Grundy County, Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That the county of Grundy heretofore composing a part Tenn., transferred of the middle district of Tennessee be transferred to, and henceforth to castern judicial form a part of, the eastern district of Tennessee. district. R. S., § 547. Courts to be held at Chattanooga. SEC. 2. A term of the circuit court and of the district court for the eastern district of Tennessee shall be held at Chattanooga in said state R. S., §§ 572, 658. in each year on the first Mondays of April and October, after the pas sage of this act. Eastern district SEC. 3. Said eastern district shall be and hereby is divided into two divided into north- divisions, to be known as the Northern and Southern divisions of the eastern district of Tennessee, ern and southern divisions. Clerks, marshal, The southern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit, Hamilton, James, Polk, McMinn, Bradley, Meigs, Rhea, Marion, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Grundy, and Cumberland, And the northern division shall consist of the remaining counties in said district. But no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district. SEC. 4. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the eastand attorney for ern district of Tennessee, and the marshal and district attorney for said eastern district; district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices respectively for said courts. duties. shall each ap And the said clerks and marshals shall each appoint a deputy to repoint deputy at side and keep their offices in the city of Chattanooga, and who shall, in Chattanooga. the absence of their principals, do and perform all the duties appertaining to their offices respectively. where one of de Suits to be SEC. 5. All suits not of a local nature in the circuit and district courts brought in divis- against a single defendant, inhabitant of said state, must be brought ion of district in the division of the district where he resides; but if there are two or fendants reside. more defendants residing in different divisions of the district, such suits R. S., § 740. may be brought in either division. -issues of fact; where to be tried. Prosecution for crimes; where cog nizable. Residence of ju rors. Service of process in either divis ion. All issues of fact in said suits shall be tried at a term of the court held in the division where the suit is so brought. SEC. 6. All prosecutions for crimes or offences hereafter committed in either of the sub-divisions shall be cognizable within such division; and all prosecutions for crimes, or offences heretofore committed within said county taken as aforesaid from the middle district or committed in the eastern district as hitherto constituted, shall be commenced and proceeded with as if this act had not been passed. SEC. 7. All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each divis ion shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions herein before contained, issued in either of said divisions may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. Removal of suits SEC. 8. In all cases of removal of suits from the courts of the State of from State courts; Tennessee to the courts of the United States in the eastern district of to which division. Tennessee such removal shall be to the United States courts in the Building for courts. When act takes effect. Repeal. division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made; and the time within which the removal shall be perfected in so far as it refers to or is regulated by the terms of the United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the United States courts in such division. SEC. 9. That each of said courts shall be held in a building to be provided for that purpose by the State or municipal authorities and without expense to the United States. SEC. 10. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [June 11, 1880]. CHAPTER 206. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPART- SECTION 1. Par. 1. Superintendent of Railway Mail Serv- Special agents of post-office to be Par. 2. Railroad company refusing railway Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1.1 SECTION Par. 2. Repeal of authority to reduce pay on Par. 3. Postal cards and stamps for foreign Par. 4. Remission of part of cost of Australian * Par. 1.] The superintendent of railway mail service and the chief of post-office inspectors shall be paid their actual expenses while traveling on the business of the department; June 11, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 177. Superintendent of railway mail service &c., to be paid traveling exch. 259, § 1, par. 1. penses. R. S., §§ 4017, 4020. 1878, June 17, And section four thousand and seventeen of the Revised Statutes is Special agents hereby so amended as to insert in lieu of the words "special agents" and the word "agents", wherever they occur in said section, the words "post-office inspectors". of post-office to be called post-office inspectors. R. S., § 4017. 1878, June 17, ch. 259, § 1, par. 1. [Par. 2.] That in case any railroad company fail or refuse to provide Railroad comrailway post-office cars when required by the Post-Office Department pany refusing railsaid company shall have its pay reduced ten per centum on the rates way postal cars to have its pay refixed in section four thousand and two of the Revised Statutes as duced. amended by act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, en- R. S., § 4002titled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office 4005. Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 11876, July 12, ch. and seventy-seven, and for other purposes", and as further amended by 1878, June 17, ch. the act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, enti- 259. fled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office 1881, March 1, Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ch. 96, § 1. and seventy-nine, and for other purposes"; 179. And section five of the act entitled "An act making appropriations Repeal of section for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending authorizing reducJune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes", tion of pay for nonapproved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be, and the time. same is hereby, repealed. * 1879, March 3, ch. 180, § 5. Postal cards and mail-matter may [Par. 3.] And the Postmaster-General is hereafter authorized to furnish and issue to the public, postal cards with postage-stamps impressed stamps for foreign upon them, for circulation in the mails exchanged with foreign coun- be furnished by tries under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention of Postmaster-GenJune first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at a postage charge of eral. two cents each, including the cost of their manufacture. [Par. 4.] Provided, That the Postmaster-General be authorized to remit in favor of the colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales so much of the cost of the overland transportation of the Australian closed mails as he may deem just. * [June 11, 1880.] Remission of part of cost of Australian closed mail in favor New Zealand and New South Wales. R. S., 40064016. June 14, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 197. Sunken vessels tary of War. CHAPTER 211. