Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States

AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
Two deputy commissioners of internal revenue only:-one to be designated First Deputy.
Be it enacted, &c., That the office of Deputy Commissioner of Internal

Revenue, made vacant by the death of General B. J. Sweet, be, and the missioners of Inter-

same is hereby, abolished; and that the Secretary of the Treasury may, nal Revenue only:

upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, nated First Depu-

-one to be desig-

designate one of the two remaining deputy commissioners as First Dep- ty.

uty Commissioner, who shall perform the duties and be paid only the R. S., §§ 235, 322.

salary prescribed for the office of deputy commissioner hereby abolished.

be executed at Uni-

3516.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING COINAGE TO BE EXECUTED AT THE MINTS OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Coinage for foreign countries may be executed at United States mints..

Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for coinage to be executed at
the mints of the United States for any foreign country applying for the
same, according to the legally prescribed standards and devices of such
country, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe; and the charge for the same shall be equal to the expenses
thereof, including labor, materials, and use of machinery, to be fixed
by the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury: Provided, That the manufacture of such coin shall not inter-
fere with the required coinage of the United States. [January 29, 1874.]

CHAPTER 22.

February 4, 1874. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE LINES OF TELEGRAPH CONNECTING THE CAPITOL WITH

18 Stat. L., 14.

be-

THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Telegraph lines between Capitol and Departments - Operation of, how conducted.

to be under supervision of officer in charge of

public buildings, &c.

Telegraph

Be it enacted, &c., That the lines of telegraph, connecting the Capitol

tween Capitol and
with the various Departments in Washington, constructed under and

Departments to be

under supervision by virtue of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hun-

of officer in charge dred and seventy-three, entitled "An act making appropriations for

of public build- sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June

ings, &c.

1873, ch. 227 (17 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes,"

be, and the same are hereby, placed under the supervision of the officer

in charge of the public buildings and grounds; and that the said officer

be authorized and empowered to make rules and regulations for the

Working of said lines.

how conducted.

And the Secretary or Head of each Executive Department, and the
Congressional Printer, are hereby authorized to detail one person from
of, their present force of employees to operate the instruments in said De-
partments and printing office, and each House of Congress may provide
for the employment of an operator in their respective wings of the Cap-
itol, at a compensation not exceeding one hundred dollars per month,
during the sessions of Congress. [February 4, 1874.]

CHAPTER 24.

February 9, 1874. AN ACT CHANGING THE TIMES FOR HOLDING CERTAIN

UNITED STATES, FOR THE STATE OF IOWA.

18 Stat. L., 15.

DISTRICT COURTS OF THE

2. Processes to be entered at said terms.

[SECTION 1], That instead of the times now fixed by law, the terms of

the district courts of the United States for the district of Iowa, to be
held in the city of Keokuk and the city of Council Bluffs, shall commence
At Keokuk on the third Tuesday of January and the third Tuesday

of June, and

At Council Bluffs on the fourth Monday of March and the fourth

Monday of September, in each year.

SEC. 2. That all causes, processes, suits, and proceedings now pend-

said ing or commenced for said terms of court, or hereafter to be commenced,

shall be continued or returned in and to said courts at the several times

herein specified. [February 9, 1874.]

CHAPTER 25.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REMOVAL OF February 11, 1874.

THE FLATHEAD AND OTHER INDIANS FROM THE BITTERROOT VALLEY, IN THE

TERRITORY OF MONTANA," APPROVED JUNE FIFTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND

SEVENTY-TWO.

1. Pre-emption lands in Bitterroot Valley; time 2. Settlers on, to have benefit of homestead

of sale and payment extended.

[SECTION 1], That the time of sale and payment of pre-empted lands Pre-emption lands

in the Bitterroot Valley, in the Territory of Montana, is hereby extended in Bitterroot Val-

for the period of two years from the expiration of the time allotted in ley; time of sale

and payment ex-

the act entitled (1) "An act to provide for the removal of the Flathead tended.
and other Indians from the Bitterroot Valley, in the Territory of Mon-
tana," approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
SEC. 2. That the benefit of the homestead act is hereby extended to
all the settlers on said lands who may desire to take advantage of the
same. [February 11, 1874.]

NOTE. (1) The time allotted by the act here referred to, 1872, ch. 308 (17 Stat. L., 226), was "within

twenty-one months from the date of settlement, or of the passage of this act," which act was passed

AN ACT GRANTING CERTAIN SWAMP-LANDS IN HOLT COUNTY, MISSOURI, TO SAID HOLT February 19, 1874.

COUNTY, FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

16.

SECTION

Rights of homestead and pre-emption settlers

to be preserved.

Cost of surveying to be paid by county.

18 Stat. L.,

Lands granted to

[SECTION 1], That all the tract of land embraced in what is known as
Tarkio Lake, in Congressional Township, numbered sixty, of range Holt County, Mis-
thirty-nine, in the county of Holt, State of Missouri, and which was souri, for school
left unsurveyed at the time the Government of the United States had purposes.
made a survey of the other lands in said township and county, and
which was described on the plat of the survey of said lands as a mean-
dering lake, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the said county of
Holt, in the State of Missouri, for school purposes.

SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of the General Land-Office is hereby

directed to have said lands surveyed, and to cause to be executed to the

said county of Holt, a patent for the same:

to be surveyed.

Rights of home-

Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to
affect the rights of any person who may have in good faith gone upon stead and pre-emp-
said lands prior to January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, with tion settlers pre-
the intent of pre-empting or homesteading the same; and the said served.
county of Holt is hereby required to make a title to any such person

to an amount of land not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres upon

the payment to the county of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: Cost of surveying
And be it further provided, That all cost of surveying said lands shall to be paid by coun-

be paid by said county of Holt. [February 19, 1874.]

ty.

