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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 2-10, 241. 1873. 579 representative to represent said State in the forty-fourth Congress of the ssnmnves m United States. C°’!g"°“? f'°m APPROVED, March 3, 1873. C°M°""°" CHAP. CCXL. —— An Act to authorize the Unlading ofSteamshnvs al  March 3, 1313, Bc it emzctzd by the Senate and House ry` Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Special license collector of customs (with the concurrence of the naval officer, if there ;““Y h° €l"°“ Q? be one,) of any port at which a steamship from a foreign port or place may tgT$,$:§;°€:;;mip arrive, upon or after the issuing of a general order, to grant upon proper between sunset application therefor, a special license to unlsule the cargo of said vessel ’"‘d S“““’°‘ at night, that is to say, between sunset and sunrise ; but before any such special license is granted, the master, agents, or consignees of the vessel Master, &c., to shall execute and deliver to the said collector a good and sutheient bond, gm b°”d· to be approved by him, conditioned to indemnify and save the said collector harmless from any and all losses and liabilities which may occur or be occasioned by reason of the granting of such special license: And provided, That any liability of the master or owner of any such steam- Liability ot ship to the owner or consipee of any merchandise landed from said ves- ;"”*°"i““d °"”:’ sel shall not be affected by the granting of such special license or of any ,(~§§;;ifgu°° ¤° general order, but such liability shall continue until said merchandise is properly removed from the dock whereon the same may be landed; and the collector, under such general regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall fix a uniform and reasonable rate of compensas tion for like service, to be paid by the master, owner, or consignee Compensation whenever such special license is granted, and shall collect and distribute “2;‘;‘;€l;°'€:if Lim the same among the inspectors assigned to superintend the unlading of the gismbuiga cargo. Approved, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCXLI.—An Act to prnvidcfor the Preparation and Presentation to Congress March 3, 1873, of the Revision of the Laws of the [haired States, consolidating the Laws rc/ating to the '—;*‘—" Post-roads, and a, Code relaling to military Ojmses, and the Revision cy" Treaties with the Indian Tribes now in Force. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a committee of three of the Committee committee of the House of Representatives on the revision of the laws, ¤¤*h<>ri¤¤¢} *0 M- with committee on the part of the Senate, is hereby authorized, by resolu- °°f,°;é_f$;€(’(al;n of tion, to be filed in the Department of Justice, to accept, on the part of die revision of the Congress, the draft on revision of the laws of the United States prepared by the commissioners to revise the statutes, so far as the same has been and to (i18n;,,,:;;,,, reported by them, and may be hereafter reported by them, at the expira~ them; tion of the time designated for performing that service, to wit: the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to discharge said wtuin Mfg rccommissioners, from and after which all acts and parts of acts declaring p°°1°d r"""* &°‘i the duties, powers, rights, and privileges of said commissioners, are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be construvd as an approval m;`;;]:;; or adoption by Congress of any part of the work of the commissioners. hm;,, nnn,0v9d_ Sec. 2. That the committee of the House of Representatives on the The nn,nnntn,n revision of the laws, together with such committee as the Senate may join, may contractgfor be, and they hereby are, authorized to contract with some suitable person ?nb£c°;;i:‘;Sf mg or persons, learned in the law, to prepare a bill revising and embodying in laws aumonzgng one act all the laws authorizing post—roads in force at the expiration of the }2*;i*jf°¤d* m present session of Congress; and also to prepare a bill codifying and reg- °,·n({.’cndn-ying ulating the laws in regard to military offenses, according to the recom- lawsasto muzmenclation made by the President of the United States in his annual  of message communicated to Congress at the present session, and also to pre- Inman ncnnns in pare a revision of all the Indian treaties now in force as law: f<>¤‘<=¤ M l¤WS·