For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars, as follows: For the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; and to the consuls general at London, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fayal, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year: Provided, That the total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. Clerks at consu lates. Proviso. men. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, Lon-Shipping and don, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburgh, to be allotted as may seem proper discharging seato the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: Provided, That the fees collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law. Proviso. Interpreters; Ja For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shanghai, two thousand dollars, and at Tien-Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, pan, China, Siam. at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. Consular officers not citizens. Marshals. Interpreters, etc., Turkey. Loss by exchange. Contingencies. Prices current to be furnished by con For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. For loss by exchange on consular service, eight thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, or to such officers of the customs as he may direct, as often as may be required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is stationed; and authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of the Treasury to reR. S., 1712, p. 306. quire a compliance with this provision; but this provision shall not have the effect to impair the provisions of section seventeen hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes. suls.. Spanish Claims Commission. Rent of prisons. Rent of court For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims Commission, namely: For commissioner, three thousand dollars; for counsel, three thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred dollars; for messenger, three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making in all the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, two thousand dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in China, one thousand five hundred dollars; for wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent of court house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, house, etc., Yeddo. or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Rent of buildings, Pekin. Bringing home persons charged with crimes. Relief of Ameri can seamen. Rescue from shipwreck. Cape Spartel light. Widows and cers. For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place as sha'l be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, and expenses incider.tal thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consuheirs of diplomatic lar officers for the time that would be necessarily occupied in making and consular offi- the transit from the post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the United States, five thousand dollars. And the salaries provided in this act for the officers within named respectively shall be in full for the annual salaries thereof from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Salaries herein, to be in full. Neutrality act. R. S., 291, p. 48. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars. Approved, June 4, 1878. CHAP. 156.-An act to provide for the free entry of articles imported for exhibition by societies established for encouragement of the arts or sciences, and for other purposes. June 6, 1878. Works of art, free. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, science or manufactures, pho- etc.; when duty tographs, works in terra-cotta, Parian, pottery or porcelain and artistic copies of antiques in metal or other material hereafter imported in good faith for permanent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution established for the encouragement of the arts or science, and not intended for sale, nor for any other purpose than is hereinbefore expressed, and all such articles, imported as aforesaid, now in bond, and all like articles imported in good faith by any society or association for the purpose of erecting a public monument and not for sale shall be admitted free of duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That the parties importing articles as aforesaid shall be required to give bonds, with sufficient sureties, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for the payment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of the articles aforesaid be sold, transferred, or used contrary to the provisions and intent of this act. Approved, June 6, 1878. Bond. CHAP. 160.-An act to repeal the bankrupt law. June 7, 1878. R. S., Title 61, p. 1874, ch. 390, 18 Stat., 178, Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the bankrupt law approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, title sixty-one, Revised 969. Statutes, and an act entitled "An act to amend and supplement an act entitled An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout Repealed. the United States, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four", and all acts in amendment or supplementary thereto or in explanation thereof, be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That such repeal shall in no manner invalidate or affect any case in bankruptcy instituted and pending in any court prior to the day when this act shall take effect; but as to all such pending cases and all future proceedings therein, and in respect of all pains, penalties, and forfeitures which shall have been incurred under any of said acts prior to the day when this act takes effect, or which may be thereafter incurred, under any of those provisions of any of said acts which, for the purposes named in this act, are kept in force, and all penal actions and criminal proceedings for a violation of any of said acts, whether then pending or thereafter instituted, and in respect of all rights of debtors and creditors (except the right of commencing original proceedings in bankruptcy), and all rights of, and suits by, or against assignees, under any, or all of said acts, in any matter or case which shall have arisen prior to the day when this act takes effect (which shall be on the first day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-eight), or in any matter or case which shall arise after this act takes effect, in respect of any matter of bankruptcy authorized by this act to be proceeded with after said last-named day, the acts hereby repealed shall continue in full force and effect until the same shall be fully disposed of, in the same manner as if said acts had not been repealed. Approved, June 7, 1878. June 7, 1878. bor. CHAP. 161.-An act making further appropriations for continuing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, State of Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seventy-five Galveston Har- thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, in the State of Texas; which improvements are now being prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the appropriation for which is substantially exhausted; and that the said sum be expended under his direction. June 7, 1878. District of Columbia. peace. Appointment. Term. Dess. Approved, June 7, 1878. CHAP. 162.-An act regulating the acpointment of justices of the peace, commis sioners of deeds, and constables within and for the District of Columbia, 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 President of the United Justices of the States shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint fifteen justices of the peace within and for the District of Columbia. Said justices of the peace shall be assigned as follows: two in the city of Georgetown, one in Tennallytown, one in Brightwood, one in Uniontown, and ten in the city of Washington. Their term of office shall be four years, subject to removal for cause. They shall respectively have the jurisdiction, exercise the powers and functions, and perform the duties as now provided by law for said officers respectively. Unfinished bnsi- Said justices of the peace, shall be the successors of the justices of the peace who now hold office in said District, and shall proceed in and close up all such unfinished business of their predecessors as may be brought to their attention by any party in interest, who shall present a transcript of the same, as hereinafter provided. Aud in like manner they shall proceed in and close up all unfinished business of any predeof cessor in office appointed under this act. Upon resignation or the expiration of the term of office, they shall make, certify, and deliver tran scripts of any proceeding on their docket to any party in interest, or shall deliver said docket, together with all papers in all unfinished business, to their successors in office, at their option, and account for all Succession to moneys in their hands. Upon the death or removal of any justice of the peace appointed under this act, his docket, books, and papers of office shall be delivered to his immediate successor in office. Transcripts unfinished ness. dockets. busi Justices now in office. Term. ets. Constables. SEC. 2. The terms of office of all justices of the peace, now in office within and for the District of Columbia shall end on the thirtieth day after the approval of this act. They shall issue no process returnable Deposit of dock- on or after that day, and shall deposit their docket, books, papers, and records pertaining to their office in the office of the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, who shall, on demand of the parties in interest, deliver to them transcripts, duly certified, together with all papers left or filed with them by said parties in said case or proceeding. SEC. 3. The supreme court of the District shall have authority to appoint not exceeding twenty constables, who shall hold office for four years, subject to be removed by said court for cause, upon hearing. And said constables shall be the successors of the constables now holdConstables now ing office in the said District. The term of office of all constables now in office in said District shall end on the thirtieth day after the approval hereof, and they shall, on or before said day, return all process which may be held by them duly executed (except as hereafter provided), and pay over to the proper parties all moneys in their hands; all constables may duly execute and return all writs and processes in their hands at the time of such expiration of their term of office. in oflice. Bonds of justices and constables. SEC. 4. The supreme court of the District of Columbia shall have the power to fix the amount and form of the bonds, and approve the same, to be given by said justices of the peace and constables, and make |