cadet shall receive more than at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars a year.

For pay of the teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars. For pay of the Military Academy band, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars; which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall- Repairs and imstrips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, provements. hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, bricks, varnish, stone, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of citizen mechan ics and labor employed upon repairs that cannot be done by enlisted men, eleven thousand dollars.

For furnishing an increased and permanent supply of water, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than five thousand dollars shall be expended for the purchase of the necessary land and water rights and the right of way: And provided further, That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall decide that the sum hereby appropriated is sufficient to secure an adequate supply of pure water.

For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, firebricks, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, twelve thousand dollars. For gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gas-lamps, gasometers, and retort, and annual repairs of the same, six hundred dollars.

For fuel for cadets' mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars.

For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.

For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, files, and ink, six hundred dollars.

Water supply.

Limit as to cost.

Fuel, etc.

Gas-pipes, etc.

Postage, etc.
Stationery.

For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Transportation.

For printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, regis Printing.

ters, and blanks, five hundred dollars.

For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Clerks.

For clerk to adjutaut, in charge of cadet records, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For clerk to treasurer, nine hundred dollars.

For safe for disbursing officer's office, five hundred dollars.

Safe.

For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs of Department of models and instruments, twenty-five dollars; text-books, books of refer- mathematics. ence, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, two hundred dollars.

For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For Department of tan-bark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; repair- artillery, etc. ing camp-stools and camp-furniture, fifty dollars; furniture for offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred dollars; books and maps, fifty dollars; repairing gymnasium, one hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Department of

For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and engineering. stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; for continuing preparation of text-books for special instruction of cadets, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand dollars.

For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals, Department of chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, chemistry, etc. ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the

cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, six hundred dollars; apparatus for illustrating the science of electricity as applied to the useful arts, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological sectionrooms and in lecture-room, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, sixty-five dollars; in all, one thousand and sixty-five dollars.

Department of For department of practical military engineering: For mining matepractical engineer- rials and for profiling; telegraphing and signaling materials; stationery ing. and text-books and repairs of instruments, two hundred dollars.

For department of French: For text-books and stationery for the use of instructors, books of reference, and for printing examination-papers, one hundred dollars.

For department of drawing: For various articles most necessary for the course of topographical drawing, two hundred and fifty dollars. For department of law: For text-books and stationery and books of reference for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars.

For department of ordnance and gunnery: For books of reference and text-books for instructors, forty dollars.

For completing frames for targets for cadet rifle practice, one hundred dollars.

For keeping in repair instrument and firing houses, and pump and water pipe for the same, sixty dollars.

For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additions to the apparatus to illustrate the laws in mechanics, optics, and acoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books, repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic, one thousand dol lars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable, and sidewalks, three thousand five hundred dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), five hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayon, sponge, slate, and rubbers for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chapel-organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet-barracks, chapel, and philosophical building, includ ing the library, one thousand two hundred dollars; pay of assistant of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred dollars; increase and expense of the library, books, magazines, and binding, one thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars.

For furniture for cadet-hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.

For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the academy, five hundred dollars. Buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, five hundred dollars.

For continuing and furnishing for use main building and one wing for the new hospital for cadets, twelve thousand dollars.

For repairing door-casings and doors of the cadet-barracks with new butts and latches, five hundred dollars; and for painting the interior of the same throughout, one thousand dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Approved, January 20, 1879.

CHAP. 20.-An act to divide the western district of Missouri into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The western district of Missouri is hereby divided into two divisions, which shall be known as the eastern and western divisions of the western district of Missouri. The western division shall include the counties of Andrew, Atchison, Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, De Kalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Jackson, Jasper, La Fayette, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Platte, Putnam, Ray, Saline, Sullivan, Vernon, and Worth; and a term of the district court and circuit court of the United States for said district shall be held therein at the city of Kansas on the third Monday in May and the third Monday in October of each year. The remaining counties embraced in said district shall constitute the eastern division thereof and the terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States for said district shall be held therein at the times and place now prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. All offenses hercafter committed in either of said divisions shall be cognizable and indictable within the division where committed; and all grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be inhabitants thereof. And all offenses heretofore committed within said district shall be prosecuted and tried as if this act had not passed.

Jan. 21. 1879.

Missouri.

Divided into two

judicial divisions.

Offenses, where triable.

SEC. 3. All civil suits not of a local character which shall be hereafter Civil suits, where brought in the district or circuit courts of the United States for the west. to be brought. ern district of Missouri in either of said 'divisions, against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of said district, shall be brought in the division in which the defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and all mesne and final process subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions.

SEC. 4. The clerks of the circuit and district courts for said district Deputy clerk for shall each appoint a deputy clerk at the place where their respective each division. courts are required to be held in the division of the district in which such clerk shall not himself reside, each of whom shall, in the absence of the clerk, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of clerk within the division for which he shall be appointed: Provided, That the appointment of such deputies shall be approved by the court for which they shall be respectively appointed, and may be annulled by such court at its pleasure. And the clerk shall be responsible for the official acts and neglects of all such deputies.

