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4 es BILLS IN THE INTEREST OF COM- MERCE AND NAVIGATION, BROUGHT BEFORE THe 5OTH CONGRESS, 18T SESSION. House Bill 1208, presented January 4, 1888, extending the criminal jurisdiction of the cir- | cuit courts of the grevt lakes and their con necting waters, I:troduced by Mr. Rogers, | of Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembed, That the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts shall extend to all crimes and offenses now punishable by law committed upon the Great Lakes, or any bay, strait, or otuer nav- igable waters connecting or conuected with said lakes, on board of any ves-el belong ng in whole orin part to the United States or any citizen thereof, with like force and effact asit the same were committed upon the high seas. Sec. 2. And thut the trial of all such crimes and offenses not commitied within any 8 ate shall be in the district where the offender is_ found or into which he is first. brought. House Bill 1351, presented January 4, 1888, for the protection of harbors, Introduced by Mr. Vandever, of California, Tha it shall not be lawful to build any wharf, pier, buik- head, or other structures in an. harbor of the United States which has been improved by appropriations made by Congress, or which may be improved; nor shall it be lawful, by any kind of structure, to obstruct, contract, | or interfere with natural or established harbor lines or navigable channels in any harbor of the United States, or she approaches thereto, without first submitiing the plans jor such ; wharf, pier, or bulkhead, or other structure, | improvement, or change, to the Secretary of ' War, and obtaining his approval of the same. Sec. 2. That any wharf, pier, bulkhead, «r other structure erected without the approval of the Secretary of War, which may be found to obstruct, contract, or interfere with natural or established harbor lin s or navigable chan- nels in any harbor of the United Sta'es, or in the approaches thereto, may be reformed, or changed, or removed on the recommenda- tion of the Secretary of War: Provided, how- ever, That before any such reform, change, or remoyal shall be effected on recommend tion of the Secretary of War, any person or party | in interest objecting thereto may and shall | have the right to institute a proceeding in the United States di-trict court of the State and | district within which said work and harbor is located to review the grounds upon which the | recommendation of the Secretary of War for | a change is founded; and if the court deter- mine such change to be proper and in ac- _ cordance with the public good, then the same _ may and shali be executed in the manner re- commended by the Secretary of War, and the urt shall render judsment accordingly to e extent of ordering the removal and des- of any work that shall be found to or impair the navigable character of any such harbor or the ap- juire the testing of chains seed Tact p 1, Introduce: anchor shall have been duly stamped asin this act hereinafter | [That after six months no person shall furnish, and after twelve months no person _ shall use, on any vessel, chains over one-half inch in diameter, or anchors over 168 pounds in weight, which have not been tested and stamped in manner presented by Government inspectors appointed under the act. ] Sec. 2. That the provisions of this act shall not apply for the period of twelve months after its passage to any chain or anchor actually within the United States at the time of its passage; nor shall /its proniaiony apply to any chain in diameter of. less than: fuur- eighths of an inch, nor to any anchor in weight less than one hundred and sixty-eight pounds; nor shall its provisions apply to any chain or anchor manufactured in a y foreign country which has been duly tested in ue- cordance with the laws and regulations which Sekai the testing of chains and anchors for ritish vessels, and ascertained to bear a strein equal to that established for the chains aud anchors of the United States Navy. Sec..3. That immediately after the passage of this act that Secretary of the Navy stull detail, under the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, one officer of the Navy as in- spector, and such other officers of the Navy as may be found necessury as assistant inspectors, for each inspection distri¢t. It shall be the duty of such inspector and his assistants to examine and test all chains above four-eighths of an inch in diameter, and all anchors ot and above one hundred and sixty-eight pounds weight, according to the number of pounds for chain cables and tons for anchors set forth in Tables A and B annexed to this act; and upon such chains and anchors being found of due strength, to stamp the same with their official siamp and gear of inspection on the middle and end link of each fifteen fathoms of chain and on the shank of each anchor, Sec. 4. That the testing-machines to be used in making such tests shall be supplied by the manu!acturers of the said chains and anchors, and shall be capable of measurin accurately the required streng\ of chains an anchors. The said inspector or One of his as ‘sistants shall, once’ in each period of three - months, examine and vertify the accuracy of Ihe Marine Reconi. the district. See. 5. That neither the inspector nor his assistants shall receive other compensation than their pay in the Navy, and mileage whin traveling on duty from place to place. Sec. 6. That it shall be lawful for the in- spector of any officially inspected and stamped | chain or anchor to