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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1890, and was adjourned without day on Tuesday, the third day of March, 1891.

BENJAMIN HARRISON, President; LEVI P. MORTON, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; THOMAS B. REED, Speaker of the House of Representatives; LEWIS E. PAYSON was elected Speaker pro tempore, February 18, 1891; Mr. REED resumed the duties of Speaker, February 19, 1891.

CHAP. 1.-An act making an appropriation to construct a road and approaches December 11, 1890. from the city of Alexandria, Virginia, to the National Military Cemetery near that city.

Alexandria, Va.
Road from, to na-

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, tional military cemeand the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- tery Appropriation. ury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of constructing a gravel or macadam road and approaches from the national military cemetery near the city of Alexandria, Virginia, via Wilkes street to the intersection of said street with Alfred street in said city: Provided, That a right of way be granted to the United States by the Right of way. city of Alexandria of at least fifty feet in width, or the full legal width of Wilkes street, to Payne street, and thence thirty feet in width from that point to the national cemetery, passing between the two private cemeteries.

Approved, December 11, 1890.

Proviso.

CHAP. 2.-An act to detach the county of Grayson, in the State of Texas, from the northern and attach it to the eastern judicial district of said State.

December 11, 1890.

tricts.

Grayson County transferred from northern to eastern

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county Texas, judicial disof Grayson, in the State of Texas, be detached from the northern and attached to the eastern judicial district of the State of Texas. SEC. 2. That all civil and criminal causes or proceedings pending district. in the northern district of Texas which originated in said county of Grayson shall remain within the jurisdiction of the United States

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Jurisdiction of pending causes, etc.

court for said northern judicial district for final disposition, and all offenses committed in said county against the laws of the United States before the passage of this act shall also be cognizable in the United States court for the said northern district until final disposition of the same.

Approved, December 11, 1890.

December 11, 1890.

may bridge English

River at certain points in Louisiana.

Location.

CHAP. 3.-An act to authorize the Lake Charles Road and Bridge Company, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, to construct and maintain bridges across English Bayou and Calcasieu River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Lake Charles Road United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be aid Bridge Company lawful for the Lake Charles Road and Bridge Company, a corporaBay and Calcasieu tion created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Louisiana, or its assigns, to erect, construct, and maintain a bridge over the English Bayou and a bridge over Calcasieu River, in the State of Louisiana, at such points upon said bayou and river in township nine south and range eight west as may be found advantageous. Said bridges shall be constructed to provide for the etc., and passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, foot-passengers, and of all kinds of commerce, travel, or communication, and said corporation may charge and receive such reasonable tolls therefor as may be approved from time to time by the Secretary of War.

Wagon, footbridges.

Tolls.

Construction.
Draws.
Width.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. That each of said bridges shall be constructed as drawbridges, with an opening over the center of the channel of such width as the Secretary of War shall determine, and which shall not be less than thirty feet in the clear across English Bayou and not less than fifty feet in the clear across Calcasieu River: Provided, Opening of draws. also, That said draws shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats, vessels, or other water-craft, and in no case shall unnecessary delay occur; and said company or corporation shall maintain, at its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridges as the Light-House Board shall prescribe, and such sheer booms or other structures as may be necessary to safely guide vessels, boats, rafts, or other water-craft safely through said draw-openings as shall be designated and required by the Secretary of War.

Lights, etc.
Sheer booms, etc.

Security of navigation.

Secretary of War approve plans, etc.

to

SEC. 3. That said bridges shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said. bayou and 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 drawings of the bridges and a map of the location, giving for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location the topography of the banks of the bayou and river, the shorelines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the streams, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plans and locations are approved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall not be built, and should any changes be made in the plans of said bridges during the progress of construction such change shall be submitted to the approval of the Secretary of War. SEC. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, or to Structural changes. require any changes in such structures, or their entire removal at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever the Secretary of War shall decide that the public interest requires it, and the right to

Changes in plans.

Amendment, etc.

prescribe such rules and regulations in regard to toll and otherwise Regulations etc. as may be deemed reasonable, are expressly reserved.

SEC. 5. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction

Commencement and

of the bridges herein authorized be not commenced within one year. completion.
and completed within three years from the date thereof.
Approved, December 11, 1890.

CHAP. 4.—An act for the relief of General George Stoneman.

December 15, 1890.

George S oneman. retired a colonel of infantry in the army.

