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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 transmit 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.

April 14, 1876.

Bankruptcy cases in Territories to be trict courts of.

transferred to dis

Transfer to be

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 made to district in which bankrupt recase, to the clerk of the district court of the district wherein the bank sided. rupt 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 district court. 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 969. hundred and sixty-seven, and amendments thereto. Approved, April 14, 1876.

Jurisdiction of

R. S., title lxi, p.

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.

Post, p. 215.

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 Treasury 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

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.

Ante, p. 3.

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 examinaCustoms 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 of sale.

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

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.

Secretary and chief clerk of Senate may adminis

ter 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

Saint Albans.

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 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 land-grant of the public lands, made in good faith, by actual settlers, upon tracts to notice of withprior 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

Claims within land grants re en

tered after abandonment.

Claims entered after expiration of land grant.

as aforesaid valid pre-emption or homestead claims existed upon any
lands within the limits of any such grants which afterward were aban--
doned, and, under the decisions and rulings of the Land Department,
were re-entered by pre-emption or homestead claimants who have com-
plied with the laws governing pre-emption or homestead entries, and
shall make the proper proofs required under such laws, such entries
shall be deemed valid, and patents shall issue therefor to the person en-
SEC. 3. That all such pre-emption and homestead entries
titled thereto.
which may have been made by permission of the Land Department, or
in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof, within the limits of
any land-grant at a time subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall
be deemed valid, and a compliance with the laws and the making of the
proof required shall entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor.
Approved, April 21, 1876.

April 21, 1876.

courts of northern

and

1873, ch. 223, 17 Stat., 484.

CHAP. 73.-An act authorizing the transfer of certain causes from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Alabama at Mobile into the circuit court of the United States for the middle and northern districts of Alabama at Montgomery and Huntsville in said State.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all civil causes, actions, Transfer of certain cases from cir- suits, executions, pleas, process, or other proceedings whatsoever which cuit court at Mo- were transferred by the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen bile to circuit hundred and seventy three, from the district courts of the United States middle dis- for the northern and middle districts of Alabama into the circuit court tricts of Alabama, of the United States for the district of Alabama at Mobile, Alabama, and which are now pending in said circuit court, be, and the same are hereby, transferred from said circuit court at Mobile into the circuit courts of the United States for said northern and middle districts, respectively; and the circuit courts of the United States in and for said districts shall have jurisdiction to try and determine all such causes and actions so transferred, the same as if such causes or actions had been originally brought in such circuit court; and the clerk of said circuit court at Mobile shall transmit all of the original papers in such causes, together with a complete transcript of all dockets, minutes, judgments, orders, and decrees in such of said causes as are not finally disposed of in said circuit court at Mobile, to the circuit courts for said northern and middle districts, respectively, to each the causes, and so forth, as were originally transferred from the district courts of said districts. Approved, April 21, 1876.

1874, ch. 401,

18 Stat.,

195.

April 25, 1876.

trict established.

CHAP. 78.-An act to establish a land-office in the southern part of Utah Territory, to be known as the Beaver district, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Beaver land dis- States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Utah, begining at the southwestern boundary of said Territory, thence running north on the line between said Territory and the State of Nevada to the Fourth Standard parallel of latitude, thence easterly along said line to the eastern boundary of of said Territory, thence southerly to the southern boundary of said Territory, thence westerly to the place of begining, be formed into a land district, to be called the Beaver land district, the land-office for which shall be located at such point as the President may direct, and may be removed from time to time to other points within said district whenever, in his opinion, it may be expedient. SEC. 2. That the Pres ident be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the ad vice and consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver for said district,

Land-office.

Register and regoiver.

who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of said office; and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be enti tled to the same compensation as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to the land-office now established at Salt Lake City.

Approved, April 25, 1876.

CHAP. 79.-An act authorizing the sale of logs cut by the Indians of the Menomonee reservation in Wisconsin under the direction of the Interior Department.

April 25, 1876.

Sale of timber

reservation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte rior be and he hereby is authorized to cause to be sold at public sale, to cut on Menomonee the highest bidder, for cash, after due public advertisement and in such lots or quantities as he may deem judicious, all pine timber cut upon the Menomonee Indian reservation in Wisconsin, under the direction of United States Indian agent J. C. Bridgman. SEC. 2. That the proceeds arising from all sales of such timber shall be applied, first to the pay- proceeds. ment of any and all indebtedness incurred for labor, supplies and other expenses incident to the cutting and sale of said timber, and the surplus, if any, shall be deposited in the nearest government depository to the credit of the United States for the benefit of the said Menomonee Indians.

Approved, April 25, 1876.

Application of

CHAP. 80.-An act giving the consent of the United States to the county of Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, to construct county buildings in Washington Square, in the city of Dubuque, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the United States is hereby given to the proper authorities of the county of Du. buque, in the State of Iowa, (the consent of the proper authorities of the city of Dubuque and also of the owners of property fronting on said square or heretofore located by description on said square, being first had and obtained,) to the construction of such public buildings as may be necessary for court purposes and for the public officers of said county, in the public park, in the city of Dubuque, known as Washington Square; and whatever title the United States now has to said premises is hereby relinquished to the county of Dubuque for the purposes herein indicated, and for no other

MICHAEL C. KERR
Speaker of the House of Representatives
T. W. FERRY

President of the Senate pro tempore

Received by the President April 13, 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 became a law without his approval.]

April 25, 1876.

Public buildings of Dubuque County ington Square, by consent of United States.

to be built in Wash

April 26, 1876.

Name of steam

CHAP. 83.-An act to change the name of the steamboat Charles W. Mead. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That authority is liereby given to the owner of the steamboat Charles W. Mead, of Allegheny City, boat Charles W. Pennsylvania, to change the name of said vessel to that of General Mead changed. Meade, by which name said steamboat shall hereafter be known.

Approved, April 26, 1876.

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