Authority of engineer. record of all the lands and other property and matters and things enumerated in this section, and otherwise connected with or belonging to these waterworks, or which may hereafter be acquired or procured for the same. The said engineer shall have full power and control over the said waterworks and shall regulate the manner in which the said corporations of Washington and Georgetown may tap the pipes for the supply thereof, and shall stop the same whenever it is found no more than adequate to meet the wants of the general government. The said engineer's decision peal to Secretary on all questions connected therewith to be subject only to appeal to the of the Interior. Secretary of the Interior. Right of ap Corporations of SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That full power and authority are hereby Washington and given to the corporations of Washington and Georgetown, in the District Georgetown may distribute water, of Columbia, to supply the inhabitants within their respective limits with &c. Potomac water from the aqueduct mains or pipes, now laid or to be laid in the streets and avenues by the United States; and to make all laws and regulations for the proper distribution of the same, subject to the reNo expense to strictions prescribed by this act: Provided, that no expense shall devolve the United States. upon the United States in consequence of said distribution. Regulations. Corporations may establish water rates, and alter the same. water rates. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporations shall have authority by ordinance, act, or otherwise, to establish a scale of annual rates for the supply and use of said water, apportioned to different classes of buildings in said city, according to their seize, dimensions, assessed values, exposure to fires, uses for dwellings, stores, shops, stables, manufactories, or other purposes, number of occupants, or consumption of water, measured by meter or otherwise, and to modify, alter, amend, increase, or reduce such scale, from time to time, and extend it to other description May collect the of buildings and establishments; to collect such rates or rents, when so fixed, in advance, or otherwise, through such agents or commissioners as they may authorize, from the owners or occupants of all such buildings or establishments, respectively, who may use the water therein; to stop the supply of water to any such dwelling or establishment upon a failure to pay said rate, charge, or rent; and generally to enact such laws as may be necessary to supply the inhabitants of said city of Washington with pure and wholesome water, and to carry into full and complete effect the powers herein granted. Provided, that the rates levied by the cities of Rates not to be Georgetown and Washington shall never be a source of revenue other than as a means of keeping up to the said cities a supply of water. May stop the water on non payment of rate. General au thority. Proviso. a source of rev enue. Corporations may borrow money. Amount. Unauthorized SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of enabling the corporations aforesaid to carry out the provisions of this act, it shall be competent for them to borrow, in such proportions as they may deem expedient, a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the city of Washington, and fifty thousand dollars for Georgetown, redeemable within a period of ten years, out of any revenue to be derived from water rents. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any opening of pipes person or persons other than said corporations, or persons authorized by punishable. them, to tap or open the mains or pipes laid or to be laid by the United Penalty-fine. States for any purpose whatever under a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offence. And if any Wilful, &c. breaking, &c. of person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously break, injure, deface, or pipes, &c. pun- destroy any main or pipe, bend, branch, valve, hydrant, service pipe or ishable. any other fixture used for the distribution of water throughout the streets and avenues, or for its introduction into the houses, tenements, or buildings of said cities, such person or persons shall be subject to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding two years for each and every such offence. Penalty--imprisonment. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall become Cost of main necessary to lay main pipes for the supply of water to the cities of Georgepipes for supply town and Washington, the cost of the same shall be paid by the said cities, and Georgetown, and the engineer aforesaid is hereby prohibited from making any contracts of Washington for the same, unless approved by the corporations aforesaid, and expressly to be paid by the stipulated with the contractor or contractors that the payment for the same cities. is to be made by the said corporations: Provided, That no greater num- Engineer not to ber of main pipes shall be laid by the general government than are suf- unless, &c. ficient to give to said government, the necessary supply of water. contract for pipes Proviso. er impure, pun SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any Wilfully, &c. person or persons to do or commit any act by reason of which the supply making the watof water, or any part thereof shall become impure, filthy, or in any way ishable. unfit for use, and that any person or persons committing any such act or acts, wilfully, knowingly, and maliciously, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding one thousand nor less than five hundred dollars, or not exceed- Penalty-Fine ing three nor less than one year's confinement in the penitentiary of the or imprisonment. District of Columbia for every such offence. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this be, and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the cities of Washington and Georgetown respectively shall have power to establish a complete system of sewerage in aid of the execution of the provisions of this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1859. Inconsistent acts repealed. The cities may of sewerage. establish system CHAP. LXXXV.