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prevent the Government or other competent authority from at any time altering the grade, or otherwise improving all streets and roads occupied by said railway; and, in such event, it shall be the duty of said company to change said railway so as to conform to such grade and pave

meut.

Change of grade.

Liability of

SEC. 4. That each of the stockholders in the said railway company shall be liable individually for all the debts and liabilities of the said stockholders. company to an amount equal to the value of stock held by such stock. holder.

SEC. 5. That the said railroad company shall, by the fifteenth of January, after the completion of said road, and annually on or before that day thereafter, transmit to Congress a full report of the affairs, business and condition of the said company for the year terminating December thirty-first preceding such report; and such report shall be signed and sworn to by the President and the treasurer of the company, and by a majority of the directors.

Annual report.

Unclaimed goods

SEC. 6. That all articles of value that may be inadvertently left in any of the cars or or other vehicles of said company shall be taken to its left in cars. principal depot, and entered in a book of record of unclaimed goods, which book shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable hours.

SEC. 7. That this act may be altered, amended, or repealed by the Congress of the United States at any time; and the said company is not authorized to issue any note, token, device, or scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as a currency.

SEC. 8. That the capital stock of said company shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty five dollars each, and shall be deemed personal property, transferable in such manner as the by-laws of said company may direct.

Amendment and

repeal.

Issue of currency, notes, etc., forbid.

den. Capital stock.

Passenger-cars.
Trips.

Offices, stables,

SEC. 9. That the company shall place first-class cars on said railway for the convenience and comfort of passengers, and shall run cars thereon as often as every thirty minutes during the day; and the company shall procure such ticket-offices, stables, and depot's at such points as the business of the railroad and the convenience of the public may require; and the said company is hereby authorized to purchase or lease such lands or buildings as may be necessary for the ticket-offices, stables, and of lands. depots above-mentioned.

&c.

Purchase or lease

Board of direct

By-laws.

SEC. 10. That the stockholders of the said company shall annually elect seven directors, who shall have full power to make and prescribe ors. such by-laws, rules, and regulations, and create such offices, as they shall deem needful and proper, touching the disposition and management of the stock, property, estate, and effects of the company, not contrary to the charter or to the laws of the United States, and the ordinances of the District of Columbia; and there shall be no regulation excluding any person from any car on account of color.

No distinction on account of color. Organization.

SEC. 11. That the incorporators of said road shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, meet and organize and open books of subscription, at some place made known by advertisement in at least one daily paper published in the District of Columbia, to the capital stock of said company; and the said company shall organize and complete the line of said road within one year from the passage of this act, oth- pleting road. erwise no right shall be acquired under this act. Approved, April 10, 1876.

CHAP. 53.-An act donating the military road running from Astoria, Oregon, to
Salem, in that State, to the several counties through which it passes.

Time for com

April 11, 1876.

from Astoria to

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the military road from Military rond Astoria to Salem, in the State of Oregon, constructed under the follow- Salem, Oregon, doing acts of Congress, to wit, acts approved February seventeenth, eight- nated to counties.

1855, ch. 104, 10 Stat., 608. 1857, ch. 61, 11 Stat., 168.

1858, ch. 161, 11 Stat., 337.

April 11, 1876.

cut.

een hundred and fifty-five; March second, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven; and June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, donated to the several counties in said State through which it runs, to wit, Clatsop, Washington, Yam Hill, and Polk, to each such portion as runs through it; said counties hereafter to own and control the same; and such road is hereby abandoned as a military road.

Approved, April 11, 1876.

CHAP. 54.—An act for the sale of the Arsenal and lot, at Stonington, Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of arsenal States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, grounds in Ston- and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell for cash, after such ington, Connectiadvertisement for at least one month as he may deem necessary, either by public auction or by inviting proposals for the purchase thereof, and in either case to the highest responsible bidder, a certain lot and parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, in the town of Stonington, Connecticut, belonging to the United States and formerly used for arsenal purposes; and the Secretary of War is empowered and required, on receiv ing the purchase money in full, to execute the necessary deeds of such property to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, conveying all the right, title and interest of the United States therein.

