R. S. 204, p. 31, amended.

Dec. 28, 1874.

Certain settlers injured by grasshoppers allowed to

be absent from settlements.

Adverse rights not to attach during

absence of settler.

Extension of time

laws of the United States", approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall be made by the Secretary of State under the seal of the Department of State, and so much of said section as provides that such certificate shall be under the seal of the United States, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. That section number two hundred and four of the revised statutes of the United States shall hereafter read as follows: Whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by the President, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall forthwith be received by the Secretary of State from the Presi dent; and whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives in whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals.

Approved, December 28, 1874.

CHAP. 10.-An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for homestead and pre-emption settlers on the public lands, whose crops were destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year eighteen bundred and seventy-four to leave and be absent from said lands until July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, under such regulations as to proof of the same as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe; and where such grasshoppers shall re-appear in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to the like destruction of the crops of settlers, the right to leave and be absent as aforesaid shall continue to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

SECTION 2. That during such absence no adverse rights shall attach to said lands; such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their settlement as though no such absence had been enjoyed or allowed.

SECTION 3. That the time for making final proof and payment by prefor final proof and emptors whose crops have been destroyed or injured as aforesaid, is hereby extended for one year after the expiration of the term of absence provided for in the first section of this act.

payment.

Jan. 1, 1875.

Act June 23, 1874, c. 458, s. 4, suspended, as to contract

surgeons.
Ante, p. 245.

Jan. 11, 1875.

The Dalles landdistrict, in Oregon,

established.

Approved, December 28, 1874.

CHAP. 12.- An act suspending so much of the act entitled "An act re-organizing the several staff-corps of the Army," approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as applies to contract-surgeons.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act re-organizing the several staff-corps of the Army", approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as applies to contract-surgeons, be, and is hereby, suspended until otherwise provided by law.

Approved, January 1, 1875.

CHAP. 13.-An act to create an additional land-district in the State of Oregon, to be called the Dalles land-district.

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 States be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish an additional landdistrict in the State of Oregon, which district shall be bounded as fol

Land-office at

lows, viz: Commencing on the Columbia River at the intersection of the
range-line, between ranges eight and nine east, thence south on said
range-line to the fourth standard parallel, which is the north boundary
of the Linkton land-district; thence east on said parallel to range twenty-
seven east; thence north on range-line between ranges twenty-six and
twenty-seven to the Columbia River; thence down said river to the place
of beginning, comprising all that land in Oregon situate north of the
Linkton land-district and between ranges eight and twenty-seven east
of the Willamette meridian. Said district, as above bounded, shall be
known and designated as The Dalles district; and the office of said district
shall be located at the city of The Dalles, or such place as the President
shall direct, in the State of Oregon; and the President of the United The Dalles.
States shall have power to change the location of said land-office, in said
State, from time to time, as the public interests may seem to require.
SEC. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, ceiver.
a register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall each
reside in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the
same powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the
same acts and penalties, which are, or may be, prescribed by law in rela-
tion to other land-officers in said State.

Location may be changed.

Register and re

Sale of lands in

Sales at former

SEC. 3. That the public lands in said district shall be subject to sale and disposal upon the same terms and conditions as other public lands The Dalles district. of the United States: Provided, That all sales and locations made at the office of the old district of lands situated within the limits of the new land-office district, which shall be valid and right in other respects, up to the day firmed. on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.

Approved, January 11, 1875.

con

CHAP. 14.-An act explanatory of the resolution entitled "A resolution for the relief of settlers upon the Absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Whereas several tracts of land ceded to the Shawnee Indians by the treaty concluded between them and the United States which was proclaimed November second, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, were erroneously set apart and allotted to various individuals of the Shawnee tribe of Indians, and which said allotments were subsequently canceled, and therefore form a part of the residuum of the land which by the treaty aforesaid was to be set apart for the Absentee Shawnees: Therefore,

Jan. 11, 1875.

Vol. 10, p. 1053.

Absentee Shawnee lands.

Vol. 16, p. 53.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the resolution Res. 9, April 7, approved seventh April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the relief 1869, extended to of the settlers upon the Absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas, should be certain settlers on extended to those settlers who now occupy and have improved tracts of land known and described as the east half of the northeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twelve, of range twenty-three east, of the sixth principal meridian; the south half of the southwest quarter of section five; the south half of the southwest quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of section eight, in township thirteen of range twenty-two east, of the sixth principal meridian; all located in the State of Kansas, within the boundaries of the tract ceded to the Shawnees by the treaty proclaimed on the second November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

Approved, January 11, 1875.

Jan. 14, 1875.

CHAP. 15.—An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Silver coins of States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas ten, twenty-five, ury is hereby authorized and required, as rapidly as practicable, to be coined and is- cause to be coined at the mints of the United States, silver coins of the sued in redemption denominations of ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents, of standard value, of fractional cur- and to issue them in redemption of an equal number and amount of fractional currency of similar denominations, or, at his discretion, he may issue such silver coins through the mints, the subtreasuries, public depositaries, and post-offices of the United States; and, upon such issue, he is hereby authorized and required to redeem an equal amount of such fractional currency, until the whole amount of such fractional currency outstanding shall be redeemed.

rency.