—An Act to provide for extending the Laws and Judicial System of the March 3, 1859. United States to the State of Oregon and for other Purposes. Laws of the United States,extended to Oregon. Oregon made a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said State of Oregon as elsewhere in the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said State is hereby constituted a judicial district of the United States within which a district judicial district. court with the like powers and jurisdiction, as the district court of the United States for the district of Iowa shall be established, and the judge of the said district court shall hold two regular terms of the said court, Court. annually at the seat of government of the said State, to commence on the second Monday of April and September in each year. Terms of the Residence and SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the judge, attorney, and marshal of the United States for the said district of Oregon, shall reside therein, salary of Judge, Attorney, and and the annual salary of the said judge shall be two thousand five hundred Marshal. dollars, and the marshal and district attorney for said district, shall be entitled to the same compensation and fees as the marshal and attorney for the district of Iowa. Successors to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of appeal or writ Mandate, &c. of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of in appeals, &c. the United States, upon any record from the supreme court of Oregon Federal Supreme now pending in Territory, the mandate of execution or order of further proceedings shall Court. be directed by the Supreme Court of the United States to the district court of the United States for the district of Oregon, or to the supreme court of the State of Oregon, as the nature of such appeal or writ of error may require; and each of those courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Oregon Territory, as to all such cases, with full power to Supreme Court hear and determine the same, and to award mesne or final process therein. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of trying all issues of fact triable by jury in the district court of the United States for the district of Iowa, said district shall be divided into three divisions as follows, namely : The counties of Clinton, Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama, district court. Marshall, Grundy, Hardin, Webster, and all the counties north of the same, and east of Calhoun, Pocahontas, Palo Alto, and Emmett, shall constitute the northern division; and two regular terms of said court for the same vision. of the Territory. IOWA. Divisions of Northern di .. Terms of Court. shall be held annually at Dubuque, to commence on the third Tuesdays of April and October. vision. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the counties of Scott, Cedar, Southern di- Johnson, Iowa, Powasheik, Mahaska, Marion, Lucas, Clark, Decatur, and all the counties south and east of the same, shall constitute the southern Terms of Court. division; and two regular terms of said court shall be held annually for said division at Keokuk, to commence on the third Tuesdays of March and September. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all the remaining counties of Western division. the State shall constitute the western division; and one regular term of Term of Court. said court shall be held on the second Tuesday of November in each year at Des Moines. Laws appli- SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the several cable to the di- acts of Congress, regulating the courts in the several divisions as heretofore organized shall, as far as the same are applicable, apply to the courts of said district under the present division. visions. Judge may make rules, &c. Inconsistent acts repealed. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the judge of said district court shall have power to make such rules and orders, as may be necessary to carry into effect the changes provided for in this act. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, March 3, 1859. March 3, 1859. CHAP. LXXXVI.—An Act for the Relief of Congressional Township number twentyseven, North, of Range Number six, East, in Wabash County, Indiana. lieu of deficit of school lands, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Auditor of Wa- States of America in Congress assembled, That the auditor of the county bash county, In- of Wabash, aforesaid, for the time being, be authorized and allowed to diana, may enter certain lands in make entry in his own official name of the quantity of five hundred and thirty-seven and ninety one-hundredths acres, in legal subdivisions, of any lands of the United States, on any part of the public domain subject to private entry, at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the same, when so entered being hereby made, and declared to be for the benefit of the inhabitants of congressional township number twentyseven, north, of range number six, east, in the county of Wabash, and State of Indiana, and to stand in lieu of a deficit of that quantity in the amount of school lands belonging to said township, and to be held and controlled in the same manner. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the said lands shall have been selected and entered as aforesaid, and duly reported to and approved Patent to issue by the Secretary of the Interior, he shall cause a patent or patents to issue therefor. therefor. March 3, 1859. APPROVED, March 3, 1859. CHAP. LXXXVII.