CHAP. XLVI.-Reimbursement of Missouri. | less than $500, nor more than $5,000, and im. -Provides for the reimbursement of the State prisonment not exceeding five years, or by both. of Missouri for moneys expended for the United Any master or owner of any vessel who shall States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning receive on board any person from any State or militi forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion. Territory of the United States, with the knowl[April 17, 1866.] edge and intent that such person is to be carried CHAP. XLVII.-Gunboat to Liberia.-Au-into slavery, shall be punished by a fine not exthorizes the President to transfer a gunboat to ceeding $5,000, nor less than $500, or by imthe Government of the Republic of Liberia. prisonment not exceeding five years, or by both, [April 17, 1866.] and the vessel shall be forfeited to the United States. [May 21, 1866.]

CHAP. XLVIII.-Postage.-An act to provide that the "Soldiers' Individual Memorial" shall be carried through the mails at the usual rates of printed matter. [April 17, 1866.]

CHAP. LXXIII.—Boundaries of Nevada.Extends the boundaries of Nevada. [May 5, 1866.]

CHAP, LXXXIX-Virginia Courts. - Provides that the Circuit Court of the United States, in the District of Virginia, shall be held in Richmond, commencing on the first Monday of May an on the fourth Monday in November, in each year. [May 22, 1866.]

CHAP. CII.-Passports-Repeals see. 23 of chap. 79 of the acts of the 3d session of the XXXVIIth Congress. Hereafter passports shall issued only to citizens of the United States. [May 30, 1866.]

CAP. LXXIV.-International Ocean Tele- CHAP C-Assistant Secretary of the Navy. graph Company. -Gives the International-Authorizing the appointment of an additional Ocein Telegraph Company the sole privilege, for Assistant Secretary of the Navy. [May 26, a period of 11 years from the approval of this 1866.] act, to lay, construct, land, maintain, and operate telegraphic or magnetic lines or cables in and over the waters, reefs, islands, shores, an 1 lands, over which the United States have juris-be diction, from the shores of the State of Florida, in the said United States, to the Island of Cuba and the Bahamas, either or both, and other West India Islands. The United States shall have at all time3 the free use of the cable. The company shall not charge more than $3.50 for messages of ten words. Said grant to be null and void unless the cable is laid and in successful operation within three years from the pas-lost both feet or one hand and one foot, or have sage of this act. [May 5, 1866.]

CHAP. LXXV.-Court of Claims.-Gives the Court of Chim3 jurisdiction over the claims of any disbursing officers of the United States who may have lost their vouchers by capture or otherwise while in the line of duty. [May 9, 1866.]

CHAP. LXXX.-Habeas Corpus.-Extends the provisions of the 4th, 5th and 6th sections of the act of March 3, 1863, to actions for search, arrest, &c., made by any officer under authority of the President, Secretary of War, or of any military officer of the United States holding the command of the department or district in which such search, &c., took place. The right of removal to the Circuit Court may be exercised after the appearance of the defendant and filing of his plea in said court, and the State courts shall then proceed no further. Section 4 enacts that if the State courts shall, notwithstanding, proceed further in such case, then all such proceedings shall be void and of no effect, and all officers, judges, &c., proceeding thereunder shall be liable in damages to the party aggrieved, to bo recovered in a State court having proper jurisdiction, or in the Circuit Court of the United States. [May 11, 1866.]

CHAP. CVI.-Pensions.— Provides that all persons who, while in the military or naval service and in line of duty, shall have lost the sight of both eyes, or have lost both hands, or been totally disabled in the same, or otherwise rendered utterly helpless, shall receive a pension of $25 per month. All persons who shall have

