ered.

fourth section of this act may be recovered in an action at law in any court Penalties. how of record of the United States, or any court of competent jurisdiction, may be recovwhich action may be brought in the name of the United States by any person who will sue for said penalty, one half for the use of the United Half of money States, and the other half for the use of the person bringing such action. to go to person And the recovery and satisfaction of a judgment in any such action shall bringing the suit. be a bar to the imposition of any fine for the same offence in any prosecution instituted subsequent to the recovery of such judgment, but shall not Judgment, &c., be a bar to the infliction of punishment by imprisonment, as provided by not to be bar of said fourth section. imprisonment. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts incon- Repealing sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

CHAP. CXXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to extend the Time for the Withdrawal of Goods from Public Stores and Bonded Warehouses, and for other Purposes," approved twenty-ninth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

clause.

June 17, 1864.

1864, ch. 15. Ante, p. 12.

Certain goods, &c., in public stores, &c.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares, and merchandise, in public stores or bonded warehouses, on which the duties are unpaid, and which shall have been in bond for more than one year and less than three years, may be entered for consumption and the bonds cancelled at any time before the first day of September next, on payment of may be entered. duties and charges according to the laws in force at the time the goods shall be withdrawn.

APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

CHAP. CXXIX.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to lay and collect a Water Tax, and for other Purposes," approved May twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

When and how

June 17, 1864.

1862, ch. 82. Vol. xii. p. 405.

Front-foot water-tax on

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in which an original town lot in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entirely certain lots in owned by the same person or persons, or any subdivision of an original Georgetown. lot separately owned, as aforesaid, shall be situated at the intersection of two streets, so as to bind or front on both, and in which both fronts would be liable to the front-foot tax authorized by the act entitled "An act to authorize the corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to lay and collect a water-tax, and for other purposes," approved May twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the said front-foot tax shall not be levied upon more than seventy-five feet of the two fronts of said lot or part of lot; and all beyond said number of feet shall be exempt therefrom: Provided, That, for the purpose of avoiding inequality, and hardship in laying said tax, it shall be lawful for the said corporation of Further proGeorgetown, in such cases, to make such further exemptions from said visions. front-foot tax, either by general laws or in individual cases, as to them

may seem just and proper.

Instead of

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for said corporation of Georgetown, in their discretion, instead of the front-foot tax front-foot tax, a aforesaid, to lay and collect annually a general special tax not to exceed general special tax may be laid, one fifth of one per cent. per annum on all the assessable property in said &c. town, for the purpose of defraying the cost of distributing water through said town from the mains or pipes of the Washington aqueduct, which tax shall be exclusively appropriated to said object, shall be collected in the same manner as the general tax of said town, and shall cease whenever the cost of said distribution shall have been fully paid: Provided, That all persons liable to pay said tax shall be credited on account of the same with all sums heretofore paid by them on account of said front-foot tax, levied in pursuance of the act to which this is an amendment.

Proviso.

Act of 1862,

ch. 82, § 3, repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the third section of the act aforesaid be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

June 17, 1864. CHAP. CXXX. -An Act to regulate the Foreign Coasting Trade on the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern Frontiers of the United States, and for other Purposes.

Vessels navi

gating the waters on northern, &c., frontiers to be enrolled and licensed.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any boat, sloop, or other vessel of the United States, navigating the waters on our northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers, otherwise than by sea, shall be enrolled and licensed in such form as other vessels; which enrolment and license shall authorize any such boat, sloop, or other vessel to be Effect thereof. employed either in the coasting or foreign trade on said frontiers; and no certificate of register shall be required for vessels so employed on said frontiers: Provided, That such boat, sloop, or vessel shall be, in every other respect, liable to the rules, regulations, and penalties now in force relating to registered and licensed vessels.

Proviso.

Compensation of certain collectors of customs. 1831, ch. 98, § 4.

