Liabilities, etc., not affected. volve upon and inure to the said Wall Street National Bank whenever such change of name is effected. SEC. 3. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as in any manner to release the said banking association from any liability, or affect any action or proceeding in law in which said association may be or become a party or interested. Approved, February 17, 1882. Feb. 20, 1882. Tenth Census. Ante p. 2. CHAP. 15.-An act supplemental to the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of the final expenses of the Tenth Census.' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised R. S., 3477, 689. Statutes, the compensation authorized by act approved January twentyChap. 5. eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act making ap propriations for the payment of the final expenses of the Tenth Census" to be paid to those persons who have rendered services as Volunteers, Pay of volunteer may be made to the assignee or assignees in writing of the amounts clerks, payment to payable to such persons respectively or may be made to such person or persons as shall have received in writing and now hold a power of attorney to collect, have and receive the said compensation or any part thereof on the certificates issued therefor by the Department of the Interior to the amount advanced by such assignee or person holding such right or power of attorney to such volunteer together with interest or discount upon such advancement not exceeding the rate of ten per centum per annum. whom made. Approved, February 20, 1882. Feb. 25, 1882. CHAP. 16.--An act to enable the Postmaster-General to delegate authority to sign warrants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General Postmaster-Gen- may, by appointment under his hand and official seal, delegate to the eral to delegate Third Assistant Postmaster-General authority to sign in his stead all authority to sign warrants, registered and countersigned by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, for the payment of money from the public Treasury on account of the postal service. warrants. SEC. 2. That warrants signed by the said Third Assistant Postmaster- Feb. 25, 1882. Samuel Francis CHAP. 17.—An ac making an appropriation for the base and pedestal of a monument to the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United States Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circle at the intersecMonument to tion of Massachusetts and Connecticut avenues in Washington City Rear-Admiral shall hereafter be called the "Du Pont Circle"; and the sum of ten Du Pont, deceased, thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, be, at Washington, D. and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the preparation of the circle and of the base for a proposed statue of the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United States Navy, to be erected thereon. C. Appropriation. Approved, February 25, 1882 CHAP. 18.—An act in reference to the Trustees of the Lincoln Monument Association Feb. 25, 188 Lincoln Monu Whereas, owing to the large number of Trustees named in the "Act to incorporate the Lincoln Monument Association" approved March ment Association. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, it proves to be impracticable for a majority of said Trustees to meet for the transaction of the business of said association: Therefore, 15 Stat., 11. Five trustees Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter five of the Trus- legal quorum. tees of said association, whether named in said act, or subsequently appointed, shall constitute a legal quorum and may exercise all the powers conferred by law upon said association: Provided, That each of said trustees shall be notified by the President or Secretary twenty days in advance of any meeting of said trustees. Approved, February 25, 1882. Proviso. CHAP. 19.—An act authorizing the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster, Massachusetts, to change its location and name. Feb. 25, 1882. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Lancaster National Lancaster National Bank, LanBank of Lancaster, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is hereby. caster, Mass., to authorized to change its location to the town of Clinton, in the county change name and of Worcester, in said Commonwealth, whenever the stockholders repre- location. senting two-thirds of the capital stock of said bank, at a meeting for that purpose, determine to make such change; and the president and cashier shall execute a certificate, under the corporate seal of the bank, specifying such determination, and shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and thereupon such change of location shall be effected, and the operations of discount and deposit of said bank shall be carried on in the said town of Clinton. Liabilities, etc., SEC. 2. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as in manner to release the said bank from any liabilities, or affect any action not affected. or proceeding in law in which said bank may be a party or interested; and when such change shall have been determined upon as aforesaid, notice thereof and of such change shall be published in two weekly pa pers in said county of Worcester not less than four weeks. SEC. 3. That whenever the location of said bank shall have been changed from said town of Lancaster to said town of Clinton, in accordance with the first section of this act, its name shall be changed to the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton, Massachusetts, if the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, and cause a copy of such resolution, duly authenticated, to be filed with the Comptroller of the Currency. SEC. 4. That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powers of the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster shall devolve upon the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton whenever such change of name is effected. Approved, February 25, 1882. CHAP. 20.—An act making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the tenth census. Feb. 25, 1882. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the third of March, Apportionment eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the House of Representatives shall of Representatives in Congress among be composed of three hundred and twenty-five members, to be appor- the States under tioned among the several States as follows: Alabama, eight. Arkansas, five. the tenth census. California, six. Connecticut, for Kentucky, eleven. Louisiana, six. Maine, four. Maryland, six. Massachusetts, twelve. Mississippi, seven. New Hampshire, two. North Carolina, nine. Pennsylvania, twenty-eight. Rhode Island, two. South Carolina, seven. Tennessee, ten. Texas, eleven. Vermont, two. Virginia, ten. West Virginia, four. Wisconsin, nine. SECTION TWo. That whenever a new State is admitted to the Union the Representative or Representatives assigned to it shall be in addition to the number three hundred and twenty-five. SECTION THREE. That in each State entitled under this apportionment the number to which such State may be entitled in the Forty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by Districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress, no one District electing more than one Representative: Provided, That unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide before the election of such Representatives shall take place as provided by law, where no change shall be hereby made in the representation of a State, the Representatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress shall be elected therein as now provided by law. If the number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it was before this change, then the additional Representative or Repre sentatives allowed to said State under this apportionment may be elected by the State at large, and the other Representatives to which the State is entitled by the Districts as now prescribed by law in said State; and if the number hereby provided for shall in any State be less than it was before the change hereby made, then the whole number to such State hereby provided for shall be elected at large, unless the Legislatures of said States have provided or shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 21-An act for the relief of the Eastern Shawnee Indians at the Quapaw Mar. 4, 1882. Eastern Shaw Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid in nee Indians. cash, per capita, to the Eastern Shawnee Indians, at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, from their uninvested funds in the Treasury, the sum of two thousand dollars, in order to relieve their pressing wants and necessities occasioned by the failure of crops during the summer and fall Appropriation. of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Approved, March 4, 1882. CHAP. 22.—An act making an appropriation for continuing the improvements of Relief of. Mar. 4, 1882. Galveston Har improvement of. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys bor, Texas. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of continu ing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, in the State of Texas, which improvements are now being prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the appropriation for which is wholly insufficient to continue the work to the end of the current fiscal year; and the expenditure of the sum hereby appropriated is placed under the direction and Appropriation. control of the Secretary of War. Approved, March 4, 1882.- CHAP. 23.-An act for the relief of William H. Gill. Mar. 4, 1882. William H. Gill, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and relief of. consent of the Senate, appoint William H. Gill a military storekeeper in the Quartermaster's Department, with the same grade and rank he held at the time of his resignation: Provided, That he shall receive no pay or allowances whatever for the time he shall have been out of service, nor shall he be required to refund the pay or allowances received by him at the time he was mustered out of the service: And provided further, Provisos. That the acceptance of any benefit under this act by the said William H. Gill shall be taken and construed to be by his election a bar to any claim for pay or allowances from the date of his muster out to the date of his acceptance of a commission under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby suspended for the purposes of this act, and only so far as they affect William H. Gill. Approved, March 4, 1882. CHAP. 24.-An act to provide for certain or the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, and for other purposes. Mar. 6, 1882. Deficiency ap. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro- propriations. priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and prior years, namely: Public printing and binding. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for the paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithograph. ing, 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, and the departments, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the proseAppropriation. cution of the work, four hundred thousand dollars. Revenue steamer W. P. Fessenden, Freight on bullion and coin. Proviso. Rates. Vaults and safes, repairs of. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For rebuilding the revenue steamer W. P. Fessenden with iron hull (in addition to the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars appropriated for the purpose under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one) twenty five thousand dollars. For freight on bullion and coin between the mint and assay offices, and on coin from the mints to the offices of the Treasurer and assistant Treasurers of the United States; fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount paid from moneys hereby appropriated for the transportation of gold coin, from San Francisco to New York after the passage of this act, shall not exceed one-fourth of one per centum, and for the transportation of silver coin one per centum and for intermediate points at proportionate rates corresponding to the distance. For constructing, repairing, and enlarging the vaults and safes for the use of the assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco, Additional California, including pay of one additional watchman, ten thousand watchman. dollars. Additional vault, For constructing an additional vault in the mint at San Francisco, mint, San Fran- California, ten thousand dollars. cisco. propriation. Transfer of ap- To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriation for "contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items, eighteen hundred and eighty-two," so much as may be required to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for "contingent expenses, Treasury Department, fuel and so forth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo", not exceeding the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars. Fuel, light, waFor fuel, light, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors ter, etc., for pub- and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating lic buildings, other than those in apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, Washington, un- shovels, saws, hatchets, and hammers, for all public buildings under der control of the control of the Treasury Department outside of the city of Washington, Treasury Departseventy five thousand dollars. ment. COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments in Court of Claims. Observation of transit of Venus. Appropriation. Provisos. 17 Stat., 367. Fo payment of final judgments of the Court of Claims, affirmed by the Supreme Court and not liable to appeal and now drawing interest, the sum of not exceeding three hundred and ten thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For the repair and purchase of instruments to be used in observing the transit of Venus which will occur December sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for the necessary preliminary experiments, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be immediately available, and that it shall be expended subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the transit of Venus commission created by the act approved March 'third eighteen hundred and seventy two: And provided further, That the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac be, and he is hereby, created an additional member of the said commission. |