been totally or permanently disabled in the same, or otherwise so disabled as to be incapaci tated for performing manual labor, but not so much as to require constant personal ald, shall receive $20 per month; and all persons who shall have lost one hand or one foot, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive $15 per month. Any pledge, mortgage, &c., of any right, claim or interest in any pension shall be void, and any person acting as attorney to receive a pension for another shall take an oath that he has no interest in said money, and that he does not know that the same has been disposed of to any person. No sum of money due to a pensioner shall be liable to attachment. Fees of claim agents are limited to 25 cents for preparing papers for a pensioner, and 15 cents for administering an oath to a pensioner. If a pensioner die while his application is pending, and after the proof has been completed, his heirs shall be entitled to the accrued pension. If any person shall have been commissioned and died or been disabled in the line of duty before being mustered, such officer or person entitled to pension shall receive a pension according to his rank if he had been mustered. The period of service of all persons entitled to pension shall be considered to extend to the time of their actual discharge. Enlisted men employed as teamsters, &c., shall be regarded as non-com

CHAP. LXXXI.-Five-cent Pieces.-Authorizes the coinage of five-cent pieces. [May 16, 186] CHAP. LXXXII.-Duty on Live Animals.missioned officers or privates. Should a widow Levies a duty of 20 per centum ad valorem on all live animals imported from foreign countries, [May 16, 1866]

CHAP. LXXXVI.-Kidnapping.· any person attempting to kidnap any other per son, with the intention to carry such person into slavery, on conviction thereof, by a fine of not

abandon her child or children under 16 years of age, or be proved to be unfit to have custody of them, she shall receive no pension until they are over 16 years of age, and the minor child or children shall receive the pension. The orphan brothers, and also the father of a deceased officer or soldier, who were dependent upon him

for support, shall be pensioned. Sec. 14 provides that the widows and children of colored soldiers shall receive the pension, &c, without other evidence of marriage than that the parties had recognized each other as man and wife, and had lived together as such. [June 6, 1866]

CHAP. CX.-Military Academy.-Sec. 2 provides that no person who has served in any capacity in the military or naval service of the 80-called Confederate States during the late rebellion shall hereafter receive an appointment as a cadet at the Military or Naval Academy. [June 8, 1866.]

CHAP. CXIV.-Postal Law-Provides that prepaid and free letters shall be forwarded at the request of the party addressed from one Post-Office to another without additional charge, and returned dead letters shall be restored to the writers thereof free of charge. Letters bearing indorsement of a request for return to the writers, shall be returned without additional postage charge. Money orders may be issued for any sum nct exceeding $50, and the charge for a sum under twenty dollars shall be ten cents; for an order exceeding twenty dollars, twenty-five cents. Money orders shall be valid only within one year after date, and in case of loss of a money order a duplicate may be issued without charge. All railroad companies shall carry without extra charge such printed matter as the Postmaster-General may direct Any person who shall wilfully injure or destroy any mailable matter in any receiving box, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than one year. The Postmaster-General may change the style of postage stamp now in use. [June 12, 1866.]

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United States, whose road is operated by steam, to carry upon and over its road, boats, bridges, and ferries, all passengers, troops, Government supplies, mails, freight, &c, on their way from any State to another State, and to receive ccmpensation therefor, and to connect with roads of other States so as to form continuous lines for the transportation of the same to the place of destination. [June 15, 1866.]