-An Act making an Appropriation for the Payment of the Expenses of Investigating Committees and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ante, p. 379. Payment of ex- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of ten thousand penses of investi- dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the gating committees of the House treasury not otherwise appropriated for the payment of expenses of the of present Con- several investigating committees of the House of Representatives during gress. the present Congress, and that the same shall be added to the miscellaneous To what fund item of the contingent fund of said House with whatever now remains of chargeable. the appropriations "for the engraving of maps, charts, and other plates accompanying documents ordered to be printed at the first session of the thirty-fourth Congress," contained in "an act to supply deficiencies " approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.-Provided, that the 1856, ch. 29. Ante, p. 11. clerk of the House may charge to said miscellaneous item, any deficiency Proviso. CHAP. LXXXVIII-An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and March 3, 1859. other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Invalid Pensions. States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not Appropriation. otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty: For invalid pensions under various acts, four hundred and thirty thou- Invalid Pensions. sand dollars. For pensions under acts of the eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows of those who served in the Revolutionary War, under the third section of the act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the acts of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, second February and twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and second section act of third February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. Pensions to widows. 1836, ch. 362. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8. 1848, ch. 120. 1853, ch. 41. Widows and For pensions to widows and orphans, under first section act fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, act of twenty-first July, eighteen hundred orphans. and forty-eight, first section act of third February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and under special acts, fifty thousand dollars. For navy invalid pensions, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 362. 1848, ch. 108. 1853, ch. 41. Navy invalid For navy pensions to widows and orphans, under act of eleventh pensions. August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and fifteen thou-1848, ch. 155. sand dollars. Vol. ix. p. 282. valids. sions to invalids Nature of affi For privateer invalids, one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of application for Applications for the payment of pensions to invalids under the several laws of Congress payment of pengranting pensions to invalids, the affidavit of two surgeons or physicians, to be supported whose credibility as such shall be certified by the magistrate before whom by affidavit of the affidavit is made, stating the continuance of the disability for which physicians. the pension was originally granted (describing it) and the rate of such dis- davit. ability at the time of making the affidavit, shall accompany the application of the first payment, which shall fall due upon a day in the fiscal year for which provision is made herein, to be declared by the Secretary of the Interior, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if in a case of If difference of continued disability it shall be stated at a rate below that for which the rates-that in affidavit to govpension was originally granted, the applicant shall only be paid at the rate stated in the affidavit: Provided, That where the pension shall have been Proviso. originally granted for a total disability, in consequence of the loss of a limb, or other cause which cannot, either in whole or in part be removed, the above affidavit shall not be necessary to entitle the applicant to payment. APPROVED, March 3, 1859. ern. Affidavit not required in pensions granted for total disability. RESOLUTIONS. Jan. 17, 1859. [No. 1.] A Resolution for the Appointment of two Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, ed. Jan. 25, 1859. Townsend Har [No. 2.] Joint Resolution authorizing Townsend Harris, United States Consul- General at Japan, and H. C. J. Heusken, his Interpreter, respectively, to accept a Snuff box from her Majesty, the Queen of England. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Townsend Harris, United ris and H. C. J. States Consul-General in Japan, and H. C. J. Heusken be, and they are Heusken may each accept a hereby authorized, to accept, respectively, from the Queen of England a snuffbox from snuff box bearing her Majesty's cypher, which it is the intention of the the Queen of Queen to offer to each as a mark of her gratitude for assistance rendered by them to Lord Elgin in his negotiation of a treaty between Great Britain and Japan. Great Britain. Feb. 5, 1859. APPROVED, January 25, 1859. [No. 4.] A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey a Portion of the Government Lot on which the United States Court-House stands in Rutland, Vermont, in Exchange for other Land adjoining said Lot. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to convey to John B. Page, Esq., of Rutland in the State of Vermont so much from Land in Rut- the east side of the lot of land on which the United States court-house land, Vermont, and post-office stands in said Rutland, as in the opinion of the said Secremay be conveyed in exchange. tary will not be required for the use of the government, in exchange for other land, of equal area on the north side of and adjoining said government lot, without cost to the government, and to give and receive deeds to and from the said John B. Page for the lands so given and received in exchange. Feb. 9, 1859. Payment to the State of Georgia. 1842, ch. 127. Vol. v. p. 504. APPROVED, February 5, 1859. [No. 6.] A Resolution for the Payment of an unexpended Balance to the State of Georgia, on Account of Militia Services. ury Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasis hereby authorized to apply the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated by the act of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, entitled "An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia," to the repayment to said |