Certain actions against, to be removable to the circuit court, 117, 20, Oath of office, 56, 1. Bond, 56, 1. Not to be interested in banking companies, 56, 8 1. His duties, 61, 17-18, 21; 62, 24. To prepare circulating notes, 62, 22. To have custody of the plates and dies, 66, 42. To deliver notes to banking companies, 61, 21. To register bonds, 61, 19. And assignments thereof, 61, & 20. Duties, in case of depreciation of securities, 63, § 26. To exchange worn-out and mutilated notes, 62, ¿ 24. To destroy cancelled notes, 62, 24. To ascertain whether banks have suspended payment, 68, 47. To cancel bonds, 68, 47. Or sell them at auction, 69, 8 50. Or at private sale, 69, § 51. To examine into affairs of banking companies, 70, 2 56. Annual reports to congress, 71, 8 64. CONCERT HALLS. Special tax on, 349, 241. CONFECTIONERS. Special tax on, 348, 227. Who to be deemed confectioners, 348, 227. Wholesale and retail dealers need not take out confectioner's license, 348, 227. How compensation of members to be paid, 132, 11, 18. Payment to widows and heirs, in case of death of a member, 132, 12. When compensation of member elected to fill a vacancy, to commence, 132, 13-14. Additional compensation of officers, 132, 17. Testimony of witness before, not to be used against him, 141, 1. Privilege not to extend to official papers, 141, § 1. Witness not to be excused, because his testimony may disgrace him, 141, 1. CONGRESSIONAL PRINTER. See Superintendent of Public Printing. Election of, 518, 38. His duties, 518, 39. VOL. II.-38 594 In Egypt, 138, 34. In other uncivilized countries, 138, 32. Marriages may be celebrated before, 138, 33. Certificates to be given, 138, 33. And sent to the department of state, 138, 33. To certify invoices, 255, 104. How to dispose thereof, 255, 104. To report fraudulent practices in reference to importations, 255, 103. To require proof of correctness of invoices, 257, 110. Jurisdiction of foreign consuls in the United States, 138-9, 35-6. Consular clerks to be appointed, 139, ¿ 39. Consul at Hakodadi, 140, ? 41. Foreign consuls to be exempt from income duties, 365, 304. Pay, while absent from their post, 33, % 7. To account for fees, 140, 42. Limitation of compensation, 140, 42-3. Consular fees, when due from vessels in Canadian ports, 140, 44. Fee for certifying invoices, 140, 8 45. Penalty for taking illegal fees, 140, 8 45. Tonnage fees on vessels touching at Canadian ports, 140, 8 45. Examination of consuls' accounts, 141, Holding of two offices forbidden, 141, 48. 46. Penalty for neglect to render accounts, 141, 8 47. Contingent expenses, 141, 48. CONSULS-GENERAL. Salary of, in British North America, 139, 37. Fee for certifying invoices, 140, % 40. When to be charged, 140, 40. CONTINGENT FUNDS. Payments from congressional contingent fund, how made, 132, % 19. CONTINUANCE. Granting of, by court martial, 47, % 98. CONTRACTORS. See Builders and Contractors. CONTRACTS. Contracts for subsistence and clothing, &c., to be submitted to congress, 142, 1. Not to be made without appropriation, except in cases of pressing emergency, 142, 1. 2. Copies of contracts to be filed in the returns office, 142, 3. How purchases and contracts to be made, 142, With proposals and advertisements, 142, 8 3. 4. Fraudulent army and navy contractors to be triable by court martial, 143, 11. Contracts in violation of the act to be void, 145, 18. Punishment of bribery in reference to public contracts, 160, 38. Limitation of power to contract for repairs, in the navy, 453, ¿ 187. How contracts for repairs to be made, 453, & 187. Navy officers to make contracts, when practicable, 454, 189. Limitation of compensation of agents, 454, 189. Offers of previous defaulting contractors, &c., to be rejected, 454, ? 190. Who to be received as contractors, 454, 190. Certain bids may be rejected, 454, 190. Contracts for bunting, 454, 191. Stamp duties on contracts, 144, 17; 357, 279; 377, 356; 379, § 365. Brokers' and bankers' contracts to be stamped, 357, § 279. What to be stated therein, 357, 8 279. Penalty for violation, 357, 279. CONVEYANCERS. Special tax on, 348, 231. Who to be deemed conveyancers, 348, 231. CONVEYANCES. Stamp duties on, 379, 366, 371. Of vessels, to be acknowledged, 535, 14. CONVICTS. Disposition of, sentenced to imprisonment, 164, 256; 166, 68. Cost of subsistence, 165, 57. Execution of sentences, 166, 268. Punishment of juvenile offenders, 166, 69-70. Imprisonment of convicts, in the District of Columbia, 182-3, 55, 60. Not to interfere with voluntary immigration, 145, % 4. Consular certificate thereto, 145, 8 4. Acts relating to passenger vessels revived, as to carrying of passengers between two foreign 5. Vessels of war to examine suspected vessels, 146, ? 6. And to send them into port for adjudication, 146, ? 6. COPPER. Duties on imported, 254, 101. COPYRIGHT. Copyright law to include photographs, &c., 146, 23. Subsequent editions, &c., 147, 8 6. To be free of postage, 147, 8. Copy need not be sent to Smithsonian Institution, 146, 1. Records in regard to copyright to be transferred to department of the interior, 146, 2; 285, 7. And duties in relation to, 146, 22; 285, 7. Copies to be there deposited, 146, 2; 285, 8 7. Errors and appeals, in cases of copyright, 202, 1. CORDAGE. Duties on imported, 245, 68. CORK. Duties on imported, 249, 8 74. Tax to be a lien, 301, 42. How collected, 301, 42. Effect of bill of sale, 301, 8 42. Parties to exhibit books to collectors, 301, 8 42. What corporations to be subject to the bankrupt law, 94, 85. Distribution of estates of, 94, 85. When actions against, to be removable to the circuit court, 116, Repeal of act prescribing oath on granting register to, 532, 1. 18. Power of the territorial legislatures to grant charters restricted, 543, 8 6. Power of religious corporations to hold real estate, in the territories, 543, 8 4. Jurisdiction of claims by owners of captured or abandoned property, 281, § 38. To be exclusive, 284, 50. Jurisdiction restricted in certain cases, 149, 13; 150, ¿ 19. Appeals, 150, ? 14, 20; 152, 26. Report of decisions, 150, 15. Power to grant new trials, 150, ? 21. Evidence of loyalty, 150, 22. Competency of witnesses, 151, 23. Duties of attorney-general, and his assistants, 151, & 24-5. Payment of judgments, 152, 26. When lis pendens to bar suit, 152, 27. Annual reports to congress, 152, % 26. COURTS MARTIAL. See Military Courts Martial. Fraudulent contractors to be tried by, 143, 11. Persons guilty of certain fraudulent practices to be tried by, 211, & 1. 5. Counterfeiting the coin, 162, 47. Forgery of bank notes, &c., 71, ¿ 62–3. Forgery of evidence of title to lands in California, 106-7, 22-4. Abstracting, mutilating or concealing public records, in California, 110, § 37. Interpolating false records in the public archives of California, 110, 38. Forgery of treasury notes, &c., 154–7, 13–19. Forgery of bounty land warrants, &c., 154, 12. Forgery of postal money orders, 159, 30. Of public writings, 157, 20. Buying or selling forged public securities, 157, 21. Having possession of instruments therefor, 157, 23. Embezzlement of implements, 158, 24. Embezzlement by officers of banking companies, 70, 57. By employees of the post office department, 509, 145. Embezzlement of public writings, 158, 25. Embezzlement by disbursing officers, 161, 41. What to be deemed embezzlement of public property by bankers, &c., 161, 42. Cutting or destroying timber on military reservations, 544, Perjury in reference to bounty lands, 101, 7. In reference to public contracts, 143, 4. Conspiracy, 158, 28. Seditious conspiracy, 153, 1. Enlisting persons to serve against the United States, 153, 2. Enlisting for such purpose, 153, Punishment of treason, 153, & 4. 3. 1. Defrauding the government, 212, 3. Embezzling or destroying letters, 162, Fraudulently using defaced postage stamps, &c., 164, 51-2. Wilfully injuring letter boxes, &c., 163, & 49. Public officers acting as counsel, &c., against the government, 160, 37. Opening or detaining letters, 162, 48. Letters containing remittances or valuable papers, 163, 48. 48. |
