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Appropriation. 1875, ch. 139, 18 Stat., 476.

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lows: "And all who are qualified voters of said Territory under the laws thereof at such time as the constitution to be framed shall be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection shall be entitled to vote upon the question of such ratification or rejection."

SEC. 2. That section thirteen of said act be amended by adding at the end of said section thirteen the following: "And if the balance of said legislative appropriations does not amount to the sum of twenty thou sand dollars, then there shall be, and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient, with the said unexpended appropriations, to make the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which shall be used for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That any money hereby appropriated not necessary for such purposes shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1876.

March 3, 1876.

1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat., 384.

Appropriation made available.

CHAP. 18.-An act to remedy an error in enrolment

Whereas, in the bill for sundry civil expenses, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, of the amount therein provided for the improvement of the Capitol grounds, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, was made available from the passage of the act:

And whereas, the clause relating to the immediate availability of that sum was omitted in the enrolment of said act; Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of six thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighteen cents, or as much thereof as may be, necessary to pay liabilities incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for labor, &c., in the improvement of the Capitol grounds, is hereby rendered available for the above named purpose, the sum to be paid out of the funds provided in said bill approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for the improvement of the Capitol grounds. Approved, March 3, 1876.

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CHAP. 19.-An act to change the rame of the schooner "Turner and Keller" of
Oswego, to that of "Falmouth"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the owners of the schooner Turner and Keller" of Oswego, New York, have authority to change the name of said schooner to "Falmouth" by which name said schooner shall hereafter be known and registered.

Approved, March 3, 1876.

March 6, 1876.

Ante, pp. 1, 3. Post, p. 96. 1874, ch. 459, 18 Stat., 245.

Court of Alabama Claims, time extended on cer

tain claims.

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CHAP. 20.-An act to extend the time for claimants under section eleven, of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine, of the laws of the Forty-third Congress, to prove their claims.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Court of Commissioners for the Alabama Claims to receive, examine and pass upon all claims that may be admissible under the provisions of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the Forty-third Congress, which may be presented and filed within three months after this act shall take effect: Provided, That it shall appear by the claimant's petition and be proved to the satisfaction of the court, that by reason of his absence from the United States, or his ignorance of the time limited for the filing of a petition by such claimant or by reason of fraud,

accident or mistake the claim of such claimant has not been previously
presented to said court, within the time limited by said act; and such
claim in cases where the claimant shall be absent from the United States
at the time of presenting the petition, may be presented and verified in
such manner as the court shall by rule have provided.
Approved, March 6, 1876.

CHAP. 23.-An act to extend to the port of Genessee in the State of New York the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes inclusive.

March 14, 1876.

R. S., 2990 to 2997, tended to port of pp. 579, 580, ex

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety; seven of the Revised Statutes inclusive be, and they are hereby extended Genessee. to the port of Genessee, in the State of New York. Approved, March 14, 1876.

CHAP. 27.—An act to provide for the purchase of material and for the continuation of the work on the building for custom-house and post office, at Saint Louis, Missouri.

March 15, 1876.

Post office, Saint Louis, contracts for

Appropriation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United tates of America in Congress assembled, That the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department be directed, and he is hereby author- iron-work. ized and empowered, to contract for the iron columns and pilasters of the first story and for the rolled iron beams of the second story, of the United States post office and custom house at Saint Louis, Missouri; and the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the payment of said contract, payable out of the appropriation for said building; to be made for the next fiscal year. Provided, That said Architect may in his discretion, use such portion of said sum hereby appropriated for labor and material as is not needed for the performance of the contracts herein authorized, and as may be absolutely necessary for the proper preservation and progress of said building. And provided further, That the contracts herein authorized to be made shall not in the aggregate exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. Approved, March 15, 1876.

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CHAP. 28.-An act authorizing the purchase of additional grounds for the custom house at Nashville, Tennessee.

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 apply so much of the money heretofore appropriated for a custom house, court house, and post office at Nashville, Tennessee, not however, exceeding eighteen thousand five hundred dollars, for the purchase of the ground situated in said city and lying between the western boundary line of the present custom house lot and Spruce street, fronting one hundred and sixty-five feet on Broad street, and running back the same distance to an alley, or such part thereof as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, if in his judgment the public interests require additional land for said building: Provided, however, That the amount heretofore fixed by law as the cost of said building shall be reduced to the extent of the sum that shall be applied in the purchase of said additional ground.

