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PERFUMERY AND COSMETICS-Continued.

Penalty for removing stamp with fraudulent intent, 375, 347.

Penalty for selling without stamp, 375, 346; 377, 355.

Penalty for evading stamp duty, 375, 348.

All dealers to be deemed manufacturers, 376, 350.

If intended for exportation, may be manufactured in bonded warehouses, 375, 349.
Bonds, 375,

349.

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In reference to bounty lands, punished, 101, ? 7.

In reference to public contracts, 142, 4.

Violation of oath of allegiance, by employees of the departments, 173, & 4.

In reference to claims against the government, 211-12, 1, 3.

Violation of jurors' oath, 285,

3.

Before naval courts martial, 438, 54.

Form of indictment, 438, 54.

Violation of oath of allegiance, 470, 1, 3.

Under the bankrupt law, 77, 8 14.

Under the internal revenue law, 307, 8 57.

Under the homestead law, 397, 56.

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Fees for license, in certain ports, 538,

9.

PIPES.

Of ferry-boats, &c., to be classified and licensed, in certain cases, 539, 11.

Penalty for refusing to serve, 539, 14.

No state to make discrimination in rates of pilotage, 429, 34.

Sea-going steamers to be under the control of licensed pilots, 429, 35; 540, 25.
Except on the high seas, 429, 35; 541, & 25.

State regulations affirmed, 429,

Duties on imported, 249, 8 74.

PIRACY.

35.

Vessels fitted out for piratical purposes to be liable to seizure, 427, 8 9.

To be condemned and sold, 427, § 9.

Commanders of public ships to seize such vessels, 427, ? 10.

And collectors and marshals, 427, ? 11.

PLANTS.

Duties on imported, 238, 55.

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PLATE.

Excise duty on, 358, 280.

PLATED WARE.

Duties on imported, 233, 39; 240, 58.

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When ports of delivery may be discontinued, 228, 24.

Certain ports of delivery abolished, 228, 24.

In case of obstruction at ports of entry, duties may be collected at any port of delivery, 263, § 139.
Officers of such ports, 263, 139.

Limits to be fixed, 263, 139.

Ports may be closed by proclamation, 263, 142.

Penalty for entering or attempting to enter such ports, 263, & 142.

Ports of entry on the Red River may be established, 229, 28.

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Newspapers and periodicals, 503, 98; 504, 108.

Periodicals issued less than weekly, 503, 99.

Letters not to be received by ships, unless regularly posted, 495, 32.
Affidavit of master, 495,

32.

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Power of, to discontinue mail routes, 494, 8 25.

Duties of, in reference to foreign mail contracts, 496, 39-43.

Power of, to establish branch post offices, 498, 56.

To provide for transmission of soldiers' letters, &c., 502, 90.

Duties of, in reference to ship letters, &c., 502, 94.

To provide for delivery of newspapers, &c., by route agents, 503, ? 101.

To prescribe regulations as to wrappers on printed matter, 503, § 102.

To require affidavits from publishers, 503, 102; 504, 104.

To furnish stamped letter sheets, 504, 109.

To establish branch offices and receiving-boxes, 505, 117.

To provide for return of dead letters, 506, 126.

To make regulations as to unclaimed letters, 506, 128.

And as to disposition of unclaimed printed matter, 507, 129.

To publish post-route maps, 495,

30.

May prohibit the carrying of stamped letters out of the mails, 505, 112.

To establish postal money-order offices, 507, 135.

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To establish postal agencies in China and Japan, 497, 48.

To conclude arrangements with foreign post office departments, as to postal money orders, 510,
153.

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Allowance for documents, at Washington, 497, 8 54.

No extra compensation to be allowed for delivery of free letters, &c., 497, 55.

Except in Washington, 497,

55.

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POSTMASTERS—Continued.

Form of statement, 498, 260.

May remove wrappers from printed matter, 504, 103.
May contract for delivery of printed matter, 505, 118.
Salaries of postmasters, 498, 61.

Classification, 498, 61.

How computed, 498, % 61.

Adjustment of salaries, 499,

62.

When salaries to commence, 499, 63.

Salaries at new offices, 499, 8 64.

Allowance for office-rent, 499, 2 65.

Postages and box-rents to be part of the postal revenues, 499, 66.

Allowances for stationery, &c., 500, 8 69.

At money-order offices, to give new bonds, 508, 8 142.

Compensation for issuing and paying money orders, 508, 141; 510, 151.

Relief of postmasters robbed by guerrillas, &c., 511, 154-5.

Limitation of suits against sureties of, 493-4, 16, 17.

What to be evidence of demand on delinquent, 494, 19.

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All persons employed, to be subject to post office laws, whether sworn or not, 492, § 6.
Additional clerks in dead-letter office, 506,

Additional special agents, 493, 8.

127.

Chief clerks to assistant postmaster-general, 492, 10.

Additional clerks, 121, 8; 493, 13-14.

Appropriation of unclaimed money in dead letters, 511, 156.

And proceeds of waste paper, 511, 156.

Superintendent of foreign mails, 493, 13.

Chief of dead-letter office, 493, 14.

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Where local actions to be brought, in respect to land, &c., in different districts, 511, ? 2.
Possessory actions for mining titles, 511, 3.

PRECIOUS STONES.

Duties on imported, 230, 36; 231, 38; 244, % 64.

On jewelry, 231, 38.

PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS.

Appeals to be decided by the commissioner, 392, 8 24.

Settlers on school lands, before survey, with view to pre-emption, to have such right, 392, 25.
Extended to California, 392, 25.

Not to extend to mineral lands, 392, 25.

Time for making proof extended in certain cases, 392, 28.

Fees of registers and receivers, 392, 27.

Certain holders of Mexican grants to have right of pre-emption, 105, § 19.

PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS—Continued.

Owners of homesteads upon certain mineral lands to have right of, 392, 29.
Such lands to be set apart, 392, 30.

Islands on the Great Miami to be subject to, 393, % 31.

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Duties of, when rights of naturalized citizens are invaded by foreign governments, 32, § 4.
Not to remove from office, unless with consent of the senate, 471, % 1.

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PRINTERS. See Congressional Printer.

Documents to be furnished to, in advance of annual reports, 513, 27.

All printing to be done by the government printer, when practicable, 514, 18; 518, 41.

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Printing of patent office report, 512, ? 2.

How paper to be procured in case of default in the contractor, 515, 8 25.

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Form and style of, to be determined by superintendent, 512, 4; 514,

26, 33.
14.

Standard weight of paper, how fixed, 515,

25.

Documents to be furnished in advance of annual reports, 513, 8 7.
Heads of departments to furnish copies of reports, 513,

8.

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All printing to be done by the government printer, when practicable, 514, 18; 518, 41.
Laws regulating prices for, repealed, 518, 42.

Price for printing specifications of patents, 518, § 43.

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