Feb. 19, 1869. clations not to loan money upon United States hold them from use, &c. CHAP. XXXII. - An Act to prevent loaning Money upon United States Notes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Banking asso- States of America in Congress assembled, That no national banking association shall hereafter offer or receive United States notes or national bank notes as security or as collateral security for any loan of money, or notes, nor with- for a consideration shall agree to withhold the same from use, or shall offer or receive the custody or promise of custody of such notes as security, or as collateral security, or consideration for any loan of money; and any national banking association offending against the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any United States court having jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by a further sum equal to one third of the money so loaned; and the officer or officers of said bank who shall make such loan or loans shall be liable for a further sum equal to one quarter of the money so loaned; and the prosecution of such offenders shall be commenced and conducted as provided for the punishment of offences in an act to provide a national currency, approved June third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the fine or penalty so recovered shall be for the benefit of the party bringing such suit. APPROVED, February 19, 1869. Penalty. 1864, ch. 106. Vol. xiii. p. 116. Feb. 19, 1869. CHAP. XXXIII.— An Act to locate and establish an Assay Office in the Territory of Idaho. Assay office to be established at Boise City, Idaho. Officers. Salaries. Officers and clerks to take oath. 1862, ch. 128. Vol. xii. p. 502. Bond. Director of the business. Regulations, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a United States assay office be located and established at Boise City, in the Territory of Idaho, for the assaying of gold and silver. For the carrying on of the business of said office the following officers shall be appointed, as soon as the public interest shall require their service, upon the nomination of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, namely: One superintendent, one assayer, and one melter and refiner, and two clerks, and the superintendent may employ as many subordinate workmen and laborers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the said officers and clerks shall be as follows: To the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, one eighteen hundred dollars, and one sixteen hundred dollars; to the subordinate workmen and laborers such wages and allowances as are customary, according to their respective stations and occupations. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or affirmation before some judge of the United States or of the supreme court of said Territory, as prescribed by the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint or of one of the judges of the supreme court of Idaho Territory and of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of their offices. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the general direction of the mint to conduct business of said assay office of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the Secretary; and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and to require such returns periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assaying, melting, and refining, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said assay office. returns, charges, &c. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said assay office shall be a Assay office to be place of place of deposit for such public moneys as the Secretary of the Treasury deposit for pubmay direct. And the superintendent of said assay office who shall per- lic moneys. form the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act [entitled] "An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which relates to the treasury of the branch mint of New Orleans. sued in payment SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent of said Certificates of assay office be authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of the deposit to be isTreasury, and on terms to be prescribed by him, to issue in payment of of gold dust, the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage, or bars, drafts, &c.; or certificates of deposit, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars, payable at the treasury, or any sub-treasury of the United States, to any depositor electing to receive payment in that form. where payable. for construction SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seventy-five thou- Appropriation sand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money of assay office. in the United States treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the construction of said assay office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby Construction directed, on the passage of this act, to order the immediate construction to be comof said assay office. menced at once. Laws of the United States extended here SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the United States assay office at New York, and for the government of the officers and persons employed there- to. in, and for the punishment of all offences connected with said assay office, or with the mint of the United States, shall be, and they are hereby, declared to be in full force in relation to the assay office by this act located and established, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. APPROVED, February 19, 1869. CHAP. XXXIV. - An Act to give an additional Term of the United States Circuit Feb. 19, 1869. Terms of cir Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of one term a year, as now prescribed by law, the circuit court of the United States for cuit court in the eastern district of Arkansas shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays of April and October in each year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after the passage thereof. APPROVED, February 19, 1869. CHAP. XXXV. An Act to authorize the Importation of Machinery, for Repair only, free of Duty. Arkansas. When act takes effect. Feb. 19, 1869. Machinery Rules, &o. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That machinery for repair may be imported into the United States without payment of duty, under bond imported for repair only, to be to be given in double the appraised value thereof, to be withdrawn and free of duty. exported after said machinery shall have been repaired; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect the revenue against fraud, and secure the identity and character of all such importations. when again withdrawn and exported, restricting and limiting the export and withdrawal to the same port of entry where imported, and also limiting all bonds to a period of time of not more than six months from the date of the importation. APPROVED, February 19, 1869. Holly, Wayne, and Monroe Railway Co. to have subscriptions to capital stock stamped. Feb. 19, 1869. CHAP. XXXVI.— An Act to enable the Holly, Wayne, and Monroe Railway Company, in the State of Michigan, to have the Subscription to its Capital Stock duly stamped. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the president of the board of directors of the Holly, Wayne, and Monroe Railway Company, in the State of Michigan, or any director of said company, may appear before the collector of the revenue of the first congressional district of the State of Michigan at any time prior to the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, with the subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, and the said collector shall, upon the payment of the proper stamps required by law, affix the proper stamps to said subscriptions to said capital stock, and note upon the margin thereof the time of his so doing; and he shall also cancel and note upon the margin thereof as aforesaid all such stamps as have already been affixed and not duly cancelled; and the said subscriptions to the capital stock of said company Effect thereof. shall thereupon be held good and valid to all intents and purposes, and may be used in all courts and places in the same manner and with like effects as if they had been originally duly stamped. Drawbridge may be erected over the Connecticut River APPROVED, February 19, 1869. Feb. 19, 1869. CHAP. XXXVII. - An Act to establish a certain Post-Road in the State of Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be, and the same is hereby, given to the erection of a drawbridge over the Connecticut River, at or near Middletown, in the State of Connecticut, by the New Haven, Middletown, and Willimantic Railroad Company, in accordance with the terms of a resolution passed by the general assembly of said State, at the May session thereof, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, amendatory of the charter of said railroad company. by the New Ha ven, &c. R. R. Co. Bridge and road to be a post-road. Assent of Congress may be withdrawn if, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said bridge, when completed in the manner specified in said resolution, and in the place and in accordance with the plans of the board of engineers to be appointed in conformity to the resolution aforesaid, and in accordance with the requirements of the second section of the resolution of the general assembly of the State aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structure, and shall, with the railroad of which it is to be a part, be a post-road for the transmission of the mails of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Congress reserves the right to withdraw the assent hereby given, in case the free navigation of said river shall at any time be substantially and materially obstructed by any bridge to be erected under the authority of said resolution. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. Indorsed by the President: "Received February 8, 1869." [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.] CHAP. XXXVIII.—An Act to establish a certain Post-Road in the State of Connecticut. Feb. 19, 1869. over the Con Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress Drawbridge be, and the same is hereby, given to the erection of a drawbridge over the may be erected Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, by the Shore Line Rail- necticut River way Company, in accordance with the terms of a resolution passed by by the Shore the general assembly of said State at the May session thereof, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, amendatory of the charter of said railroad company. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said bridge, when completed in the manner specified in said resolution, and in the place and in accordance with the plans of the board of engineers appointed in conformity to the resolution aforesaid, and in accordance with the requirements of the second section of the resolution of the general assembly of the State aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structure, and shall, with the railroad of which it is to be a part, be a post-road for the transmission of the mails of the United States. Line R. W. Co. Bridge and road to be a post-road. be withdrawn, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Congress reserves the right to Assent of withdraw the assent hereby given in case the free navigation of said river Congress may shall at any time be substantially and materially obstructed by any bridge if, &c. to be erected under the authority of said resolution. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate pro tempore. Indorsed by the President: "Received February 8, 1869." [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.] CHAP. XLII.- An Act to establish the Collection District of Aroostook, in the State of Feb. 22, 1869. Aroostook col Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that portion of the State of Maine now included within the limits of the county of Aroostook be, lection district and the same is hereby, constituted a customs collection district, to be called the district of Aroostook, of which Houlton, in the said county, shall be the only port of entry. established. &c. Collector, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a collector of customs shall be appointed for the said district, who shall reside at said port of entry, residence, pay, and shall be entitled to the same compensation that is allowed to other collectors of customs on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern fron- 1864, ch. 130, § 2. tiers of the United States by the second section of the act approved June Vol. xiii. p. 134. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four: Provided, That the aggregate maximum compensation of the collector of Aroostook shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and which shall be the entire compensation allowed. Proviso. Collection dis SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the district of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, shall be extended so as to embrace all the waters trict of Newark, and shores of Newark bay and the rivers and bays tributary thereto, the N. J., extended. northern shore of the strait or passage known as Kill Van Kull, and all that part of the western shore of the strait or passage known as Staten Island sound, or Arthur Kill, which lies north of the northern boundary line of the town of Rahway. Feb. 22, 1869. Terms of circuit and district courts in Vermont. Proviso. Court-house in Burlington. Proviso. Courts. Feb. 24, 1869. on copper and copper ores. CHAP. XLIII. An Act to provide for a Term of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Vermont. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a regular term of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Vermont shall hereafter be held at Burlington, in said district, on the fourth Tuesday in February in each year: Provided, however, That this act shall not be construed to authorize any expenditure for the use of a building for such courts. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That permission is hereby given to the authorities of the State of Vermont to erect and maintain at their own expense a court-house, and also a jail upon or partly upon the southerly side of the lot of land belonging to the United States, in said Burlington, on which the custom-house building stands: Provided, That no part of said lot shall be built upon or used for said purpose within fifty feet of said custom-house: And provided further, That said State authorities shall permit the courts of the United States to be held in said courthouse without charge for the use thereof, and shall permit prisoners held under the authority of the United States to be imprisoned in such jail. And for the purposes aforesaid jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the State of Vermont over the land so to be used and occupied. APPROVED, February 22, 1869. CHAP. XLV.- An Act regulating the Duties on imported Copper and Copper Ores. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Customs duty States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the articles herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following specified duties and rates of duty, that is to say: On all copper imported in the form of ores, three cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all regulus of copper, and on all black or coarse copper, four cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all old copper, fit only for remanufacture, four cents per pound; on all copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs, and in other forms not manufactured or herein enumerated, including sulphate of copper or blue vitriol, five cents per pound; on copper in rolled plates called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, eyelets, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not otherwise herein Increased duty provided for, forty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the innot to apply, &c. creased duty imposed by this act shall not apply to any of the articles therein enumerated which shall have been in course of transit to the United States, and actually on shipboard on the nineteenth of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADĚ, President of the Senate pro tempore. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S., February 23, 1869. The President of the United States, having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores," with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest: EDWD. MCPHERSON, Clerk H. R. U. S. |