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annually for agricultural implements and for educational purposes among said Indians so much of the principal of said fund as, with the interest annually accruing thereon, shall amount to six thousand dollars; and three hundred dollars of said sum shall be paid to the Superintendent of Common Schools in North Carolina who shall have the supervision of the schools of the Cherokees of said State under the direction of the Commissioner of Indiau Affairs.

For incidental expenses of the Indian service in the following States penses, Indian and Territories, namely: In Arizona, twenty thousand dollars; California, thirty thousand dollars; Colorado Territory, three thousand dollars; Dakota Territory, five thousand dollars; Idaho Territory, three thousand dollars; Montana Territory, five thousand dollars; Washington Territory, five thousand dollars; Wyoming Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars; Nevada, five thousand dollars; Territory of New Mexico, fifteen thousand dollars; Oregon, ten thousand dollars; Utah Territory, ten thousand dollars; Central superintendency, four thou sand dollars; in all, one hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the same shall be used for annuity goods, sub-sistence, agricultural implements, for educational purposes, for repairs of flour-mills, saw-mills, agency buildings, incidental transportation and for paying employees; And provided further, That amounts now due employees for year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six may be paid out of unexpended balance of the incidental fund of said year.

Proviso.

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INTEREST ON TRUST-FUNDS STOCKS.

For payment of interest on certain abstracted and non-paying State stocks, belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six:

For trust-fund interest due Cherokee national fund, namely: On sixtyeight thousand dollars of abstracted bonds, four thousand and eighty dollars; thirteen thousand dollars of Florida seven per centum bonds, nine hundred and ten dollars; twenty-eight thousand dollars of North Carolina six per centum bonds, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; ninety thousand dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, five thousand four hundred dollars; one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of Tennessee five per centum bonds, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars of South Carolina six per centum bonds, seven thousand and eighty dollars; eleven thousand dollars of Louisiana six per centum bonds, six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand and sixty dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Cherokee school-fund, namely: On fifteen thousand dollars of abstracted bonds, nine hundred dollars; seven thousand dollars of Florida seven per centum bonds, four hundred and ninety dollars; thirteen thousand dollars of North Carolina six per annum bonds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; one thousand dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, sixty dollars; one thousand dollars of South Carolina six per centum bonds, sixty dollars; two thousand dollars of Louisiana six per centum bonds, one hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Chickasaw national fund, namely: On one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars of Arkansas six per centum bonds, ten thousand and eighty dollars; one hundred and four thousand dollars of Tennessee six per centum bonds, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars; sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixtysix dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds cents of Tennessee five-and-aquarter per centum bonds, three thousand five hundred dollars; deficiency, arrears of interest on seventy-eight thousand dollars of Arkansas State six per centum bonds, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four thou

sand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Choctaw general fund, namely: On four hundred and fifty thousand dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Creek orphans, namely: On forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, two thousand five hundred and eight dollars; twenty thousand dollars of Tennessee five per centum bonds, one thousand dollars; nine thousand dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand and forty-eight dollars.

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Iowas.

For trust-fund interest due Delaware general fund, namely: On fiftythree thousand dollars of Florida seven per centum bonds, three thou- ral fund. sand seven hundred and ten dollars; eighty-seven thousand dollars of North Carolina six per centum bonds, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. For trust-fund interest due Iowas, namely: On twenty-two thousand dollars of Florida seven per centum bonds, one thousand five hundred and forty dollars; twenty-one thousand dollars of North Carolina six per centum bonds, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; three thousand dollars of South Carolina six per centum bonds, one hundred and eighty dollars; nine thousand dollars of Louisiana six per centum bonds, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Pianke- Kaskaskias, Peshaws, namely: On sixteen thousand three hundred dollars of Florida orias, Weas, and Piankeshaws. seven per centum bonds, one thousand one hundred forty-one dollars; forty-three thousand dollars of North Carolina six per centum bonds, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; three thousand dollars of South Carolina six per centum bonds, one hundred and eighty dollars; ten thousand dollars of Louisiana six per centum bonds, six hundred dollars; five thousand dollars of Louisiana six per centum bonds, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and one dollars.

Kaskaskia, etc.,

For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankeshaws' school-fund, namely: On twenty thousand seven hundred dollars school-fund. of Florida seven per centum bonds, one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars.

