FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 4.21, 4.22. 1886. 83 ican vessels (the coastwise trade excepted) shall deny to any vessels of the United States any of the commercial privileges accorded to national vessels in the harbors, ports, or waters of such foreign country, the President, on receiving satisfactory information of the continuance of President may such discriminations against any vessels of the United States, is hereby “l‘:l’°”‘l .°°'¤m°'· authorized to issue his proclamation excluding, on and after such time $°“°f.",Y}1:§;;£ as he may indicate, from the exercise of such commercial privileges in den mg the same the ports of the United States as arc denied to American vessels in the to hinted Staten ports of such foreign country, all vessels of such foreign country of a "°°°°1¤· similar character to the vessels of the United States thus discriminated against, and suspending such concessions previously granted to the vesseis of such country; and on and after the date named in such proclamation for it to take effect, if the master, officer, or agent of any vessel penalty fo,. ,,,_ of such foreign country excluded by said proclamation from the exercise lation. of any commercial privileges shall do any act prohibited by said proclamation in the ports, harbors, or waters of the United States for or on account of such vessel, such vessel, and its rigging, tackle, furniture, and boats, and all the goods on board, shall be liable to seizure and to forfeiture to the United States; and any person opposing any oftlcer of the United States in the enforcement of this act, or aiding and abetting any other person in such opposition, shall forfeit eight hundred dollars, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. Sec. 18. Section nine of “An act to remove certain burdens on the Vol. 23, chap. 121, American merchantmarine andencouragethe American foreign carrying- P- 55, ¤¤¤¢¤d¤d· trade, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen , hundred and eighty-four, is hereby amended in the eighth line by inserting after the words *‘ and the consular officer” the following: "When _ Fen fqr ¤‘¤t¤¥¤- the transportation is by a sailing vessel; and the regular steerage- $5, d°“m“*° “°“" passenger rate, not to exceed two cents per mile, when the transportation ° _ is by steamer? And the said section iis further amended by adding at Need not take in the end the following: “ or to take any seaman having a contagious dis- fwm P¢¤<>¤- ease." » Approved, June 19, 1886. CHAP. 422.-An act to detach the counties of Howard, Little River, and Sevier June 19, 1886, from the western and add them to the eastern district of Arkansas. ————-—— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section five hun- _Howard, Little dred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes as provides that Howard, R¤V°F», Wd S¤V1¤1‘ Little River, and Sevier counties shall be embraced in the western g,‘f,“‘}:f:; t"f‘:,Q£‘;}`,; judicial district of Arkansas be, and the same is hereby, repealed and to om,,,.,, district, the said counties are hereby added to and placed in the eastern judicial of Arkansas. district of said State; and all process issued against defendants residing therein shall be returned to Little Rock until otherwise provided, R.S.,see. 533, p. and all causes of action which have accrued or may hereafter accrue in 69- said counties of which the courts of the United States have jurisdiction ghall be cognizable in the court at Little Rock until otherwise provided y aw. Sno 2. That all actions or proceedings now pending against parties Pending actions residing in either of said counties in the court for the said western dis- *·° b°*’°¤°f°“°d· trict may, on the application of either party, be transferred to the court for the eastern district at Little Rock; and in case of such transfer, all papers and dles therein, with copies of all record entries, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court; and the same shall proceed goal: respects as though originally commenced in said court at Little SEO. 3. All crimes and olfences heretofore committed within said Crimes hereto- Western district shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same £*;'°m9Q·g*¤!1“°d“*tf manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. om W
