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UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
FirstSession of the FOrty-Third Congress
GENERAL NATuRE-NO 76.l

First Session fthe FOrty-Third Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-No 76.
An act for the better government of the United
States
Belt enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That on and after the pas
sage of this act, any officer OF the Navy who
| NAV be promoted in course to fill a vacancy in
| the next higher grade shall be entitled to the
paw of the grade to which promoted from the
| date he takes rank therein, if it be subsequent
| to the vacancy he is appointed to fill.
SEC g That the accounting officers of the
| Treasury be, and are hereby. prohibited from
| making any allowance to any officer of the
| Navy who has been, or may hereafter be, dis
missed from the service and restored to the
| same under the provisions of the twelfth Sec
| ton of the act of March third, eighteen hun.
| bred and sixty-five, entitled can act to amend
| the several acts heretofore passed to provide
| for the enrolling and calling out the national
| forces, and for other purposes" to exceed more
| than pay as on leave for six months from the
| date of dismissal, unless it shall appear that
| the officer demanded in writing, addressed TO
the Secretary of the Navy, and continued to
| demand as often as once in six months, trial
| as provided for in said act.
| Sec. 8. That so much of the act entitled
| San act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy
to provide for the education of naval con-
structors and steam engineers, and for other
purposes" approved July fourth, eighteen
cadet-engineers, not to exceed fifty in number,
| shall be appointed by the Secretary of the
| Navy, is hereby repealed; and cadet-engineers
shall hereafter be appointed annually by the
pointed each year shall not exceed twenty-five;
| and that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent
| with the provisions of this act be- and the same
are hereby repealed,
Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. III
| AN ACT to repeal so much of the act approved
May eight eighteen hundred and seventy
| two, entitled IAN act making appropriations
for the legislative, executive and judicial
| expenses Of the Government for the year
| ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, and for other purposes as
| provides for the employment of persons to
| assist the proper officers of the government
in discovering and collecting moneys with
held and for other purposes.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentdtiues OF the United States of america in
| Congress assembled, That so much of the act
| entitled IAN act making appropriations for the
legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of
the government for the year ending June thir-
tetb, eighteen hundred and seventy three, and
| for other purposes" approved May eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two. as provides
for the employment by the Secretary of the
/ lT6dSuTys Ol LOU uOT6 budU Lurec persons 10
| assist the proper officers of the government in
| discovering and collecting any money belong
| ing to the United States when the same shall
be withheld by any person or corporation be,
and the same is hereby, repealed; and the Sec
rotary of the Treasury is hereby directed to re.
woke and annul all contracts for the collection
| of such taxes made under and by authority of
| said act.
SEC 2. That the Court of Claims shall have
no authority to consider or decide upon any
n n mo hv rs A1,nI
uance OF the contracts aforesaid or for any
profits or percentages under them.
Approved June %, 1874.
| GENERAL NArURE-No. 1871
AN ACT to legalize the entries of public
lands under the homestead laws in certain
| cases.
Be ie enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
| resentdtiUes of the United States of Americo n,
Congress assembled, That in all cases of entries
of public lands heretofore made under the act
entitled IAN act to secure homesteads to actual
settlers on the public domain approved Nav
twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty two,
where the affidavit required by section two of
said act was made before the clerk Of the
county of the residence Of the person making
the entry, without having first made the set
Element and improvement required by the pro-
visions of section three of the act entitled
IAN act amendatory of the homestead law,
ane ,of otner purposes approved March
said afidavits be, and the same are hereby, le-
| galized and confirmed, so as to have the same
force and validity. as if the provisions of the
last named act had been strictly complied with:
| Provided. That nothing in this act shall have
| the effect or be construed to impair the valid
and paramount adverse rights of any person or
| corporation to any of such lands, except in so
tar as the right Of Congress to protect the
claims or rights .of homestead settlers upon
lands within the limits of grants of lands to
any railroad company may have been reserved
in the acts making such grants and be now law
fully existing.
Approved, June o, 1874.
| GENERAL NATURE-No. 79.1
| AN ACT to amend the act entitled can act to pro-
vide for the payment Of horses and other property
lost OF destroyed in the military service Of the
hundred and forty mine.
| Be il enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiUes Of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled That the first section Of the act of
viding for the payment of horses and equipments
lost by officers or enlisted in the military SER
sna Sc to deny such
been purchased by them in states in instruction;
and payment in any shall not be refused where
the loss resulted from any exigency necessity Of
the military service, unless it was caused by the
fault or negligence of such officers enlisted men,
amendment thereto shall be considered unless pre-
sented prior to the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six.
Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. col
| AN ACT comforting Jurisdiction upon the criminal
court of the District of Columbia, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatires Of the United States Of america in Con-
| gress assembled, That the criminal court of the
District of Columbia shall have Jurisdiction of all
crimes and misdemeanors committed in said Dis
trlct, not lawfully triabe in other court, and
| which are required by law to be prosecuted by in
dictment or information.
SEC That the provisions of the thirty Sec
ton Of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and
Congress in the District Of Columbia. wv v
| Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. S1.]
| AN ACT act to amend the act entitled IAN act to
establish western judicial district of North Car
0lina.''
Be it enacted BY the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiUes Of the United States of america in Con-
June fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
entitled AN act to establish western judicial dis
tf f Of North Caroline be amended BY adding there
marshal Of the United States for said western dis
trict Of North Carolina, who shall be entitled to
to be made quarterly out of the Treasury Of the
United States, and in addition thereto the fees Of
| office affixed by law"
Approved, June %, 1874.
| GENERAL NATURE-No. s2]
| AN ACT to admit free of duty merchandise sunk for
| two years and afteward recovered.
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatices of the United States of america in Con
gress assembled That wherever any ship or vessel
laden with merchandise in whole or in part subject
to duty, shall have been sunk in any river, harbor
bay or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States and within its limits, and shall have
remained sunk for the period of not less than two
years, and shall be abandoned by the thereof
any person or PERSONS who may raise any portion Of
to bring the merchandise recovered into the port
the place where such ship or vessel was
| naVmaOt " INF fharo,r v,oy,
and without being obliged enter the same at the
custom house, under such rules and regulations as
| the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
Approved, June %, 1874