Approved, March 15, 1876.

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March 23, 1876.

Post, p. 223. Appropriations.

Army pensions.

1874, ch. 335, 18 Stat., 115.

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CHAP. 29.-An act to establish certain post-routes in the State of Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following post-routes
be, and they are hereby, established, to wit:

A post-route from Paris, Lamar County, Texas, by way of Cotton Plant, in said county, and by way of Cooper, in Delta County, in said State, to Sulphur Springs, in Hopkins County, in said State; also, a post-route from Bonham, in Fannin County, Texas, by way of Ladonia, in said county, and Ben Franklin, in Delta County, Texas, to Cooper in said county.

Approved, March 16, 1876.

CHAP. 30.—An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 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 payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven: Pensions for Army invalids, for widows, minors, and dependent relatives and for survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, twenty eight million four hundred thousand dollars, including such contingent expenses as may be recommended by the Commissioner of of Pensions, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, two hundred and fifty R. S., 4782, p. 936. thousand dollars; fees of examining surgeons, one hundred thousand dollars; compensation to pension agents, and the expenses of the several pension agencies, two hundred thousand dollars, as provided under the act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; also for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the same shall be expended and disbursed under the direction of the Surgeon General of Navy pensions. the Army and in accordance with existing laws; for Navy pensions to invalids, and for widows and dependent relatives, five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars; for fees of examining surgeous, one thousand dollars; for fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided by the several acts of Congress, three thousand dollars; compensation to pension agents, two thousand five hundred dollars, including such contingent expenses as may be recommended by the Commissioner of Pensions, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, two thousand dollars, which appropriation shall be expended under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions, and other expenditures under that head, shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose, as provided by the act of July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy.

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1870, ch. 238,
16 Stat., 222.

R. S., 4755, p.

932.

Approved, March 23, 1876.

March 23, 1876.

CHAP. 31.—An act to confirm certain school-indemnity selections of public lands by the State of Nebraska

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United School lands in States of America in Congress assembled, That the selections of school Nebraska, title lands made by the State of Nebraska as indemnity for tracts in sections sixteen and thirty-six otherwise disposed of, which are suspended in the

confirmed.

General Land Office, for the reason that they are for lands which, under the act of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty eight, can only be disposed of under the homestead and preemption laws, and to which no other legal objection exists be, and the same are hereby, confirmed; and title shall be transferred to the State as in other cases of such selections

Approved, March 23, 1876.

1868, ch. 20,

15 Stat., 39.

CHAP. 40.-An act to incorporate the Washington City Inebriate Asylum in the
District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who shall become subscribers pursuant to this act shall hereby constitute and be declared a community-corporation and body politic forever, or until Con gress by law direct this charter to cease and determine, by and under the name of the Washington City Inebriate Asylum of the District of Columbia; and by and under the same name and title they shall be able and capable in their corporate name to take, purchase, have, lease, and hold real estate, not exceeding sixty acres, in the District of Columbia, and erect thereon a building or buildings suitable for the purposes of an asylum herein before named; and to take, purchase, hold, and convey such personal property as may be necessary to carry out the objects of said asylum, namely, the care and medical treatment and control of the inebriate, and for no other purpose. Said asylum shall have power to sue and be sued, to make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, to take and hold any grant or devise of land, or any dona tion or bequest of money or other personal property to be applied to the maintenance of said asylum. But the limitation that the said asylum shall not take, purchase, have, lease, and bold real estate shall only apply to property leased or purchased, and shall not prevent the said asylum from taking and holding any estate, real or personal, given or devised to it, not exceeding in value five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the property held by the said asylum shall never exceed five hundred thousand dollars in value.

SEC. 2. That any person donating the sum of ten dollars to the asylum hereby incorporated shall be deemed a subscriber and stockholder.

SEC. 3. That the fund of said institution shall be fifty thousand dollars, but may be increased to three hundred thousand dollars at any time the board of directors may think it compatible with the best interest of said asylum, and shall be deemed personal property.

March 30, 1876.

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Subscribers.

Fund.

