The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-18
Avs OF THE UNITED STATES,

Avs OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at tile First Session, sobich aoas begun
and held at the City Of Washington, in the
District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth
dny of December, A. ID. 1866, and ended on
Saturday, the t'oe"ty-eigatd day Of July, A.
d. 1866.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President LA FAYETTE
S. FOSTER, President of the Senate LA
FAYETTE S. FOSTER was elected President
of the Senate pro tempore on the seventh
day of March, AMI SO acted until the end
| of the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAX, Speaker
of the House of Representatives"
CHAP. /.
An Act to amend an Act entitled IAN Act
providing for the selection of Jurors to
serve in the several Courts of the District
| of Columbia.
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
| lea in Congress assembled, That if at any
time it shall occur that all of the names in
the box provided for in the fourth section of
the act to which this is an amendment shall
have been drawn out of the same at any term
of the court before the first day of FEBRUARY
next ensuing, the court, or any judge thereof,
may order the marshal to summon from the
body of Washington County twenty-threc
citizens, having tine qualifications of jurors,
as provided in said act to serve as grand jul
rors and twenty-six citizens, having such
qualifications, to act as petit jurors, or eth
er, as may be needed at any subsequent term
of the court to be held between the time of
the happening of the contingency aforesaid
and the first day of FEBRUARY then next ensu-
ing !; and vacancies in either grand or petit
Jurors so ordered to be summoned as afOre-
said may be filled by other persons sum-
moned by the marshal upon the order of the
court.
SEC 2 And be it further enacted, That
whereas all the names in the jury-Dox provi-
ded for by the fourth section OF the act to
which this is an amendment were, at the
late term of the supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, sitting for the trial of
crimes and misdemeanors drawn from said
box, the Judge assigned to hold the Decem
Der term of said court for the year eighteen
hundred and siXty-fve, be, and he is hereby,
authorized and empowered to order the mar
shall to summon from the body of Washing
ton County twentythree citizens having the
qualifications of jurors, as provided in the
act to which this is an amendment, to act as
grand jurors for said term of said court, and
twenty-siX citizens, having such qualitiica-
tions to act as petit jurors for said term, and
that vacancies in said grand and petit jurors
may be filled as provided for in the first sec
OF this act.
approved, dec. 10, lSOo.
CHAP IL
An Act to prevent the Spread offoreign Dis
eases among the Cattle of the United
States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United Suites of
America in Congress assembled, That the i'm
portation Of cattle be, and hereby is, prohib
tied. And it shall be the duty of the Secre
tary of the Treasury to make such regula-
tons will give this law full and immedi
ate effect, and to send copies of them to the
proper officers in this country, and to all of
ticers or agents of the United States in for
eign countries.
Sec. ?. And be it further enacted, That
when the President shall give thirty days no
tice, by proclamation, that no further danger
is to be apprehended from the spread of for |
eign infectious or contagious diseases among
cattle, this law shall be of nc force, and cat
tie may be imported in the same way as be-
fore its passage.
Approved, Dec. IS, 1865.