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SEC. 1047. No suit or prosecution for any penalty or forfeiture, pecuni- Penalties and ary or otherwise, accruing under the laws of the United States, shall be forfeitures under maintained, except in cases where it is otherwise specially provided, States. unless the same is commenced within five years from the time when the penalty or forfeiture accrued: Provided, That the person of the offender, or the property liable for such penalty or forfeiture, shall, within the same period, be found within the United States; so that the proper process therefor may be instituted and served against such person or property.

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SEC. 1048. In all cases where, during the late rebellion, any person Parties beyond could not, by reason of resistance to the execution of the laws of the reach of process United States, or of the interruption of the ordinary course of judicial during the rebelproceedings, be served with process for the commencement of any action, civil or criminal, which had accrued against him, the time during which such person was beyond the reach of legal process shall not be taken as any part of the time limited by law for the commencement of such action.

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SEC. 5595. The foregoing seventy-three titles embrace the statutes of the United States general and permanent in their nature, in force on the 1st day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-Statutes emthree, as revised and consolidated by commissioners appointed under brace. an act of Congress, and the same shall be designated and cited, as The Revised Statutes of the United States.

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SEC. 5596. All acts of Congress passed prior to said first day of De- Repeal of acts cember one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, any portion of embraced in rewhich is embraced in any section of said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section applicable thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not being general and permanent in their nature: Provided, That the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appropriation, or any provision of a private, local or temporary character, contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force; and all acts of Congress passed prior to said last-named day no part of which are embraced in said revision, shall not be affected or changed by its

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SEC. 5597. The repeal of the several acts embraced in said revision, Accrued rights shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under said acts shall continue, and may be enforced in the same manner, as if said repeal had not been made; nor shall said repeal, in any manner affect the right to any office, or change the term or tenure thereof.

SEC. 5598. All offenses committed, and all penalties or forfeitures incurred under any statute embraced in said revision prior to said repeal, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect, as if said repeal had not been made.

SEC. 5599. 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 said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made.

Prosecutions and punishments..

Acts of limitation.

of sections.

SEC. 5600. The arrangement and classification of the several sections Arrangement of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and classification and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the Title, under which any particular section is placed.

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Acts passed SEC 5601. The enactment of the said revision is not to affect or repeal 1, 1873, not affect any act of Congress passed since the 1st day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and all acts passed since that date are to have full effect as if passed after the enactment of this revision, and so far as such acts vary from, or conflict with any provision contained in said revision, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes, and as repealing any portion of the revision inconsistent therewith.

June 20, 1874.

An act providing for publication of the revised statutes and the laws of the United

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Preparation of SEC. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the duty Revised Statutes of causing to be prepared for printing, publication and distribution the for printing, &c. revised statutes of the United States enacted at this present session of Congress; that he shall cause to be completed the head notes of the several titles and chapters and the marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section was compiled and repealed by said revision; and references to the decisions of the courts of the United States explaining or expounding the same, and such decisions of State courts as he may deem expedient, with a full and complete index to the same. Certification And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly by Secretary of State; printed certify the same under the seal of the United States,* and when printed copies to be evi- and promulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the Title of revis- courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories. Revision relat- SEC. 3. That the revision of the statutes of a general and perinanent ing to the Dis- nature, with the index thereto, shall be printed in one volume, and shall

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be entitled and labeled "Revised Statutes of the United States ;" and the revision of the statutes relating to the District of Columbia; to postroads, and the public treaties in force on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with a suitable index to each, shall be published in a separate volume, and entitled and labeled "Revised Statutes relating to District of Columbia and Post-Roads. Public Treaties."

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of State shall cause the two volumes to be typed, &c., at stereotyped and such number of each volume to be printed and subPrinting Office. stantially bound at the Government Printing Office as he may deem Distribution needful, for public distribution as hereinafter provided, and for sale by

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Preparation of SEC. 5. That he shall, in like manner, cause to be edited, printed, annual statutes. published and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present Pamphlet and and each future session of Congress, to the officers and persons hereinbound copies.

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after provided, and bound copies of the laws of each Congress to the number of two thousand copies to be distributed in the manner now provided by law, and uniform with the said edition of the revised statutes.

