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Warrants for seizure of in

voices, books,

may issue and

have seized.

SEC. 39. That in order to facilitate the execution of the provisions of the seventh section of the act entitled "An act to prevent and punish and papers; who frauds upon the revenue, to provide for the more certain and speedy collection of claims in favor of the United States, and for other purposes," 1863, ch. 76, § 7. approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, relative to the 1867, ch. 188, § 2. seizure of "invoices, books, and papers," any district judge of the United States may hereafter issue his warrant or warrants and direct the same to any collector or collectors of the customs in whose respective districts any such invoices, books, or papers may be thought to be.

Neglect, &c. of any officer, &c. to pay over money received

to be cause of removal and forfeiture of dues.

SEC. 40. That if any collector of the customs, or other officer or agent, shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of the first section of the act entitled "An act requiring all moneys receivable from customs and from all other sources to be paid immediately into the treasury, without abatement or reduction, and for other purposes," approved March 1849, ch. 110, § 1. three, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, he shall be subject to be removed from office, and to forfeit to the United States any share or part of the moneys withheld to which he might otherwise be entitled; and all moneys received by collectors for the custody of goods, wares, and merchandise in bonded warehouses, shall be accounted for as storage under the provisions of the fifth section of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty

Moneys received for custo

dy to be accounted for as storage.

1841, ch. 35, § 5.

Masters of foreign vessels arriving in waters of the United

one.

SEC. 41. That it shall be the duty of the master of any foreign vessel, laden or in ballast, arriving in the waters of the United States from any foreign territory adjacent to the northern, northeastern, or northwestern States from for- frontiers of the United States, to report at the office of any collector or eign places adjacent to northern, deputy collector of the customs, which shall be nearest to the point at &c. frontiers, to which such vessel may enter said waters; and such vessel shall not proreport at office of ceed further inland, either to unlade or take in cargo, without a special

nearest collec

tor.

Forfeiture.

Penalty upon collectors or inspectors of steamboats for not making returns, &c. required by law.

Repeal of certain acts, or parts of acts. 1795, ch. 48.

1840, ch. 26.

permit from such collector or deputy collector, issued under and in accordance with such general or special regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may in his discretion, from time to time, prescribe. And for any violation of this section such vessel shall be seized and forfeited.

SEC. 42. That if any collector of the customs, supervising or local inspector of steamboats, or other officer, shall neglect or refuse to make any of the returns or reports which he is required to make at stated times by any act of Congress or regulation of the Treasury Department, other than his accounts, within the time prescribed by such act or regulation, he shall, upon conviction thereof before the district court of his district, forfeit and pay, for the use of the United States, any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 43. That the act entitled "An act for the more effectual recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States," approved March three, seventeen hundred and ninety-five; and the act entitled "An act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States," approved May twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty; and the last clause of the tenth section of the act entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships and vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the 1793, ch. 8, § 10, same," approved February eighteen, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, being all after the words "complied with"; and the seventh section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes," approved 1844, ch. 105, § 7. June seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty-four; and the one hundred

last clause.

and third section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of 1799, ch.22,§ 103. duties on imports and tonnage," approved March two, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine; and the tenth section of the act entitled "An act amendatory of certain acts imposing duties upon foreign importations," 1865, ch. 80, § 10. approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and all other acts

and parts of acts conflicting with or supplied by this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Pending pro

fected.

SEC. 44. That the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to affect any action or proceeding or indictment pending at the time this act shall ceedings not aftake effect, but the same shall be tried, and disposed of, and judgment or decree executed as if this act had not been passed.

No. 516.- JULY 23, 1866.

CHAP. CCVIII. — An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. XIV. p. 191.

Clerks at office of assistant

ton, and their

salaries.

Be it enacted, &c. *** * That in lieu of the clerks heretofore authorized, the assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston is hereby treasurer at Bosauthorized to appoint, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, one chief clerk, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum ; one clerk, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum; two clerks at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, each; two clerks, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each; six clerks, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, each; one clerk, at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum; two clerks, at a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum, each; one porter, at a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum; and one watchman, at a salary of six hundred dollars per

annum.

Salary of treasurer of the

United States

SEC. 2. That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the annually salary of the treasurer of the United States shall be six thousand five hundred dollars, the additional salary herein pro- established. vided for, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty- Appropriation. seven, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 5. That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, to be known as the assistant solicitor of the treasury, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. And the Attorney-General of the United States is hereby authorized to employ in his office, in addition to the present force, a clerk to be known as the law clerk, at an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars. And the amount required to pay the salaries of the officer and clerk herein provided for, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby appropriated.