sign a certificate to that effect, said certificate to set forth the strenuth of chain or anchor und year of manufacture and test. * Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Navy shall, from time to time. mike and publish all needful rules and regulations for the pur- pose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect. Such regulations shall embrace all needful meth ds of securing uniformity in the testing of chains and anchors in the several districts, and all needful forms of re- ports, certificates, and other documents that may be necessary, and general’y all acts or things to be done by reason of the require- ments of this act that may, in the judgment of the Secretary, be need{ul and proper. Svc 8. That if any chain or anchor is delivered to or received in or on board any vessel, and is in use as part of the apparel or equipment of such vessel, after the passage of | this act, which has not been duly tested and stamped un jer the provisions of this act, such chain or anchor shall be forfeited to the United States, and such forfeiture shall be enforced ‘in accordance with the practice of courts of admiralty. Sec. 9. That if any person or persons shal] stamp or put, or cause to be stamped cr pit, on any chain or ancher, the official stamp or any other mark or device to indicate that such chain or anchor has been duly tested under the provisions of this act unless such test has been duly made, such person or persons shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars; and if any person or persons shall make, or sign, or de- liver any false or fraudulent certificate of the testing of any chain or anchor which has not been duly tested, such person or persons shall, 9n conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars; and if any person or persons shall sell or deliver to or fo, the use of any vessel, or shall take, or receiver or use on board any vessel, as part of its ap parel or equipment, any chain or anchor not duly tested and stamped as required under the provisions of this act, such person or per- sons shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. Sec. 10 That any manufacturer or dealer who shall sell or deliver any chain or anchor coming within the provisions of this act, the same not having been tested and stamped as in this act provided, shall, on conviction be- fore any district or circuit court of the United btates, be fined not more than two thousand do lars, Sec. 11. That upon credible information or report made to the Secretary of the Navy or the inspector of the district of the com- mission of any offense against the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of such oflicer to forthwith lay before the district attorney such information, and said district attorney Shall institute a due prosecution of such offender or offenders in the proper district or circuit court. TABLE A. Tasie B. ‘Test (in pounds) for chain- Test (in tons) for cables. anchors. Weight, Size. Stud. Close link. || including | ‘Test. stock, 8-8 3690 Cwts Tons. 7-16 4920 7 5 18-20 1-2 9360 6240 8h 6 12-20 9-16 11740 7490 10 » T 7-20 5-8 14280 9520 li 8 11-16 16940 11290 13. 8 15-20 8-4 19940 13300 14 9 9-20 13-16 23070 15380 2 10 7-20 78 26375 17580 28; 12 15-16 29980 19920 34 13 17-20 a 83840 22560 38 156 3-20 |, 1 1-16 37820 25210 43; 1614-20 1 1-8 42050 28030 47 18 1 3-16 * 46470 30980 51 19 1 1-4 51080 34050 60 21 18-20 1 5-16 _ 55900 37260 67 23 10-20 1 3-8 60920 40610 724 25 3-20 1 7-16 66140 44070 19 26 18-20 1 1-2 71550 47700 85 28 12-20 1 9-16 77160 51440 91 80 2-20 1 58 82960 55510 97 81 12-20 111-16 88950 104 33 8-20 1 3-4 95130 108} 34 10-20 1138-16 101500 114 35 15-20 178 108060 Task 37 2-20 116-16 114810 128; 39 5-20 2 121740 2 1.16 128920 218 . 136290 2 3-16 143870 2 1-4 161640) | 2 5-16 159540 2.38 (|) 167660 || 2 1-2 176000 J = suas fi H. B, 1483, prohibiting the use of railroad and other passes, and of telegraph frank:, by members of the Congress and jidiciary of the United States, and for other purposes; intro- duced January 4, 1888, by Mr. John A. Anderson, of Kansas. That it shall not be a Senator, Representative, to Congress, justice or lawful — four or Delegate associate justice of the Supreme Court, or justice, asso- ciate jusiice, or judge of a circuit or district court of the United States, to accept, use, or ermit or suffer any one to cause to be used or his benefit, a free pass, complimentary ticket, or other authorization to trayel for any less rates than are paid by the general public for like service, over a railroad or in a car, steamboat, steamship, or other public convey- ance in the’ United States employed by a common carrier foe the transportation of passengers; or to accept or use a frank or other authorization to transmit messages over atelegraph line in the United States at less rates than are paid by the general public for like service. And before any installment of salary falling due to any one of the aforesaid official persons shall be paid to him, he shall cortify, in writing, that during the period for which such installment is due he has not traveled in the United States over any rail- | graph in the United States, at less rates than | are paid therefor by the general public for | like service; and in the event of his failure j to make such statement, the installment of | Salary that would otherwise be payable to him shall be forfeited and remain forever unpaid, Sec. 2. That any person who knowingly transmits to any one of the official persons | designa:ed in section one of this acta free pass, complimentary ticket, or