CHAP. CXXVII-Homestead Law.-Provides that all the public lands in the States of Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, shall be disposed of according to the stipulations of the IIomestead Law of May 20, 1862, and the act of March 21, 1864, with this restriction, that until after the expiration of two years after the passage of this act no entry chal be made for more than a half-quarter section, or eighty acres; and in lieu of the sum of $10 required to be paid by the second section of said act, there shall be paid the sum of $5 at the time of the issue of each patcnt; and that the public lands in said States shall be disposed of in no other manner after the passage of this act: Provided, That no distinction cr discrimination shall be made in the construction or execution of this act on account of race cr color: And provided further, That no mineral lands shall be liable to entry and settlement under its provisions. Sec. 2. That section second of the above-cited IIomestead Law, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May 20, 1862, be so amended as to read as follows: That the person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the register of the land-office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit before the said register or receiver that he or she is the head of a family, or is 21 years or more of age, or shall have performed service in the army or navy of the United States, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not either directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever; and upon filing the said affidavit with the register or receiver, and on payment of $5, when the entry is not more than 80 acres, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the amount of land specified: Provided, however, That no certificate shall be given, or patent issued therefor, until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry, and if at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry, CHAP. CXXIII.-Settlement of Accounts.- or if he be dead, his widow, or in case of her Provides that all moneys raised in the United death, his heirs or devisee; or in case of a States for the benefit of refugees cr freedmen, widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, received by an officer of the United States, shall in case of her death, shall prove by two credible be charged against such officer on the books of witnesses that he, she, or they, have resided upon the Treasury Department, as if such moneys had or cultivated the same for the term of five years been drawn from the Treasury of the United immediately succeeding the time of filing the States. When accounts are rendered for expen- affidavit aforesaid, and shall make affidavit that ditures for refugees or freedmen which cannot no part of said land has been alienated, and be settled for want of specific appropriations that he will bear true allegiance to the governthe same may be paid out of the fund for the ment of the United States; then, in such case, relief of refugees and freedmen. (June 15, he, she, or they, if at that time a citizen of the 1866.] United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as CHAP. CXXIV.-Inter-State Communicatio.in other cases provided by law. And provided -Authorizes every railroad company in the further, That in case of the death of both father

CHAP. CXXII. - Safe Keeping of Public Money.-Provides that disbursing officers of the United States shall deposit the public money with the Treasurer or some Assistant Treasurer of the United States. The depositing of public money elsewhere than as authorized by law, or the lending of any money, is judged an embezzlement of the money, and upon conviction thereof, the offending officer shall be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than ten years, or be fined not more than the amount embezzled, nor less than $1,000, or both. Any banker or any other person who shall receive, knowingly, from any disbursing officer, any public money, by way of loan or accommodation, or otherwise, than in payment of a debt against the United States, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of public money, and punished as above provided in this Act. [June 14, 1866.]

CHAP. CLV.-Washington Territory. CHAP. CLXXVII.-Pilot Regulations. No Amends the organic act of Washington Terri-State shall make any discrimination in the rate tory. The sessions of the Legislature are to be biennial, the members of the Council to be elected for four years, and the members of the Housef or two years. [June 29, 1866.]

CHAP. CLXXXIV.-Internal Revenue Act.An act to reduce internal taxation, and to amend the former internal revenue acts. This bill is too long to be condensed here. It can be seen at the office of every United States assessor and collector. [July 18, 1866.]

shall constitute the 8th Circuit, and the Dis tricts of California, Oregon and Nevada_shall constitute the 9th Circuit. [July 28, 1866.]

to settlers under the homestead and other laws. The sections within ten miles of the road which are not granted shall not be sold for less than double the minimum price of the public land. For every ten consecutive miles of road completed patents shall issue for so many sections of land as lie opposite and coterminous with the said completed sections. If the road is not completed within ten years, the land remaining unpatented shall revert to the United States. [July 23, 1866.1

