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, 8 348. All dealers to be deemed manufacturers, 376, 8 350. If intended for exportation, may be manufactured in bonded warehouses, 375, 8 349. Bonds, 375, 8 349. Removal for exportation, 375, 349. Removal of materials, 375, X 349. Superintendence of labor, 376, % 349.
Duties on imported, 231, § 39 ; 237, 8 52; 248, & 72. PERJURY.
In reference to bounty lands, punished, 101, 87. In reference to public contracts, 142, 8 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, & 57.
Under the homestead law, 397, & 56. PERSIA.
Judicial powers of minister and consuls, 137, 8 30. PERSONATION.
Of revenue officers, punishment of, 158, & 26; 292, & 15. PETROLEUM. See Coal-Oil.
Duties on imported, 250, 8 83. Special tax on coal-oil distillers, 348, & 224.
How laden, on steamboats, 540, § 22. PEWTER.
Duties on imported, 244, 64. PHILADELPHIA.
Chief clerk to assistant treasurer, 547, 8 16. When to act as assistant treasurer, 547, 8 17. Duties of clerks, 547, 8 18. Boundaries of port of, 481, 87. Camden annexed to collection district of, 481, 84.
Compensation of custom-house officers, 228, ở 19, 22. PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Duties on imported, 250, % 79. PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Special tax on, 349, & 239.
Who to be deemed photographers, 349, 239. PHYSICIANS.
Special tax on, 350, & 248. Who to be deemed physicians, 350, & 248.
May make up their own prescriptions, 351, 8 256. PICKLES AND SAUCES.
Duties on imported, 231, & 39 ; 239, 8 58. PILOTS.
Fees for license, in certain ports, 538, & 9. Of ferry-boats, &c., to be classified and licensed, in certain cases, 539, 8 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, 8 35 ; 540, $ 25. Except on the high seas, 429, 35; 541, % 25.
State regulations affirmed, 429, % 35. PIPES.
Duties on imported, 249, 8 74. PIRACY.
Vessels fitted ont for piratical purposes to be liable to seizure, 427, & 9. To be condemned and sold, 427, 8 9. Commanders of public ships to seize such vessels, 427, % 10.
And collectors and marshals, 427, & 11. PLANTS.
Duties on imported, 238, 2 55.
PLATE.
Excise duty on, 358, 280. PLATED WARE.
Duties on imported, 233, 8 39 ; 240, % 58. PLATINA.
Duties on imported, 234, 40. PLATTSBURG.
Port of entry transferred to, from Rouse's Point, 468, & 13.
Collector to reside at, 468, % 13. PLAYING CARDS.
Duties on imported, 248, 272. Stamp duty on, 382, & 381. Proprietors may furnish their own stamps, 372, § 337. How cancelled, 372, 2, 337. Penalty for neglect, 372, & 337. Penalty for counterfeiting stamps, 372, & 337. Discount on proprietary stamps, 374, 8 342. Penalty for removing stamp with fraudulent intent, 375, & 347. Penalty for selling without stamp, 375, 8 346; 377, % 355.
All dealers to be deemed manufacturers, 376, 8 350. PLUMBERS AND GAS-FITTERS.
Special tax on, 350, 2 251.
Who to be deemed plumbers and gas-fitters, 350, $ 251. PLUNDERING.
Punishment of, in the navy, 436, 48. POLICIES OF INSURANCE.
Stamp duties on, 379, 8 368.
On assignments of, 380, 8 371. PORT ANGELOS.
A port of entry, in place of Port Townsend, 552, & 9. PORTLAND.
Terms of the circuit court at, 102, & 1; 474, 8 6. Terms of the district court at, 103, 88; 475, % 15. To be a port of delivery, 475, 8 19. Surveyor, 475, % 19. Additional inspectors of customs, 226, % 9. Compensation of custom-house officers, 228, $ 19, 22. Revenue officers at, 225, & 3.
Additional inspectors of steamboats at, 538, 8 7. PORT ORFORD.
Collection district of, abolished, 475, § 18. PORT ROYAL.
To be a port of entry, in South Carolina, 537, & 3. Officers of the customs, 537, 8 3.
Transferred to Beaufort, 537, 8 4. PORTS.
When ports of delivery may be discontinued, 228, 224. 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. POSTAGE.
On letters of soldiers, &c., need not be prepaid, 501, 8 75, 77, Prepaid letters to be forwarded to soldiers, 501, % 76. No mail matter to be delivered before payment of, 501, ở 77. Upon what, postage to be prepaid, 501, % 80. Prepayment of postage on periodicals, 501, & 81. Single postage weight, 501, & 84. Rate of postage on mail letters, 501, 885. On drop letters, 501, 8 86; 506, & 121. What to be charged with letter postage, 502, & 87. Manuscripts and proofs, 502, & 87. Address and subscription bills, 502, & 87. Non-enumerated matter to pay letter postage, 502, & 88. When double postage to be charged, 502, § 89. Rate on returned letters, 502, % 92. On forwarded letters, 502, 893.
