The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-10

and maintaining national military cemeteries two
hundred and seventy five thousand dollars Provided,
That the headstones required by an act entitled IAN
act to establish and protect national cemeteries, ap.
proved February gnteehh n
proved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy.
two shall be Of durable sone and OF such design and
weight as shall keep them in place when set and the
contract for supplying the same shall be awarded by
the Secretary of War; after sixty days advertisement
in ten newspapers of general circulation to some re-
sponsibe person persons, whose samples and bids
shall in the greatest measure combine the elements
of durability, decency, and cheapness and the sum
of one million dollars is hereby appropriated for said
purpose out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriately and the Secretary OF war shall
first determine for the various cemeteries the size
and model for such headstones and the standard OF
quality and of the stone to be used, and DDS
shall be made and decided with reference thereto
and contracts may be made for separate quantities of
sncb headstones and the contracts made under this
act shall provide for furnishing and setting all the
said hcadstones, and shall not in the aggregate ex
coed the sum hereby appropriated. For army con-
tingencies namely: such expenses as are not provi
ded for by other estimates, embracing all branches
of the military service, hundred thousand dollars
For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay
of private physicians employed in emergencies hire
ofhospital attendants expenses ofpurveying depots
of medical examining boards, and incidental eXpen
ses of the Medical department, two hundred thous
and dollars and the chief medical purveyor OF the
army shall have, under the direction OF the surgeon
General supervision fthe purchase and distribution
of all hospital and medical supplies. For the Army
Medical Museum and medical and other necessary
ten thousand dollars. For engineer depot at W1let
point, New York, viz: Remodelling portions OF
bridge equpage and for current expenses OF the ae
pot purchase of engineering material for use In in
strucon of engineer BATTALION and purchase ana re-
pair of instruments for general service OF the corps
of engineers nine thousand dollars. Fer trials with
torpedoes for harbor and land Defence and to instruct
the engineer troops in their practical construction
and application, ten thousand dollars. For the ord
nance service required to defray the current expenses
at the arsenals of receiving stores and Issuing arms
and other ordnance supplies; of police and office du-
ties; of rents. tolls fuel and LIGHTS OF M
of public animals, forage, and vehicles; lncldental
expenses of the ordnance SERVICE including those at
tending practical trials and tests OF ordnance small
arms and other ordnance supplies, two hundred
thousand dollars For manufacturing metallic anu
milton for small-arms, one hundred ana twenty-nVe
thousand dollars. For Overhauling. preserving, and
cleaning ordnance stores on hand in the arsena
seventy five thousand dollars. For purchase and
manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requslton OF
troops and for sca-coast cannon, and for carriages
for the same two hundred thousand dollafs FOR al
terations of the carriages now III use III seacoast
forts one hundred thousand dollars. For repairing
ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands OF troops
twenty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secre
tary of War to provide Gating guns OF lgnt calDre
for the use of the army, sixty thousand dollars. For
the purchase of projectes for heavy guns, fifty thou
sand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby
authorized his discretion to exchange the unser-
viceabe and unsuitable powder on hand for new pow
der. For preservation ofclothing and equpage from
moth and mildew, two hundred thousand dollars,
which shall be available for immediate USE
For infantry cavalry, and artillery equipments, con-
sstng oflnapsacks haversacks canteens, and great
coat straps sixty Thousand dollars For experiments
and tests of two Calling guns of large calibre for
flank defense of forticatiOns, five thousand dollars,
and of the systems of heavy rfed ordnance recon-
mended for trial by the board convened under act OF
June SIXTH eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and,
i'll the discretion of the Secretary OF any other sys-
tens for utilizing or improving the cast-lron guns
now in the service fifty thousand dollars III addition
to any uneXpended balance OF appropriations made
for the present fiscal year For manufacture OF arms
lars. For improved machinery and instruments for
testing American iron and steel, twenty thousand
Approved March 3, 1913.
GENERAL NATURE-No SCI
AN ACT for the suppression OF trade in and crcua-
ton of obscene literature and articles OF immoral
use. -
Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresen-
atves of the United States Of America in Congress
assembled, That whoever, within the District OF Co
umbia any of the Territories OF the United States
or other place within the exclusive jurisdiction OF the
United States shall SELL or lend, or give away or III
any manner exhibit or shall offer to SELL or to lend
or to give away in any to exhibit, or shall
otherwise publish or offer to publish in any manner
or shall have in his possession, for any such purpose
| or purposes, any obscene book, pamphlet, paper
writing advertisement, circular, print picture draw
ing or other representation, figure, or image on OF
of paper other material, or any cast, instrument
other article of an immoral nature, or any drug OF
medicine any article, whatever for the prevention
of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, OF
shall advertise the same for SALE or shall write OF
print to be written or printed any caro- cir
cular book pamphlet, advertisement, or notice OF
any kind stating when, where, how, or of whom, oil
| by what means, any of the articles in this section
hereinbefore mentioned, can be purchased or obtain
cd or shall manufacture draw, or print, or IN any
wise make any of such articles, shall be deemed gull
any court of the United States having criminal juris
dction in the District of Columbia, or in any Terri
tory or place within the exclusive jurisdiction oftht
United States, where such misdemeanor snail nave
been committed and on conviction thereof, he shall
be imprisoned at hard labor in the penltentlary 1o
not less than six months nor more than hve years ol
each ofense or fined not less than one hundred dol
| lars, with costs of court.
Sec 2 That section one hundred and forty-eight Of
the act to revise consolidate, and amend the statutes
| eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two beamend
| ed to read as follows
Sec 14S That no obscene, lewd, or lascivious book
pamphlet picture, paper, print or other publication
of indecent character or any article or thing dc
signed intended for the prevention OF conception
or procuring of abortion, any article or thing in
tended or adapted for any indecent orimmofa use OF
nature, nor any written or printed card, circular