Office of as

sistant solicitor tablished." Salary.

of treasury es

Law clerk

authorized in ney-General. Appropriation.

office of Attor

Pay of female clerks and counters established.

SEC. 6. That the female clerks and counters employed in the several departments and bureaus, whose appointments are made by the several heads of departments under the provisions of law, and whose legal compensation has heretofore amounted to seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, and the female clerks employed at the Post-Office Department, shall, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, receive in lieu of all other compensation an annual salary of nine hundred dollars each per annum; and the amount necessary to Appropriation. pay the increased salaries herein provided for, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 7. That the addition of twenty per centum to the compensation Addition of of the females not otherwise provided for, messengers, watchmen, and twenty per cent. to pay of certain laborers employed in the several departments, and under the commissioner clerks, messenof public buildings, and the commissioner of agriculture, and at the capi- gers, watchmen tol, by section three of "An act making appropriations for the legislative, continued. executive, and judicial expenses of the government, for the year ending 1864, ch. 147, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 160.

and laborers

June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other purposes," is Appropriation. hereby continued in force, and the amount necessary to pay the same for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby appropriated.

Increase of pay of certain inspectors of

customs contin

ued.

SEC. 9. That the provisions of the act approved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, "increasing the compensation of inspectors of customs in certain ports," is hereby continued in force.

No. 517.- JULY 23, 1866.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XIV. p. 212.

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Act 1866, ch. 8.
Be it enacted, &c. That the act approved on the tenth day of Feb-
Ante, p. 467, not ruary, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An
to limit act 1852, act to regulate the registering of vessels," shall not be deemed or con-
Vol. x. p. 149. strued to affect or limit the operation of the act approved on the twenty-

ch. 4.

third day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue registers to vessels in certain cases," but the same shall be in full force and effect, anything in the act first aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.

No. 518.- JULY 24, 1866.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CCXXX. An Act to aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to secure Vol. XIV. p. 221. to the Government the Use of the same for Postal, Military, and other Purposes.

Telegraph companies may operate lines of telegraph over public domain,

maintain and

along post, &c.

Be it enacted, &c. That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any State in this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United roads, and across States which have been or may hereafter be declared such by act of Connavigable waters gress, and over, under, or across the navigable streams or waters of the of the United States. United States: Provided, That such lines of telegraph shall be so conLines to be so structed and maintained as not to obstruct the navigation of such streams constructed as and waters, or interfere with the ordinary travel on such military or post not to obstruct, &c. roads. And any of said companies shall have the right to take and use from such public lands the necessary stone, timber, and other materials for its posts, piers, stations, and other needful uses in the construction, maintenance, and operation of said lines of telegraph, and may pre-empt and use such portion of the unoccupied public lands subject to pre-empLands may be pre-empted for tion through which its said lines of telegraph may be located as may be stations, not ex- necessary for its stations, not exceeding forty acres for each station; but ceeding, &c. such stations shall not be within fifteen miles of each other.

Materials for

construction,
&c. may be
taken from pub-

lic lands.

and not within, &c.

SEC. 2. That telegraphic communications between the several departTelegrams for ments of the government of the United States and their officers and agents the government to have priority shall, in their transmission over the lines of any of said companies, have of transmission. priority over all other business, and shall be sent at rates to be annually fixed by the Postmaster-General.

Rates to be

annually fixed.

Rights and

The United

SEC. 3. That the rights and privileges hereby granted shall not be privileges not to transferred by any company acting under this act to any other corporabe transferred. tion, association, or person: Provided, however, That the United States States may pur- may at any time after the expiration of five years from the date of the chase for postal, passage of this act, for postal, military, or other purposes, purchase all the telegraph lines, property, and effects of any or all of said companies at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five competent, disinterested persons, two of whom shall be selected by the Postmaster-General of the United States, two by the company interested, and one by the four so previously selected.

&c. purposes,

telegraph lines.

Value, how ascertained.

Telegraph

SEC. 4. That before any telegraph company shall exercise any of the powers or privileges conferred by this act, such company shall file their companies to file written acceptwritten acceptance with the Postmaster-General of the restrictions and ob- ance of this act, ligations required by this act.

before exercising any powers granted hereby.

