rights and liabilities. etc. affected. tions, etc. right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said repeal or Enforcements modification; but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-eight of this Act, as if said repeal or modifications had not been Prior offenses, made. Any offenses committed and all penalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred prior to the passage of this Act under any statute embraced in or changed, modified, or repealed by this Act may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act Limitations not had not been passed. All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by Suits, prosecu- this Act shall not be affected thereby; and all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this Act, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-eight of this Act, as if this Act had not been passed. That an Act entitled: items ad- "An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection amended, not re- of the revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the Act of July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and as further amended by the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, is not hereby repealed but amended Solicitor of cus- so as to read as in this Act provided. So much of section four of an Act entitled: "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes," approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, as relates to the appointment of a solicitor of customs and assistants, is hereby repealed. ministration law pealed. toms, and assistant, abolished. In effect the SEC. 42. That unless otherwise herein specially proday after passage. vided, this Act shall take effect on the day following its Aug. 5, 1909. [H. R. 11570.] [Public, No. 6.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 118. ciencies appropristions. passage. Signed Five minutes after Five o'clock P. M. Aug. 5th, 1909. WHT. CHAP. 7.—An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Urgent def of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, namely: EXECUTIVE. To enable the President to secure information and to Administration assist the officers of the Government in the administration Securing inforof the customs laws, as provided in section two of the tariff mation, etc. bill, relating to the maximum and minimum rates, seventyfive thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. And a detailed Statement. statement of all expenditures under this provision shall be made to Congress at its next regular session. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Foreign trade and treaty rela tions. Expenses. eastern affairs. Foreign trade and treaty relations: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in connection with foreign trade relations which come within the jurisdiction of the Department of State, under tariff legislation and otherwise, and in the negotiation and preparation of treaties, arrangements, and agreements for the advancement of commercial and other interests of the United States, and for the maintenance of a division of far eastern affairs in Division of far the Department of State, including the payment of necessary employees, at the seat of government or elsewhere, to be selected, and their compensation fixed, by the Secretary of State and to be expended under his direction, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, one hundred thousand dollars. A detailed statement showing expenditures, including salaries or rates of compensation paid, under this tures, etc. appropriation shall be reported to Congress by the Secretary of State on the first day of each regular session; and estimates for further appropriations hereunder shall Estimates. include in detail salaries for all persons to be employed and paid in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia. Detailed statement of expendi tax. Expenses of collecting the corporation tax: For ex- Corporation penses of collecting the corporation tax authorized by Expenses of colthe Act "To provide revenue, equalize duties and encour- lecting. age the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," enacted at the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, one hundred thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ed. Special agents. Proviso. Qualifications. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. * CENSUS OFFICE. The Director of the Census may fix the compensation of not to exceed twenty of the special agents provided for in section eighteen of "An Act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, at an amount not to exceed eight dollars per day: Provided, That such special agents shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work. Apr. 23, 1909. RESOLUTIONS. [No. 2.] Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of [H. J. Res. 45.] certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-first Congress. [Pub. Res., No. 2. Pub 38 Stat. L., pt. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 1, p. 182. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Appropriations That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out resentatives. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for purposes as follows: for House of Rep Stationery. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. [8. J. Res. 40.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 184. Income tax. Proposed amendment to Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution: "ARTICLE XVI.. The Congress shall have power to the Constitution. lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Deposited in Department of State July 31, 1909. Tariff Act, hide schedules, etc. Aug. 5, 1909. [S. Con. Res., No. 8.] 36 Stat. L., pt. Enrollment cor Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Committees on Enrolled Bills of 2, p. 2130. the two Houses be authorized to correct the enrolled bill Tariff Act. of the House (H. R. 1438) entitled "An Act to provide rected. revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," by striking out the word "general" wherever it occurs in section two of said bill and inserting in lieu thereof the word "maximum, "and they are further authorized to enroll paragraph 450 as follows: 450. Hides of cattle, raw or uncured, whether dry, Hides paragraph. salted, or pickled, shall be admitted free of duty: Pro-Enrollment auvided, That on and after October first, nineteen hundred thorized. and nine, grain, buff, and split leather shall pay a duty of seven and one-half per centum ad valorem; that all boots and shoes, made wholly or in chief value of leather made from cattle hides and cattle skins of whatever weight, of cattle of the bovine species, including calfskins, shall pay a duty of ten per centum ad valorem; that harness, saddles and saddlery, in sets or in parts, finished or unfinished, composed wholly or in chief value of leather, shall pay a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem. Feb. 25, 1910. [H. R. 18364.] [Public, No. 63.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 227. Census. SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. CHAP. 63.—An Act Tó amend section eight of an Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Thirteenth of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section eight of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses," approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, be amended to read as follows: Schedules. Population. "SEC. 8. That the Thirteenth Census shall be restricted to inquiries relating to population, to agriculture, to manufactures, and to mines and quarries. The schedules relating to population shall include for each inhabitant the name, relationship to head of family, color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, number of years in the United States, citizenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employee, and, if employee, whether or not employed at the date of enumeration and the number of months unemployed during the preceding calendar year, whether or not engaged in agriculture, school attendance, literacy, and tenure of home and whether or not a survivor of the Union or Confederate army or navy; and the name and address of each Defective, etc., blind or deaf and dumb person; and for the enumeration of institutions, shall include paupers, prisoners, juvenile delinquents, insane, feeble-minded, blind, deaf and dumb, and inmates of benevolent institutions. persons. Agricultural. age added. "The schedules relating to agriculture shall include name, color, and country of birth of occupant of each Irrigation acre farm, tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of land under irrigation, acreage of woodland, and character of timber thereon, value of farm and improvements, value of farm implements, number and value of live stock on farms and ranges, number and value of domestic animals not on farms and ranges, and the acreage of crops planted and to be planted during the year of enumeration, and the acreage of crops and the quantity and value of crops and other farm products for the year ending December thirtyfirst next preceding the enumeration. Manufactures, mines and quar· ries. 978 "The schedules of inquiries relating to manufactures and to mines and quarries shall include the name and location of each establishment; character of organization, whether individual, cooperative, or other form; character of business or kind of goods manufactured; amount of capital actually invested; number of proprietors, firm members, copartners, stockholders, and officers, and the amount of their salaries; number of employees and the amount of their wages; quantity and cost of materials used in manufactures; amount of miscellaneous expenses; |