CHAPTER 35.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE TITLES OF CERTAIN NAVAL OFFICERS, AND FOR OTHER February 24, 1874.

Naval Academy.

1. Assistant and passed assistant engineers in 2. Cadet-engineers, course of instruction of, at

Navy: their title, &c.

Be it enacted, &c.

[SECTION 1], That from and after the passage of this act the title of

first assistant engineer shall be changed to passed assistant engineer,

gineers in Navy: and that the title of second assistant engineer shall be changed to
their title, &c.
assistant engineer: Provided, That the regulations of the Navy Depart-
ment in relation to the examinations and amount of sea-service previous
to each examinations be complied with.

R. S., 1390,

1394, 1476, 1556.

Cadet-engineers;

SEC. 2. That from and after the thirtieth day of June eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-four, the course of instruction at the Naval Academy
for cadet engineers shall be four years, instead of two as now provided
by law; and this provision shall first apply to the class of cadet-engi-
neers entering the academy in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, and to all subsequent classes; and that all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent herewith be, and are hereby, repealed. [February 24, 1874.]

CHAPTER 36.

February 24, 1874. AN ACT TO WITHHOLD FROM SALE THE SITE OF THE OLD LIGHT-STATION AT NAYATT

18 Stat. L., 18.

POINT

Site of old light-station at Nayatt Point reserved from sale.

Site of old light- Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is

station at Nayatt hereby, authorized and directed to withhold from sale the site of the old

light-station at Nayatt Point. [February 24, 1874.]

La Messilla land

AN ACT CREATING AN ADDITIONAL LAND DISTRICT IN THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

SECTION

1. La Messilla land district in New Mexico; lo-

cation of land-office.

Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

2. Register and receiver of, and where to reside.

[SECTION 1], That all that portion of the Territory of New Mexico
lying south of the principal base line of said Territory shall constitute
separate land district, to be called the La Messilla land-district, the
office of which shall be located at such place in said district as the
President of the United States may direct, which may be changed from
time to time as the public interest may require.

SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of public moneys for said
district, and said officers shall reside in the place where said land-office
is located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties,
and receive the same emoluments as are or may be prescribed by law in
relation to land offices of the United States in other Territories [March
3, 1874.]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF CLERK OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT TO SIGN REQUI-

SITIONS ON THE TREASURY DURING THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF THE SECRE-

TARY OF WAR.

Secretary of War may authorize chief clerk to sign requisitions, &c., in his absence.
Be it enacted, &c., That when, from illness or other cause, the Secre-

may authorize tary of War is temporarily absent from the War Department, he may

chief clerk to sign authorize the chief clerk of the Department to sign requisitions upon

requisitions, &c.,

in his absence. the Treasury Department, and other papers requiring the signature of
R. S., 177, 215, said Secretary; the same, when signed by the chief clerk during such
179, 3673.
1877, Feb. 27, ch. temporary absence, to be of the same force and effect as if signed by
the Secretary of War himself. [March 4, 1874.]

69, par. 2.

CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FIFTEENTH SECTION OF AN ACT APPROVED JUNE EIGHTH,

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REVISE, CONSOL-

IDATE AND AMEND THE STATUTES RELATING TO THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT."

Form of oath.

Oath to be taken by Postmaster-General and all

persons in postal service.

Before what officer may be taken.

March 5, 1874.

18 Stat. L., 19.

Oath to be taken

Be it enacted, &c., (1) That section fifteen of the act "to revise, consoli-

date and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department," by Postmaster Gen-

approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended eral and all per-

to read as follows:

"SEC. 15. That before entering upon the duties, and before they shall

receive any salary, the Postmaster General, and all persons employed

in the postal service, shall respectively take and subscribe before some

magistrate or other competent officer authorized to administer oaths by

the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory, the follow-

ing oath or affirmation:

"'I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will faithfully

perform all the duties required of me and abstain from everything forbidden by the

laws in relation to the establishment of post-offices and post-roads within the United

States; and that I will honestly and truly account for and pay over any money be-

longing to the said United States which may come into my possession or control;

"And I also further swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the

United States; so help me God.'

"And this oath or affirmation may be taken before any officer civil or before what offi-

military holding a commission under the United States, and such officer cer may be taken.

is hereby authorized to administer and certify such oath or affirmation."

[March 5, 1874.]

NOTE.-(1) Section fifteen of the act of 1872, ch. 335 (17 Stat. L., 287), here referred to, is incorporated

into the Revised Statutes in § 391.

CHAPTER 47.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO DISCONTINUE THE

USE OF THE CUTTER "RELIEF" AS A REVENUE CUTTER, AND USE SAID VESSEL

FOR A BOARDING STATION IN MOBILE BAY.

March 5, 1874.
18 Stat. L., 20.

Secretary of the Treasury may use revenue-cutter Relief as a boarding station in district of Mobile.
Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is here-
Sec'y of Treasury
by, authorized to discontinue the use of the "Relief" as a revenue cut- may use revenue-
ter, and to station said vessel in Mobile Bay for use as a boarding sta- cutter "Relief” as
tion for the customs officers of the district of Mobile, under such rules, in district of Mo-
a boarding station
regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may from bile.
time to time prescribe. [March 5, 1874.]

R. S., § 2758.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PAY THE OPERATORS OF THE GOVERNMENT

TELEGRAPH CONNECTING THE DEPARTMENTS WITH THE TWO HOUSES OF CON-

GRESS.

Telegraph between Capitol and Departments; how used.

Be it enacted, &c.,

March 7, 1874.

18 Stat. L., 20.

be-

That said lines of telegraph shall be for the use only of Senators, Telegraph

Members of Congress, Judges of the United States courts, and officers tween Capitol and