504 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. ons. 1063-1065. 1888. examine and cross-exime witnesses. All its proceedings shall be transacted in public, except when in consultation for the purpose of deciding upon the evidence and arguments laid before it. The chairman of the commission is hereby authorized to administer oaths to witnesses in all investigations conducted by the commission, and such witnesses shall be subpoenied in the same manner as witnesses are sub oenied to appear before United States courts and commissioners, ami) they shall each receive the same fees as witnesses attending mum. before United States commissioners: Provided, That said temporary N““‘l’"°"'"‘”°““‘ board of commissioners shall have ower to limit the number of witnesses in each case where fees shaltl be paid by the United States. E¤P°¤¤°°· Sec. 11. All fees, ex nses, and compensation of this commission shall be paid as hereinbgfore provided in section five of this act. Approved, October 1, 1888. October 1, iw. CHAPS 1064.-An act a supplement to an act entitled "An act to execute cer- ’—"";* tain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese," approved the sixth day of May eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati/ues of the Hxc1¤si¤¤<>f¤hi¤¤¤¢ United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after l°€§{"’§; p_¤;_ the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any chinese laborer Ame, p. 410. who shall at any time heretofore have been, or who may now or hereafter be, a resident within the United States, and who shall have departed, or shall depart, therefrom, and shall not have returned before the passage of this act, to return to, or remain in, the United States. No ¤erfi¤£$¤ed_f¤* Sec. 2. That no certicates of identity provided for in the fourth "°°"‘ t°b° and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement shall hereafter be issued; and every certificate heretofore issued in pursuance thereof, is hereby declared void and of no eifect, and the chinese laborer claiming admission by virtue thereof shall not be permitted to enter the United States. reusmes. Sec. 3. That all the duties prescribed, liabilities penalties and forfeitures imposed, and the powers conferred by the second, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, sections of the act to which this is a supplemlent are hereby extended and made applicable to the provisions of t is act. nepeu pmvums Sec. 4. That all such part or parts of the act to which this is a supplement as are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, October 1. 1888. mv.c1>er1, 1886. CHAP. 1065.-An act to authorize the Postmaster-General to advertise for and · · ‘*“‘—‘ ‘ " purchase improved registered mail locks and keys therefor Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re )7`€S€7lt(ltl·l'€8 0 the imiscss nnglkeygi United States of America in Congress asse mblled, That the gostt,,IE€5;3“§§”}2'$°SZw master-General be and he is hereby authorized to advertise for and
- 5%-gfggd mm *°°k¤ receive proposals for such registering mail locks and keys for such
" " " locks, for the use of the Post-Onice Department as he may deem suitable for the safety and security of registered mail matter; and he is cztnemczs further authorized to make contracts for such locks and keys for the supply of the Post-Office Department. if he deem the same suitable, an for such a number of years, not to exceed four years, as he may deem best for the interest of the mail service; with power, however, to the Postmaster·General to renew such contract or contracts, should he make any contracts under the provisions of this act for said articles of mail e%uipment, for another and an additional period of four years should e eem it plréoper and advisable so to do; and the sum Am¤¤¤vr¤¤•¤ of forty-five thousand do rs or so much thereof as may be necessary
