Feb. 25, 1867. 1866, ch. 201, § 21. Ante, p. 183. Forfeiture of fifty cents a ton for steam tug boats not of the United States, employed in towing, &c. not to apply to certain towing. Feb. 25, 1867: 1866, ch. 299, $12. Ante, p. 334. Judge advocates of the ar my, tenure of office of, &c. Feb. 25, 1867. railroad compa CHAP. LXXVIII. — An Act to amend the twenty-first Section of an Act entitled "An Act further to prevent Smuggling and for other Purposes," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-one of an act entitled "An act to prevent smuggling and for other purposes," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be amended by adding to said section twenty-one the following proviso: "Provided, That this section shall not apply, or be held to apply, to any case where the said towing in whole or in part is within or upon foreign waters. And provided, That any foreign railroad company or corporation, whose road enters the United States by means of a ferry or tug boat, may own such boat, and it shall be subject to no other or different restrictions or regulations in such employment, than if owned by a citizen of the United States." APPROVED, February 25, 1867. CHAP. LXXIX. -An Act to amend Section twelve, Chapter two hundred and ninety-nine, of the Laws of the First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last clause of section twelve, of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine, of the laws of first session thirty-ninth Congress, approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended by repealing all after and including the words " until otherwise provided by law," so as to place the judge advocates thereby authorized to be retained in service upon the same footing in respect to tenure of office and otherwise as other officers of the army of the United States. APPROVED, February 25, 1867. CHAP. LXXX. An Act to amend an Act granting the Right of Way over the military Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Buildings States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act erected by any granting the right of way over, and depot grounds upon, the military reny upon the mil- serve of Fort Gratiot, in the State of Michigan," passed February the itary reservation eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, at Fort Gratiot, to be of wood or amended by inserting in the last proviso, after the word "wood," the fire-proof. words "or fire-proof," so that the same shall read, "that all buildings to be erected upon said reservation shall be of wood or fire-proof." APPROVED, February 25, 1867. 1859, ch. 26. Vol. xi. p. 381. Feb. 25, 1867. Collection dis tricts of Oxford Maryland abolished, &c. and Vienna in Oxford district to be annexed to the district of Baltimore. District of CHAP. LXXXI. · An Act to change certain Collection Districts in Maryland and Vir ginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the districts of Oxford and Vienna in the State of Maryland be, and the same are hereby, abolished, and the office of collector of both said districts is hereby discontinued. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district of Oxford, in said State, shall be annexed to the district of Baltimore; and all that part of the district of Vienna, in said State, bordering on the sea-coast, and all the Vienna annexed waters which flow into the sea or bays on the east side of said district of in part to Cher- Vienna, be, and the same are hereby, annexed to the district of Cherryry-Stone district, and the rest Stone, in the State of Virginia, and that all the residue of said district of made the east- Vienna be, and the same is hereby, made a new district, to be called the ern district. eastern district, and that the collector of said eastern district shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, and shall reside at Cris Crisfield to be field, which shall be the port of entry for said new district. the port of entry. Collector, salary, residence. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the offices of surveyor at Snow Hill, and of deputy collector at Annamasset and Deal's Island be, and the same are hereby, discontinued. Offices of a certain deputy collector and surveyor discon Repealing SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts in- tinued. consistent with this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED, February 25, 1867. CHAP. LXXXII. · An Act relative to Collection Districts in North Carolina. clause. Feb. 25, 1867. Four collec tion districts established in Albemarle. Port of entry Pamlico. Port of entry Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there shall be in the State of North Carolina four collection districts, to wit: one, to North Carolina. be called the district of Albemarle, which shall include Albemarle, Currituck, and Croatan sounds, and all the waters, shores, harbors, rivers, creeks, bays, and inlets adjacent to and flowing into the said sounds, together with that part of Pamlico sound north of and including Loggerhead inlet, and all waters and shores appertaining thereto. And the port of entry for said district shall be at Plymouth. Another to be called the district of Pam- at Plymouth. lico, which shall include Pamlico sound, and all the waters, shores, harbors, rivers, creeks, bays, and inlets adjacent to and flowing into said sound, exclusive of the district of Albemarle, and including the south line of Neuse river to the northern entrance of Core sound, and the port of entry for said district of Pamlico shall be at Newbern. Another to be at Newbern. called the district of Beaufort, which shall include all the waters, shores, harbors, creeks, bays, and inlets south of the district of Pamlico, and north of and including New river and inlet; and the port of entry for said district of Beaufort shall be at Beaufort. And another to be called the dis- at Beaufort. trict of Wilmington, which shall include all waters, shores, harbors, creeks, bays, and inlets south of the district of Beaufort to the southern boundary of the said State, and the port of entry for said district of Wilmington shall be at Wilmington. And the collector of each of said districts shall reside at the port of entry thereof, and shall be appointed by the Presi- pointment, resídent by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and receive a sal- dence, salary. ary at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum in addition to the fees of office: Provided, That such compensation shall in no case exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum in the aggregate. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, should it at any time hereafter seem to him necessary, may change the port of entry in the district of Beaufort from Beaufort to Morehead city; and that all acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, February 25, 1867. CHAP. LXXXIII. -An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act further to provide for the Safety of the Lives of Passengers on board of Vessels propelled in whole or or in part by Steam, to regulate the Salaries of Steamboat Inspectors, and for other Purposes," approved July 25, 1866. Beaufort. Port of entry Wilmington. Port of entry at Wilmington. Collectors, ap Proviso. Port of entry in Beaufort district may be changed. Repealing clause. Feb. 25, 1867. 1866, ch. 234, § 9. Ante, p. 228. Section nine of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section nine of the act entitled "An act to amend the act entitled An act further to provide for the act of 1866, ch. 234, amendthe safety of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole ed. or in part by steam, to regulate the salaries of steamboat inspectors, and for other purposes," approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all vessels navigating the bags What vessels [bays,] inlets, rivers, harbors, and other waters of the United States, ex- subject to the cept vessels subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign power, and engaged in navigation laws. foreign trade, and not owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United Steam vessels to be subject to regulations. 