CHAPTER 286. AN ACT TO CHANGE THE TIME FOR HOLDING THE CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS OF June 16, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 75. Circuit and dis trict courts of east ern district of Wis 1. Circuit and district courts of eastern district Be it enacted, &c. 2. -without interfering with right to hold special terms, nor with terms at Milwaukee. [SECTION 1], That the time of holding the circuit and district courts consin to be held of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin, at Oshkosh, at Oshkosh on sec- be on the second Tuesday of July of each year, instead of the first ond Tuesday of Monday of July, as now provided by law; and that all recognizances, July. indictments, writs, process, and other proceedings, civil and criminal, R. S., §§ 572, 658. now pending in either of said courts, may be entered, heard, and tried at the time herein fixed for holding said courts. - without inter SEC. 2. That this act shall not interfere with the terms of said courts fering with right appointed to be holden at Milwaukee, in said district, nor with the to hold special power now possessed by the judges of said courts to order special terms of the same as now provided by law. [June 16, 1874.] terms. CHAPTER 287. June 16, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 76. Terms of circuit court in R.S., $$ 658, 664. Superseded by 1876, Feb. 18, ch. 11. California. Oregon. Nevada. When act takes effect. AN ACT FIXING THE TIMES OF HOLDING THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SECTION 1. Term of circuit courts in - California. -Oregon. Be it enacted, &c. SECTION 1. Nevada. 2. When act takes effect. United States for the districts of California, Oregon, and Nevada shall [SECTION 1], [Sup.] [That hereafter a term of the circuit court of the be held as follows, namely: For the district of California, in the city of San Francisco, on the second Monday of February, July, and December of each year; For the district of Oregon, in the city of Portland, on the second Monday of April, August and November of each year; And for the district of Nevada, in the city of Carson, on the second Monday of March, June, and October of each year.] SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect on the first day of July next; and all provisions of law inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed. [June 16, 1874.] June 16, 1880. 18 Stat. L., 76. Medals com CHAPTER 288. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVER- Medals commemorating Centennial Anniversary of - punishment for counterfeiting or imitating. Be it enacted, &c., That medals with appropriate devices, emblems and memorating Cen- inscriptions, commemorative of the Centennial Anniversary of the Dectennial Anniversa- laration of Independence be prepared at the Mint at Philadelphia for the ry of Independence to be pre- Centennial Board of Finance, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second pared, &c. section of the Coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, (1) upon the payment of a sum not less than the cost thereof, R. S., 3551. NOTE. (1) The provisions of the act of 1873, ch. 131 (17 Stat. L., 432), here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes, where they form the sections noted in the margin. And all the provisions whether penal or otherwise of said coinage act Centennial medagainst the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall als: punishment for apply to the medals struck and issued under the provisions of this act. counterfeiting or imitating. [June 16, 1874.] R. S., §§ 5457, 5458. CHAPTER 294. AN ACT RELATING TO AMBASSADORS, CONSULS AND OTHER OFFICERS. Diplomatic and consular officers not to be absent more than ten days at a time without leave; and if so absent not to have pay. -not to correspond with private parties on public affairs. - nor recommend persons for employment. June 17, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 77. at a time without Be it enacted, &c., That no Ambassador, Envoy Extraordinary, Minis Diplomatic and ter Plenipotentiary, Minister Resident, Commissioner to any foreign consular officers country, chargé d'affaires, Secretary of Legation, Assistant Secretary of not to be absent Legation, Interpreter to any legation in any foreign country, Consul more than ten days General, Consul, Commercial Agent, consular pupils, or consular agent leave; and if so shall be absent from his post or the performance of his duties for a longer absent, not to have period than ten days at any one time, without the permission previously pay, &c. R. S., §§ 1741, obtained of the President. And no compensation shall be allowed for 1742. the time of any such absence in any case except in cases of sickness; Nor shall any diplomatic or consular officer correspond in regard to not to correthe public affairs of any foreign government with any private person, spond with private newspaper, or other periodical, or otherwise than with the proper officers parties on public of the United States; affairs; - nor recommend Nor without the consent of the Secretary of State previously obtained, recommend any person at home or abroad for any employment of trust persons for employor profit under the Government of the country in which he is located; ment; Nor ask or accept, for himself or any other person, any present, emolument, pecuniary favor, office, or title of any kind from any such government. [June 17, 1874.] nor accept presents for themselves or others. CHAPTER 298. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENSIONS OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO HAVE BEEN June 18, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 78. Pension of $50 ice. [SECTION 1], That section four (1) of the act entitled "An act to re- per month allowed vise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions," and approved to persons permaMarch third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be so amended that nently and totally all persons who, while in the military or naval service of the United disabled in miliStates, and in the line of duty, shall have been so permanently and to- tary or naval servtally disabled as to require the regular personal aid and attendance of an- R. S., § 4698, other person, by the loss of the sight of both eyes, or by the loss of the sight 46984. of one eye, the sight of the other having been previously lost, or by the loss of both hands, or by the loss of both feet, or by any other injury resulting in total and permanent helplessness, shall be entitled to a pension of fifty dollars per month; and this shall be in lieu of a pension of thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents per month granted to such person by said section: NOTE.-(1) Section four, here referred to, of the act of 1873, ch. 234 (17 Stat. L., 569), is incorporated into the Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin. 1880, June 16, ch. 236. Pensions of $50, Provided, That the increase of pension shall not be granted by reason &c.: only in case of of any of the injuries herein specified unless the same have resulted in permanent total permanent total helplessness requiring the regular personal aid and athelplessness, &c. tendance of another person. When act takes effect. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [June 18, 1874.] CHAPTER 299. AN ACT TO INCREASE PENSIONS IN CERTAIN CASES. June 18, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 78. Pension of $24 per month allowed to pensioners who have lost arm [SECTION 1], That all persons who are now entitled to pensions under existing laws and who have lost either an arm at or above the elbow, or a leg at or above the knee, shall be rated in the second class, and shall above elbow, or receive twenty-four dollars per month: leg above knee, but Provided, That no artificial limbs, or commutation therefor, shall be no artificial limbs. furnished to such persons as shall be entitled to pensions under this act. R. S., § 4698. 1876, Aug. 15, ch. 300, § 2. 1879, March 3, ch. 198. 16 Opin. Att'y Gen., 594. When act takes effect. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [June 18, 1874.] CHAPTER 301. June 18, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 78. Copyrighted books to have cer AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS. [SECTION 1], That no person shall maintain an action for the infringetain notice thereof ment of his copyright unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in printed on each book, or no action the several copies of every edition published, on the title page or the maintainable for page immediately following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical infringement. composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, R. S., § 4962. chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on which the same shall be mounted, the following words, viz: 14 Blatch., 264. "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year, by A. B., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington;" or, at his option the word "Copyright," together with the year the copyright was entered, and the name of the party by whom it was taken out; thus-"Copyright, 18-, by A. B." SEC. 2. That for recording and certifying any instrument of writing for the assignment of a copyright, the Librarian of Congress shall receive from the persons to whom the service is rendered, one dollar; and for every copy of an assignment, one dollar; said fee to cover, in either case, a certificate of the record, under seal of the Librarian of Congress; and all fees so received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. Engravings, SEC. 3. That in the construction of this act, the words "Engraving," "cut" and "print" shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations or &c., which may be works connected with the fine arts, R. S., § 4929. copyrighted. R. S., §§ 4952, And no prints or labels designed to be used for any other article of 4962. manufacture shall be entered under the copyright law, but may be reg--others may be istered in the Patent Office. And the Commissioner of Patents is hereby registered in Patcharged with the supervision and control of the entry or registry of ent Office, &c. such prints or labels, in conformity with the regulations provided by law as to copyright of prints, except that there shall be paid for recording the title of any print or label not a trade mark, six dollars, which shall cover the expense of furnishing a copy of the record under the seal of the Commissioner of Patents, to the party entering the same. SEC. 4. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the forego- Repeal. ing provisions be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect on and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [June 18, 1874.] When act takes effect. CHAPTER 304. AN ACT EXPLANATORY OF THE ACT OF JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR. Deposits in savings-banks exempt from taxation, on certain conditions. June 18, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 80. R. S., § 3408. 