Deed.

Proceeds.

SEC. 2. That the proceeds of said sale, after paying the necessary expenses thereof, shall, upon receipt of the same, be paid by the Secretary of War into the Treasury.

Approved, April 11, 1876.

April 11, 1876.

Judgments of Alabama claims

court, sale of bonds
for payment of.
1876, ch. 10.

Ante, pp. 1, 3, 6.
Post, p. 96.

1873, ch. 261, 17 Stat., 601.

1874, ch. 459, § 15, 18 Stat., 248, repealed.

CHAP. 55.-An act to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay judgments provided for in an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. entitled "An act providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section 11 of chapter 459 of the laws of the First session of the Forty-third Congress."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas ury, for the purpose of paying the judgments provided for in an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "Au act providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section eleven, of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the first session of the Forty-third Congress," is hereby authorized to convert into coupon-bonds, and to sell, after five days' notice, so many as may be necessary for this purpose of the five per centum registered bonds of the United States now held subject to the disposition of Congress under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, chapter two hundred and sixty-one.

SEC. 2. That so much of section fifteen of the act approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter four hundred and fifty-nine, as conflicts with this act, is hereby repealed.

Approved, April 11, 1876.

April 13, 1876.

CHAP. 56.-An act to amend section 1044 of the Revised Statutes relating to limitations in criminal cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R. S., 1044, p. 193, States of America in Congress assembled, That section one thousand and forty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

Limitation in cases of offenses not capital.

No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense, not capital, except as provided in section one thousand and forty-six, unless

the indictment is found, or the information is instituted within three years next after such offense shall have been committed.

But this act shall not have effect to authorize the prosecution, trial or punishment for any offense, barred by the provisions of existing laws. Approved, April 13, 1876.

CHAP. 62.-An act concerning cases in bankruptcy commenced in the supreme courts of the several Territories prior to the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now undetermined therein.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in bankruptcy commenced in the supreme courts of any of the Territories of the United States prior to the twenty-second day of June, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now undetermined therein, the clerks of the said several courts shall immediately trausmit to the clerks of the district courts of the several districts of said Territories all the papers in, and a certified transcript of, all the proceedings had in each of said cases; and the said clerks of the district courts shall immediately file the said papers and transcripts as papers and transcripts in the said district courts.

SEC. 2. That the clerks of the said several supreme courts shall transmit the papers and transcripts provided for in section one of this act, in each case, to the clerk of the district court of the district wherein the bankrupt or bankrupts, or some one of them, resided at the time of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy in said case; and as soon as the said papers and transcript in any case shall have been transmitted and filed, as herein provided, the district court in which the same shall have been so filed shall have jurisdiction of the said case, to hear and determine all questions arising therein, and to finally adjudicate and determine the same in all respects as contemplated in other bankruptcy cases by the act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," and approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and amendments thereto. Approved, April 14, 1876.

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CHAP. 63.—An act to provide for a deficiency in the Printing and Engraving
Bureau of the Treasury Department, and for the issue of silver coin of the United
States in place of fractional currency.

April 17, 1876.

Appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars to provide for engraving, printing, and other expenses of making and issuing United States notes, and the further sum of forty-eight thousand. dollars to provide for engraving and printing national bank notes. notes, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

United States

National bank notes.

Silver coins in

tional currency.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue silver coins of the United States of the denomination of ten, twenty, redemption of fractwenty-five and fifty cents of standard value, in redemption of an equal amount of fractional currency, whether the same be now in the Treas ury awaiting redemption, or whenever it may, be presented for redemption; and the Secretary of the Treasury may, under regulations of the Treasury Department, provide for such redemption and issue by substitution at the regular sub-treasuries and public depositories of the United States until the whole amount of fractional currency outstand

Post, p. 215.

Redeemed cur- ing shall be redeemed. And the fractional currency redeemed under rency to be part of this act shall be held to be a part of the sinking-fund provided for by sinking-fund. existing law, the interest to be computed thereon as in the case of bonds redeemed under the act relating to the sinking-fund Approved, April 17, 1876.