Proviso.

Transfer of pend

SEC. 5. All civil suits and proceedings now pending in the circuit or district court of said western district of Missouri, and which would, if ing civil suits. instituted after the passage of this act, be required to be brought in the western division of said district, may be transferred, by consent of all the parties, to said western division of said district, and there disposed of in the same manner and with like effect as if the same had been there instituted; and all process, writs, and recognizances relating to such suits and proceedings so transferred shall be considered as belonging to the term of the court in the western division of said district, in the same manner and with like effect as if they had been issued or taken in reference thereto originally.

Approved, January 21, 1879.

Jan. 24. 1879.

stitution.

CHAP. 21.—An act authorizing the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint an Acting Secretary in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Smithsonian In- States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of the death, resignation, sickness, or absence of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Chancellor thereof shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to Acting Secre- appoint some person as Acting Secretary, who for the time being shall be clothed with all the powers and duties which by law are devolved upon the Secretary, and he shall hold said position until an election of Secretary shall be duly made, or until the Secretary shall be restored to his health, or, if absent, shall return and enter upon the duties of his office. Approved, January 24, 1879.

tary.

Jan. 25, 1879.

lumbia. Protection of dairymen.

CHAP. 22.—An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Co- States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall offer or expose for sale, any article or substance in semblance of butter or cheese, not the legitimate product of the dairy, and not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which the oil or fat of animals, not produced from milk, enters as a component part, or into which melted butter, or any oil thereof, has been introduced Oleo-Margarine to take the place of cream, shall distinctly and durably stamp, brand, or mark upon every tub, firkin, box or package of such article or substance, the word Oleo-Margarine, in plain Roman letters, not less than half an inch square placed horizontally in proper order thus:

to be marked.

OLEO-MARGARINE.

And in case of retail sales of such article or substance in parcels the seller shall in all cases deliver therewith to the purchaser a written or printed label bearing the plainly written or printed word Oleo-Margarine, in type or letters as aforesaid; and every sale of such article or substance not so stamped, branded, marked, or labeled shall be void, and no action shall be maintained for the price thereof.

SEC. 2. That every person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, contrary to the provisions of this act, any of the said article or substance required by the first section of this act to be stamped, marked, or labeled as therein stated, not so stamped, marked, or labeled, or in case of retail sale without delivery of a label required by section one of this act, shall, for each such offense, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in any court of the District of Columbia of competent jurisdiction for the trial of misdemeanors, and the one-half of such fine when paid to go to the informer, and the residue to be paid into the treasury of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 3. That every person who shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or who shall cause or procure to be sold, or offered or exposed for sale, any article or substance required by the first section of this act to be marked, branded, stamped, or labeled, not so marked, branded, stamped, or labeled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on trial for such misdemeanor, proof of the sale or offer or exposal alleged shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of the character of the article so sold or offered.

Approved, January 25, 1879.

CHAP. 23.-An act to provide that all pensions on account of death, or wounds received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, which have been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall commence from the date of death or discharge from the service of the United States; for the payment of arreais of pensions, and other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all pensions which have been granted under the general laws regulating pensions, or may hereafter be granted, in consequence of death from a cause which originated in the United States service during the continuance of the late war of the rebellion, or in consequence of wounds, injuries, or disease received or contracted in said service during said war of the rebellion, shall commence from the date of the death or discharge from said service of the person on whose account the claim has been or shall hereafter be granted, or from the termination of the right of the party having prior title to such pension: Provided, The rate of pension for the intervening time for which arrears of pension are hereby granted shall be the same per month for which the pension was originally granted.

Jan. 25, 1879.

Pensions.

Commencement.

Rate.

Rules and regu

SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of the lations. arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause to be paid to such pensioners, or, if the pensioners shall have died, to the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be, or would have been, entitled to under this act.

SEC. 3. That section forty-seven hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which provides that "no claim for pension not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted without record evidence from the War or Navy Department of the injury or the disease which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made: Provided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the further prosecution of the claim, the claimant may present, through the Pension Office, to the Adjutant-General of the Army or the Surgeon General of the Navy, evidence that the disease or injury which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made originated in the service and in the line of duty; and if such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the claim shall thereby be removed", be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

R. S. 4717.

No fees to claim

SEC. 4. No claim agent or other person shall be entitled to receive any compensation for services in making application for arrears of pen- agents. sion.

SEC. 5. That all acts or parts of acts so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, January 25, 1879.

Repeals.

CHAP. 24.-An act to facilitate the refunding the national debt.

Jan. 25, 1879.

Public debt.

Exchange of six

bonds.

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 is hereby authorized in the process of refunding the national debt under existing laws to exchange directly at par the bonds of the United States bearing interest at four per centum per annum authorized by law for four per cent. for the bonds of the United States commonly known as five-twenties outstanding and uncalled, and, whenever all such five twenty bonds shall have been redeemed, the provisions of this section and all existing provisions of law authorizing the refunding of the national debt shall apply to any bonds of the United States bearing interest at five per centum per annum or a higher rate, which may be redeemable. In any exchange Interest.