POSTAGE- Continued.
On ship letters, 502, 2 94. On registered letters, 502, X 95. Single rate for printed matter, 503, % 96. Transient matter, 503, 97. Newspapers and periodicals, 503, & 98; 504, X 108. Periodicals issued less than weekly, 503, & 99. Letters not to be received by ships, unless regularly posted, 495, 8 32. Affidavit of master, 495, % 32.
Rates of foreign postage, 504, X 106. POSTAL CONVENTIONS.
Printing and distribution of, 28, 4. POSTAL MONEY ORDERS.
Money order offices to be established, 507, 8 135. Postal money orders to be issued, 507, 8 135. Notice to drawee, 507, & 135. Penalty for issuing order without receiving money, 507, & 135. Forms to be prepared, 507, X 136. Applications to be filed, 508, % 136. Amounts regulated, 508, % 137 ; 510, % 149. Fees, 510, % 151. When orders may be changed, 508, & 138. Repayments, 508, & 138. Presentation of orders, 508, % 139. To be valid for one year, 510, $ 150. Whien duplicate to issue, 508, 8 139 ; 510, $ 150. How duplicates to be issued, 510, & 152. Endorsements regulated, 508, & 140. Compensation of postmasters, 508, % 141; 510, 151. Postmasters to give new bonds, 508, 142. Payments and transfers, 508, & 142. Transfers to pay money orders, 509, % 143. Accounts to be audited, 509, 8 144. Punishment of embezzlement, 509, % 145, Evidence, 509, & 145. Forgery punished, 159, & 30; 509, & 146. Superintentents and clerks, 510, § 147. Deposits in national banks, &c., 510, % 148.
Foreign postal money orders, 510, % 153. POSTMASTER-GENERAL.
To expedite the great southern mail, 494, X 22. To dispose of the quarterly returns, 497, 2 53. What postmasters to be appointed by, 492, % 5. Oath of office, 492, % 6. Annual report of miscellaneous payments, 494, % 20. Annual estimates, 494, 21. Power of, to discontinue mail routes, 494, 25. Duties of, in reference to foreign mail contracts, 496, 8 39-43. Power of, to establish branch post offices, 498, 56. To provide for transmission of soldiers' letters, &c., 502, X 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, X 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, 8 30. May prohibit the carrying of stamped letters out of the mails, 505, 2 112. To establish postal money-order offices, 507, & 135. His duties in relation thereto, 508, % 139, 142–3. To furnish metric balances to certain offices, 497, % 46. To establish postal agencies in China and Japan, 497, § 48. To conclude arrangements with foreign post office departments, as to postal money orders, 510,
& 15.3. POSTMASTERS.
When to be appointed by the postmaster-general, 492, 2 5. Oath of office, 492, 2 6. Allowance for documents, at Washington, 497, 8 54. No extra compensation to be allowed for delivery of free letters, &c., 497, 8 55. Except in Washington, 497, 8 55. Accounts of, how kept, 498, 58. When to be allowed extra compensation, 498, 259. Quarterly returns, 498, 8 60.
POSTMASTERS — Continued.
Form of statement, 498, % 60. May remove wrappers from printed matter, 504, & 103. May contract for delivery of printed matter, 505, 118. Salaries of postmasters, 498, 8 61. Classification, 498, 8 61. How computed, 498, 8 61. Adjustment of salaries, 499, X 62. When salaries to commence, 499, 8 63. Salaries at new offices, 499, 8 64. Allowance for office-rent, 499, X 65. Postages and box-rents to be part of the postal revenues, 499, & 66. Allowances for stationery, &c., 500, 69. At money-order offices, to give new bouds, 508, & 142. Compensation for issuing and paying money orders, 508, & 141 ; 510, 8 151. 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. POST OFFICE.
Branch offices may be established in cities, 498, % 56–7; 505, & 116. Payment of box-rent, 501, % 78. Receiving-boxes, 505, & 117. Salary of persons in charge of branch offices, 505, & 117. Sale of stamps, 505, % 117. Payment of expenses, 505, ở 120. Clerks in railway post offices, 495, 31. Distributing and separating offices, 499, & 66. Penalty for setting up unauthorized offices, 499, 8 68.