other authoriza- ‘tion to travel by a public conveyance at less rates than are pail by the general public for like service, or a frank or other authorization to transmit telegraphic messages at less rates than are paid by the general public for like service, shall for every such offense be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars; and each railroad, steamboat, steamship, telephone, or | Stage company which shall transport any one | of the aforesaid official persons, and each | | telegraph or telephone company which shall , | transmit messages sent by any one of them at | a less rate than would be paid by the general | public for like service, shall, for every such | offense, be liable to a penalty of one thousand | dollars for each director and every officer of the | said company. It is hereby made the duty of | the Chief of the Secret Service of the Treas- | ury Department to investigate supposed violations of vhs section; and it is hereby made the} duty of the Attorney-General of the United | Siates to prosecute all cases reported to him by said Chief, in the proper court of the United Scates. Sec. 3. That whenever a justice or associ- ate justice of the Supreme Court, or a justice, associate justice, or judge of a circuit or district court of the United States, shall be; required, in the discharge of his official duties, to travel from one piace to another in the Un ted States, or to transmit messages by telegraph in the United States, his actual and necessary expenses therefor, certified by him, shall be paid by the marshal of the court which he is about to hold or has held, and shall be allowed in that marshal’s account. Sec. 4. hat all parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby and so far repealed. {House Bill 4443, introduced January 10, by Mr. Voorhees, of Washington Territory, is similar.] } } } H. B. 1486, to amend the laws relating to navigation and for other purposes; introduced January 4, 1888, by Mr. Dingiey, of Maine. ‘that section eleven of an act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws reiating to shipping com- missioners, seamen, and owners of vessels,and for other purposes, approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be amended by striking out of the sixth aud seventh lines of the subproviso of said section the words “of the country in which such port is situated, or.on the cargoes of such vessels,” and substi- tuling in lieu thereof the words “of such country, or on the vargoes of such vessels; but this proviso shall not be held to be in- consistent with the special regulation by for- eign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American yessels under the most-fayored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries.” Sec. 2. That section one of the act herein menuoned be amended, in the third line from the end of the section, by inserting, after the words “shippiag commissioners,” the words “and clerks of steamboat inspectors, and such allowances for fees of United States marshals and witnesses for servicesunder the steamboat- inspection laws, and for expenses of steam- boat inspectors provided for by section forty- four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes,” R Sec. 3. Thatsection forty-five hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by section seven of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the public laws passed by the Forty-eighth Congress, is amended by strking out all after the word “thereof,” in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof as follows: “If any seaman, after his discharge, shall have incurred any expense for board or other necessaries, or for medial care and nursing, at the place of his discharge, before shipping again, or for transportation to the United States, such expense shal! be paid out of the arrears of wages and extra wages received by the consular officer, which shail be retained for that purpose, and the balance only paid over to such seaman; and if such arrears and extra wages are not sufficient to defray such expense, the deficiency shall be paid from the fund in the Treasury for the maintenance and transportation of destitute American seamen.” Sec. 4. hat all tax or duty on tonnage, imposed by law, shall be levied on the wine | tonnage of vessels as ascertained under the laws of the United States relating to the ad- measurement of vessels. Sec. 5, That all provisions of existing laws i relating to the names of vessels shall apply to both steam and sailing vessels above five tons | in burden wholly owned by citizens of the United States. ‘ Sec. 6. That no bond shall be required for | the transportation in vessels of the United States, bonded and licensed under the nayi- ‘gation laws, of goods, wares, or merchandise on which the duties have been secured by pond, unless otherwise expressly provided by aw. Sec. 7. ‘That section fifty-three hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes is amended so as to read as follows: : “Sec. 5346. Every person who, upon the great lakes and the navigable waters con- nected therewith, or the northero, northeast- ern and northwestern frontiers of the United States, or upon the high seas, oron any arm of the sea, or in any river, baven, creek,basin or bay within the admiralty jurisdiction of | dental mislaying of the certificate of registry | orany citizen thereof with a dangerous weapon, or with intent to perpetrate any felony, com- mits an assault on another, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than three years.” Sec. 8. That the certificate of registry, or | the certificate of enrollment and license shall be the only passport, sea-letter, or document showing the character or nationality of a vessel, or the nationality of its ownership, furnished by the United States to any vessel | except where some other document is or may | hereafter be required by treaty, and such cer- | tificate shall be conclusive proof of the nation- | ality of such vessel; but in case of the loss, destruction, wrongful withholding, or acci- belonging to any vessel of the United States | while absent from the United States, it shall be lawful for the consular officer of the United | States at the port or place where such vessel may be to grant a document, setting forth as! nearly as may be last certificate of registry, | which document shall enable such vessel to pro- ceed on her voyage, or return to a portin the | United States, and, upon her arrival at such | port, said document shall be surrendered to the collector and a new certificate of registry shall be taken out in conformity with law. See. 9. That all acts and parts of acts in- consistent with the provisions of this act are repraled; and this act shall take effect thirty days after its passage. H. B. 1527, to make bills of lading conclu- sive evidence in certain cases, presented January 4, 1888, by Mr. Davis, of Massachu- setts. That all bills of lading, or instru- ments in writing in the nature or stead thereof, hereafter issued for merchandise received in any State of the United States for transportation therefrom to any other State of the United States or to any foreign country, when issued by any person or corporation, or when issued by any officer or agent authorized or permitted by any person or corporation to issue similar instruments in his or its behalf, for merchan- dise actually received for transportation, shall be conclus ve evidence, in the hands of every bona fide holder thereof for value, as against the person or corporation by whom or by whose officer or agent the same were issued, that the merchandise therein described was actually received for transportation as therein stated, and that such officer or agent was duly authorized to issue the said instruments in behalf of his principal. Sec. 2. That none of ‘the provisions of this act shall apply, as against the person or corporation issuing said instruments, in any case in which such person or corporation shall establish that the instruments contain some misstatement of fact caused wholiy by the fraud of the holder of said instruments. Sec. 3. That none of the provisions of this act shall affect or impair any contract or obligation entered into before the passage of the same. H. B. 1497, to amend section forty-three hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes, requiring copies of temporary docu- ments of vessels to be filed at their home ports; introduced January 4, 1888, by Mr. Millikin, of Maine, That section forty-three hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes be, and hereby is, amended by add- ing the following, namely: “And in case the new document issued shall be a temporary enrollment or license, it shall be the duty of the collector issuing the same to forward a duly certified copy thereof to the collector of the port to which the vessel may belong, in order that the same may be there kept on file for convenient reference in all matters in which such document is required;” so that said section as amended shall read as follows: ) Sec. 4522. The collectors of the several new document issued shall be a temporary register, enrollment, or license, it shall be the duty of the collector issuing the same to forward a daly certified copy thereof to the collector of the port to which the vessel may belong, in order that the same be there kept on file for convenient reference.” House Bill 1553 —Extending the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts, t» the great lakes and teir coi necting waters, Tntroduced January 4, 1888, by Mr Cuipman, of Michigan, That the criminal jurisdiction of the eir- Crit and digcrict courts shall extend.to all cries und offenses now punishable by law committed upon the great lakes, or any bay, river, strait, or other navigable waters con- |* necting or connected with said lakes, on board of any vessel belorging in whole or in part to the United States or any extizen thereof, with like force and efte ‘t as if the same were committed upon the high seas, Sec. 2. ‘Phat the trial of all such crimes and offenses, not committed within any stare, shall be in the district where the offender is found, or into whieh he is first brought. House Billi 1995.—To create the lakes and gulf water-way commission. Intre- duced January 4, 1888, by Mr. Springer, o1 Ibinois. That a commission is hereby created to be ealled the lakes and gulf water-way com- mission, to consist of tive members. For a commissiou of five members, ap- pointed by the president of the United States, from the engineer corps and from plans to connect Lake Michigan at Chicago [Continued in Supplement.] Stell life, to consider, mature and execute |’ a _ VESSEL PROPERTY FOR SALE. FOR SALE. 4 Bes S. J. CHRISTIAN—Dimens’ons, 18 by 20, al- luwed 110 lbs of steam, cla-s A2, depth 7 to 8 feet of water, an! is im first clase condition. Valuation $7,000 Will sell her for $6,000. For further nfoema- tion iuquire of owner, CAPTAIN M, ENKIGHT, 265 Ontario Street, Toledo, Ohdo. FOR SALE, ee JOHN M. HUTCHINSON—Built \) Quayle & Marin. Ca acity. 1 900 to 2.000 ton« FRANK PEREW, Buffalo, N. Y. 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