Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-24
GENERAL NATURE--No. s5. !

GENERAL MATURING. 95
AN ACT to provide for the care and pres
ervation of the cemetery near the city
of Mexico, purchased in accordace with
the act of September twenty eighth,
eighteen hundred and fifty.
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 is author
lied to provide, out of the ordinary annual
appropriations for establishing and main
tanning United States military cemeteries,
for the proper care and preservation and
maintenance of the cemetery or burial
ground near the city of Mexico. in which
are inferred the remains of officers and
soldiers of the United States, and of citi-
zens of the Unsted States, who fell in bat
tie, or died in and around said city; and
that this cemetery shall be subject to the
rules and regulations affecting United
States national cemeteries within the linn
its of the United States, so far as they
may, in the opinion of the President, be
applicable thereto.
Approved, March 8, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE--No. 96.1
An Act to establish the custom house value OF
the sovereign or pound sterling OF Great Brl-
tain, and to fix the par of exchange.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
ca in Congress assembled, That the value OF
foreign coin as expressed in the money OF &C
count of the United States shall be that OF the
pure metal of such coin of standard value; and
the values of the standard coins in circulation
of the various nations of the world shall be es-
timated annually by the Director of the Mint.
and he proclaimed on the first day of January
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. That in all payments by or to the
treasury, whether made here or in foreign
countries, where it becomes necessary to COM
pute the value of the sovereign or pound ster-
ling, it shall be deemed equal to four dollars
eighty six cents and six and one half mills and
the same rule shall be applied in appraisng
merchandise imported where the value is, by
the invoice, in soyereigns or pounds sterling
and in the construction of contracts payable in
sovereigns or pounds sterling and this valua-
ton shall be the par of exchange between
Great Britain and the United States; and all
contracts made after the first day of January,
an assumed par of exchange with Great Britain
of fifty four pence to the dollar, or four dollars
forty four and four ninths cents to the sover-
eign or pound sterIing shall be null and void.
Sec. 8. That all acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with these provisions be, and the same
are hereby, repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1878.
lGENERAL NATURE-NO. 10.
AN ACT to confer upon the ruperinten-
dent of the United States Military Acad-
envy the power to convene general court
martial.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, That the
superintendent of the United States Mill
tary Academy shall have the power to
ioI for tho fr;ol
of cadets, and to execute the sentences of
such courts, except the sentences of sus-
pension and dismission, subject to the
same limitations and conditions now exist
ing as to other general courts martial.
Approved, March 8, 1878.
GENERAL NATURE-No .99.l
An Act authorizing deputy collectors and other
officers of the customs to act as disbursing
agents in certain cases
Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That in case of the
sickness or unavoidable absence of any collec-
tor or surveyor of customs from his office, he
may, with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, authorize some officer or clerk to act
in his place. and to discharge all the duties re-
quired by law of such collector or surveyor in
his capacity as disbursing agent; Provided.
That the official bond given by the principal of
the Office shall be held to cover and apply to
the acts of the person appointed to act in his
place in such cases
Approved, March.3, 1878.
GENERAL NATURE--No. 1901
An Act to authorize certain postmasters to de-
post public moneys in national banks
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That from and af>
ter the passage of this act it shall be lawful for
any postmaster, having public money belong
ing TO the government where there are no deslg>
mated depositaries treasurers OF minis, or treas
urer or assistant treasurers of the United
States within the county, to deposit the same,
at his own risk and in his official capacity, in
any national bank in the town, city or county
where the. said postmaster redsides; but no au-
thority or permission is or shall be given for the
demand or receipt by the postmaster, or any
other person, Interest, directly or Indirectly, on
any deposit made as herein described; and it
shall be the dnty of all postmasters who have
made any such deposit to report quarterly to
the Postmaster General the name of the bank
where such deposits have been made, and also
state the amount VIZ ich may stand at the time
to their credit
Approved, March 8, 1878.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1O1.1
An Act to fix the compensation of the deputy
collector of customs at Saint Paul.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of
Representatives of the United States Of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That the compensa-
ton, including official emolument of all kinds
of the officer appointed in pursuance TO the sec
ond section of the act entitled AN act to estab-
lish the collection district of Du Luth, rnd to
create Saint Paul, in the collection district of
Minnesota, port of delivery" approved May
twenty third. eighteen hundred and seventy
two, shall not exceed the sum of two thousand
dollars per annum Provided however, That
said officer may be required, in addition to his
duties as such deputy collector, to perform tn Q
duties of an inspector of the customs, without
additional compensation
Approved, March 3, 1873.
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