300 FOBTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 397, 398. 1882. Public building. site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with tire- P¤*°h“° °f ’**°- proof vault extending to each story, for the accommodation of the postoffice, custom-house, bonded warehouse, internal revenue offices, and other government ofdccs, at the city of Saint Joseph, m the State of ‘ mms; cont. The site, and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Scoretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of seventy-ilve thousand hesiu. dollars: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for this purpose Ti*!¤- shall be available until a valid title to the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Missouri shall cedc to the UnitedStates exclusive jurisdiction over the same, dnmng the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all pmposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil processes therein _ Appropriation. Sec. 2.——That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same 1S hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not_otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended toward the construction of said building. Approved, August 5, 1882. Augngt 5, gg; CHAP. 398.-—An act to provide Rrdlelcgieitinénstgrsom the gross tonnage of vcuele of Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Represmatqtives of the United mductim 5,,,,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-one hundred gross tonnage of and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended
- ¤¤¤¤l¤ 0* Umm by inserting before the last paragraph thereof the following words:
stm 4,53. m That from the gross tonnage of every vessel of the United States · mud.; ’ there shall be deducted the tonnage of the spaces-or compartments oecnpied by or appropriated to the use of the crew of the vessel, but the not to exceed deduction fofcrew-space shall not, in any case, exceed live per ccntnm 6*¤P•¤'°°¤*¤¤*¤‘ of the gross tonnage. And in every such vessel propelled by steam or °'°‘"l"°°‘ other power requiring engine-room there shall also be deducted iron; the gross tonnage of the vessel the tonnage of the space or spaces actually occupied by or required to be inclosed for the proper working of the boilers and machinery, including the shaft trunk or alley in screw-, steamers, with the addition in the case of vessels propelled with paddlewheels of fifty-per centum, and in the case of vessels propelled by mamma, d screws of seventy·ilve per centum of the tonnage of such space, but in vessel. no case shell the deductions from the gross tonnage exceed fifty per eentmn of such tonnage; and the proper deductions from the gross tonnage having been made, the remainder shall be deemed the net or tonnage of such vessels. gum,;;, ,5; “ t the register or other odicial certillcate of the tonnage or manuunmt. nationality of n vessel of the United States in addition to what is now required by law to be expressed therein, shall state separately the deductions made from the gross tonnage, and shall also state the net or register tonnage of the vessel. But the outstanding registers or enrollments of vessels of the United States shall not be rendered void by the addition of such new statement of her tonnage, unless voluntarily snrrendered, but the same may be added to the outstanding document, or by au appendix thereto, with a certideato of n collector of customs that the original estimate of tonnage is amended." ~ R. S. 4154, 801, Sec. 2. That section forty-one hundred and fifty-four of the Revised ¢¤1>¤¤!¤•l· Statutes be, and hereby is, repealed, and instead thereof the following is substituted, to wit: » lreauemenc or “SEO. 4154. Wlxenever it is made to appear to the Secretary of the f¢¤>i:¤ *¤¤¤!¤· Treasury that the rules concerning the measurement for tonnage of vessels of the United States have been substantially adopted by the government of any foreign country, he may direct that the vessels of such foreign country be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their ccrtiil·
