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 322 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 102,103,104,105. 1879. Proceeds. the refunding act; and the money so received shall be applied only to the payment of the bonds bearing interest at a rate of not less than five per centum in the mode prescribed by said act, and he is authorized to prescribe suitable rules and regulations in conformity with this act. Approved, February 26, 1879. pcb Q6 1g7g_ CHAP. 103.-An act to amend section twenty-three of the act approved June HHH twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to amend CUStOI1.\S·I'€VCIlll€ laws and to repeal moieties." Customs service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Saimesofnaval States of America in Congress assembled, That the twenty-third section °*H°°”““‘lS““’°5" of an act entitled "An act to amend customsrevenue laws and to repeal Orié,4 ch 391 moieties ", approved the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred 18 s22u_,` 1E6T and seventy-tour, be, and the same is hereby, amended, to take effect from that date, as follows: After the words “to the naval officers of the districts of Boston and Charlestown, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania} insert the words " and Baltimore, Maryland; and New Orleans, Louisiana"; and after the words “ to the surveyors of the ports of Boston, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, each five thousand dollars," insert the words "Provided, the surveyors at Portland,. Maine, and Baltimore, Maryland, shall each receive the sum of four — thousand five hundred dollars, and the surveyor at New Orleans, Louisiana, shall receive the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ; " Approved, February 26, 1879. Feb. 26, 1879. CHAP. 104.-An act relating to the Cumberland Road in the State of Ohio, and to ·—·i····— authorize the same to become a free road. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United N¤*i<>M1 Rom- States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the United £g;‘Q‘;°3h;§ °°‘"" States shall be, and is hereby, given to an act of the general assembly ' of the State of Ohio, passed April sixth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled “An act to authorize the commissioners of the several counties in that State through which the National (Cumberland) Road passes to take under their care and control so much of said road as lies within the limits of such counties respectively "; and also to an act pasw March twentysecond, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventyseven, to amend section three of said last named act, granting auitlliority to said commissioners to make certain parts of said road a tree ro . May be made a Sec. 2. That the consent of the United States is hereby granted to f¤*° ******1- the State of Ohio to authorize any portion of the Cumberland Road lying east of Springfield, Ohio, and in said State, to become, or to be Proviso. declared, a free road: Provided, That this consent shall have no eftect in respect of creating or recognizing any duty or liability whatever on the part of the United States. Approved, February 26, 1879. Feb. 26, 1879. CHAP. 105.-An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineerln and iron—ship= ————-——— building among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Naval engineers. States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of promot- May be assigned ing a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron-ship building among the
 * i‘}E’g:;g;;0jsm young men of the United States, the President may, upon the applica-

' tion of an established scientific school or college within the United States, detail an officcr from the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professor