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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 17-20. 1888. 43 of shall have been committed within the territorial waters of the United States or outside of the said waters: Provided, That in case Proviso. ·such infraction is committed outside of the territorial waters of the orrousos oo hi gh United States the vessel on board of which it has been committed "”· is a vessel of the United States. From the decrees and judgments of the district courts in actions and suits arising under this act ap peals and writs of error shall be allowed as now provided by law in other cases. Criminal actions and proceedings for a violation of the _ Criminal proceed. provisions of this act shall be commenced and prosecuted in the dis- mgf strict court for the district within which the offense was committed, and when not committed within any judicial district, then in the district court for the district within which the offender may be found; and suits of a civil nature may be commenced in the district court for any district within which the defendant may be found and shall be served with process. Approved, February 29, 1888. CHAP. 18.-An act authorizing the appointment of two additional division super- F°b"““—"Y 29· l888· intendents of Railway Mail Service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the _ _ _ United States of America rn Congress assembled, That the Post- R°"lW“’M’T‘lS°'“°‘f· master—General be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint and assign v?s}'§,§’S,,?,d,.}ff§c§‘,‘},le,Q`t,‘g to duty two division superintendents of Railway Mail Service, in ¤¤¤h<>¤=<><i- addition to those heretofore authorized, who shall each be paid a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year. Approved, February 29, 1888. CHAP. 19.-An act to authorize the purchase of additional ground in Newark, March L 18*38- New Jersey, adjoining the c:stom·house and post-office building, and for the nnjprovement of the bu' ding thereon, and the erection of additions thereto. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Newark, N. ,1. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase or ac- §`§‘$§gf,"g3'""’ quire by condemnation sufficient additional land adjoinin the United States custom house and post-office building in Newark, Few Jersey, and cause such changes and improvements to be made in the ·building thereon, and to erect such addition thereto as, in his judgment, ‘may be necessary to render the same suitable for the transaction of the public business: and for the purpose herein mentioned, the sum Appropmuoo. of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 1, 1888. CHAP. 20. An act to authorize the removal of the quarantine station from Ship March 5, 1%. {Island, Mississippi. ;‘—°"`*`_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A meriea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary §,giHl;g$¤·¥ of the Treasury is hereby authorized to cause the removal of the me stationcfrdiu. ` national quarantine station now located on Ship Island, in the Gulf -of Mexico, to some other island in said Gulf, or in such pass in the Mississippi Delta as may be recommended by a board to be designated