Vol. iv. p. 487.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the compensation provided by the fourth section of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled "An act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes," each of the several collectors of customs in the following districts on the said frontiers, to wit: Pembina, Chicago, Milwaukie, Sault Sainte Marie, Detroit, Miami, Sandusky, Cuyahoga, Presque Isle, (hereafter to be called Erie,) Dunkirk, Buffalo, Niagara, Genesee, Oswego, Cape Vincent, Oswegatchie, Champlain, and Vermont, shall receive an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the fees now collected under the general regulations of the treasury department of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and a commission of three per centum on all moneys collected and accounted for by them respectively: Provided, That the aggregate compensation derived from salary, fees, and commissions, shall not in any Not to exceed case exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An act relative to collectors and other officers of the customs," approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six. And whenever the aggregate of salary, fees, and commissions shall in any case exceed the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, after deducting the necessary expenses incident to the said office, for and during the same period for which said compensation is allowed, the excess shall, in every such case, be paid into the treasury of the United States. The fees and emoluments of all kinds to be accounted for as provided by the twelfth section of the act of the seventh of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.

a certain sum. 1846, ch. 7. Vol. ix. p. 3.

Fees, &c., how

to be accounted

for.

§ 12.

1822, ch. 107, Vol. iii. p. 695.

What fees may be charged.

Certain territory, waters, &c., added to the Milwaukie district.

Bonds of collectors, naval

officers, &c., how approved and kept.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the collectors and other officers of customs on the said frontiers shall be authorized to charge and collect the same fees as are now allowed by law to be charged and collected by the collectors and other officers of customs.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the territory, harbors, and waters on the eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Michigan, heretofore embraced in the district of Michilimackinac, and lying within the limits of the State of Wisconsin, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to and made part of the collection district of Milwaukie, in the State of Wisconsin.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all bonds given by collectors of customs, naval officers, surveyors, and by all officers of the customs throughout the United States, shall be approved by the commissioner of customs, in whose office they are now required to be filed.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

When act

takes effect.

Repeal of act

" and of inconsistent acts.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and of 1831, ch. 98, northwestern frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes,' approved second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

CHAP. CXXXI.

June 17, 1864.

Veto power of the governor of

An Act to regulate the Veto Power in the Territory of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every bill which shall have passed the legislative assembly of Washington Territory shall, Washington Terbefore it become a law, be presented to the governor. If he approve ritory. he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two thirds of that house it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within five days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislative assembly by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

CHAP. CXXXII. - An Act to empower the Superannuated Fund Society of the Mary- June 17, 1864. land Annual Conference to hold Property in the District of Columbia and to take a Devise under the Will of the late William Doughty.

trict of Columbia.

WHEREAS a certain William Doughty, of Georgetown, in the District The Superanof Columbia, by his last will, bearing date on the twenty-ninth day of nuated Fund Society may hold, April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, duly admitted to probate, devised &c., certain propand bequeathed certain real and personal property and estate-part erty in the Disthereof to take effect at his death, and the residue at the death or marriage of his widow to a society incorporated by act of the general assembly of Maryland, by the name of "The Superannuated Fund Society of the Maryland Annual Conference," and called in said will The Superannuated Fund Society of the Methodist Protestant Church for the District of Maryland; and whereas it has been questioned whether the said corporation can lawfully take and hold the said property, in virtue of said last will, without the leave and assent of congress: Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of congress is hereby given to all and every the aforementioned devises and bequests unto "The Superannuated Fund Society of the Maryland Annual Conference" aforesaid; and the said society and body corporate is hereby fully authorized and empowered to take and hold the said property and estate devised and bequeathed to it as aforesaid, agreeably to the tenor and provisions of the said last will, and to dispose of and enjoy the same to every intent and effect as if the said society had been originally incorporated by act of congress.

Property, real

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation is hereby empowered to hold real and personal property located in the District and personal, to

yield an income of of Columbia acquired, or that shall be acquired by gift, purchase, devise, not over $20,000. or bequest, and the same enjoy, rent, lease, or convey, at pleasure, as freely as any person or body corporate can do: Provided, That the net yearly income thereof shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars.

When act takes effect.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the day of its passage.

APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

June 17, 1864. CHAP. CXXXIII.

lic surveys to be extended over the Rancho Bolsa de Tomales, in Marin County, California.