CHAP. CCXIII.-Registry of Vessels.-Declares that the act passed Feb. 10, 1866, shall not affect or limit the operation of the act of 23d Dec., 1852. [July 23, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXII.-Lands to Kansas.-Grants lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph from Elwood, westwardly via CHAP. CC.-Freedmen's Bureau. We give Maryville so as to effect a junction with the this important bill, together with the veto mes-Union Pacific Railroad, with the usual guarantees sage of the President, and the vote by which it was carried over the veto, on another page. CHAP. CCI.-Smuggling.-An act further to prevent smuggling and for other purposes. Authorizes officers of the harbors and other agents of the Treasury Department, to board and search any vessel, to stop vessels under way, seize them and arrest persons on board for breach of law. Vessels of any kind may likewise be stopped and searched, and seized for breach of law. The Secretary of the Treasury may, from time to time, prescribe regulations for the search of persons and baggage, and for the employment of female inspectors for the examination and search of persons of their own sex. All persons coming from foreign countries CHAP. CCXXX.-Telegraph Lines.-Grants to shall be liable to detention or search by author- all telegraph companies now organized, or hereized officers or agents of the Government, un- after to be organized, the right to construct a teleder such regulations as the Secretary of the graph line over any portion of the public domain Treasury shall prescribe. Prescribes penalties of the United States. Such companies may take for fraudulently or knowingly bringing into thefromthe public land such stone, timber, and other United States any goods contrary to law, for materials, as are necessary for the construction forcibly resisting officers of customs, etc. Offi- of their lines, and they may pre-empt such porcers and persons making searches and seizures tion of the unoccupied public land subject to may demand assistance of persons within three pre-emption as they may need for stations, but miles, and penalties are prescribed for refusing such stations shall not be within 15 miles of each assistance. [July 18, 1866.] other. The communications of the United States shall have priority over all other business, at rates which the Postmaster-General may fix. The rights hereby granted cannot be transferred. The United States may, after five years from the passage of this act, purchase all the telegraph lines at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five persons, two of whom shall be chosen by the Postmaster-General, two by the companies interested, and one by the four previously selected. [July 24, 1866.]

CHAP. CCIX.-Agricultural Colleges, &c.Extends the time in which the several States may comply with the provisions of the act of July 2, 1862, entitled "An Act Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," three years from the passage of this act. When any Territory shall become a State, it shall have three years within which to accept the benefits of this act. If any State has heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to, it shall have five years within which to provide at least one college after the time for providing such college, according to the act of July 2, 1862, shall have expired. [July 23, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXXXI.-Navy Officers.-Increases the number of line officers on the active list of the Navy, and creates the office of admiral. Sec. 2. Authorizes the appointment of certain of the line officers of the navy on the active list from those officers who have served in the volunteer naval service for a period of not less than two years, and who are either now in that service or have been honorably discharged therefrom. Sec. 3. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to appoint a board of naval officers to examine the claims of all candidates under the provisions of Section 2. Sec. 4. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to retain such volunteer officers as the exigencies of the service may require. The annual compensation of the admiral shall be $10,000. Naval constructors and first and second assistant engineers shall be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Serate. [July 25, 1866.]]

CHAP. CCX.-Supreme Court of the United States.-Provides that no vacancy in the office of Associate Justice of the United States shall be filled by appointment until the number of Associate Justices shall be reduced to six, and thereafter the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice of the United States and six Associate Justices. Sec. 2. The 1st and 2d Circuits shall remain as now constituted; the Districts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware shall constitute the 3d Circuit; the Districts of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina shall constitute the 4th Circuit; the Districts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and CHAP. CCXXXII.-Grade of General.-ReTexas shall constitute the 5th Circuit; the Dis- vives the grade of General of the Army of the tricts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennes- United States. The general to be appointed by see shall constitute the 6th Circuit; the Dis- the President, with the advice and consent of tricts of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin shall the Senate, and to be selected from among the constitute the 7th Circuit; the Districts of Min-officers in the military service of the United nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas States most distinguished for courage, skill, and

ability. The pay of the general shall be $400 per month. The act also provides for the aldes of the general, their number, rank, and pay. [July 25, 1866.]