Metric balances to be furnished to certain offices, 497, 8 46. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Disposition of quarterly returns, 497, 2 53. Compensation of special agents, 492, 1; 493, % 7-8. Messenger to assistant postmaster-general, 492, 2. Limitation acts not to apply to states in rebellion, 492, & 3. Who may administer oaths, 492, 8 4. Oath of office, 492, & 6. All persons employed, to be subject to post office laws, whether sworn or not, 492, 6. Additional clerks in dead-letter office, 506, 8 127. Additional special agents, 493, % 8. Chief clerks to assistant postmaster-general, 492, § 10. Additional clerks, 121, 28; 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. Blank agency, 493, & 15. Special agents to give security, 493, & 11. Copies of papers to be evidence, in criminal cases, 494, 2 18. Annual estimates, 494, & 21. Agents for mail steamers, 497, & 47.
Postal agencies in China and Japan, 497, 8 48. POST ROUTES.
When the postmaster-general may discontinue, 494, § 25. Penalty for setting unauthorized, in cities, 495, % 26.
Post-route maps to be published, 495, 8 30. POWERS OF ATTORNEY.
Stamp duties on, 380, 8 373. PRACTICE
Where transitory actions to be brought, 511, $ 1. Service of process in another district, 511, % 1. Process in local actions, 511, 1. 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, 8 36 ; 231, 838; 244, 8 64.
On jewelry, 231, % 38. PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS.
Appeals to be decided by the commissioner, 392, & 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, 2 25. Time for making proof extended in certain cases, 392, 828. 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, 8 31. Lands along the Pacific railroad, 393, $ 32.
Lands in the Sioux reservation, 393, % 33. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
When to approve sentence of court martial, 47, 891. May grant partial pardons, 164, & 54. May license restricted intercourse with states in rebellion, 277, 8 13. Order of, to be a full defence to action for arrest, &c., 280, 8 28. To provide for enrolling the militia, 412, & 1. May issue letters of marque, 435, 42. When to confirm sentence of naval court martial, 438, % 60. May contract for reception of captured slaves, 535-6,8 1, 6. May close ports, by proclamation, 263, & 142. May discontinue land offices, 389, 87. May regulate trade with Alaska, 30, % 4. Duties of, when rights of naturalized citizens are invaded by foreign governments, 32, X 4. Not to remove from office, unless with consent of the senate, 471, ở 1. Power of suspension, 471, % 2. Power to fill vacancies, 471, $ 3. Officers in the executive department, 530, % 1.
Their salaries, 530, § 1. PRESQUE ISLE.
District of, to be called Erie, 481, 83. PRESTON.
District court of Minnesota, transferred from, to Winona, 414, % 8, 10. 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, 8 41. PRINTING.
Of documents ordered by both houses regulated, 512, & 1. Number of copies, 512, & 1. Distribution, 512, % 1. Composition, 512, 81. Printing of patent office report, 512, ? 2. How paper to be procured in case of default in the contractor, 515, % 25. Number of bills, 512, & 5. Printing of annual statement of exports and imports, 512, & 3. Commercial relations, 513; & 10. Reports of executive departments, 514, X 16. Papers relating to foreign officers, 514, 2 17. Lithographing and engraving to be given to the lowest bidder, 516, & 26, 33. Form and style of, to be determined by superintendent, 512, 8 4; 514, & 14. Standard weight of paper, how fixed, 515, 25. Documents to be furnished in advance of annual reports, 513, & 7. Heads of departments to furnish copies of reports, 513, 28. Printing to be executed only on order in writing, 513, & 6. Mail contracts not to be printed without special order, 513, & 11. Printing of laws, 513, & 12. Papers relating to foreign affairs, 513, & 13. Report of commissioner of internal revenue, 514, & 15. Extra copies of documents, 517, % 34. Of the laws regulated, 28, & 1-5. Of treaties and postal conventions, 28, & 4. All printing to be done by the government printer, when practicable, 514, & 18; 518, & 41. Laws regulating prices for, repealed, 518, 8 42.
Price for printing specifications of patents, 518, & 43. PRINTING OFFICE.
Government printing office to be erected, 514, & 19. And materials purchased, 514, / 19. Duties of superintendent, 514, 20. Foremen, 514, % 20. Number of hands, 514, % 20. All public printing and binding to be executed at, 515, ở 23.
How paper to be procured, 515, 825; 517, 835-7. PRIZE.
Duties of commanders of capturing vessels, 440, X 69; 519, 8 1. Proceedings where captured vessel cannot be sent in, 519, $ 1. Captures on inland waters not to be deemed prize, 283, $ 46. Duties of commander of vessel claiming to share prize, 519, 22. Duties of prize master, 519, & 4. Prize crews, 441, 878.
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