-An Act to grant the Right of Preemption to certain Settlers on the Rancho Bolsa de Tomales, in the State of California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Lines of pub- States of America in Congress assembled, That it may and shall be lawful for the commissioner of the general land office to cause the lines of the public surveys to be extended over the tract of country known as the Rancho Bolsa de Tomales, in Marin County, California, the claim to which, by James D. Galbraith, has been adjudged invalid by the supreme court of the United States, and to have approved plats thereof duly returned to the proper district land office: Provided, That the actual cost of such survey and platting shall first be paid into the surveying fund by settlers, according to the requirements of the tenth section of the act of congress approved thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, "to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public lands in the United States."

Actual cost to be paid.

1862, ch. 86, § 10. Vol. xii. p. 410.

Settlers may enter their lands after the survey.

Joint entries.

Claims to be

what time.

Decision of

register, &c., to be confirmed.

Confirmation to be final.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the return of such approved plats to the district office, it may and shall be lawful for individuals, settlers upon the said Rancho Bolsa de Tomales, to enter, according to the lines of the public surveys, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the land settled upon by them to the extent to which the same had been reduced to possession at the time of said adjudication of said supreme court, joint entries being admissible by coterminous proprietors, in order that their respective boundaries may be adjusted in accordance with their several possessions.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all claims within the purpresented within view of this act shall be presented to the register and receiver within twelve months after the return of such surveys to the district land office, accompanied by proof of settlement, and the extent to which the tracts claimed had been reduced into possession at the time of said adjudication; and thereupon each case shall be adjudged by the register and receiver, under such instructions as shall be given by the commissioner of the general land office, to whom the proof and adjudication shall be returned by the local land office, and no adjudication shall be final until confirmed by the said commissioner: Provided, That the confirmation by said commissioner shall be conclusive and final between coterminous proprietors, and the correctness thereof shall not be open to contestation in any action at law or suit in equity between them or between parties claiming under them by title subsequent: And provided, further, That any claim not brought before the register and receiver brought in time, within twelve months, as aforesaid, shall be barred, and the lands covered thereby, with any other tracts within the limits of said rancho, the titles to which are not established under this act, shall be dealt with as other public lands, but subject to the adjudicated boundaries of the claims which are presented within the limit of the time prescribed as aforesaid: Proamount to be en- vided, That no person under the provisions of this act shall be allowed to enter a greater quantity of land than three hundred and twenty acres. APPROVED, June 17, 1864.

Claims not

to be barred.

Limit of

tered.

CHAP. CXXXIV. - An Act extending the Time for the Completion of the Marquette and June 18, 1864. Ontonagon Railroad, of the State of Michigan.

Pub. Res. No.

quette and Onto

1856, ch. 44.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 43. Post, p. 409. States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited for the Time for comcompletion of the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad, of the State of pleting the MarMichigan, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the term of five years nagon railroad beyond the time fixed for its completion by the act of congress of June extended. third, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An act making a grant of alternate sections of the public lands to the State of Michigan Vol. xi. p. 21. to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said state, and for other purposes: " Provided, That the State of Michigan shall have the same control over the said grant of lands hereby extended for five years, for the benefit of said railroad, which was given to said state under said original act of congress; and said state may prescribe the time within which the several sections of said road shall be completed. APPROVED, June 18, 1864.

CHAP. CXXXV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable the People of Colorado to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the Union on an equal Footing with the original States."

Proviso.

June 18, 1864. 1864, ch. 37,

§ 5.

Ante, p. 34.

taken on second

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth Vote upon acsection of the act to which this act is an amendment as provides by ordi- ceptance, &c., of nance for submitting the constitution to the people of said state for their constitution to be ratification or rejection, at an election to be held on the second Tuesday Tuesday in Sepof October, be so amended as to read, on the second Tuesday in Septem- tember. ber, and that the election, for the purposes aforesaid, be held on that day instead of the second Tuesday in October. APPROVED, June 18, 1864.

CHAP. CXXXVI.-An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic June 20, 1864. Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, 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 following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, namely:

Consular and diplomatic appro

priation.

and commission

For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of Salaries of enthe United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus- Voys, ministers, tria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, ers; Rome, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars.

For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, sixty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, eighty thousand dollars.

of secretaries of legation; of assistant secretaries;

of interpreters in China, Turkey, and Japan.

Contingent ex

penses.