Legislative Botanic Garden. Senate. Indexing, etc., Sen nals watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and forty thousand dollars UNDER LEGISLATIVE. BOTANIC GARDEN. For extension and repairs to heating apparatus; for new sash to rotunda of conservatory, paint and reglaze conservatory and various hot-houses, and general repairs to buildings and walks, including granolithic pavement on First street, leading to Botanic Garden to Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars. SENATE. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who perate Executive Jour- formed the work of arranging and preparing the copy for, and indexing the Executive Journals of, the Senate, from February twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under Senate resolution of June twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States. Folding-room. House of Representatives. Contested election expenses. Payments from contingent fund. Proviso. To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to provide suitable rooms for the use of the folders of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars, and he is authorized to lease such rooms for the space of four months. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees in full of expenses incurred by them in contested election cases: J. B. Morgan, seven hundred and one dollars; G. H. Thobe, two thousand dollars; J. B. White, two thousand dollars; Robert Lowry, two thousand dollars; W. O. Arnold, seven hundred and fifty dollars; F. M. Simmons, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; Wm. Vandever, two thousand dollars; N. E. Worthington, two thousand dollars; A. C. Davidson, two thousand dollars; J. V. McDuffie, two thousand dollars; P. S. Post, two thousand dollars; J. G. Carlisle, one thousand two hundred and seven dollars and nineteen cents; Wm. Elliott, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and nineteen cents. Hereafter no payment shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate unless sanctioned by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, or from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives unless sanctioned by the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives. And hereafter payments made upon vouchers approved by the aforesaid respective committees shall be deemed, held, and taken, and are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all the departments and officers of the Government: Provided, That no payment shall be made from said contingent funds as additional salary or compensation to any officer or employe of the Senate or House of Representatives. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Catalogue of the Congressional Library: To enable the Librarian of Congress to continue the work upon the Catalogue of the Congressional Library, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. Congressional Li brary Catalogue. Portraits of Chief To enable the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ja under the direction of the court, to obtain the oil-portraits of John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, and Morrison R. Waite, to be hung in the robing-room of the court with those of the other Chief-Justices already there, fifteen -hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. INDEX TO CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS: To pay for the work done in preparing and completing the Document index of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses by Alonzo W. Church, three thousand dollars. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to protect the paintings in the rotunda by suitable railing or wire netting, in his discretion, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million and sixty-seven thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Congressional docu ments. Rotunda. Public printing and binding, paper, etc. priation. For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotment of approand debates, eight hundred and two thousand dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer, of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business. For the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. For the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office) and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service; For the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office; Allotment of appropriation-Continued. Division of appropriation. Leaves of absence. New engine, etc. New story. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office. For the National Museum, for printing labels and blanks and for the "Bulletins" and annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the Museum, ten thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twentyfive thousand dollars; For engraving the geological maps of the United States, fiftyfour thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars; For the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars; For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; For the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars; And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days' annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; to pay pro-rata leaves of absence to employees who resign or are discharged (decision of the First Comptroller), fifteen thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and five thousand dollars. For a new engine and boiler, including the cost of erecting the same, twelve thousand dollars. For the construction of an additional story to the south center fire-proof main building of the Government Printing Office and the removal of the electrotype foundry to the same, sixteen thousand dollars. Approved, October 2, 1888. October 9, 1888. may bridge Kentucky taries. CHAP. 1070.-An act to authorize the construction of bridges across the Kentucky River and its tributaries by the Louisville Southern Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Louisville Southern United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Louisville Railroad Company Southern Railroad Company, a corporation organized under act of River and its tribu- the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge, and approaches thereto, over the Kentucky River, in the State of Kentucky, and also a bridge or bridges over the tributaries or forks of said river, at such point or points as said company may deem suitable for the passage of its said road over said river, or its tributaries foot bridges. or forks. Said bridge or bridges shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railway trains, and, at the option of the company by Railway, wagon, and which it or they may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for footpassengers. SEC. 2. That any bridge built under this act, and subject to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-roads in the United States, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies; and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal telegraph purposes. SEC. 3. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object, the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridge, and a map of the location thereof; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War, the bridge shall not be commenced or built; and should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of construction, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. And any changes required by the Secretary of War, or the entire removal of said bridge or bridges after completion if required by him, shall be at the expense of the company owning said bridge. Lawful structures and post-routes. Postal telegraph. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. Changes. panies. SEC. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Use by other com or bridges shall have, and be entitled to, equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of reasonable compensation therefor; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge or bridges and the railroad company or companies desiring to use same shall fail to agree upon the terms with reference to the use of same, all matters of issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. And if said bridge or bridges shall be built for the passage over the same of vehicles, and the transit of animals, and for foot passengers, the rates of toll therefor shall be approved by the Secretary of War, before any tolls can be collected. Terms. Tolls. SEC. 5. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction Commencement and of the bridge or bridges herein authorized be not commenced within completion. two years and completed within five years from the date thereof. SEC. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, October 9, 1888. ; CHAP. 1090.-An act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated food or drugs in the District of Columbia. October 12, 1888. jurious or adulterated Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person Manufacture of inwithin the District of Columbia shall nix, color, stain, or powder, articles of food, etc., or order or permit any other person to mix, color, stain, or powder prohibited. any article of food or drugs with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, or manufacture any article of food which shall be composed in whole or in part of diseased, decomposed, offensive, or unclean animal or vegetable substance with the intent that the same may be sold in the said District, and no person shall sell in the District of Columbia any such article so mixed, colored, stained, powdered or manufactured. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense Penalty. Adulteration of drugs. Penalty. Sale by innocent parties. Articles of food or etc., demanded purchasers. Penalty. by be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 2. That no person shall, within the District of Columbia, except for the purpose of compounding as hereinafter described, mix, color, stain, or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, color, stain, or powder, any drug with any ingredient or material so as to effect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug, with intent that the same may be sold in the said District of Columbia, and no person shall sell any such drug so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered under the same penalty in each case respectively as in the preceding section for a first and subsequent offense. SEC. 3. That no person shall be liable to be convicted under either of the two last foregoing sections of this act in respect of the sale of any article of food, or of any drug, if he shows to the satisfaction of the court before whom he is charged that he did not know of the article of food or drug sold by him being so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered, as in either of those sections mentioned, and that he could not, with reasonable diligence, have obtained that knowledge. SEC. 4. That no person shall sell in the District of Columbia any drug to be of quality, article of food or drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by any purchaser, and any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first offense be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, and for each subsequent offense not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That an offense shall not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following cases, that is to say: Proviso. Permissible addi tions. sary ingredients. First. Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has Non-injurious neces been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof. Proprietary medi cine. Authorized com pounds. Unavoidable admix tures. Sale of compounds. Penalty. Altering articles of food injuriously. Penalty. Defendant to prove exception. Second. Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine. Third. Where the food or drug is compounded as authorized by this act. Fourth. Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation. SEC. 5. That no person shall sell in the District of Columbia any compound article of food or compounded drug which is not composed of ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding fifty dollars: Provided, That no person shall be guilty of any such offense as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended, fraudulently, to increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label, distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article or drug, to the effect that the same is mixed. SEC. 6. That no person shall, in the District of Columbia, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without notice, subtract from any article of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or nature, and no person shall sell any article so altered without making disclosure of the alteration, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding one hundred dollars. SEC. 7. That in any prosecution under this act, where the fact of an article having been sold in a mixed state has been proved, if the |
