of the court, not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the clerk to examine and ascertain under oath the full names, ages, color, whether married previously or single, whether related or not, and, if so, in what degrees, of the parties desiring to marry, which facts shall appear on the face of the application, and shall be in the following form: Number Application for license. Date, ; names of parties, ; age, ; color, ; relationship, ; number of marriage, ; whether he or she is a citizen of the United States or of a foreign country, ; if a citizen of a foreign country, whether all the requirements of the laws regulating marriage in the country of which he or she is a citizen have been complied with, Licenses shall be in the following form: Number Application for li cense. License. R. S. D. C., sec. 720, To any minister or other person authorized to celebrate marriages in p. 86, amended. the District of Columbia, greeting: of You are hereby authorized to solemnize the rites of marriage between of and and, having done so, you are commanded to make return of the same to the clerk's office of the supreme court of the said District within ten days, as the law directs. Witness my hand and seal of said court this Domini By day of anno Clerk. Assistant Clerk. Said return shall be made in person or by mail on a coupon attached Return of certificate. to and issued with said license and bearing a corresponding number therewith, within ten days from the time of said ceremony, and shall be in the following form: Number R. S. D. C., sec. 722, I. who have been duly authorized to celebrate the rites of mar. P. 86, amended. riage in the District of Columbia, do hereby certify that, by authority of license of corresponding number herewith, I solemnized the marriage of and named therein, on the in said District. A second coupon of corresponding number with the license shall be attached to and issued with said license, to be given by the officiating minister or other person authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage in said District to the contracting parties, and shall be in the following form: Number were by me united in marriage in accordance with the license issued by the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Name, Certificate of mar riage. Record of licenses. R. S. D. C., sec. 721, SEC. 9. That the clerk shall provide a record book of his office, consisting of applications for and of licenses in the forms prescribed in the p. 86, amended. preceding section, printed in blank, to be filled by him in accordance with said forms, and said blank applications, licenses, and certificates of the officiating minister or other person authorized to celebrate the rite of marriage shall be numbered correspondingly and consecutively from one upward. And the said license when produced shall be full authority to any Effect of license. minister or other person authorized to marry receiving the same to proceed with the marriage of the parties named therein. May 15, 1896. permitted. Location. SEC. 10. That if the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act he shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 11. That the clerk shall provide a record book of his office, in which shall be filed in the order of their number the certificates upon their return to said office, corresponding to said record book of licenses issued, and a copy of any license and certificate of marriage so kept and recorded and certified by the clerk under his hand and the seal of the court shall be competent evidence of the marriage. SEC. 12. That this Act take effect from and after thirty days from the approval thereof. SEC. 13. That sections four, five, six, eight, nine, ten, fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen, in chapter thirty, of the compiled statutes now in force in the District of Columbia, and all laws or parts of laws heretofore in force in this District inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, May 13, 1896. CHAP. 179.--An Act To amend the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, granting the right of way upon the public lands for reservoir and canal purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to permit the use of the right of way through the public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes," approved January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: "SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of right of way to the extent of twenty-five feet, together with the use of necessary ground, not exceeding forty acres, upon the public lands and forest reservations of the United States, by any citizen or association of citizens of the United States, for the purposes of generating, manufacturing, or distributing electric power." Approved, May 14, 1896. CHAP. 181.-An Act To permit Rene C. Baughman to lay pipes in a certain street in the city of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Columbia. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the Petroleum pipe line District of Columbia are hereby authorized to grant to Rene C. Baughman permission to lay pipes for the transmission of petroleum and its products in the following-named streets in said city of Washington, to wit: From north block numbered six hundred and ninety-seven along the unpaved portion of Half street southeast, a distance of three thousand feet in a southerly direction to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River; the said pipe line shall be laid under such regulations and rentals as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may make in relation thereto. Amendment. May 15, 1896. Military parks. Use by Army and Militia permitted. SEC. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, May 15, 1896. CHAP. 182.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to make certain uses of national military parks. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to obtain practical benefits of great value to the country from the establishment of national military parks, said parks and their approaches are hereby declared to be national fields for military maneuvers for the Regular Army of the United States and the National Guard or Militia of the States: Provided, That the said parks shall be opened for such purposes only in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as he may prescribe. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, within the limits of appropriations which may from time to time be available for such purpose, to assemble, at his discretion, in camp at such season of the year and for such period as he may designate, at such field of military maneuvers, such portions of the military forces of the United States as he may think best, to receive military instruction there. The Secretary of War is further authorized to make and publish regulations governing the assembling of the National Guard or Militia of the several States upon the maneuvering grounds, and he may detail instructors from the Regular Army for such forces during their exercises. Approved, May 15, 1896. Proviso. Annual instruction camps. May 18, 1896. privileges. CHAP. 191-An Act Constituting Syracuse, New York, a port of delivery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Syracuse, in the State of Syracuse, N. Y. Made port of deliv New York. be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, and that ery and given imme. the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise diate transportation conferred by the seventh section of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes," be, and the same are hereby, extended to said port; and there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs to reside at said port, who shall receive a salary, to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceed ing one thousand dollars per annum. Approved, May 18, 1896. CHAP. 192. An Act To provide a life-saving station at or near Point Bonita, at the Golden Gate, in the State of California. Vol. 21, p. 174. Surveyor. May 18, 1896. Point Bonita, Cal. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United CHAP. 193.—An Act Authorizing the county of Navajo, Territory of Arizona, to issue bonds for the construction of a court-house and jail at the county seat thereof. Ariz. May 18, 1896. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the board of supervisors Navajo County, of the county of Navajo, Territory of Arizona, be, and are hereby, Issue of bonds auauthorized to issue bonds of said county not exceeding fifteen thousand thorized. dollars in amount, payable in not less than five, nor more than twenty years, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, interest and principal payable in lawful money of the United States, interest payable semiannually, and which said bonds shall not be sold for less than par, for the construction of a court-house and jail at the county seat of said county: Provided, That a vote of the duly qualified electors of said county shall first be taken upon the question of the issue of the bonds under the provisions of this Act, which election shall be held in all respects as required by the general election laws of the Territory of Arizona, and unless a majority of the qualified electors of said county shall vote at said election for the issue of bonds as in this Act provided, said bonds shall not be issued. Approved, May 18, 1896. Proviso. May 18, 1896. Storage. Lien for charges. CHAP. 194.-An Act To regulate the business of storage in District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Columbia. States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, firm, association, or corporation lawfully engaged in the business of storing goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property of any description shall have a lien first, except for taxes thereon for the agreed charges for storing the same, and for all moneys advanced for freight, cartage, labor, insurance, and other necessary expenses thereon. Said lien for such unpaid charges, upon at least one year's storage and for the aforesaid advances in connection therewith, may be enforced by sale at public auction, after thirty days' notice in writing mailed to the lastknown address of the person or persons in whose name or names the said property so in default was stored, and said notice shall also be published for six days in a daily newspaper in the District of Columbia. And after deducting all storage charges, advances, and expenses of sale, any balance arising therefrom shall be paid by the bailee to the bailor of such goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property, his assigns or legal representatives. Sale, etc. Proviso. Said property may be so sold either in bulk or in separate pieces, articles, packages, or parcels, as will in the judgment of the lien holder secure the largest obtainable price: Provided, That if the person or Notice to assignee. persons storing said property shall have assigned or transferred the title thereto and have duly recorded said assignment or transfer upon the books of the storage warehouse, the written notice of sale shall also be mailed to said transferee or assignee. Delivery of property in litigation. May 18, 1896. Return of articles exhibited, duty free. SEC. 2. That whenever the title or right of possession to any goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property on storage shall be put in issue by any judicial proceeding, the same shall be delivered upon the order of court after prepayment of the storage charges and cash advances then due, by the person at whose instance such change of possession is so ordered, and who shall be entitled to recover such payment as part of the costs in such proceeding, or, if defeated therein, he shall be credited with such payment in taxation of costs against him. And unless the person, firm, association, or corporation so conducting a storage business shall claim some right, title, or interest in said stored property otherwise than the lien hereinabove authorized, he, it, or they shall not be made a party to said judicial proceedings. Approved, May 18, 1896. CHAP. 195.—An Act To allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Foreignexpositions. States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any article or articles or live stock shall be sent out of the United States for temporary use or exhibition at any public exposition, fair, or conference, held in a foreign country, such articles shall be entitled to be returned to the United States, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, without the payment of customs duty, whether they shall be of domestic or of foreign production: Provided, That the articles of foreign production have once paid duty in the United States and no drawback has been allowed thereon, and if any domestic articles are subject to internal-revenue tax, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded. Approved, May 18, 1896. Proviso. Proof of payment of tax. May 19, 1896. Regattas, etc. CHAP. 199.-An Act To provide for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers, yachts, oarsmen and all craft, whether as observers or participants, taking part in regattas, ama- Regulations to se cure safety of passen gers. CHAP. 200.-An Act To establish the port of Conneaut, in the State of Ohio, as a subport of entry in the district of Cuyahoga, in said State of Ohio. May 19, 1896. Conneaut, Ohio. Made subport of enR. S., sec.2602, p.515, amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the port of Conneaut, in the State of Ohio, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a subport try Cuyahoga district. of entry in the district of Cuyahoga, in said State of Ohio, from and after the passage of this Act. Approved, May 19, 1896. CHAP. 201.—An Act To abolish days of grace on promissory notes, drafts, and so forth, in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on all notes, drafts, checks, acceptances, bills of exchange, bonds, or other evidences of indebted ness made, drawn, or accepted by any person or corporation after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and in which there is no expressed stipulation to the contrary, no grace, according to the custom of merchants, shall be allowed in the District of Columbia, but the same shall be due and payable as therein expressed, without grace. Approved, May 19, 1896. May 19, 1896. District of Columbia. Days of grace on negotiable paper abolished January 1, 1897. CHAP. 202.-An Act To restore the lands embraced in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, in the State of Colorado, to the public domain. May 19, 1896. Fort Lewis Military Reservation, Colo. domain. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands included in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, in Colorado, established by Executive Restored to publie order of date January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, and located in townships thirty-four and thirty-five north, of ranges ten, eleven, and twelve west of the New Mexico principal meridian, are hereby restored to the public domain. SEC. 2. That said lands shall be subject to occupation, settlement, entry, purchase, and disposal under the public land laws of the United States, except so much thereof as may be embraced in sections heretofore reserved for school purposes, to wit, sections thirty-three, thirtyfour, and thirty-five, in township thirty-five north, of range eleven west; also sections nine, ten, eleven, and twelve, in township thirty-four north, of range eleven west, and also what will be sections one, two, three, and four, in township thirty-four north, of range eleven west, when surveyed: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to interfere with any rights which may have accrued previous to the withdrawal of said lands for the purposes of such reservation, and excluding all general school sections. Approved, May 19, 1896. Open to entry. School sections. Proviso. |