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CALENDAR FOR 45 5 57 5 42 11 36 5 2 55 5 585 41 morn. 5 5 5 595 39 0 41 5 565 42 0 52 3 18 26 770336 5677699 6 665277 6 105 22 9 20 morn. 6 8 249 25 6 115 2110 907 95 23 10 14 666 29 7 14 05 34 6 43 15 33 7 24 9 9. 65 24 0 91 53 53 53 32 058 3 38 4 31 5 22 6 11 2 6 155 14 2 47 85 22 95 21 156 44 95 20 105 19 4 46 15 7 50 6 6 225 58 8 35 6 20 6 21 6 225 302 29 Th II 43 47 57 10 25 3 50 6285 0 10 29 ev. 36 324 56 11 32 4 47 6 334 54 morn. 5 52 6 294 59 11 35 I 6 304 57 morn. 2 38 99666 235 5 PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. [December 3, 1883-July 7, 1884.] AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. Chap. CXXI.-On and after July 1, 1884, no fees named in the tariff of consular fees shall be collected by consular officers for this official services to American vessels and seamen. Consular officers shall furnish the master of every such vessel with an itemized statement of such services necessarily performed, with the fee so prescribed for each service, and make a detailed report thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury, and he shall allow consular officers who are paid in whole or in part by fees such compensation for said services as they would have received prior to the passage of this act. A duty of 3 cents per ton, and not to exceed 15 cents per ton in any one year, is imposed at each entry on all vessels entered in any port of the U. S. from a foreign port in North America, Central America, West India Islands, Bahama Islands, Bermuda Islands, Sandwich Islands or Newfoundlaud; and 6 cents per ton, not to exceed 30 cents per ton per annum, is imposed at each entry upon all vessels entered in the U. S. from other foreign ports: Provided, That the President shall suspend the cl lection of so much of this duty on vessels entered from Canada, Newfoundland, Bahama Islands, Bermuda Islands, West India Islands, Mexico and Central America down to and including Aspinwall and Panama, as may be in excess of the tonnage and light house dues, or other equiv. alent tax or taxes, imposed on American vessels by the government of the foreign country in which such por is situated. and shall from time to time indicate by proclamation the ports to which such suspension shall apply. All acts for collecting a hospital tax for seamen are repealed. All articles of foreign production needed, and actually withdrawn from bonded warehouses for supplies, not including equipment of vessels of the U. S. engaged in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the U. S., may be so with. drawn free of duty. Ón vessels built in the U. S. for foreign account, wholly or partly of foreign material, on which import duties have been paid, there shall be allowed on such vessel, when exported, a drawback equal to the duty paid on such materials. The individual liability of a ship-owner shall be limited to the proportion of any or all debts and liabilities that his individual share of the vessel bears to the whole; and the aggregate liabilities of all the owners of a vessel on account of the same shall not exceed the value of such vessels and freight pending. All laws that oblige American Vessels to carry the mails to and from the U. S. arbitrarily, or that prevent the clearance of vessels until they shall have taken mail matter on board, are repealed, to take effect April 1, 1885. Each steam vessel of one hundred tons or under shall pay ten dollars for inspection examinatious, in addition to fees for issuing enrolments and licenses, and for each ton in excess of one hundred, five cents in lieu of existing fees. Vesse's arriving at a port of entry in the U. S. laden with coal, salt, railroad-iron and other like articles in balk, may proceed to places within that collection district to be specially designated by the secretary of the Treasury, under the superintendence of the customs ouicers, at the expense of the parties interested, for the purpose of unlading cargoes of the character before mentioned. All inconsistent laws are repealed,-[Approved June 26, 1884. ARMY AND NAVY. Chap. CCXVII.-Any paymaster of the rank of major who has served twenty years in the army as a commissioned offcer may be placed upon the retired list, until the Pay Department shall be reduced to thirty-five members. And no more paymasters shall be appointed until the number shall be reduced below twenty-nine majors, and thereafter the number of officers in the Pay Department shall not exceed thirty-five. Forty officers may be detached as professors in colleges, instead of thirty.-Approved July 5, 1884. Chap. CXXII.-All graduates of the Naval Academy who are assigned to the line of the navy, on the successful completion of the six years' course shall be commissioned ensigns. The grade of junior ensigns is abolished.-[Approved June 26, 1884. CHINESE LABORERS, SUPPLEMENTARY ACT. Chap. CCXX.-The principal changes made in the act of 1882 are: The words "from any foreign port or place" are inserted in the first section prohibiting the coming of the Chinese. The second change prohibits masters of vessels from landing, or attempting to land, or permitting to be landed, any Ch nese laborer. In section 3 these words are also added: "Provided, That all Chinese laborers brought on such vessel shall not be permitted to land except in case of absolute necessity." The next change is that the certificate upon which the Chinese laborer should return shall state the individual, family, and tribal name" of the bearer. Chinese, other than laborers, authorized to come to the United States under the treaty shall obtain permission of, an, be identified as so entitled by, the Chinese Government, or of such other foreign government of which he may be a subject, and shall have a certificate setting forth name, age, rank, height, physical peculiarites, etc. This act shall apply to all subjects of China and Chinese, whether subjects of China or any other foreign power.-[Approved July 5, 1884. |