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SEC. 6. That at the close of every session of Congress the Secretary of pamphlet copies State shall cause to be distributed pamphlet copies of the acts and reof acts of each solves of Congress for that session, edited and printed in the manner aforesaid, as follows: To the Navy Department, including those for the use of officers of the Navy, one hundred copies. Preparation of SEC. 7. That after the close of each Congress the Secretary of State laws of each Con shall have edited, printed and bound a sufficient number of the volumes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, as follows: To the Navy Department, including a copy for the library at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, a copy for the library of each navyyard in the United States, a copy for the library of the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and a copy for the library of the Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sixty-five copies.

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SEC. 8. That the said printed copies of the said acts of each session and of the said bound copies of the acts of each Congress shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States and of the several States therein.

SEC. 9. That the said laws of each session of Congress shall also session to be be stereotyped and printed for sale as provided in respect to the said stereotyped. revised statutes. And the copies of the said revised statutes and of the said laws of each session of Congress, as issued from time to time,

*The certificate to be given under the seal of the Department of State. Act of December 28, 1874.

shall be respectively sold at the cost of the paper, press work and bind-
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An act providing for the authentication of the revised statutes of the United States and for preserving the originals of all laws in the Department of State.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Dec. 28, 1874. States of America in Congress assembled, That the certificate to the printed Certificate to volume of the revised statutes of the United States required by section Revised Stattwo of "An act providing for publication of the revised statutes and utes, how to be laws of the United States," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred made. and seventy-four, shall be made by the Secretary of State under the seal of the Department of State, and so much of said section as provides that such certificate shall be under the seal of the United States is hereby repealed.

Approved, December 28, 1874.

Feb. 18, 75.

An act providing for the distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to furnish, for the use of the Senate, one thousand copies Copies of Revised Statutes for of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and for the use of the use of members House of Representatives, three thousand copies of the same; to be dis- of Congress. tributed to the members of the present Congress.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to make ar- Arrange ment rangement with persons engaged in the business of selling books, to for sale of Rekeep on sale the Revised Statutes of the United States; but in any such vised Statutes. arrangement it shall be provided that the same be sold at the Government price to all purchasers, and the Secretary may allow to any such person keeping the Revised Statutes for sale, such part of the ten per cent. above the actual cost, as he may deem just and reasonable. Approved, February 18, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

Sale of Statutes at Large.

Editing, printing, sale, and distribution of Statutes at Large. SEC. 9. That the Secretary of State shall cause the statutes at large enacted by each Congress, which shall be edited and printed pursuant to the provisions of section seven of the act entitled "An act for publication of the Revised Statutes and the laws of the United States," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to be stereotyped and offered for sale in the same manner and on the same terms as is provided in and by section nine of said act herein mentioned in respect to the laws of each session of Congress. That the provisions of section two of the act entitled "An act providing for the distribution of the Revised Statutes," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall apply to the statutes at large enacted by each Congress and to the laws of each session of Congress, to be published pursuant to said act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in the same manner as if specially mentioned therein. That the Con- Printing and gressional Printer be, and he is hereby directed, in causing to be printed binding. and bound an edition of the laws at the close of the session for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives, to print the same from the stereotype plates of the edition prepared under the direction of the Department of State, with the index thereof; and so much of the act entitled "An act to expedite and regulate the printing of public documents, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as requires the preparation of an alphabetical index, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, be aud the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

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SEC. 1777. The various officers of the United States, to whom, in virtue of their offices and for the uses thereof, copies of the United States Statutes at Large, published by Little, Brown and Company, have been copies of Statutes or may be distributed at the public expense, by authority of law, shall at Large. preserve such copies, and deliver them to their successors respectively as a part of the property appertaining to the office. A printed copy of this section shall be inserted in each volume of the Statutes distributed to any such officers.

Dec. 28, 1874.

Act providing for authentication of the Revised Statutes, &c.

SEC. 2. That section No. two hundred and four of the Revised Statutes shall hereafter read as follows: Whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by the President, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall forthwith be received by the Secretary of State from the President; and whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives in whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals.