For trust-fund interest due Menomonees, namely: On nineteen thousand dollars of Tennessee five per centum bonds, nine hundred and fifty dollars.

Menomonees.

For trust-fund interest due Ottawas and Chippewas, namely: On three thousand dollars of Virginia six per centum bonds, one hundred Chippewas. and eighty dollars; one thousand dollars of Tennessee five per centum bonds, fifty dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty dollars.

Ottawas and

fund.

of trust

For contingencies of trust-fund, namely: For expenses in connection Contingent exwith the Indian trust-fund for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, penses eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. That no supplies or annuity-goods for which appropriation is No supplies, etc., made in this act shall be issued to any band or tribe of Indians while to Indians in hostility or off reserthe same may be engaged in hostilities against the United States or in vations. depredations upon settlers; nor shall any sum of money appropriated by this act for any tribe of Indians for whom a reservation of territory shall have been made be paid to them or expended for their benefit, unless such tribe and the warriors thereof shall remain peaceably within the limits of the territory assigned to them unless absent by the consent of the agent.

Indian contracts

SEC. 3. That in all lettings of contracts in connection with the Indian service, the proposals or bids received shall be filed and preserved; and to be filed, etc. in the annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, there shall be embodied a detailed and tabular statement of all bids and proposals received for any services, supplies, or annuity-goods for the Indian service, together with a detailed statement of all awards of contracts made

Bids, etc., to be stated in annual report.

Abstract of bids to be filed with

contract.

Estimates for In

dian service, how to be presented.

Appointment

traders.

for any such services, supplies, and annuity-goods for which said bids.
or proposals were received; and an abstract of all bids or proposals re-
ceived for the supplies or services embraced in any contract shall be
attached to, and filed with, the said contract when the same is filed in
the office of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury.

SEC 4. That hereafter the estimates for appropriations for the Indian
service shall be presented in such form as to show the amounts required
for each of the agencies in the several States or Territories, and for said
States and Territories respectively.

SEC. 5. And hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall bave

and regulation of the sole power and authority to appoint Traders to the Indian tribes and to make such rules and regulations as he may deem just and proper specifying the kind and quantity of goods and the prices at which such goods shall be sold to the Indians.

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for supplies.

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SEC. 6. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall advertise for all supplies provided, that the purchase of supplies for sixty days may be made in open market. And provided further that to meet any exigency of the service purchases may be made in open market to an extent not to exceed two thousand dollars at any one time.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

CHAP. 290.-An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain products States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of Hawaiian Isl- of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the legis ands to be admit- lature of the Hawaiian Islands have passed laws on their part to give States free of duty. full effect to the provisions of the convention between the United States and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, he is hereby Post, pp. 625,666. authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence; and thereupon, from the date of such proclamation, the following articles, being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, to wit, arrow-root; castor oil; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as "Sandwich Island sugar;" syrups of sugar cane, melado, and molasses; tallow, shall be introduced into the United States free of duty so long as the said convention shall remain in force.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

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CHAP. 291.-An act regulating the disbursement of certain moneys therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the disbursing officer of the Senate shall advance such parts of the sum appropriated for the expenses of the Joint Special Committee on Chinese Immigration, and ordered to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, as the chairman of said committee shall in writing direct for the purposes aforesaid; and the Sergeant-at-Arms shall, as soon as may be, make a detailed report of the expenditures thereof, with proper vouchers, which, when so made, shall be received by said disbursing officer and returned with his accounts to the proper officer of the Treasury Department.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

CHAP. 292.-An act to provide for the publication of the report of the impeachment trial of William W. Belknap.

Aug. 15, 1876.

Report of impeachment trial of

Distribution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That five thousand additional copies of the report of the impeachment trial of William W. Belknap W. W. Belknap. be printed, of which fifteen hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, three hundred and fifty copies for the use of the managers, and two hundred copies for the use of the respondent's counsel; and the sum of five thousand and thirty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the execution of the work, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 15, 1876.

CHAP. 293.-An act to encourage and promote telegraphic communication between
America and Asia.

Appropriation.

Aug. 15, 1876.

