New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-08

Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend,
or repeal this act.
Approved. December Is, 1870.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 3.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled IAN act
TO reduce internal taxes. and for other
purposes" approved July fourteen, eight
cen hundred and seventy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That so
much of section twenty-One OF the act to
reduce internal taxes, and for other pur-
poses approved July fourteen, eighteen
hundred and seventy. as relates to sugar,
be amended so (that] it will read
On all sugar not above number seven,
Dutch standard in color, one and three-quar-
ter cents per pound.
On all sugar above number seven, and
not above number ten. Dutch standard IN
color. two cents per pound.
On all sugar above number ten, and not
above number thirteen, Dutch standard in
color, two and One-quarter cents per pound.
On all sugar above number thirteen, and
not above number sixteen, Dutch standard
in color, two and three-Guarter cents per
pound.
On all sugar above number sixteen, and
not above number twenty, Dutch standard
in color, three and one-quarter cents per
pound
On all sugars above number twenty.
Dutch standard in color, and on all refined
loaf, lump, crushed, powdered and granu-
lated sugar four cents per pound: Provided.
That the Secretary of the Treasury shall,
by regulation, prescribe and require that
samples from packages of sugar shall be
taken by the proper officers. in such manner
as to ascertain the true quality of such SUI
gar: and the weights of sugar imported in
casks Or boxes shall be marked distinctly
by the customhouse weigher, by scoring
the figures ndelibly on each package: And
provided further, That all syrup of sugar,
syrup Of sugar cane juice, melada. concen
trated melada. or concentrated molasses
entered under the name of mOlasses shall
be forfeited to the United States.
Approved. December y, 1870
EREsOLUTION OF GESERAL NATURE-NO. 3.
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for pub
fishing specifications and drawings OF
Patent Office.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
publication of the abstracts of specifications
of engravings heretofore accompanying the
annual report of the Commissioner of Pat
ents be discontinued after the publication OF
that portion of the report for eighteen hun
dred and siAty-nine, for which the plates
have already been prepared and that. in
lieu thereof, the Commissioner be authorized
to have printed, for gratuitous distribution
not to exceed one hundred and fifty copie:
of the complete specifications and
| issued. together with suitable in
dexes to be issued from time to time
one copy to be placed for free public inspec
| ton in each capitol of every State and Ter
ritorv, one for the like purpose in the clerk
Office of the district court of each judicial
district of the United States. except wher
such Offices are located in State or terrific
rial ca pitfalls, and one in the library of Con
| gress, which copies shall be taken and re
| ceivea in all courts as evidence of all mat
| tiers therein contained. and shall be certified
| to under the hand of the Commissioner anG
| seal of the Patent Office and shall be taken
| and received IN all courts as evidence, said
copies not to be taken from said depOsi
! tories for any other purpose than to be
used as evidence: and the Commissioner OF
| Patents is hereby authorized and directed
! to have printed such additional numbers Of
| copies of specifications and drawings
| certified as hereinbefore provided. at a
! price not to exceed the contract price fsi
| such drawings. for sale. as may be war
| ranted bv the actual demand for the same
| and the Commissioner is also hereby author
| lied to furnish complete set of the speciti
cations and drawings to any public library
which will pay for binding the same into
volumes to correspond with those in the
Patent Office, and for the transportation Of
| the same. and which shall also provide
proper custody for the same. with con
| venient access for the public thereto. under
such regulations a. the Commissioner shal
deem reasonable and provided also
that all contracts for making copies OF
| drawings shall be made under the provisions
of chapter one hundred and 6fty-fve. sec
| ton nine, of act Of Congress, approved
June twenty-five. eighteen hundred anc
sixty-four, which reads as follows =: SEC.
! And be it further enacted. That all litho
graphing and engraving, where the proba
BILE total cost of the maps or plates illus
trating or accompanying any one work ex
ceeds two hundred and fifty dollars, shah
| be awarded to the lowest and best bidder
for the interests of the government, due re
| gard being paid to the execution OF the
work, after due advertisement by the Su
perintendent OF Public Printing under tht
direction of the Joint Committee on Print
! ing: provided. that the Joint Committee or
Public Printing be authorized to empowe
the Superin' endent of Public Printing t,
make immediate contracts for engraving
whenever. in their opinion. the exigencies o
the public service will not justify waitir:
! for advertisement and award
Approved January III, 1871.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. 4.
! AN ACT in relation to certain territorial
penitentiaries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o
Representatives of the United States o
| America in Congress assembled, That tn
| pcnitentiary which has been. or may here
| after be, erected by the United States il
any organized Territory thereof, shall whel
| the same is ready for the reception of con
victs, be placed under the care and contro
Of the Marshal of the United States 70
the Territory or District in which such penl
Tertiary may be situated.
SEC. >. And he it further enacted, Tha
it is hereby made the duty of the Attorne.
General Of the United States to preserib
all needful rules and regulations for tn,
government of such penitentiary, and tn
marshal having charge thereof shall caus
them to be duly and faithfully execute,
and obeyed. The reasonable compensation
of such marshal and his deputies, for thei
services under this act and said regulations
shall be fixed by the Attorney General; ant
1t and the expense incident to the subsls
tence and employment of offenders agains
the laws Of the United States, who hav
been or may hereafter be sentenced to i'm
prisonment in such penitentiary, shall b.
chargeable on and payable out OF the fun,