Approved, December 28, 1874.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Whereas, by section 2 of an act entitled "An act providing for publication of the Revised Statutes and the laws of the United States," approved June 20, 1874, it is provided as follows, viz:

"SEC. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the duty of causing to be prepared for printing, publication, and distribution, the Revised Statutes of the United States enacted at this present session of Congress; that he shall cause to be completed the head-notes of the several titles and chapters, and the marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section was compiled and repealed by said revision, and references to the decisions of the courts of the United States explaining or expounding the same, and such decisions of State courts as he may deem expedient, with a full and complete index to the same. And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same under the seal of the United States, and when printed and promulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories." And whereas, by section 1 of an act entitled "An act providing for the authentication of the Revised Statutes of the United States and for preserving the originals of all laws in the Department of State," it is provided, "That the certificate to the printed volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States required by said section 2 of the act of June 20, 1874, shall be made by the Secretary of State under the seal of the Department of State."

Now, therefore, I, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, do hereby certify that the following are the "Revised Statutes of the United States" as enacted by Congress on the 22d day of June, 1874, prepared, printed, and published according to the provisions of the said first-meationed act of June 20, 1874.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of February, A. D. 1875, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth.

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HAMILTON FISH.

Sec.

SAILMAKERS.

See WARRANT OFFICERS.

SALE OF CONDEMNED STORES, PUBLIC PROPERTY, &c.

Sec.

Disposition of useless ordnance material.

3617. Moneys to be deposited without deduction. 3672. Statement of proceeds of sales.
3618. Proceeds of sales of material.
3619. Penalty for withholding money.

Title 40. Moneys to be out deduction.

SEC. 3617. The gross amount of all moneys received from whatever source for the use of the United States, except as otherwise provided in deposited with the next section, shall be paid by the officer or agent receiving the same into the Treasury, at as early a day as practicable, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claim of any description whatever. But nothing herein shall affect any provision relating to the revenues of the Post-Office Department.

SEC. 3618. All proceeds of sales of old material, condemned stores, Proceeds of supplies, or other public property of any kind, except the proceeds of the sales of material. sale or leasing of marine hospitals, or of the sales of revenue-cutters, or of the sales of commissary stores to the officers and enlisted men of the Army, or of the sale of condemned Navy clothing, or of sales of materials, stores, or supplies to any exploring or surveying expedition authorized by law, shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, on account of " proceeds of Government property," and shall not be withdrawn or applied, except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation made by law. [See 1541, VESSELS OF THE NAVY.]

Penalty for

SEC. 3619. Every officer or agent who neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and seventeen shall be withholding subject to be removed from office, and to forfeit to the United States money. any share or part of the moneys withheld, to which he might otherwise be entitled.

Title 41. Statement of

SEC. 3672. A detailed statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other public property of any kind, shall be included in the appendix to the book of estimates. See process of sales 3692, p. 12.

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of old material.

That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to dispose of the use- March 3, 1875. less ordnance material on hand at public sale, according to law, the net Disposition of proceeds of which shall be turned into the Treasury; and an amount ordnance mateequal to the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied to the purpose rial. of procuring a supply of material adapted in manufacture and calibre to the present wants of the service; but there shall be expended, under this provision, not more than seventy-five thousand dollars in one year. Approved March 3, 1875.

Sec.

SALVAGE.
See PRIZE.
SEAMEN-MERCHANT.

4501. Appointment of shipping-commissioners. 4502. Bond and oath of commissioners.

4503. When officers of the customs shall act as commissioners.

4504. Penalty for unlawfully acting as commis

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4565. Examination of provisions.

4566. Forfeiture for false complaint.

4567. Permission to enter complaint.

4577. Return of seamen.

4578. Penalty for refusal to receive seamen.

4579. Additional allowance for transportation of destitute seamen.

4580. Extra wages on discharge.

4581. Penalty for neglect to collect extra wages.
4582. Extra wages upon discharge in case of sale.
4583. When extra wages may be remitted.
4584. Disposal of extra wages.
4588. Certificate of citizenship.
4589. Protest upon impressment.

4600. Reclamation and discharge of deserters.
5363. Abandonment of mariners.

Appointment

SEC. 4501. The several circuit courts within the jurisdiction of which Title 53, Chap. 1. there is a port of entry which is also a port of ocean navigation, shall appoint a commissioner for each such port which in their judgment of shipping.commay require the same, such commissioners to be termed shipping-com- missioners. missioners; and may, from time to time, remove from office any commissioner whom the court may have reason to believe does not properly perform his duties, and shall then provide for the proper performance of his duties until another person is duly appointed in his place. Such courts shall regulate the mode of conducting business in the shippingoffices to be established by the shipping-commissioners as hereinafter provided; and shall have full and complete control over the same, subject to the provisions herein contained.

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