Departments [Par. 3.] And where buildings are now rented for public use in the may rent buildings District of Columbia, the executive departments are authorized, whenin District Columbia in certain ever it shall be advantageous to the public interest, to rent others in their stead: Provided, That no increase in the number of buildings now 1874, June 22, ch. in use, nor in the amounts paid for rents, shall result therefrom. 388, par. 4. cases. * 1877, March 3, [June 15, 1880.] ch. 106. Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ ᎬᎡ 227. June 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 237. trespasses, &c., Suits and prose[SECTION 1], That when any lands of the United States shall have cutions not to be been entered and the Government price paid therefor in full no criminal maintained for suit or proceeding by or in the name of the United States shall therecommitted before after be had or further maintained for any trespasses upon or for or on March, 1879, on account of any material taken from said lands and no civil suit or propublic lands en- ceeding shall be had or further maintained for or on account of any tered and paid for, trespasses upon or material taken from the said lands of the United &c. Persons who lic lands for home States in the ordinary clearing of land, in working a mining claim or for agricultural or domestic purposes or for maintaining improvements upon the land of any bona fide settler or for or on account of any timber or material taken or used by any person without fault or knowledge of the trespass or for or on account of any timber taken or used without fraud or collusion by any person who in good faith paid the officers or agents of the United States for the same or for or on account of any alleged conspiracy in relation thereto: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall apply only to trespasses and acts done or committed and conspiracies entered into prior to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: And provided further, That defendants in such suits or proceedings shall exhibit to the proper courts or officer the evidence of such entry and payment and shall pay all costs accrued up to the time of such entry. SEC. 2. That persons who have heretofore under any of the homestead have entered pub- laws entered lands properly subject to such entry, or persons to whom stead under pre- the right of those having so entered for homesteads, may have been atexisting laws, or tempted to be transferred by bona fide instrument in writing, may entheir assigns, may title themselves to said lands by paying the government price therefor, have patent on and in no case less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and paying price. the amount heretofore paid the government upon said lands shall be taken as part payment of said price: Certain alternate sections of railroad-grant lands reduced in price to Provided, This shall in no wise interfere with the rights or claims of others who may have subsequently entered such lands under the homestead laws. SEC. 3. That the price of lands now subject to entry which were raised to two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and put in market prior to January, eighteen hundred and sixty one, by reason of the grant of alternate sections for railroad purposes is hereby reduced to one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre. $1.25 per acre. R. S., § 2357. Act not to apply SEC. 4. This act shall not apply to any of the mineral lands of the to mineral lands, United States; and no person who shall be prosecuted for or proceeded nor to trespasses against on account of any trespass committed or material taken from after March, 1879. any of the public lands after March first, eighteen hundred and seventynine shall be entitled to the benefit thereof. [June 15, 1880.] CHAPTER 235. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENSES OF THE GOV- . [Par. 1.] That the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, for printing and distributing more frequently the publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, seven thousand dollars: Provided, That such publications may be sold at such rates as may be fixed by said department, and the proceeds of all sales to be paid into the Treasury; June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 259. Commercial reports printed by State Department may be sold. R. S., § 211. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. [Par. 2.] That hereafter the admissions to the hospital shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the provisions of title fifty-nine, chapter four, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, Forty. third Congress. ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. [Par. 3.] For the completion of the work of the United States Entomological Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cotton-worm, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: Provided, That after the close of the next fiscal year all work of the Work of Entocharacter herein provided for shall be exclusively under the control of mological Commisthe Agricultural Department, and all operations under the Interior Department shall be fully and finally closed before the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. * * UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.-MISCELLANEOUS. * sion to be under [Par. 4.] That the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of Territories may the United States may make such provision for the care and custody of provide for care and custody of consuch persons as may be convicted of crime under the laws of such Ter- viets in any other ritory as they shall deem proper, and for that purpose may authorize Territory or State. and contract for the care and custody of such convicts in any other R. S., § 1892. Territory or State, and provide that such person or persons may be sentenced to confinement accordingly in such other Territory or State, and all existing legislative enactments of any of the Territories for that purpose are hereby legalized: United States Provided, That the expense of keeping such prisoners shall be borne by the respective Territories, and no part thereof shall be borne by the not to pay expense. United States. * [June 16, 1880.] 1874, June 20. ch. 332, § 2. CHAPTER 236. June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 281. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENSIONS OF CERTAIN PENSIONED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS Pensions of persons permanently disabled increased to $72 a month. month. 1. Pensions of persons permanently disabled in 2. to date from June 17, 1878. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That all soldiers and sailors who are now receiving a pension of fifty dollars per month, under the provisions of an act enti tled "An act to increase the pension of soldiers and sailors who have been totally disabled", approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall receive, in lieu of all pensions now paid them by the Government of the United States, and there shall be paid them in the same manner as pensions are now paid to such persons, the sum of 16 Opin. Att'y- seventy two dollars per month. Gen., 594. R. S., 46981. 4698, 1874, June 18, ch. 298. -to date from June 17, 1878. SEC. 2. All pensioners whose pensions shall be increased by the provisions of this act from fifty dollars per month to seventy two dollars per month shall be paid the difference between said sums monthly, from June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, to the time of the taking effect of this act. [June 16, 1880.] CHAPTER 239. June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 283. Portsmouth, AN ACT TO CONSTITUTE THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, IN THE STATE OF OHIO, A PORT Be it enacted, &c., That the city of Portsmouth, in the State of Ohio, Ohio, a port of de- shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery within the colleclivery in collection tion-district of New Orleans, and shall be subject to the same reguladistrict of New Orleans, La. tions and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; R. S., §§ 2568, and all the privileges and facilities afforded by the act of Congress of 2570, 2822-2831. the second of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Saint Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places", (1) shall be extended to said port. Surveyor to be appointed. R. S., §§ 2569, 2619, 2656, 2708, 4186, 4381. 