Navy pensions, &c. 1800, ch. 33. 1847, ch. 13. 1848, ch. 155. 1862, ch. 166, 201. 1864, ch. 183. 1866, ch. 106, 235. 1867, ch. 174. 1868, ch. 264. 1870 ch. 132, 225, 238. To be paid from income of navy fund. March 1, 1872. 1864, ch. 106, $31. Vol. xiii. p. 109. For navy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, and pensions to sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, compensation to pension agents, expenses of agencies, and fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided by the acts of April twenty-third, eighteen hundred; February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; August eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; June sixth and July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, and all other pensions provided by law, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions, and the other expenditures under that head, shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose. APPROVED, February 20, 1872. CHAP. XXII. An Act to amend an Act entitled " An Act to provide a national Currency secured by Pledge of United States Bonds, and to provide for the Circulation and Redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-one of said stricken from the act be amended by striking out the word "Leavenworth" when it occurs in said section. list of certain cities. APPROVED, March 1, 1872. March 1, 1872. CHAP. XXIII.-An Act extending the Time for the Completion of the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, in the State of Wisconsin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the completion of the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal be, and the same is hereby, extended to the tenth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Time for completing Green Bay, &c., ship canal, extended. APPROVED, March 1, 1872. March 1, 1872. CHAP. XXIV. - An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near the Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park. Public park established near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River. Boundaries. Certain persons locating, &c., thereon, to be trespassers. Secretary of the Interior to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone river, and described as follows, to wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner's river with the Yellowstone river, and running east to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone lake; thence south along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone lake; thence west along said parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Madison lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner's rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom. SEC. 2. That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practi to make rules or its care; may grant cer tain leases and cable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem have control of APPROVED, March 1, 1872. shall prevent struction of fish passers. CHAP. XXV. —An Act to constitute Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, a Port of March 1, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United APPROVED, March 1, 1872. CHAP. XXVIII.- An Act to authorize the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri March 5, 1872. Post, p. 58.] railway tracks; [Amended Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1872, ch. 130. States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for "The St. Joseph Bridge Building Company," a corporation organized for that purpose under the general corporation laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Missouri river at or near Saint Joseph, Missouri, and to lay on and over said bridge railway tracks for the more perfect connection of any and all railways that are now, or which may hereafter be, constructed to the Missouri river at or near Saint Joseph, or to the river on the opposite side of the same, near Saint Joseph; and build, erect, and lay on and over said bridge ways for wagons, vehicles of all kinds, and for the transit of animals, and to provide ways for foot-passengers, and to keep ways for footup, maintain, and operate said bridge for the purposes aforesaid; and that passengers, wagons, &c.; when said bridge is constructed, all trains of all railroads terminating at all trains of all said river, and on the opposite side thereof, at or near Saint Joseph, Mis- railroads may use souri, shall be allowed to cross said bridge for reasonable compensation, to the bridge. be made to the owners of the same, under the limitations and conditions hereafter named. The owners of said bridge may also charge and receive reasonable compensation or tolls, for the transit over the said bridge of all wagons, carriages, vehicles, animals, and foot-passengers. Tolls. Bridges may SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, at the option of the person or persons, or corporation building the same, be be built as a built as a drawbridge, with a pivot or other form of draw, or with unbroken or continuous spans: Provided, That if the same shall be made of unbroken continuous spans, it shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of VOL. XVII. PUB. - 3 drawbridge or spans. 1 Piers; main span. Pivot drawbridge; spans; location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than three hundred and fifty feet in length, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of the river, and the main span shall be over the main channel of the river and not. less than three hundred feet in length: And provided also, That if a bridge shall be built under this act as a drawbridge, the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge, with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of not less than one hundred and sixty feet in length in the clear on each side of the central or pivot pier of the draw, and the next adjoining spans to the draw shall not be less than two hundred and fifty feet; and said spans shall not be less than thirty feet above low-water mark, and not less than ten feet above extreme highwater mark, measuring to the bottom chord of the bridge, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of the river: And provided also, That said draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats whose construction shall not be such as to admit of their passage under the permanent spans of said bridge, except when trains are passing over the same, but in no case shall unnecessary delay occur in opening the said draw during or after the passage of trains: And provided further, That the corporation building said bridge may, if not unauthormade and main-ized by the provisions of its charter of incorporation, enter upon the banks of said river, either above or below the point of the location of said bridge, for a distance of seven miles, and erect and maintain break-waters or use such other means as may be necessary to make a channel for said river, and confine the flow of the water to a permanent channel, and to do Navigation not whatever may be necessary to accomplish said object, but shall not imto be impeded. pede or obstruct the navigation of the said river; and all plans for such Plans to be ap- works or erections upon the banks of the river shall first be submitted to proved by the Secretary of War. the Secretary of War for his approval. to be opened promptly, except, &c. Permanent channel may tained. SEC. 3. That any bridge built under this act, and according to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to the said bridge. SEC. 4. That in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction, or alleged obstruction, to the free navigation of the Missouri river, at or near the crossing of said bridge, and caused or alleged to be caused thereby, the cause shall be commenced and tried in the district courts of either judicial districts of Missouri or Kansas in which the said bridge or any portion of such obstruction touches; and the right to alter or amend this act so as to prevent or remove all material obstructions to the navigation of said river by the construction of said bridge is hereby expressly reserved, and all such alterations, when required by law, shall be made at the expense of said bridge company; and the plan on which such bridge is intended to be built and shall be built shall be first submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War. SEC. 5. That the Saint Joseph Bridge Building Company, after the passage of this act, shall not have the right to assign the charter which said company now holds by assignment from the Saint Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company, and which was granted to said last-named company by virtue of an act of Congress, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to any other company, person, or persons; nor shall said bridge building company be permitted, under the said charter so obtained as aforesaid, from the Saint Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company, to construct any other bridge than the one now being constructed at Saint Joseph, Missouri. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to provide for the Admission of Paintings, Statury, and March 5, 1872. Photographs for Exhibition free of Duty. admitted free of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all paintings, staturary, Certain paintand photographic pictures imported into the United States for exhibition ings, &c., to be by any association duly authorized under the laws of the United States duty. or any State for the promotion and encouragement of science, art, or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as are now imposed by law upon any and all of such articles ment of duties, as shall not be re-exported within six months after such importation. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. &c. Bonds for pay ·An Act transferring certain Powers and Duties to the Department of March 5, 1872. Justice, and providing a Seal therefor. victs, transferred Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all and singular the powers Certain powers, conferred and duties enjoined by existing laws upon the Secretary of the &c., as to conInterior relating to the imprisonment or discharge of convicted offenders to the Departagainst the laws of the United States, or to the reform school and jail in ment of Justice. the District of Columbia, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the See Post, p. 118. Department of Justice. SEC. 2. That the seal heretofore provided for the office of the Attorney- __ Seal of the General shall be the seal of the Department of Justice, with such change Department of Justice; in the device as the President of the United States shall approve, and all books, papers, documents, and records in said Department of Justice may authentication be copied and certified under seal in the same manner as those in the State of records. Department, and with the same force and effect. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXI. - = An Act supplementary to the Act entitled "An Act to prevent the March 5, 1872. Extermination of fur-bearing Animals in Alaska.” 1870, ch. 189. fisheries in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Vol. xvi. p. 180. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas-Secretary of Treasury to apury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint one agent and three point agent and assistant agents, who shall be charged with the management of the seal assistants to fisheries in Alaska, and the performance of such other duties as may be manage the seal assigned to them by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the said agent Alaska; shall receive the sum of ten dollars each day, one assistant agent the sum of eight dollars each day, and two assistant agents the sum of six dollars each day while so employed; and they shall also be allowed their necessary travelling expenses in going to and returning from Alaska, for travelling exwhich expenses vouchers shall be presented to the proper accounting officers of the treasury, and such expenses shall not exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars each in any one year: Provided, That such agents shall Agents not to never be interested, directly or indirectly, in any lease of the right to take right to take seals, nor in any proceeds nor profits thereof, neither as owner, agent, seals. partner, or otherwise. their pay and penses. be interested in SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au- Dwelling-houses for agents. thorized to erect a dwelling-house upon each of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, for the use of said agents, the cost of both not to exceed six thousand dollars. Agents may administer cer SEC. 3. That the said agents be, and they are hereby, empowered to administer oaths in all cases relating to the service of the United States, tain oaths and and to take.testimony in Alaska for the use of the government in any take testimony. matter concerning the public revenues. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXII. — An Act amending the Act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An Act relating to Pensions." 1868, ch. 264, § 2. Vol. xv. p. 235. Pensions may 'be granted for wounds received, &c., at any na val station. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the act of Congress approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act relating to pensions," be amended by inserting after the word "commission," in said section, the words “ or was at some naval station." APPROVED, March 5, 1872. March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXIII. —An Act to repeal the Paragraphs of Schedule C of the internal Revenue Acts imposing Taxes on canned Meats, Fish, and certain other Articles. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act so much of Schedule C of the internal revenue acts as imposes a tax on any can, bottle, or other single package containing meats, fish, shell-fish, fruits, vegetables, sauces, sirups, prepared mustard, jams, or jellies," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 66 APPROVED, March 5, 1872. March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act to amend Section thirty-five of an Act entitled "An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and for other Purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges of the act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, be, and are hereby, extended to the port of Toledo, in the State of Ohio. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXV. Expenses of district judges from other dis An Act to defray the Expenses of District Judges from other Districts while holding District or Circuit Courts in the southern District of New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in virtue of section three of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," passed March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, a district judge, from another district, how to be paid. shall hold a district or circuit court in the southern district of New York, 1871, ch. 113, § his expenses, not exceeding ten dollars per day, certified by him, shall be Vol. xvi. p. 494. paid by the marshal of said district, as a part of the expenses of the court, and be allowed in his account. tricts while holding courts in the southern district of New York, 3. APPROVED, March 5, 1872. March 5, 1872. CHAP. XXXVI. - An Act to provide for the Survey of the Harbor and River at Wash Board of sur vey constituted river at Wash ington, D. C.; to serve without pay; ington, D. C. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the chief of engineers of for the harbor and the United States Army, the superintendent of the coast survey, the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds, the governor of the District of Columbia, Alexander R. Shepherd, and Carlisle P. Patterson, who shall serve without compensation, are hereby created a board of survey, and are empowered and instructed to examine into the condition of the harbors and landings for vessels from the Anacostia bridge, on the eastern branch, along the entire water-front of the city of Washington and Georgetown, to the head of tide-water. And the said board are directed to report to Congress, at as early a day as practicable, a full and comprehensive plan for opening, improving, and developing the water-channel so as to secure the best possible harbor facilities along said water-front. And their duties. |