be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than fifteen years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. 1890, May 2, ch. 182, SEC. 2. That any person hereafter convicted of any robbery or burglary in the Indian Territory shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years, or both, at the discretion of the court; R. S.. SS 2145, 5370, 5456, 5472. Act not to ap Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to apply to any offense committed by one Indian upon the person or property of ply to offenses of another Indian, or so as to repeal any former act in relation to rob- one Indian upon bing the mails or robbing any person of property belonging to the United States: another. And provided further, That this act shall not affect or apply to Pending trials. any prosecution now pending, or the prosecution of any offense already committed. SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed: Provided, however, That all such acts and parts of acts shall remain in force for the punishment of all persons who have heretofore been guilty of the crime of larceny in the Indian Territory. [February 15, 1888.] Repeal. Trial for prior offenses. February 18, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 40. Patents may be signed by Assistant Secretary of Substitute for CHAP. 15.-An act to amend section four thousand eight hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes to enable the Assistant Secretary of the Interior to sign patents (1). Be it enacted, &c., That section four thousand eight hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the words "Secretary of the Interior," where they occur Interior. therein, the following words: "or under his direction by one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Interior," so that the said section as R. S., § 4883. amended will read as follows: "SECTION 4883. All patents shall be issued in the name of the United States of America, under the seal of the Patent Office, and shall be signed by the Secretary of the Interior or under his direction by one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Interior, and countersigned by the Commissioner of Patents, and they shall be recorded, together with the specifications, in the Patent Office, in books to be kept for that purpose." [February 18, 1888.] NOTE (1).-By 1888, April 19, ch. 126, (25 Stat. L., 87), all patents theretofore signed by any Assistant 128 U. S., 612. CHAP. 17.—An act to carry into effect the International Convention of the fourteenth of February 29, 1888. March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for the protection of submarine cables. Be it enacted, &c., That any person who shall willfully and wrongfully break or injure, or to attempt to break or injure, or who shall in any manner procure, counsel, aid, abet, or be accessory to such breaking or injury, or attempt to break or injure, a submarine cable, in such manner as to interrupt or embarrass, in whole or in part, telegraphic communication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. to 25 Stat. L., 41. Willful injury submarine cable punishable. Treaty (24 Stat. L., 989.) Breaking or in SEC. 2. That any person who by culpable negligence shall break or injure a submarine cable in such manner as to interrupt or em- juring cables by barrass, in whole or in part, telegraphic communication, shall be culpable negliguilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable gence punishable. -except to save sel. to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. That the provisions of the foregoing sections shall not life, limb, or ves- apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury. ishable. 1890, Aug. 19, Masters of vesSEC. 4. That the master of any vessel which, while engaged in sels laying cable, &c., failing to ob- laying or repairing submarine cables, shall fail to observe the rules serve signal rules, concerning signals that have been or shall hereafter be adopted by buoys, &c., pun- the parties to the convention with a view to preventing collisions at sea; or the master of any vessel that, perceiving, or being able to ch. 802, Art. 4, perceive the said signals displayed upon a telegraph ship engaged in par. b; Art. 15, repairing a cable, shall not withdraw to or keep at distance of at par. h; post, pp. least one nautical mile; or the master of any vessel that seeing or being able to see buoys intended to mark the position of a cable when being laid or when out of order or broken, shall not keep at a distance of at least a quarter of a nautical mile, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars. 702, 786. from cables, &c. Fishing vessels SEC. 5. That the master of any fishing vessel who shall not keep to keep nets and his implements or nets at a distance of at least one nautical mile implements away from a vessel engaged in laying or repairing a cable; or the master of any fishing vessel who shall not keep his implements or nets at a distance of at least a quarter of a nautical mile from a buoy or buoys intended to mark the position of a cable when being laid or when out of order or broken, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten days, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court: -reasonable time tice. Provided, however, That fishing vessels, on perceiving or being allowed after no- able to perceive the said signals displayed on a telegraph ship, shall be allowed such time as may be necessary to obey the notice thus given, not exceeding twenty-four hours, during which period no obstacle shall be placed in the way of their operations. Officers who are authorized to perform duty imposed by treaty. Penalty for re fusing to show pa pers mentioned in treaty, article 10. Penalty not a SEC. 6. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention, a person commanding a ship of war of the United States or of any foreign state for the time being bound by the convention, or a ship specially commissioned by the Government of the United States or by the Government of such foreign state, may exercise and perform the duties vested in and imposed on such officer by the convention. SEC. 7. That any person having the custody of the papers necessary for the preparation of the statements provided for in article ten of the convention who shall refuse to exhibit them or shall violently resist persons having authority according to article ten of said convention to draw up statements of facts in the exercise of their functions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 8. That the penalties provided in this act for the breaking or bar to suits for injury of a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of such breaking or injury. damages. Liability of mas ter. SEC. 9. That when an offense against this act shall have been committed by means of a vessel, or of any boat belonging to a vessel, the master of such vessel shall, unless some other person is shown to have been in charge of and navigating such vessel or boat, be deemed to have been in charge of and navigating the same, and be liable to be punished accordingly. Definition of Vessel. Master. Person. SEC. 10. That unless the context of this act otherwise requires, the term "vessel" shall be taken to mean every description of vessel terms. used in navigation, in whatever way it is propelled; the term "master" shall be taken to include every person having command or charge of a vessel; and the term "person" to include a body of persons, corporate or incorporate. The term "convention" shall be taken to mean the International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables, made at Paris on the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and proclaimed by the President of the United States on the twenty-second day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Convention, 24 Stat. L., 989. Provisions for SEC. 11. That the provisions of the Revised Statutes, from section forty-three hundred to section forty-three hundred and five, inclu- summary trials. sive, for the summary trial of offenses against the navigation laws of the United States, shall extend to the trial of offenses against the provisions of sections four and five of this act. SEC. 12. That the provisions of this act shall be held to apply only to cables to which the convention for the time being applies. R. S., S 43004305. Cables to which act applies. District courts SEC. 13. That the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction over all offenses against this act and of all suits of a to have jurisdiccivil nature arising thereunder, whether the infraction complained tion of offenses of shall have been committed within the territorial waters of the and suits. United States or outside of the said waters: Provided, That in case such infraction is committed outside of the including ofterritorial waters of the United States the vessel on board of which fenses on high seas it has been committed is a vessel of the United States. From the in vessels of U. S. decrees and judgments of the district courts in actions and suits. arising under this act appeals and writs of error shall be allowed as now provided by law in other cases. Criminal actions and proceedings for a violation of the provisions of this act shall be commenced and prosecuted in the district court for the district within which the offense was committed, and when not committed within any judicial district, then in the district court for the district within which the offender may be found; and suits of a civil nature may be commenced in the district court for any district within which the defendant may be found and shall be served with process. [February 29, 1888. ] CHAP. 18.—An act authorizing the appointment of two additional division superintendents of Where criminal and civil proceedings are to be com menced. Feb. 29, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 43. Two additional Be it enacted, &c., That the Postmaster-General be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint and assign to duty two division superintend- division superinents of Railway Mail Service, in addition to those heretofore author- tendents of Railized, who shall each be paid a salary of two thousand five hundred authorized. dollars a year. [February 29, 1888.] CHAP. 20.—An act to authorize the removal of the quarantine station from Ship Island, Mis sissppi. way Mail Service R. S.. § 4020.. 1878, June 17. ch. 259, par. 1, ante, p. 186. March 5, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 43. Quarantine station at. 1878, April 29, ch.66, ante, p. 157. 1888, Aug. 1, ch. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to cause the removal of the national quarantine station now located on Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, to some other island in said Gulf, or in such pass in the Mississippi Delta as may be recommended by a board to be designated by him, and that the 727, post. p. 600. necessary quarantine buildings and appliances be established thereon; and that the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to carry out the purposes of this act. [March 5, 1888.] March 9, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 45. representatives CHAP. 30.—An act to amend an act to restrict the ownership of real estate in the Territories to American citizens, and so forth, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty seven. Foreign govern- Be it enacted, &c., That an act entitled "An act to restrict the ments and their ownership of real estate in the Territories to American citizens, and may own real so forth," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, estate in District be so amended that the same shall not apply to or operate in the District of Columbia, so far as relates to the ownership of legations, 1887, March 3, or the ownership of residences by representatives of foreign Governch. 340, ante, P. ments, or attaches thereof. [March 9, 1888.] of Columbia. 556. March 23, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 45. Fee for passport to be one dollar. R. S., § 4075. 1874, June 28, CHAP. 34.-An act to fix the charge for passports at one dollar. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act a fee of one dollar shall be collected for each citizen's passport issued from the Department of State. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this are hereby ch. 328, par. 4, repealed. [March 23, 1888.] ante, p. 17. March 30, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 47. Surgeon-General's office may use old press, &c. 1886, July 31, ch. 827, ante, p. 505. Eight-hour law CHAP. 47.—An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., * * [Par. 1.] That the printing press and material formerly in use in the office of the Surgeon-General may be used by the record and pension division of that office to expedite as much as possible the work of the division, and for no other pur pose. * * [Par. 2.] And the Public Printer is hereby directed to rigidly to be enforced enforce the provisions of the eight hour law in the Department under in Government Printing Office. his charge. [March 30, 1888.] R. S., § 3738. 1886, June 30, ch.572,ante, p.499. April 2, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 76. Fees for exem General Land Of R. S., 461. * * CHAP. 54.-An act to amend section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That section four hundred and sixty-one of the plification of pat- Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: ents and papers in "SEC. 461. All exemplifications of patents or papers on file or of fice and for copies. record in the General Land Office which may be required by parties Substitute for interested shall be furnished by the Commissioner upon the payment by such parties at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words, and 1888, Oct. 12. ch. thirty cents each for photolithographed copies of township plats or diagrams, unverified, not to exceed ten copies to any one person, and twenty-five cents each for all copies in excess of ten, with an additional sum of one dollar for the Commissioner's certificate of verification, with the General Land Office seal; 1098, post, p. 631. Receiving clerk to be designated and fees paid into Treasury. Fees not to be And one of the employees of the office shall be designated by the Commissioner as the receiving clerk, and the amount so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, be paid into the Treasury; But fees shall not be demanded for such authenticated copies as demanded of pub- may be required by the officers of any branch of the Government, lic officers, nor for nor for such unverified copies as the Commissioner, in his discretion, unverified copies. may deem proper to furnish." [April 2, 1888.] CHAP. 58. An act to provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Mississippi City. Be it enacted, &c., That the counties of Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Marion, Perry, and Green, being a part of the southern judicial district of Mississippi, shall be known as the southern division of said district; and circuit and district courts, for the transaction of business pertaining to the persons and property in said southern division, shall be held at Mississippi City on the third Mondays of February and August in each year. SEC. 2. That the said courts to be held at Mississippi City, as provided in section one of this act, shall be possessed of and shall exercise all the powers and jurisdiction now possessed or exercised, or which may hereafter be granted to or exercised, by the circuit and district courts in said district now held at Jackson; and all laws regulating and defining how suits against persons or property located or found in judicial districts shall be brought shall be applicable to and govern the bringing of suits in said division; and all laws touching the removal of causes from State courts to United States courts shall apply to said courts hereby established; but all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within said southern district shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. SEC. 3. [Relates to pending cases.] April 4, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 78. Mississippi, southern judicial district of. Courts at Missis sippi City. R. S., SS 572, 658. 1882, June 15, ch. 218,ante,p.344. Jurisdiction. Deputy marshal SEC. 4. That the marshal and clerks of said southern district of Mississippi shall each appoint a deputy, who shall reside at Missis- and clerk. sippi City. SEC. 5. That the United States shall not be at any expense in providing for a building or room for the holding of the terms of said court. Court rooms. Juries. 1888, Aug. 8, ch SEC. 6. That whenever the circuit and district courts in the southern district of Mississippi shall be held at the same time and place, only one grand jury and the necessary number of petit jurors shall 785, post, p. 605. be summoned for both courts, and they shall be the grand and petit jurors for both said courts. [April 4, 1888.] CHAP. 61.-An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes. April 4, 1888. 25 Stat. L., 80. Suspension of tonnage tax act amended. 1886, June 19, Be it enacted, &c., That section eleven of an act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes, approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred R. S., § 4219. and eighty-six, be amended by striking out of the sixth and seventh ch. 421, § 11, ante, lines of the subproviso of said section the words "of the country in p. 495. which such port is situated, or on the cargoes of such vessels," and substituting in lieu thereof the words "of such country, or on the cargoes of such vessels; trade. But this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the spe- Special exempcial regulation by foreign countries of duties and other charges on tion of coasting their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other states of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most-favored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries." SEC. 2. That section one of the act herein before mentioned be Abolition of shipamended, in the third line from the end of the section, by inserting, ping fees further after the words "shipping commissioners," the words "and clerks of provided for. R. S., § 4451, steamboat inspectors, and such allowances for fees of United States 4461. marshals and witnesses for services under the steamboat-inspection 1886, June 19, laws, and for expenses of steamboat inspectors provided for by sec- ch. 421, § 1, ante, tion forty-four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes." p. 493. |