licensed to carry engaged in the coastwise bays and harbors of the United States, excursions, with- may be licensed by the United States local inspectors of steam-vessels out bulkheads. to carry passengers or excursions on the ocean or upon the Great R. S., 4466, Lakes of the North or Northwest, not exceeding fifteen miles from steamers: Provided, That in the judgment of the local inspector such steamers shall be safe and suitable for such navigation without danger to human life, and that they shall have one water-tight collision bulkhead not less than five feet abaft the stem of said steamer, [July 9, 1886.] Proviso. CHAP. 756.-An act to reimburse the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for losses incurred through the failure of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, Virginia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. [Section 1 is special.] SEC. 2. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to require from the president and cashier of all banks used as depositories by the treasurer of the Home a deposit of bonds sufficient in amount to fully secure all moneys pertaining to said Home left on deposit with any such bank. [July 9, 1886.] July 9, 1886. 24 Stat. L.. 129. Depositories of Home funds to give bonds. R. S., § 4825. 1875, Mar. 3, ch. 129, par. 6, and note, ante, p. 71. CHAP. 764.—An act to provide for taxation of railroad-grant lands, and for other purposes. July 10, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 143. Be it enacted, &c., That no lands granted to any railroad corporaSurveyed lands tion by any act of Congress shall be exempt from taxation by States, of railroad grants Territories, and municipal corporations on account of the lien of the not exempt from United States upon the same for the costs of surveying, selecting, taxation. and conveying the same, or because no patent has been issued there- ch. 246, par. 7, for; but this provision shall not apply to lands unsurveyed : 1876, July 31, ante, p. 115. 115 U.S., 600. Lands sold for Provided, That any such land sold for taxes shall be taken by the purchaser subject to the lien for costs of surveying, selecting, and taxes subject to conveying, to be paid in such manner by the purchaser as the Secre- lien of United tary of the Interior may by rule provide and to all liens of the States for surveying. United States, all mortgages of the United States, and all rights of the United States in respect of such lands: Provided further, That this act shall apply only to lands situated To what land, opposite to and coterminous with completed portions of said roads, act applies. and in organized counties: Provided further, That at any sale of lands under the provisions of this act the United States may become a preferred purchaser, and in such case the lands sold shall be restored to the public domain and disposed of as provided by the laws relating thereto. U. S. may purchase at tax sale: restoration to public domain. Cost for survey lected. SEC. 2. That if any railroad corporation required by law to pay the costs of surveying, selecting, or conveying any lands granted to ing railroad land such company or for its use and benefit by act of Congress shall for grants, how colthirty days neglect or refuse to pay any such costs after demand for 1876, July 31. payment thereof by the Secretary of the Interior, he shall notify the ch. 246, par. 7, Attorney-General, who shall at once commence proceedings to col- ante, p. 115. lect the same. But when any sum shall be collected of such railroad company as reimbursement costs of surveying, selecting, and conveying any tract of land which to purchaser in shall have been purchased under the provisions of section one here- certain cases of, the Secretary of the Interior shall out of such collections reimburse said purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount of money paid by him as the costs of such surveying, selecting, and conveying. SEC. 3. That this act shall not affect the right of the Government Right of forfeit to declare or enforce a forfeiture of any lands so granted; but all the ure to U.S. not af rights of the United States to said lands or to any interest therein fected. July 26, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 148. Light-house districts may be six teen. Substitute for Persons over 45 shall be and remain as if this act had not passed, except as to the lien mentioned in the first section hereof. SEC. 4. That section twenty-one of chapter two hundred and sixteen, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby so amended as that the costs of surveying, selecting and conveying therein required to be paid shall become due and payable at and on the demand therefor made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in section two of this act, And nothing in this act shall be construed or taken in any wise to affect or impair the right of Congress at any time hereafter further to alter, amend, or repeal the said act, as in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require, or to impair or waive any right or remedy in the premises now existing in favor of the United States. This act shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal. [July 10, 1886.] CHAP. 779.—An act authorizing the construction of additional light-house districts. Be it enacted, &c., That section forty-six hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The Light-House Board shall arrange the ocean, gulf, lake, and river coasts of the United States into light-house districts, not exceeding sixteen in number. That any law or regulation prohibiting the employment in the permitted to serve light-houses of the United States of persons of more than forty-five in light-houses. years of age be and the same is hereby repealed." [July 26, 1886.] * CHAP. 781.—An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending * * SEC. 2. All balances of moneys appropriated for the pay of the Navy or pay of the Marine Corps, for any year existing after the accounts for said year shall have been settled shall be covered into the Treasury. [July 26, 1886.] 1874, June 20, ch. 328, § 5, ante, p. 18. 1890, Aug. 30, ch. 837, § 4, post, p. 794. July 29, 1886. 167. CHAP. 810.-An act for the enlistment and pay and to define the duties and liabilities of "general-service clerks" and "general-service messengers" in the Army. 24 Stat. L., General-service Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, clerks and messen- authorized and directed to cause to be enlisted and mustered into gers to be enlisted the service of the United States, for clerical service and messenger in Army. 1890, June 20, duty at the headquarters of the Army and at the several division, ch. 437, post,p.759. department, and district headquarters, at headquarters general service, at recruiting depots, and at West Point, New York, in the not exceeding Army, a corps of men not to exceed one hundred and seventy, who shall be subject to the Articles of War and Army Regulations the 170. same as enlisted men on duty in the line, but shall not be subject to be assigned to any other than clerical and messenger duty, as hereinbefore specified; Nor shall this number be computed as a part of the number at not included in which the Army is now limited by law. SEC. 2. That of the men so enlisted one hundred and twenty-five shall be "general-service clerks," who shall be classified and paid as follows: Class one shall consist of ninety clerks, at one thousand dollars per annum; class two shall consist of twenty-five clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars per annum; class three shall consist of ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; limit of Army Messengers, And the remaining forty-five of such men shall be "general-service messengers," who shall be paid at the rate of sixty dollars per number and pay. month; And all of such men shall be mustered for pay monthly the same as Not to receive alenlisted men, and shall receive no other compensation, pay, or allow- lowances except ration in kind, ance, except when on duty, when necessity requires, they shall each when necessary. be allowed for subsistence one ration in kind to be issued by the Commissary Department. Rank on retire SEC. 3. That the provisions of law relating to the retirement of "ment. enlisted men shall be construed to include "general-service clerks" 1890, Sept. 30, and "general-service messengers" and, for the purposes of retire- ch. 1125, post, p. ment, they will rank as follows: General service clerks of class three with first sergeants of the line. General service clerks of class two with sergeants of the line. General service clerks of class one with corporal of the line. General service messengers with privates of the line. [July 29, 1886.] 810. CHAP. 818.—An act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories of the Be it enacted, &c., That the legislatures of the Territories of the United States now or hereafter to be organized shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: Granting divorces Changing the names of persons or places. Laying out, opening, altering, and working roads or highways. Regulating county and township affairs. Regulating the practice in courts of justice. Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates, and constables. Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases. Incorporating cities, towns, or villages, or changing or amending the charter of any town, city, or village. For the punishment of crimes or misdemeanors. For the assessment and collection of taxes for Territorial, county, township, or road purposes. Summoning and impaneling grand or petit jurors. Regulating the rate of interest on money. The opening and conducting of any election or designating the place of voting. The sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability. The protection of game or fish. July 30, 1886. 24 Stat. L., 170. Territorial legis latures not to pass certain local or special laws. 1888, July 19, ch. 679, post, p. 598. |