April 17, 1876.

Appropriation. 3.

Ante, p.

Post, pp. 45, 211,

CHAP. 64.—An act to provide for the expenses of admission of foreign goods to the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of forty thousand dollars be, 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 the Treasury, for the purpose of examinaCustomis expen- tion and appraisement, and for the incidental expenses connected with ses at Centennial the admission, of foreign goods to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.

213, 214.

Exhibition.

Approved, April 17, 1876.

April 17, 1876.

Sale of part of custom-house lot at Rockland, Me.

Post, p. 91.

Price.

Time cf salo.

CHAP. 65.—An act providing for the sale of part of custom house lot in Rockland
Maine

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas
ury be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey a strip of land
from the easterly side of the custom house in Rockland, Maine, being
that part of the lot lying easterly of the proposed street running through
the lot, being about eighteen and six tenths feet wide at the northerly
end, and running southerly one hundred twenty-one and four tenths
feet to a point, and containing about eleven hundred and twenty-two
square feet, at public auction or private sale: Provided, That said land
shall be sold for not less than the original cost to the Government: And
provided further, That the sale hereby authorized shall be made within
one year after the date of the approval of this act.
Approved, April 17, 1876.

April 18, 1876.

CHAP. 66.—An act further to provide for the administering of oaths in the Senate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Oaths adminis- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Presiding Officer, for tered by Presiding the time being, of the Senate of the United States, shall have power to Officer of Senate. administer all oaths and affirmations that are or may be required by the Constitution, or by law, to be taken by any Senator, officer of the Senate, witness, or other person, in respect of any matter within the jurisdiction of the Senate. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Senate, and the chief clerk thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced be fore it.

d

Secretary an chief clerk of Senate may administer oaths.

Approved, April 18, 1876.

CHAP. 67.-An act to pay the First National Bank of Saint Albans, in the county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, the value of certain United States Treasury notes held by said bank as financial agent of the United States, and forcibly taken therefrom by raiders from Canada, in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

April 20, 1876.

Payment to First National Bank of

1864, ch. 106,

13 Stat., 113.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the First Saint Albans. National Bank of Saint Albans, at Saint Albans, in the county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, late financial agent and designated depositary of public moneys of the United States, (under section forty-five of the national-currency act, approved June third, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour,) the sum of twenty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of United States seven and three-tenths Treasury notes held by said bank as such financial agent of the United States for delivery to subscribers therefor, and belonging to the United States, and having 1002. been forcibly seized and taken away by an armed band of raiders from Canada, acting under the military authority and direction of the socalled Confederate States of America, on the nineteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, without the fault or neglect of the officers of said bank.

MICHAEL C. KERR

Speaker of the House of Representatives
T. W. FERRY
President of the Senate pro tempore

Received by the President April 8, 1876.

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

R. S., 5153, p.

CHAP. 71.—An act for continuing the work of improving the Capitol Grounds.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds during the present fiscal year, the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Approved, April 21, 1876.

April 21, 1876.

Appropriation.

Capitol Grounds.

CHAP. 72.-An act to confirm pre-emption and homestead entries of public lands within the limits of railroad-grants in cases where such entries have been made under the regulations of the Land Department.

April 21, 1876,

Entries of lands

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all pre-emption and homestead entries, or entries in compliance with any law of the United States, within limits of of the public lands, made in good faith, by actual settlers, upon tracts to notice of withland-grant prior of land of not more than one hundred and sixty acres each, within the drawal of lands. limits of any land-grant, prior to the time when notice of the withdrawal of the lands embraced in such grant was received at the local land-office of the district in which such lands are situated, or after their restoration to market by order of the General Land-Office, and where the pre-emption and homestead laws have been complied with, and proper proofs thereof have been made by the parties holding such tracts or parcels, they shall be confirmed, and patents for the same shall issue to the partice entitled thereto. SEC. 2. That when at the time of such withdrawal

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