Trustees,

SEC. 4. That all the affairs and concerns of said asylum shall be managed by, and conducted under, the direction of twenty-five trustees, who shall be subscribers and citizens of the United States of America, and who shall be elected by the subscribers, after the present year, aunually, on the first Thursday in November of each year, by ballot, by a plurality of subscribers present or represented by proxy, each and every subscription of ten dollars having one vote; if for any cause such election shall not be so held, the said asylum shall not be deemed dissolved, but an election shall be held within twelve months thereafter; notice of time and place of such election shall be published for two weeks immediately preceding the day appointed therefor in at least two newspapers of the District of Columbia. The said board of trustees, annually, from their own body, and as soon as may be after their election, shall proceed to elect, by ballot, a president and one treasurer of said asylum, who, so long as they shall continue trustees of said asylum, shall hold their offices respectively during the pleasure of the board of trustees; and the said trustees shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body, caused by the death, resignation, removal, or board. otherwise, of any trustee or trustees, and to make all by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, as they may

President and treasurer.

Vacancies in

By-laws.

elections.

deem proper for the management of the affairs of said asylum, and shall appoint annually, by ballot, at least thirty days before such election of Inspectors of trustees of said asylum, three fit and disinterested persons inspectors of the then next election of trustees, and, at any time before the election, supply any vacancy which may occur in the office of any such inspector. Nine of the board of trustees, of which number the president or vice-president must be one, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All committees, physicians, agents, and officers, Appointment of authorized by this act or by the by-laws of this asylum shall be ap officers, etc. pointed by the board of trustees.

Quorum.

Liability of subEcribers.

First board of trustees.

SEC. 5. That no subscriber of this asylum shall be liable in his or her individual capacity for any contract, debt, or engagement of said asylum after the full amount of their subscription is paid in.

SEC. 6. That W. W. Corcoran, George H. Plant, George W. Riggs, W. W. Moore, Samuel Norment, J. W. Thompson, Matthew G. Emory, John T. Given, A. E. Perry, John C. Harkness, William Stickney, J. C. McKelden, Joseph Burrows, doctor of medicine, William J. Murtagh, Columbus Alexander, William R. Riley, D. D. Cone, Thomas Berry, George W. Stickney, D. P. Halloway, John W. Simms, E. C. Carring ton, James H. Stone, Dickerson Nailor, and Joseph T. Howard, doctor of medicine, shall constitute the first board of trustees, who shall hold their offices until a new board of trustees is elected; and they shall be Commissioners commissioners, whose duty it shall be to locate the said asylum and to to locate asylum. receive subscriptions to the funds of said institution.

Voluntary applicants.

Commitment of inebriates.

SEC. 7. That the said institution shall have power to receive any inebriate who shall voluntarily make application thereto, and retain him or her therein for such period as may be deemed advisable by the physician in charge.

SEC. 8. That any justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, upon petition or complaint, duly verified and presented by any rel ative of an inebriate or habitual drunkard, or by any officer of this asylum, or by any officer of police of said District of Columbia, shall proceed thereupon to appoint a commission to inquire into the case in the same manner as is directed by law in relation to the care and custody of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, persons of unsound mind, and drunkards, and according to the rules and practice of the said supreme court in such cases. The person charged with being an inebriate shall have notice to be present himself, or by counsel, before such commission, and to defend himself from such charge. Upon becoming satisfied by the return of said commission that the person in question is an inebriate, or habitual drunkard, any justice of the supreme court may is sue a warrant committing such inebriate or habitual drunkard to the said asylum for a period not exceeding one year as said justice may deem proper; and such warrant, duly issued, shall be full and sufficient justitication for all acts done by any properly-authorized officer under and in accordance therewith. Such order of commitment may be vacated or modified by any justice of said supreme court on cause duly shown. After complaint has been made, and pending the proceedings under this section, the justice hearing the case may commit the person charged with being an inebriate, or habitual drunkard, to said asylum, and the Temporary com- person so temporarily committed shall be discharged therefrom if, on the return of a commission, it be determined that he is not a proper person to be detained. The estate and person of any inebriate comSupport of ine- mitted to said asylum shall be liable for his support therein; and the briate. committee, trustee or guardian of every such person shall pay out of his estate such reasonable and proper sums as shall be fixed by the justice ordering the commitment.

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Whoto bedeemed inebriates.

SEC. 9. That for the purposes of this act, any person who, by the use of intoxicating liquors, or other intoxicants, has lost self-control, or become incapable of proper attention to the care and management of his affairs, or habitually or periodically neglectful thereof, or dangerous to

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