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Stat. at Large,

CHAP. CCXXXIII. — An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty- Vol. XIV. p. 224. seven, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are here- Consular and by, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- diplomatic expriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the penses approprithirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, namely:

I. CONSULATES GENERAL.

SCHEDULE B.

Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai.

II. CONSULATES.

ation.

Consulates general.

Consulates.

SCHEDULE B.

Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau (West Indies), Newcastle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan (Port Rico), Saint John (Canada East), Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Singapore, Smyrna, Spezzia, Southampton, Saint John, (Newfoundland), Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre (Martinique) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swartow, Saint Helena, Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.

III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

SCHEDULE B.

Balize (Honduras), Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo.

IV. CONSULATES.

SCHEDULE C.

Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catherine, Santa Cruz (West Indies), Santiago, (Cape Verde), Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar.

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Commercial

agencies.

Schedule C.

consuls estab

lished.

V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

SCHEDULE C.

Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loando [Loanda], four Pay of certain hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the compensation of the consuls at Malta, Saint John (Canada East), Nice, Lisbon, Santa Cruz, Tampico, Prince Edward Island, Barcelona, Saint Catherine's, in Brazil, and Nantes, is established at fifteen hundred dollars each annually, and the compensation of the consul at Hankow is established at three thousand dollars annually; and no money shall be paid to the present minister resident at Portugal out of any funds whatever on account of further services in his office.

No money to be paid to the present minister resident at Portugal, &c.

Hayti, Liberia, and Dominica. Title.

Fees collected

suls and com

For salaries of commissioners and consuls-general to Hayti, Liberia, and Dominica, nineteen thousand dollars; and the title of these diplomatic representatives shall be hereafter minister resident and consul-general, with no increase of salary.

SEC. 3. That all fees collected by any consul or commercial agent not by certain con- mentioned in schedule B or C, or by any vice-consul or commercial agent mercial agents appointed to perform their duties, or by any other person in their behalf, to be accounted shall be accounted for to the Secretary of the Treasury in the same mode for to Secretary and manner as is provided for in section eighteen of the act approved of Treasury. 1856, ch.127, 18. August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An act to reguVol. xi. p. 58. late the diplomatic and consular system of the United States." And when the fees so collected by any such consul or commercial agent amount to above, &c. to be more than twenty-five hundred dollars in any one year, over and above paid to Secrethe expenses of office-rent and clerk-hire, to be approved by the Secretary tary of Treasury. of State, of which return shall be made to the Secretary of the Treasury, the excess for that year shall be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode provided for by said act.

Excess over $2,500 a year

Salaries of envoys extraor

dinary and min

SEC. 4. That the salary of any envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary hereafter appointed shall be the salary of a minister resident ister plenipoten- and nothing more, except when he is appointed to one of the countries where the United States are now represented by an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.

tiary.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. XIV. p. 227.

Licensed engineers or pilots wrongfully refusing to serve as such, &c. or

pilots refusing to

admit certain persons into pilot-house, to forfeit $300.

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No. 520.- JULY 25, 1866.

CHAP. CCXXXIV. An Act further to provide for the Safety of the Lives of Passengers on Board of Vessels propelled in Whole or in Part by Steam, to regulate the Salaries of Steamboat Inspectors, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That if any engineer or pilot, licensed in pursuance of law by any inspector or board of inspectors, shall, to the hindrance of commerce, wrongfully or unreasonably refuse to serve as such on any steam-vessel, as authorized by the terms of his license, or shall fail to deliver to the applicant for such services, at the time of such refusal, if the same shall be demanded, a statement in writing, signed by such engineer or pilot, of the reasons therefor, or if any pilot shall refuse to admit into the pilot-house with him any person or persons whom the captain or owners of any steamboat may desire to place there for the purpose of acquiring the knowledge of piloting, he shall forfeit and pay to the party agHow to be re- grieved thereby the sum of three hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt founded on this statute. And thereupon on such recovery, as well as on such refusal to give such statement in writing, or to admit such persons into the pilot-house as aforesaid, his license shall be immeLicense to be diately revoked, upon the same proceedings as are provided by law in other cases of the revocation of such licenses.

covered.

revoked.

Where there is a water con

SEC. 2. That when boilers are so arranged on a steamer that there is necting-pipe be- employed a water connecting-pipe through which the water may pass from one boiler to another, there shall also be provided a similar steam

tween boilers,

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