To be strictly honorary. SEC. 3. That brevet rank shall be considered strictly honorary, and shall confer no privilege of precedence or command not already provided for in the statutes which embody the rules and articles governing the Army of the United States. SEC. 4. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 27, 1890. February 27, 1890. CHAP. 21.—An act to provide for the time and place of holding the terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the State of South Dakota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the South Dakota judi- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of South Dakota shall constitute one judicial district. cial district. Three erected. divisions Eastern division. Central division. Western division. Terms of district court. Sioux Falls. Pierre. Deadwood. law. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of holding terms of the district court said district shall be divided into three divisions, to be known as the eastern, central, and western divisions. The counties of Clay, Union, Yankton, Turner, Lincoln, Bonhomme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson, Brule, Aurora, Davidson, Hanson, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody, Lake, Lyman, Miner, Sanborn, Beadle, Kingsbury, Brookings, Hamlin, Deuel, Grant, Roberts, Codington, Clark, Day, Marshall, Spink, Brown, Gregory, Todd, and the Yankton, Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Crow Creek Indian Reservations shall constitute the eastern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Sioux Falls. The counties of McPherson, Edmunds, Campbell, Walworth, Potter, Sully, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Buffalo, Jerauld, Stanley, Knowlen, and that portion of the counties of Pratt, Jackson, and Sterling not included in any Indian reservation, and the Standing Rock, Cheyenne, and Lower Brule Indian Reservations shall constitute the central division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Pierre. All that portion of the State of South Dakota lying west of the central division, and in addition thereto the Rosebud and Red Cloud Indian Reservations, shall constitute the western division, the court for which shall be held at the city of adwood. SEC. 3. That the terms of the district court for theistrict of South Dakota shall be held at Sioux Falls on the first Tuesday of April and October in each year; at Pierre on the third Tuesday of May and November in each year; and at Deadwood on the first Tuesday of Repeal of former January and July in each year. And the provision of law now existing for the holding of said court on the first Monday in April and November in each year, is hereby repealed, and all suits, prosecutions, process, recognizances, bail-bonds, and other things pending in or returnable to said court on the days last named are hereby transferred to, and shall be made returnable to and have force in the said respective terms in this act provided in the same manner and with the same effect as they would have had had this act not been passed. Jurisdiction. Terms of circuit court. Sioux Falls, Deadwood. Pierre. SEC. 4. That all civil suits not of a local nature must be brought in the division of the district where the defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants, residing in different divisions, the action may be brought in either of the divisions in which a defendant resides. SEC. 5. That the Circuit Court of the United States for said District shall be held at Sioux Falls on the first Tuesday of April and October in each year, and at Deadwood on the first Tuesday of July in each year, and at Pierre on the third Tuesday of November in each year; and cases taken on appeal or writ of error from the District Court shall be returnable to the Circuit Court held in that judicial sub-division from which the appeal was taken. When the Circuit Court and District Court is held as provided in this act, at the same time and place one grand and petit jury only shall be summoned and served in both said courts. Juries. SEC. 6. That the clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the Clerks, etc. CHAP. 22-An act for the relief of the Sioux Indians at Devil's Lake Agency, February 27, 1890. Sioux Devil's Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Lake, N. Dak., to be of the Interior be, and hereby is, directed and authorized to purchase relieved. under contract or in open market at his discretion, for the relief of the Sioux Indians located at the Devil's Lake Agency, North Dakota, seeds for planting purposes; subsistence supplies; Clothing and other Supplies. articles of a beneficial character, to relieve their immediate pressing wants and necessities; and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes above named, to be immediately available. Approved, February 27, 1890. Appropriation. CHAP. 23.