Telegraph cable

Corporators.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Celso Cæsar Moreno, Alvinza Hayward, John F. Miller, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, James in Pacific Ocean. C. Flood, William Irwin, James McM. Shafter, O. H. La Grange, Isaac Friedlander, William Alvord, Eugene L. Sullivan, John P. Jackson, Andrew J. Bryant, John B. Felton, Louis Sloss, Philip A. Roach, Nathaniel W. Spaulding, William Norris, Frank M. Pixley, and J. Craig, of the State of California; Henry Failing and Julius Friedman, of the State of Oregon, Henry O'Rielly, and William Barnet Phillips, of the State of New York; Dudley S. Gregory, of the State of New Jersey, shall have the right to construct, lay, land, and maintain a line or lines of telegraph or submarine cable or cables on the Pacific coast of the United States of America, to connect the American and Asiatic coasts by telegraph lines, wires or submarine cables: Provided, That said company shall begin to lay said cable or cables within three years from the passage of this

act.

SEC. 2. That any telegraph-line or cable laid by said company shall be subject to the following conditions, stipulations, and reservations, to wit: The Government of the United States shall be entitled to exercise and enjoy the same or similar privileges with regard to the control and use of such line or lines or cable or cables that may, by law, agreement, or otherwise, be exercised and enjoyed by any foreign government whatever; secondly, citizens of the United States shall enjoy the same privileges as to the payment of rates for the transmission of messages as are enjoyed by the citizens of the most favored nations; thirdly, the transmission of despatches shall be made in the following order: first, despatches of state, under such regulations as may be agreed upon by the governments interested; secondly, despatches on telegraphic service; and, thirdly, private despatches; fourthly, the lines of any such cables shall be kept open to the public for the daily transmission of market and commercial reports and intelligence, and all messages, despatches, and communications, shall be forwarded in the order in which they are received, except as hereinafter provided; fifthly, before extending and establishing any such line or lines or cable or cables in or over any waters, reefs, islands, shores, and lands within the jurisdiction of the United States, a written acceptance of the terms and conditions imposed by this act shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State by the said company.

Proviso.

Conditions and reservations.

Grants of similar

SEC. 3. But nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the United States in granting to other persons or companies similar privi- privileges. leges herein contained.

SEC. 4. That the right to alter, amend or repeal this act, at any time, is hereby reserved to Congress.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

Right to amend.

Aug. 15, 1876.

Preamble.

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CHAP. 294.-An act to confirm the sale of the marine-hospital building and grounds
at Natchez in the State of Mississippi.

Whereas the marine-hospital building and grounds at Natchez, Mississippi, are not required for the service of the United States; and whereas the said building has been for many years in a process of dilap idation and decay; and whereas the said building and grounds have been offered for sale at different times by auction under and in pursuance of law: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of Natchez States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasmarine-hospital ury is hereby authorized and directed to confirm to the highest bidder building may the sale made under his direction and in pursuance of law, February confirmed. fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; it being satisfactorily shown to him that the said building is to be reconstructed and devoted, under responsible auspices, to purposes of instruction for the benefit of the colored people of the United States.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

Aug. 15, 1876.

1872, ch. 324, 17 Stat., 280.

Limit of cost of public building at Little Rock, Ark.

CHAP. 295.-An act fixing the limit of expenditure for the erection of a public building at Little Rock, Arkansas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress, approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to provide for a building for the use of the Federal courts, post-office, internal revenue, and other civil offices in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas," be, and hereby is, amended by fixing the limit of expenditure authorized for the site and full completion of said building at two hundred thousand dollars.

Approved, August 15, 1876.

Aug. 15, 1876.

Commissioners of District of Co

pate revenues.

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Post, p. 396.

CHAP. 296.-An act to provide means to defray the expenses of the District of
Columbia until December first, eighteen hundred and seventy six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Commislumbia may autici- sioners of the District of Columbia to defray the expenses of said District to December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, they are hereby authorized to anticipate by loans or otherwise, the taxes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, a sum not to exceed four hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents, the interest on which shall not exceed six per centum per annum. Approved, August 15, 1876.

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CHAP. 297.-An act relating to partition of real estate in the District of Colum

bia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all tenants in common and coparceners of any estate in lands tenements, or hereditaments, equitable as well as legal, within the District of Columbia, may, in the discretion of the Court, be compelled in any court of competent jurisdiction, to make, or suffer partition of such estate or estates. In proceedings for partition all persons in interest shall be made parties in the same manner as in cases of equity jurisdiction. And in proceedings for partition under this act, the court may in addition to the powers herein conferred,

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