1879, March 1, ch. 125, § 22. Be it enacted, &c., That all deposits made in institutions now existing Deposits in savwhich do business only as savings-banks, and are recognized as such ings banks exempt by the laws of their respective States, or by Congress, are hereby de- from taxation. clared to be exempt from taxation the same as deposits in savings insti- 1874, June 22, ch. tutions having no capital although they have a capital stock or bond 399. for the additional security of their depositors, and pay dividends thereon; and no tax shall be assessed upon the deposits made in such institutions, or collected of them on said deposits, otherwise than as herein provided: Provided, That all the profits of such savings banks, less the aforementioned dividends on stock not exceeding at the rate of eight per cent. per annum are divided among the depositors, and that the capital stock is invested only in the same class of securities as is used for investing the deposits, and that interest at the rate of not less than four and one-half per cent. be paid in all cases to their depositors, to be made good if necessary from the capital stock. [This act was presented to the President June 6, 1874, and became a law June 18, 1874, without the approval of the President.] on certain conditious. CHAPTER 305. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF PATENTS FOR LANDS GRANTED TO THE STATE Patents for lands granted for construction of without creating now rights. Whereas certain lands have heretofore, by acts of Congress, been granted to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of certain military wagonroads in said State, and there exists no law providing for the issuing of formal patents for said lands: Therefore, June 18, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 80. Patents for lands Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases when the roads in aid of the construction of which said lands were granted are shown by the certificate granted for conof the governor of the State of Oregon, as in said acts provided, to struction of wagon-roads in Orehave been constructed and completed, patents for said lands shall issue gon, to be issued in due form to the State of Oregon as fast as the same shall, under when they are said grants, be selected and certified, unless the State of Oregon shall completed. by public act have transferred its interests in said lands to any corpo- Stat. L., 86). 1866, ch. 167 (14) ration or corporations, in which case the patents shall issue from the 1866, ch. 174 (14 General Land Office to such corporation or corporations upon their payStat. L., 89). ment of the necessary expenses thereof: 1867, ch. 77 (14 Stat. L., 409). 1869, ch. 150 (15 Stat. L., 340). -without creat ing new rights, &c. Provided, That this shall not be construed to revive any land grant already expired nor to create any new rights of any kind except to provide for issuing patents for lands to which the State is already enti tled. [June 18, 1874.] Homestead and tlers on certain CHAPTER 308. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN SETTLERS ON THE PUBLIC LANDS IN CERTAIN SECTION 1. Homestead and pre-emption settlers on cer- Be it enacted, &c. SECTION 2. without prejudice to their rights. [SECTION 1], That it shall be lawful for homestead and preëmption pre-emption set-settlers on the public lands in the counties of Cottonwood, Noble, Marpublic lands in tin, Jackson, Watonwan, Murray, Rock, Lyon, Redwood, Brown, ChipMinnesota and pewa, and Renville, in the State of Minnesota, and the counties of Iowa Iowa invaded by which compose the Sioux City Land District, and counties contiguous grasshoppers may to either of the above exempted sections, where the crops of such setleave temporarily. tlers were destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year R. S., § 2267, 2291. eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and where such grasshoppers shall 1874, June 3, ch. reappear in eighteen hundred and seventy-four to the like destruction of the crops of such settlers, to leave and be absent from said lands until May first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, under such regulations as to proof of the same as the Commissioner of the General LandOffice may prescribe. 206. ch. 19. 63. 1879, June 12, 1879, July 1, ch. - without preju Exemption ex SEC. 2. That during such absence no adverse rights shall attach to dice to their said lands-such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their setrights. tlements as though no such absence had been enjoyed or allowed. SEC. 3. That the same exemption from continued residence shall be tended to settlers extended to those making settlements in eighteen hundred and seventyfour and suffering the same destruction of crops as those making settlement of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or any previous year. [June 18, 1874.] of 1874. June 19, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 85. fered for sale. CHAPTER 323. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SALE OF THE MILITARY RESERVATION OF FORT REY- - how sold. Fort Reynolds Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, auMilitary Reserva- thorized and empowered to transfer to the custody and control of the tion to be trans- Secretary of the Interior, for disposition, for cash, according to the exferred to Secretary of Interior and of isting laws of the United States relating to the public lands, after appraisement, to the highest bidder, and at not less than the appraised value, nor at less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the United States Military Reservation of Fort Reynolds, in Colorado Territory, containing about twenty-three square miles, as set apart and declared by the President, on June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including all the buildings heretofore erected by the United States, and now being thereon: (the said reservation and buildings being no longer needed for military purposes :) |