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SECTION OF THE REVISED STATUTES RELATING TO THE PACIFIC

RAILROADS.

certain railroads.

ante, p. 234.

RAILWAYS.

Secretary of SEC. 5260. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to Treasury to withhold payments to withhold all payments to any railroad company and its as3 March, 1873, signs, on account of freights or transportation over their c. 226, 8. 2, vol. 17, respective roads of any kind, to the amount of payments made by the United States for interest upon bonds of the United States issued to any such company, and which shall not have been re-imbursed, together with the five per centum of net earnings due and unapplied, as provided by law.

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REPEAL PROVISIONS OF THE REVISED STATUTES.

Statutes em

233, v. 18.

28 Dec., 1874, c.

9, v. 18.

embraced in re

United States v. Jordan, 2 Low.,

SEC. 5595. The foregoing seventy-three titles embrace the What Revised statutes of the United States general and permanent in their brace. nature, in force on the 1st day of December, one thousand 220 June, 1874, c. eight hundred and seventy-three, as revised and consolidated by commissioners appointed under an act of Congress, and the same shall be designated and cited, as The Revised Statutes of the United States. SEC. 5596. All acts of Congress passed prior to said first Repeal of acts day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy- vision. three, any portion of which is embraced in any section of. said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section appli- 537. cable thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not being general and permanent in their nature: Provided, That the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appropriation, or any provision of a private, local or temporary character, contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force; and all acts of Congress passed prior to said last-named day no part of which are embraced in said revision, shall not be affected or changed by its enactment.

reserved.

SEC. 5597. The repeal of the several acts embraced in said Accrued rights revision, shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under said acts shall continue, and may be enforced in the same manner, as if said repeal had not been made; nor shall said repeal, in any manner affect the right to any office, or change the term or tenure thereof.

and punish

SEC. 5598. All offenses committed, and all penalties or Prosecutions forfeitures incurred under any statute embraced in said re- ments. vision prior to said repeal, may be prosecuted and punished

in the same manner and with the same effect, as if said repeal had not been made.

tion.

SEC. 5599. All acts of limitation, whether applicable to Acts of limitacivil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of of fenses, or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, em

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Arrangement and classification of sections.

Acts passed since Dec. 1, 1873, not affected.

84, v. 18, ante, p. 213.

3 Mar., 1875, c. 130, s. 9, v. 18.

braced in said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecu tions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made.

SEC. 5600. The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the Title, under which any particular section is placed.

SEC. 5601. The enactment of the said revision is not to affect or repeal any act of Congress passed since the 1st day 18 Feb., 1875, c. of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and all acts passed since that date are to have full effect as if passed after the enactment of this revision, and so far as such acts vary from, or conflict with any provision contained in said revision, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes, and as repealing any portion of the revision inconsistent therewith.

Approved, June 22, 1874.

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act February 8, 1861

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act March 2, 1861

Advertisements-

act July 17, 1861

for proposals for loan

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act August 5, 1861.

of February 8, 1861, may be re-
peated

act February 25, 1862.

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act July 11, 1862.

for bidders

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act March 3, 1863

for metals required for minor coinage
at Philadelphia mint.

act March 3, 1864

96, 117

act June 30, 1864.

Advertising-

act March 3, 1865

of bonds authorized by act of July 14,

act July 14, 1870

1870, appropriation for.

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Agents, national banks-

when and how elected

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for payment of Treasury notes
for bringing to trial and punishment

persons engaged in counterfeiting
Treasury notes, bonds, and other
securities of the United States ...
to be made annually out of receipts
for duties an amount equal to the
interest on bonds of sinking-fund.
of one per centum of the amount of
legal-tender notes, fractional cur-
rency, and other securities issued
during each fiscal year.

for the issue, reissue, transfer, deliv-
ery, redemption, and destruction
of United States securities, limita-
tion on amount of

for the expenditures of the mints and
assay-offices

list of permanent..

of coin to redeem loan of June 14, 1858.
for the payment of salaries of the
judges and other officers of the
Court of Commissioners of Ala-
bama Claims

to enable the Secretary of the Treasury
to provide for the redemption in
coin of United States legal-tender
notes after January 1, 1879
for the purchase of silver bullion.
for expenses of commissioners to join
the governments of the countries
composing the Latin Union in a
conference to adopt a common
ratio between gold and silver
for the maceration of obligations of
the United States....

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