1852, ch. 106, $29. Vol. x. p. 72. Sea-going steam vessels, except, &c. when under way, except upon the high seas, to be un der the direction of pilots. Certain existing regulations under State laws not affected. States, shall be subject to the navigation laws of the United States; and all vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and navigating as aforesaid, shall also be subject to all rules and regulations consistent therewith, established for the government of steam vessels in passing, as provided in the twenty-ninth section of an act relating to steam vessels, approved the thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and fifty-two. And every sea-going steam vessel now subject or hereby made subject to the navigation laws of the United States, and to the rules and regulations aforesaid, shall, when under way, except upon the high seas, be under the control and direction of pilots licensed by the inspectors of steam vessels; vessels of other countries and public vessels of the United States only excepted: Provided, however, That nothing in this act, or in the act of which it is amendatory, shall be construed to annul or affect any regulation established by the existing law of any State requiring vessels entering or leaving a port in such State to take a pilot duly licensed or authorized by the laws of such State, or of a State situate upon the waters of the same port. APPROVED, February 25, 1867. Feb. 27, 1867. CHAP. XCVIII. —An Act declaring Clinton Bridge, across the Mississippi River, at Clinton, in the State of Iowa, a Post-Route. The Clinton bridge across the Mississippi river declared a post route. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the bridge across the Mississippi river erected by the Albany Bridge Company, and the Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, under the authority of the State[s] of Iowa and Illinois, between the towns of Clinton, Iowa, and Albany, Illinois, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known Rates of tolls, 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. &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the draw of said bridge 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. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case of any litigation hereafter arising from any alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, the cause may be tried before the circuit court of the United States of any State in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge touches. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That 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. APPROVED, February 27, 1867. Feb. 28, 1867. CHAP. XCIX. — An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, and for other Purposes. diplomatic expenses appropriation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Consular and States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely: Envoys extraordinary, ministers and commissioners. For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus tria, Brazil, republic of Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Grenada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and one thousand dollars: Provided, That no money shall be paid to the present Minister Resident at Portu- Present minisgal out of any fund whatever; and this provision shall continue in force ter resident at Portugal. until repealed by Congress. And no money hereby or otherwise appro- American lepriated shall be paid for the support of an American legation at Rome, gation at Rome. from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty seven. For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. Secretaries of legation. Assistant secretaries. Interpreters. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand Contingent exdollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, three thousand dollars. penses. ers. Barbary pow Consulates in For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, the Turkish doSmyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, per acts of February eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars. minions. American sea men in foreign 1811, ch. 28. Vol. ii. p. 651. Rescue from countries. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United shipwreck. States from shipwreck, ten thousand dollars. Blank books, postages and ex. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, stationery, &c. and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including change. loss by exchange, fifty thousand dollars. For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, fortyfive thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely: I. CONSULATES GENERAL. SCHEDULE B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai. II. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE B. Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, As pinwall, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Chemnitz, in Saxony, Chin-Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara, Office rent of certain consulsgeneral, &c. Consulates General. Schedule B. Consulates. Commercial agencies. Schedule B. Consulates. Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) Newcastle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Saint John, (Canada East,) Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Singapore, Smyrna, Spezzia, Southampton, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre, (Martinique,) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich. And the salary of the consul at Chemnitz shall be two thousand dollars per annum. And the salaries of the consuls at Rome, Quebec, Munich, and Spezzia, respectively, shall be fifteen hundred dollars, and the salary at Spezzia shall take effect from the beginning of the presenc fiscal year. III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE B. Balize, (Honduras,) Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo. SCHEDULE C. Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catharine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar. V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loando [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and thirty-one thousand five No pay to any hundred dollars. No money appropriated by this act shall be applied to consul, &c. unless a citizen of the payment of salary or compensation to any diplomatic representative of any grade, or to any consul or commercial agent of the United States, who is not a citizen of the United States, native, or duly naturalized. the United States. Interpreters to consulates in China. Bringing home For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred under instructions from the Secretary of State, persons charged in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars. with crime. Marshals of consular courts. Consulates established at Mahe and San Domingo; appropriations. Prisons for American convicts in Japan, &c. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. For the salary of consul at Mahe, Seychelle islands, and at San Domingo, which consulates are hereby established and added to schedule B, fifteen hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general to Hayti and Ministers resi- Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. dent, &c. to Hayti and Li beria. For expenses under the act of Congress, to carry into effect the treaty |