FIFTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 255, 256. 1896. 189 application in writing for one renewal and transmit the same to the board of local inspectors with a statement of the applicant verified before a consul, or other officer of the United States authorized to administer an oath, setting forth the reasons for not appearing in person; and upon receiving the same the board of local inspectors that originally issued such license shall renew the same for one additional term of such license, and shall notify the applicant of such renewal. And in all cases where the issue is the suspension or revocation of such c_f¤¤¤;*¤¤¤¤¤9*¤ licenses, whether before the local boards of inspectors as provided for etc? ° °°°°°°°l°°' in section forty-four hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, or before K S_,,.,c,,_ im, ,,,5; the supervising inspector as provided for in section forty-four hundred P·*°*· and iitty-two of the Revised Statutes, the accused shall be allowed to appear by counsel and to testify in his own behalf. N o master, mate, pilot, or engineer of steam vessels licensed under Exemption from title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes shall be liable to draft in time of d'§ft‘s__ Tm, m1_ ,,_ War, except for the performance of duties such as required by his 852- license; and, while performing such duties in the service of the United ug;jf,§’ f"' “*“’*" States, every such master, mate, pilot, or engineer shall be entitled to the highest rate of wages paid in the merchant marine of the United States for similar services; and, if killed or wounded while performing Y°¤¤i¤¤¤·°*¤- such duties under the United States, they, or their heirs, or their legal representatives shall be entitled to all the privileges accorded to soldiers and sailors serving in the Army and Navy, under the pension laws of the United States. Sec. 3. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act are B¤r¤¤1- hereby repealed. But this shall not be construed to modify or repeal 1·‘i11i¤s¤¤¤i<1¤¤¢¤1 that provision of the Act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and v°€Z$°§§§:l§§?°d' eighty-four, which reads as follows: “In cases where on a foreign voy- age, or on a voyage from an Atlantic to a Pacific port of the United States, any such vessel is for any reason deprived of the services of an officer below the grade of master-, his place, or a vacancy caused by the promotion of another officer to such place, may be supplied by a person not a citizen of the United States until the iirst return of such vessel to its home port; and such vessel shall not be liable to any penalty or penal tax for such employment of an alien oiIicer.” Approved, May 28, 1896. - CHAP. 256.-—An Act To authorize and empower the State of South Dakota to May 2s, isnt. select the Fort Sully Military Reservation in said State as a part of the lands granted —·""""_‘ to the State under the provisions of an Act to provide for the admission of South Dakota into the Union, approved F ehruary twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eightymine, and for indemnity school lands, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Thatthe lands situated in the Fm Sully Miliwvy Fort Sully Military Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, may be R‘§',§§§§2§'f;m,,d,,,, selected at any time within one year after the passage of this Act, or the Sega? é>5¤k¤;gb · approval of the survey of said reservation by the Secretary of the Inte-‘° ' rior, by the State of South Dakota as a part of the lands granted to the State under the provisions of an Act to provide for the admission of South Dakota into the Union, approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for indemnity school lands; and when said lands are selected as herein provided the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents to be issued therefor to the State of South rmms. Dakota: Provided, That the State of South Dakota shall have a prefer- mma. ence right over any person or corporation to select said lands subject ,,};°’ff§{§:é‘faf];,s§‘““ to entry by said State, granted thereto by the Act of Congress approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for a period of sixty days after the foregoing lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States: Provided further, That such preference right I5? zh {asf semen shall not accrue against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers on °° '"pm ’ any of said lands at the date of the passage of this Act. Approved, May 28, 1896.