1877, Feb. 27, ch. 69, par. 69. ry. Collector's sala A surveyor of customs shall be appointed to reside at said port, and perform the duties prescribed by law, who shall receive such compensation now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, by law, for surveyors of the same grade: Provided, That the salary of the collector shall not exceed the net fees collected according to law at said port. [June 16, 1880.] NOTE (1) The act of 1831, March 2, ch. 87 (4 Stat. L., 480), here referred to, was repealed by the Revised Statutes into which its provisions are incorporated. Those provisions, so far as this act appears to relate to them, may be found in Revised Statutes, §§ 2568, 2570, 2822-2831. June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 283. CHAPTER 240. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH MISSOURI CAVALRY Be it enacted, &c. teenth and Six [SECTION 1], That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, Bounty to enlistand they hereby are, directed to pay bounty to the enlisted men of the ed men of FifFifteenth and Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers who served during the late rebellion, as follows, to wit; To those who served the full period of one year, or more, the sum of one hundred dollars; to those who served the full period of six months, but less than one year, the sum of sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; to those who served a less period than six months, the sum of thirtythree dollars and thirty three cents. teenth Missouri Cavalry. relatives in case of SEC. 2. That in case of the death of the soldier, who if living would payable to be entitled under the first section of this act, then the said sum or sums widow or other that would be due to said soldier if living shall be paid to his widow; death of soldier. and if there be no widow, then to his child or children; and if there be none, then to his mother if she be a widow. And so much money as may be necessary to carry this law into effect Appropriation. is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. [June 16, 1880.] SECTION CHAPTER 242. AN ACT CREATING YAKIMA LAND-DISTRICT IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY. SECTION June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 283. Yakima land dis [SECTION 1], That all that portion of Washington Territory bounded by a line commencing at a point of the intersection of the line between trict in Washington Territory cretownships six and seven north, and between ranges twenty-seven and ated and bounded. twenty-eight east of the Willamette meridian; and running westerly R. S., § 2256, 2d along said line between townships six and seven north to the summit ed., p. 406. of the Cascade Mountains; thence northerly along said summit to the boundary line between the United States and British Columbia; thence east along said line to the Columbia guide meridian; thence south on said meridian to the line between townships sixteen and seventeen north; thence west along said line to the line between ranges twentyseven and twenty-eight east; thence south along said line to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate land district, to be called the Yakima land district, the office of which shall be located at Yakima City therein. SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and register and reconsent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, a register and a ceiver for. receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall reside R. S., § 2234. in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and responsibilities, and shall receive the same fees and emoluments, as the like officers now receive in the other land-offices in said Territory. SEC. 3. That all persons in said district who, prior to the opening of applications, unsaid Yakima land-office, shall have filed their declaritory statements or finished business, applications for pre-emption, homestead, or other land rights, in any tricts, for land in, &c., in other disother land-office in said Territory of Washington, shall hereafter make to be transferred proofs and entries at said Yakima land-office; and all unfinished busi- to. ness in any other land-office relating exclusively to lands in said Yakima land district shall be transferred to said Yakima land-office when notified by the officers of the opening thereof. [June 16, 1880.] 36 CHAPTER 243. June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 284. Court to have jurisdiction of claims against District. R. S., § 1059. -on contracts of AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF ALL OUTSTANDING CLAIMS AGAINST 5. Payment of judgments. Be it enacted, &c. [SECTION 1], That the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims is hereby extended to, and it shall have original legal and equitable jurisdiction of, All claims now existing against the District of Columbia arising out board of public of contracts, made by the late Board of Public Works, and extensions works, &c. thereof made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, And such claims as have arisen out of contracts made by the District ers since June 20, Commissioners since the passage of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, - of Commission 1874. -of claims for work done by orers prior to March 14, 1876. der of Commission of auditor's cer tificates. And of all claims for work done by the order or direction of the said Commissioners, and accepted by them for the use, purposes or benefit of the said District of Columbia, and prior to the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; And all certificates of the auditor of said Board of Public Works, All certificates issued by the auditor and comptroller of the District comptroller's cer- of Columbia, of auditor's and tificates. - of contracts of levy court. - of sewer certifi All claims based on contracts made by the Levy Court, All sewer certificates, all sewer taxes not heretofore converted into cates; sewertaxes. three-sixty-five bonds, Fendall's case, 16 Ct. Cls., of measurements All measurements made by the engineers of said District of work done of work under con- under contracts made since February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and tracts made since seventy-one, for which no certificates have been issued to and received February 21, 1871, for which no cerby the contractor or his assignee which certificates shall be prima facie tificates have been evidence of the amount of work done, issued. of contracts of All claims based upon contracts made by the Board of Public Works board of public for which no evidence of indebtedness has been issued. works for which no certificates have been issued. Procedure. Additional rules. Reference. Said Court of Claims shall have the same power, proceed in the same manner, and be governed by the same rules, in respect to the mode of hearing, adjudication, and determination of said claims, as it now has in relation to the adjudication of claims against the United States: Provided, Said court may make such additional rules as may be neces sary to save costs and prevent delays in the prosecution of such claims. When the trial of any claim against the District of Columbia, prosecuted under the provisions of this act, involves the taking and stating of a long account, or the making of measurements or computations involving the services of engineers, said court shall have power to award a reference to a competent referee to take and state such account, or to |