-An act to amend and alter an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Clinton, Iowa," approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for commencement and completion of the bridge authorized by said act, as provided in section six thereof, be, and are hereby, each extended two years from the passage of this act. March 1, 1890. Clinton and Illinois Bridge Company may bridge Mississippi Vol. 25, p. 305. Railway, wagon, and foot bridge, or railway or wagon and SEC. 2. That the said Clinton and Illinois Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain, under the provisions of said act, as far as applicable, foot bridge. except as herein modified, altered, or amended, either a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge, or a railroad or wagon and foot-passenger bridge, and in the event that only a wagon and foot-passenger bridge be built, that the provisions in said act for the passage of rail- Passage of railroad road trains and rights of railway companies incident thereto shall trains, etc. not apply. Modified spans. Vol. 25, p. 303. SEC. 3. That in case the bridge authorized at or near Clinton, Iowa, by an act approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, be constructed in the immediate vicinity of the existing railroad bridge, the length of spans required by said act may be so modified as to make the clear channel ways correspond in length and location to the clear channel-ways of the existing bridge: Provided, That in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of navigation be gation. not materially affected thereby. Approved, March 1, 1890. Proviso. March 1, 1890. Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Tex. Military reservation may be removed. Sale of site, etc. Platting, etc. CHAP. 24.-An act to provide for the sale of the site of Fort Bliss, Texas, the sale or removal of the improvements thereof, and for a new site and the construc tion of suitable buildings thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell the military reservation known as Fort Bliss, near the city of El Paso, in the State of Texas, and such of the buildings and improvements thereon as can not be economically removed to the new site herein provided for. In dispos ing of said property the Secretary of War shall cause the grounds to be platted in blocks, streets, and alleys, if in his judgment it would inure to the benefit of the Government in making sale of said site, having due reference to the requirements of the houses and buildings located on said grounds, in such cases as they may be sold with the ground. The Secretary of War shall also cause the lots, lands, and buildings to be appraised and sold at public or private sale, at not less than the appraised value, having first been offered Expenses and pro- at public sale. The expense of advertising, appraisement, survey, and sale shall be paid out of the proceeds of said sale, and the balance paid into the Treasury of the United States. Appraisement. ceeds of sale. Selection of new site. New buildings. Appropriation. Proviso. New site to be acquired before sale of the old. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is authorized to select and acquire title to suitable grounds of not less than one thousand acres in extent, to be situate within a distance of ten miles of the limits of said city of El Paso, in the State of Texas, and construct thereon the necessary buildings, with appurtenances, sufficient for a military post, to be known as Fort Bliss, in accordance with estimates to be prepared by the War Department; and a sufficient sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to comply with the provisions of this act: Provided, That the title to the lands authorized to be acquired under the second section of this act shall be approved by the Attorney-General, and that said title shall be obtained without expense to the Government. SEC. 3. That section one of this act shall be of effect when the acquirement of a new site provided for in section two shall have been effected. Approved, March 1, 1890. March 4, 1890. Pensions. helpless soldiers, etc. Vol. 21, p. 281. CHAP. 25.-An act to increase the pensions of certain soldiers and sailors who are totally helpless from injuries received or diseases contracted while in the service of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all soldiers, Increase to totally sailors, and marines who have since the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, or who may hereafter become so totally and permanently helpless from injuries received or disease contracted in the service and line of duty as to require the regular personal aid and attendance of another person, or who, if otherwise entitled, were excluded from the provisions of "An act to increase pensions of certain pensioned soldiers and sailors who are utterly helpless from injuries received or disease contracted while in the United States service," approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be entitled to receive a pension at the rate of seventy-two dollars per month from the date of the passage of this act or of the certificate of the examining surgeon or board of surgeons showing such degree of disability made subsequent to the passage of this act. Approved, March 4, 1890. CHAP. 26.—An act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War. March 5, 1890. Assistant Secretary pointed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be in the Department of War an Assistant Secretary of War, who shall of War to be ap be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand five Salary. hundred dollars a year, payable monthly, and who shall perform such duties in the Department of War as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or may be required by law. Approved, March 5, 1890. CHAP. 27.-An act authorizing the Secretary of State to appoint two suitable persons to represent the United States at the International Conference in regard to the protection of industrial property, and making an appropriation therefor. Duties. March 6, 1890. International Indus trial Conference, MadAppointment of rid, Spain. United States delegates. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint two persons to represent the Government of the United States at the International Conference with regard to the protectioh of industrial property, to be held at Madrid, Spain, beginning the first of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety. Each of said delegates shall be selected with reference to his acquaintance with the system of patent Qualifications. and trade-mark laws of the United States, and kindred subjects, and the administration of the Bureau of Patents. United States minister ex officio chairman SEC. 2. That the persons so selected shall be authorized to act in Record and reports. SEC. 3. That the said delegation shall keep such record of their doings, and make such report of their proceedings, as may be required by the Secretary of State; and for the purpose of carrying out and into effect the objects of this act there is hereby appropriated, out of any Appropriation. funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, five thousand dollars, which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, said appropriation to be immediately available. Approved, March 6, 1890. CHAP. 28.-An act to change and fix the time of holding terms of the district and circuit courts at Texarkana, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States circuit and district courts shall hereafter be held at Texarkana, Arkansas, on the third Monday in May and the third Monday in November of each year, instead of the times now fixed by law. SEC. 2. That all causes, process, bonds, recognizances, and other things pending in, returnable or having relation to, the terms of said court now provided by law shall be proceeded with in the terms provided by this act, with the same force and effect that would have been lawful had the times of holding said court not been changed. Approved, March 7, 1890. CHAP. 29.-An act to constitute Minneapolis, Minnesota, a subport of entry and delivery in the collection district of Minnesota, and for other purposes. March 8, 1890. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minn. Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a subport of entry Port of entry and de livery. STAT L-VOL XXVI- -2 Immediate trans. portation privileges. Vol. 21, p. 174. etc. and delivery in the collection district of Minnesota, with the privilege of immediate transportation as defined by section seven of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes," being chapter one hundred and Deputy collector, ninety, volume twenty-one, of the Statutes at Large; that a deputy collector, and such other officers of the customs as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be appointed to reside at Minneapolis, and that, subject to the supervision of the collector of customs at Saint Paul, the deputy collector at Minneapolis is hereby authorized to receive entries, collect duties, and generally to perform the functions prescribed by law for collectors of customs, upon his giving bond with good and sufficient surety in such penalty as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe to faithfully perform his official duties. Functions. Vol. 25, p. 134, amended. p. 513. SEC. 2. That the act approved May second, eighteen hundred and R.S., Sec. 2595, 2596, eighty-eight, entitled "An act to amend sections twenty-five hundred and ninety-five and twenty-five hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to provide a collector at the port of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and for other purposes," is hereby amended accordingly. Approved, March 8, 1890. March 13, 1890. Columbus, Ohio. portation privileges extended to. Vol. 21, p. 174. CHAP. 31.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to constitute Columbus, Ohio, a port of delivery, and to extend the provisions of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled 'An act to amend the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,' to said port of Columbus, Ohio," approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled Immediate trans "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to constitute Columbus, Ohio, a port of delivery,' and to extend the provisions of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled 'An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,' to said port of Columbus," approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, and hereby Vol. 25, p. 658, is, amended to read as follows, namely: That Columbus, in the State of Ohio, be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, and that the privileges of the seventh section of the act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled 'An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,' be, and the same are hereby, extended to said port, and that there shall be appointed at said port a surveyor with a compensation at one thousand dollars per annum and the usual fees and commissions. amended. Vol. 21, p. 174. Surveyor. Approved, March 13, 1890. March 15, 1890. Bridge Company may CHAP. 32.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to autnorize the construction of a wagon and foot-passenger bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Lyons, Iowa." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Lyons and Fulton United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act enbridge the Mississippi titled "An act to authorize the construction of a wagon and footpassenger bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Lyons, Iowa," approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, namely: at Lyons, Iowa. amended. 25, P. 901, Amendment of title. Strike out the title of said act and insert in lieu thereof the following: An act to authorize the construction of a railroad or wagon and |