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$800, and the members of the third a salary of 

 $600. In cities of less than 75,000 population, 

 it divided the letter-carriers into two classes, 

 those of the one class to receive a salary of 

 $800, and those of the other a salary of $600. 



Foreign Contract Labor. A bill was passed by 

 Congress and approved by the President, 

 which added to the act to prohibit the impor- 

 tation and immigration of foreigners and aliens 

 under contract or agreement to perform labor 

 in the United States, its Territories, and the 

 District of Columbia, approved Feb. 26, 1885, 

 and to provide for the enforcement thereof, 

 the following sections: 



SEC. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 

 charged with the duty of executing the provisions of 

 this act ; and for that purpose he shall have power 

 to enter into contracts with such State commission, 

 board, or officers as may be designated for that pur- 

 pose by the Governor of any State to take charge of 

 the local affairs of immigration in the ports within 

 said State, under the rules and regulations to be pre- 

 scribed by said Secretary ; and it shall be the duty of 

 such State commission, board or officers so designated 

 to examine into the condition of passengers arriving 

 at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel ; 

 and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners 

 or officers, or such other jxirson or persons as they 

 shall appoint, shall be authorized to go on board of 

 and through any such ship or vessel ; and if in such 

 examination there shall be found among such pas- 

 sengers any person included in the prohibition in this 

 act, they shall report the same in writing to the col- 

 lector of such port, and such persons shall be per- 

 mitted to land. 



SEC. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall 

 establish such regulations and rules, and issue from 

 time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with 

 law, as he shall deem best calculated for carrying out 

 the provisions of this act ; and he shall prescribe all 

 forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be used 

 under and in the enforcement of the various provisions 

 of this act. 



SEC. 8. That all persons included in the prohibition 

 in this act, upon arrival, shall be sent back to the 

 nations to which they U-1., ni^r and from whence they 

 came. The Secretary of the" Treasury may designate 

 the State Board of < . harities of any State in which 

 such board shall exist by law, or any commission in 

 any State, or any person or persons in any State, 

 whose duty it shall be to execute the provisions of 

 this section, and shall be entitled to reasonable com- 

 pensation therefor, to be fixed by regulation prescribed 

 by the Secretary of tin- Treasury. The Secretary of 

 the Treasury shall preseribe regulations for the re- 

 turn of the aforesaid persons to the countries from 

 whence they came, and shall furnish instructions to 

 the board, commission, or persons charged with the 

 execution of the provisions of this section as to the 

 time of procedure in respeet thereto, and may change 

 such instructions from time to time. The expense of 

 such return of the aforesaid persons not permitted to 

 land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in 

 which they came ; and any vessel refusing to pay such 

 expenses shall not thereafter be permitted to land at 

 or clear from any port of the United States, and such 

 expenses shall be a lien on said vessel. That the 

 nei-essan . in the execution of this act for the 



present nseal year shall be paid out of any money in 

 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



SEC. 9. T* hat all acts and parts of acts inconsistent 

 with this act an- hereby repealed. 



^SEC. lu. That this act shall take effect at the ex- 

 piration df thirty days after its passage. 



In addition to the bills already noticed, those 

 relating to appropriations and those giving pen- 



sions and relief to individuals, bills were passed 

 as follows : 



Providing for the erection of public buildings at 

 Eastport, Me.. Springfield, Mass., Worcester, Mass., 

 Binghamton, N. Y., Camden, N. J., Wilmington, 

 N. 0., Charleston, 8. C., Huntsville, Ala., Detroit, 

 Mich.,0wensborough, Ky., Chattanooga,Tenn., Hous- 

 ton, Tex., Fort Scott, Kan., San Francisco, CaJ., and 

 Los Angeles, Cal. ; also increasing the appropria- 

 tions for the public buildings at Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 and Troy, N. Y., and authorizing the exchange of the 

 property purchased at Abingdon, Va., as a site for a 

 public building, for more suitable property. 



Authorizing the construction of bridges as follows : 

 Across the East Eiver between the city of New York 

 and Long Island ; across the Great Kanawha River 

 below the Falls ; across the Eastern Branch of the Po- 

 tomac River at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue East ; 

 across the Tradewater River by the Ohio Valley Rail- 

 road Company; across the Coosa River by the East 

 and West TJailroad Company of Alabama, and across 

 the same river by the Talfadega and Coosa Valley 

 Railroad Company of Alabama j across the Sunflower, 

 YazoOj and Tombigbee Rivers in Mississippi bv the 

 Georgia Pacific Railroad Company ; across the Tom- 

 bigbee River at or near Columbus, Mis 3. .by the Toin- 

 bigbee Railroad Company ; across the Red River in 

 Louisiana by the Louisiana North and South Railroad 

 Company ; across the Tennessee River at or near Shef- 

 field, Ala., at or near Guntersville, Ala., at or near 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., and at or near the foot of Mus- 

 cle Shoals Canal ; across the Cumberland River, by the 

 county of Davidson, Tenn. ; across the Red River of 

 the North ; across the St. Louis River at the most ac- 

 cessible point between the States of Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin ; across a part of the Mississippi and a cer- 

 tain island therein by the city of Winona, Minn. ; 

 across the Mississippi River at Fort Madison or Keo- 

 kuk or between those points, at Grand Tower, 111. 

 between East Dubuque, 111., and Dubuque, la.,, and 

 at St. Louis, Mo. ; across the Missouri River between 

 Omaha, Neb., and Council Bluffs, la., within five 

 miles of Yankton, Dak., at Pierre, Dak., by the Du- 

 luth, Pierre, and Black Hills Railroad Companv, and 

 at the most accessible point between the city ot l Kan- 

 sas and the town of Sibley, Mo. ; and across Bayou 

 Barnard, In Mississippi. 



Granting right of way to railroads as follows : To 

 the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad 

 Company across the Government farm connected with 

 the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. : to the Ohio 

 Central Railroad Company through United ^States 

 lock and dam property in the Great Kanawha Valley, 

 W. Va. ; to the Chicago, Kansas, and Nebraska Rail- 

 way through the Indian Territory ; to the Fort Worth 

 and Denver City Railroad Companv through the In- 

 dian Territory ; to the Fremont, Elk Horn, and Mis- 

 souri Valley Railroad across the Fort Meade military 

 reservation ; to the Prescott and Arizona Central Rail- 

 way Company across the Fort W hippie military res- 

 ervation in Arizona ; to the Maricopa and Phoenix 

 Railway Company of Arizona through the Gila River 

 Indian reservation ; to the Utah Midland Railway 

 Company through the Uncomnahgre and Uintah res- 

 ervations in the Territory of Utah ; through certain 

 public lands in the Territory of Utah, etc. ; to the 

 Rocky Fork and Cooke C'ity Railway Company 

 through a part of the Crow Indian Reservation in Mon- 

 tana Territory ; and to the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and 

 Manitoba Railway Company through the Indian res- 

 ervations in Northern Montana and Northwestern 

 Dakota. 



To make Tampa, Fla., a port of entry and Hart- 

 ford, Conn., in place of Middletown. 



To provide for holding terms of United ! 

 courts at Vieksbunr, Miss., and at Tcxarkana. Ark. : 

 nt Wilmington, N. C. : of the Circuit Court for the 

 Eastern Judicial District of North Carolina; t tho 

 Circuit and District Courts of the United States for 

 the Eastern District of Michigan at Bay City ; pro- 