To be appointed and

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint George Stoneman, late a major-general United States Volunteers, to the position of colonel of infantry in the Army of the United States, and to place him on the retired list of the Army as of that grade, the retired list being Grade. thereby increased in number to that extent, and all laws and parts of laws in any manner in conflict herewith are hereby suspended for this purpose only.

Approved, December 15, 1890.

CHAP. 5.-An act to amend chapter one thousand and sixty-five of the acts of the first session of the Fiftieth Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter one thousand and sixty-five of the acts passed at the first session of the Fiftieth Congress be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, viz: By inserting in line nineteen of said act, between the words "new" and "registering," the words "or improved."

SEC. 2. That this act take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, December 15, 1890.

December 15, 1890.

Mail locks and keys.
Postmaster-General

may purchase “im-
proved.
Vol. 25, p. 505,
amended.

CHAP. 6.—An act to authorize the payment of drawback or rebate in certain

cases.

December 15, 1890.

Rebate allowed to bacco and snuff, in cer

manufacturers of to

act of 1890) amended.

Limit of time for

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on all original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco and snuff, held by manufacturers or dealers at the time the tain cases. reduced tax as provided for in "An act to reduce the revenue and Laws, 1st Sess.. 51st equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved Octo- Cong. p. 619. (Tariff ber first, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall take effect, upon which the tax has been paid, there shall be allowed a drawback or rebate of the full amount of the reduction, but the same shall not apply in any case where the claim has not been presented within sixty days following the date of reduction; and such rebate to manufacturers may be paid in stamps at the reduced rate; and no claim shall be allowed or drawback paid for a less amount than five dollars. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to adopt such rules and regulations and to prescribe and furnish such blanks and forms as may be necessary to carry this act into effect. For the payment of the rebates provided for in this act there is hereby appropriated any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, December 15, 1890.

claims.

Payable in stamps.
Minimum claim.

Regulations, etc.

Appropriation.

December 15, 1890.

Washington, D. C.
Commissioners may

CHAP. 7.-An act to authorize the Commissioners to use and occupy as a site for a truck-house the space at the intersection of Fourteenth and C streets and Ohio avenue northwest.

• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commisuse certain space in, sioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to use and occupy as a site for a truck-house the space formed by the intersection of Fourteenth and C streets and Ohio avenue northwes

for a truck-house.

December 15, 1890.

22, F. and A. M., of the

Commissioners' sale of

lots; Commissioners

trustees of.

Approved, December 15, 1890.

CHAP. 8.—An act for the relief of the trustees of Anacostia Lodge, number twenty-one, Free and Accepted Masons, of the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Anacostia Lodge No. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the deed of District of Columbia. conveyance executed by the Commissioners of the District of ColumApproval, etc., of bia to John E. Herrell on the ninth day of September, anno Domini certain Uniontown eighteen hundred and eighty, of lots numbered three hundred and may perfect deed to forty-six, three hundred and forty-seven, and three hundred and forty-eight, in Uniontown, in said District, and recorded among the Land Records of said District in Liber numbered nine hundred and forty-nine, folio three hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, approved and the sale affirmed, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to make and execute in comformity with the terms of said deed for the more sure and effectual conveyance of the said premises, any other deed or assurance in law to Charles F. Walson, John H. O'Donnell, and John N. Minnix, trustees of Anacostia Lodge, numbered twenty-one, Free and Accepted Masons, of the District of Columbia, upon the same trusts as are set forth and declared in the deed to said trustees from said John E. Herrell, recorded among the said Land Records on June tenth, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety. Approved, December 15, 1890.

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December 18, 1890.

"First National Bank

of Fort Benton,

CHAP. 22.—An act providing for the maintenance of discipline among customs officers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and appraisers shall have power, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as punishment for any neglect or minor delinquency the punishment whereof is not prescribed by law, to suspend from duty with loss of pay for a period not to exceed thirty days for any one cause, any customs officer or employee nominated or appointed and subordinate to such collector, naval officer, surveyer, or appraiser: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, on application by the suspended person within one year from the expiration of the suspension, in his discretion pay the whole or any part of the pay forfeited by reason of said suspension.

Approved, December 18, 1890.

CHAP. 23. An act to authorize the First National Bank of Fort Benton, Montana, to change its location and name.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the First Mont., may change National Bank of Fort Benton, now located in the city of Fort Ben"Northwestern Na- ton and State of Montana, is hereby authorized to change its location

name and location to

tional Bank of Great

Falls," Mont.

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