the joint assembly shall proceed to choose, by a viva voce vote, a person for the purpose aforesaid, and the person who shall receive a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of the members of each Ilouse being present, shall be declared duly elected. If such Senator is not elected on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet and take at least one vote per day during the session of the Legislature. Sec. 2 ing of the Legislature, the same proceedings shall be held on the second Tuesday after their meeting and organization, and when a vacancy shall happen during the session of the Legislature, then on the second Tuesday after notice of such vacancy shall have been received. Sec. 3. The Governor of the State shall certify the election of a Senator to the President of the Senate of the United States. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXXXIV. - Passengers in Steamboats-Steamboat Inspectors. Provides measures for the safety of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and regulates the salaries of steamboat inspectors. Licensed engineers or pilots wrong-provides that when a vacancy exists at a meetfully refusing to serve as such, or pilots refusing to admit certain persons into pilot house, are to forfeit $300. All vessels to be subject to the navigation laws of the United States. Passenger vessels to have the life-boats required by law provided with suitable boat disengaging apparatus. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXXXV.-Widows Pensions, &c.Extends the provisions of the pension laws so as to include provost-marshals and enrolling officers who have been killed while in the discharge of their duties, and provost-marshals shall rank as captains, deputy provost-marshals as first lieutenants, and enrolling officers as second lieutenants. Pensions of widows shall be increased $2 for each child under 16 years of age, and in case the widow has died or married again the children shall receive the same increase of pension as the mother would have been entitled to. If any person, during the pendency of his application for a pension, and after the proof has been completed, shall die, whether by reason of a wound received or disease contracted while in line of duty, his representatives shall receive the accrued pension to which he would have been entitled had his certificate been issued. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXXXVIII. - House of CorrectionEstablishes in the District of Columbia a House of Correction for Boys. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXXXIX-Soldiers' and Sailors' Union. - Incorporates "The Soldiers' and Sailors' Union," at Washington, D. C. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXL-Marriages and Children of Colored Persons.-Legalizes marriages of certain colored persons in the District of Columbia, and provides that their children shall be deemed legitimate. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXLI.-Lands to Kansas.-Grants lands to the State of Kansas to aid in the construction of the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad and its extension to Red River. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXLII.-Lands granted for Railroads and Telegraphs.-Grants public lands (not mineral) to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad in California to Portland in Oregon. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCXLIX.-Soldiers' and Sailors' Or. phan Home.-Incorporates "The National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Home," at Washington, D. C. [July 25, 1966.]

CHAP. CCLII.-Port of Entry-Changes the port of entry in Puget's Sound, Washington Territory, from Port Angelos to Port Townsend. [July 23, 1866.]

CHAP. CCLV-Calais.-An Act to authorize the entry and clearance of vessels at the Port of Calais, Me. [July 25, 1866.]

CHAP. CCLXII.-Ditches and Canals.-Declares all mineral lands of the United States to be free and open to exploration by citizens of the United States. Patents for mineral lands may be issued to any claimant or association of claimants who shall have occupied and improved the same in accordance with the local customs, and have expended in improvements and actual labor thereon at least $1,000. Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6, contain regulations for the issuing of patents. The President is authorized, at his dis cretion, to establish additional land districts and to appoint the necessary officers. The right of way is granted for the construction of highways over public lands not reserved for public uses. Sec. 9. Protects rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, and other purposes, where such rights have vestel and accrued, and confirms the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the said purposes. Wherever homesteads shall have been located on mineral lands on which no valuable mines have been discovered, and which are purely agricultural, the owners shall have a right of preemption thereto. Upon the survey of the lands aforesaid, the Secretary of the Interior may designate such lands more purely agricultural, and they shall be open to pre-emption and settlement. [July 26, 1863.]

CHAP. CCLXV.-Pacific Railroad.—AuthoCHAP. COXLV. Electims of Senators.-Regu-rizes the issue of Pacific Railroad boads of a lates the mode in which Senitors of the United greater denomination than $1,000. [July 23, '66.] States shall hereafter be elected by the Legisla- CHAP. CCLXIX.-Weighing of Exports. tures of the several States. Each House shall, Imposes a duty of three cents per 100 poundз by a viva voce vote of each member present, upon all weighable articles hereafter exported name a person for Senator on the second Tues- upon which a drawback or roturn duty is day after the meeting and organization thereof. allowed. [July 26, 1866.] On the day following the Houses shall meet in joint assembly, and if the same person shall have received a majority of all the votes cast in each House, he shall be declared duly elected Senator of the United States; but if not, then

CHAP. CULXX.-Lands to Kansas.-Grants land to aid in the construction of a Southern branch of the Union Pacific Railway and Telegraph, from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Smith, Arkansas. [July 25, 1866]