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 F IF1YY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1I. CHS. 2538-2540. 1907. 1233 CHAP. 2588.-An Act To relieve the Tanana Mines Railroad in Alaska from MM‘¤h 2.1907 taxation_ [11. n.za1s4.] Pub1ic,No.197. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o_fRepresentatoPves of the United [ 1 States of America in (bngress assembled, That the Tanana Mines Rail- .*,}}.,,**1* mm. Bw_ road Company, or its successors, having a line of railroad under con- rm exempt from struction in the district of Alaska, shall be exempt from license tax mu and tax on its railway and railway property durin the period of its construction and for five years thereafter: .PromZ£d, That the total _ period of exemption shall not exceed ten years from the time of the passage of this Act: And provided fart/ter, That this exemption shall G<>¤<1i¤¤¤¤. exist and operate only during the continuance of the construction of said road in good faith, and in_ the event of unnecessary delay in the construction and completion of said road the exemption from taxation herein provided shall) cease, and said tax shall be collectible as to so much of said road as shall have been completed five years. Sm. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal »¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· this Act. Approved, March 2, 1907. - CHAP. 2539.-An Act To amend sections one, two, and three of an Act entitled Mgmh&]@_ "An Act to prohibit shanghaiing in the United States," approved June twenty- [KR- 190-l eighth, nineteen hundred and six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatives of the United . States of America in Congress assembled, Tglt sections one, two, and ggivrivz- mm three of an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit shan haiing in the United bidczlfhsung P ` States," approved June twenty-cig th, nineteen ghundred and six, be. amegdpld so as to rpad as folllpws: h H rf " oever, wit intent t at any rson s a orm service or P¤¤*¤h¤¤¤¤**°*§$ labor of any kind on board of any vessel engagedliii trade and com- awiiiilrigutéisiiiigwiiams merce among the several States or with foreign nations, or on board cd*f""·P·5*"·““‘°“d‘ of any vessel of the United States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable water of the United States, shall procure or induce, or attempt to procure or induce, another, by force or threats or by representations which he knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person so procured or induced is intoxicated or under the iniiuence of any drug, to go on board of any such vessel, or to sign or in any wise enter into any agreement to go on board of any such vesscl to perform service or labor thereon, or whoever shall knowingly dctain on hoard of any such vessel any person so procured or induced to go on hoard thereof or to enter into any agreement to go on board thereof by any means herein defined, or whoever shall knowingly aid or abet in the doing of any of the things herein made unlawful shall be lined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." Sec. 2. That sections one, two, and three of the Act hereby amended Reredare repealed. Approved, March 2, 1907. CHAP. 2540. -—An Act To auth0l'lZ8 the Secretary of War to make certain dispo- MMGU 2; 1907- sition of condemned guns and cannon balls. [Public, No. 199.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqwesentatires of the U nited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War g}’$§},“°,,§"df‘,,‘§},‘§,‘jé be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to give to the Mon- g¤¤¤¤g§¤¤ wweument Association, Athens, Ohio, four condemned brass or bronze m' °' guns with suitable outfit of cannon balls which may not be needed in vox. xxxiv, rr 1178