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, COMPLETION, SEC. 4. Whenever hereafter the navigation of any river, lake, harbor, or obstructing navi- bay, or other navigable water of the United States, shall be obstructed gation to be removed by Secre- or endangered by any sunken vessel or water-craft, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, upon satisfactory information thereof, to cause reasonable notice, of not less than thirty days, to be given, personally or by publication, at least once a week in the newspaper published nearest the locality of such sunken vessel or craft, to all persons interested in such vessel or craft, or in the cargo thereof, of the purpose of said Secretary, unless such vessel or craft shall be removed as soon thereafter as practicable by the parties interested therein, to cause the same to be removed. -unless removed If such sunken vessel or craft and cargo shall not be removed by the by parties inter- parties interested therein as soon as practicable after the date of the ested, after notice. giving of such notice by publication, or after such personal service of notice, as the case may be, such sunken vessel or craft shall be treated as abandoned and derelict, and the Secretary of War shall proceed to remove the same. -after removal to Such sunken vessel or craft and cargo and all property therein when be sold, with car- so removed shall, after reasonable notice of the time and place of sale, go, &c., and pro- be sold to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, and the proceeds of ceeds deposited in the Treasury. such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of a fund for the removal of such obstructions to navigation, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be paid out for that purpose on his requisition therefor. Act extends to other wrecks. Appropriation. The provisions of this act shall apply to all such wrecks whether removed under this act or under any other act of Congress. Such sum of money as may be necessary to execute this section of this act is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the requisition of the Secretary of War. [June 14, 1880.] June 14, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 198. CHAPTER 213. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE THE NORTHERN JUDICIAL Judicial dis 1. Judicial districts of Texas; in which divisions 2. Aransas County added to western district. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That the above recited act be amended by adding to and tricts of Texas; in at the end of the fifth section thereof the following words, to wit: And all prosecutions in either of said districts for offenses against the laws of the United States shall be tried in that division of the district 1879, Feb. 24, ch. to which process for the county in which said offenses are committed is 97, § 5. by said section required to be returned. And all writs and recogni which divisions offenses to be tried. R. S., § 740. zances in said prosecutions shall be returned to that division in which said prosecutions by this act are to be tried. SEC. 2. That said act be further amended by adding to and at the end of section third thereof the words "and Aransas." 1879, SEC. 3. This act shall not apply to prosecutions now pending. [June 14, 1880.] Aransas County added to western district. R. S., § 548. CHAPTER 214. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTES IN RELA- Transportation in bond of dutiable goods; error in act corrected. June 14, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 198. Transportation Be it enacted, &c., That in the act entitled "An Act to amend the Stat- in bond of dutiable utes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for goods; error in other purposes", approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, acts corrected. the words "section four" where they occur in the first section of the act, 190. be changed to "section five". [June 14, 1880.] 1880, June 10, ch. CHAPTER 221. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE FORT HARKER MILITARY RESERVA Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to turn over to the Secretary of the Interior the Fort Harker military reservation in Kansas for sale, as hereinafter provided. Fort Harker military reservation in Kansas to be sold. to be appraised SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall cause said reservation to be appraised as early as practicable, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and offered for and sixty acres each, by three competent disinterested persons, who shall sale. be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and who shall make said appraisement under oath, and upon the approval of such appraisement by the Secretary, he shall offer said reservation for sale by giving such notice as is now required for the sale of public lands. The persons who may have at the date of the passage of this act - present settlers settled upon and improved said lands, shall have the prior right to pur- on, to have prior chase the lands so settled upon at the appraised value thereof, not to right to purchase at appraisal. exceed one hundred and sixty acres, except in the case of a fractional quarter-section to each person, and shall have such reasonable time in which to make payment therefor as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Such portion of said reservation as shall not have been settled upon -rest may be sold and improved at the date of the passage of this act shall be sold by the to new settlers. Secretary of the Interior to actual settlers, under such regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That no land shall be sold under the provisions of this act not to be sold for less than one dollar and a quarter per acre nor at a less price than for less than $1.25 the appraisal thereof. All sales of land herein provided for shall be made as nearly as practicable under the rules and regulations now existing for disposing of the public lands of the United States. [June 15, 1880.] per acre. rules for sale of. June 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 199. Preamble. Agreement with Ute Indians in Colorado ratified, except, &c. Addition to first clause. -to third clause: schools. Annuities. CHAPTER 223. AN ACT TO ACCEPT AND RATIFY THE AGREEMENT SUBMITTED BY THE CONFEDERATED Whereas certain of the chiefs and headmen of the confederated bands of the Ute tribe of Indians, now present in the city of Washington, have agreed upon and submitted to the Secretary of the Interior an agreement for the sale to the United States of their present reservation in the State of Col orado, their settlement upon lands in severalty, and for other purposes; and Whereas the President of the United States has submitted said agreement, with his approval of the same, to the Congress of the United States for ac ceptance and ratification, and for the necessary legislation to carry the same into effect: Therefore Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That said agreement be, and the same is hereby, accepted, ratified, and confirmed: Provided, That the said agreement shall be amended by adding to the first clause thereof, after the words "guilty parties", the words following, to wit: "Until such surrender or apprehension, or until the Presi dent shall be satisfied that the guilty parties are no longer living or have fled beyond the limits of the United States, the proportion of the money, hereinafter provided, coming to that portion of the Ute Indians known as the White River Utes, except for removal and settlement, shall not be paid"; And by adding to the third express condition of said agreement after the word "forever", the words following, to wit: Provided, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, appropriate an amount thereof, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the education in schools established within or beyond the limits of the lands selected, of such youths of both sexes as in his judgment may be best qualified to make proficiency in practical industries and pursuits necessary for their self-support, And out of the portion of said moneys coming to the White River Utes, the United States shall pay annually to the following-named persons, during the period of twenty years, if they shall live so long, the following sums respectively: To Mrs. Arivella D. Meeker, five hundred dollars; to Miss Josephine Meeker five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sophronia Price, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Maggie Gordon, five hundred dollars; to George Dresser, two hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sarah M. Post, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Eaton, mother of George Eaton, two hundred dollars; to the parents of Arthur L. Thompson two hundred dollars; to the father of Fred Shepard, two hundred dollars; to the parents of Wilmer Eskridge, two hundred dollars"; |