R. S., 3524, p. 701, repealed.

R. S., 5177, 1007, repealed.

tribution.

p.

United States notes, in excess of $300,000,000, to be redeemed in a certain ratio to in crease of national

bank circulation.

SEC. 2. That so much of section three thousand five hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States as provides for a charge of one-fifth of one per centum for converting standard gold bullion into coin is hereby repealed, and hereafter no charge shall be made for that service.

SEC. 3. That section five thousand one hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, limiting the aggregate amount of circulating-notes of national banking-associations, be, and is hereby, repealed; and each existing banking-association may increase Circulation of its circulating-notes in accordance with existing law without respect to national banks not said aggregate limit; and new banking-associations may be organized restricted by ag- in accordance with existing law without respect to said aggregate limit; gregate limit. Repeal of provis- and the provisions of law for the withdrawal and redistribution of ions for with- national-bank currency among the several States and Territories are drawal and redis- hereby repealed. And whenever, and so often, as circulating-notes shall be issued to any such banking-association, so increasing its capital or circulating notes, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem the legal-tender United States notes in excess only of three hundred million of dollars, to the amount of eighty per centum of the sum of national-bank notes so issued to any such banking-association as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption as such circulating-notes are issued until there shall be outstanding the sum of three hundred million dollars of such legaltender United States notes, and no more. And on and after the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Redemption of Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin, the United States legalUnited States notes tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption, at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars. And to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues, from time to time, in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Sale of bonds, to and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than par, in coin, either of provide means of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of redeeming United States notes. Congress approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled, "An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt," with 1870, c. 256, v. 16, like qualities, privileges, and exemptions, to the extent necessary to p. 272. carry this act into full effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid. And all provisions of law inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, January 14, 1875.

in coin after Janaary 1, 1879.

Appropriation.

Jan. 18, 1875.

Navy appropriations for year ending June 30, 1876.

CHAP. 18.-An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, 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 fol owing sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treas

ury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for other purposes:

tation, &c.

For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at sea, on shore, on Pay of officers special service, and of those on the retired list and unemployed, (and and seamen, milefor expenses and transportation of officers traveling under orders,) and age and transporfor pay of the petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men of the engineers' force, and for the Coast-Survey service, eight thousand five hundred men, six million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no allowance shall be made in the settlement of any account for traveling expenses unless the same be incurred on the order of the Secretary of the Navy, or the allowance be approved by him.

For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at the various navy-yards and stations, the sum of one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, fifty thousand dollars.

For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand

dollars.

For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, ten thousand dollars.

For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars.

For navy-signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, and rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal books, six thousand dollars.

For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses, to be made in the navy-yards, five thousand dollars.

For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars.

Proviso.

Contingent ex

penses.

Civil establishment at navyyards.

Pilotage and towage.

Correcting and testing compasses.

Nautical and as

tronomical instruments, books, charts, &c.

Libraries for ships of war. Navy-signals and apparatus.

Compass-fittings.

Logs, leads, &c.

Lanterns and

For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for lamps. the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters' use, five thousand dollars.

For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing Flags. flags of all kinds, five thousand dollars.

For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, running-lights, for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, twenty thousand dollars.

For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial, two thousand dollars.

For musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars.

Oil and candles.

Stationery.

Musical instru

ments.

Steering-signals,

For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand five &c.

hundred dollars.

Contingent ex

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, viz: For freight and transportation of navigation-materials; instruments, books, and penses. stores; postage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals; packingboxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at navigationoffices, four thousand dollars.

For drawing, engraving, and printing and photo lithographing charts, Charts, &c. correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing-directions, and other hydrographic information; and for making charts, including those of the Pacific coast, sixty thousand dollars.

For fuel, lights, and office-furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing-materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:

For pay of three assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, four thousand five hundred dollars, and one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office-furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, and freight, and all other contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.

For reducing and transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For reducing the observations of the transit of Venus, three thousand dollars.

For expenses of Nautical Almanac:

For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, twenty thousand dollars.

For continuance of work on new planets discovered by American astronomers, three thousand dollars.

For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance Department at the several navyyards and stations, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs to ordnance-buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, ten thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, viz: for freight, express-charges, and purchase of instruments, five thousand dollars.

For the torpedo-corps: For the purchase and manufacture and preservation of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton, twelve thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of electrical apparatus, galvanic batteries, and insulated wire, fifteen thousand dollars.

For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of torpedoes, and for work on the same, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For construction of torpedo-boats, purchase of coffer-work or hulks, and contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For labor, including chemist, pyrotechnist, electrician, machinist, and clerical force, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairs to buildings and wharves, and material and labor for sea wall, one thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the Navy, one thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; condensing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake