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262 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 236, 237. 1892. be entitled to a trial by jury, the trial shall be by the court without a jury, unless in such of said last-named cases wherein the fine or penalty may be nfty dollars or more, or imprisonment as punishment for the oifense may be thirty days or more, the accused shall demand a trial by rms, ew. jury, in which case the trial shall be by jury. In all cases where the said court shall impose a iine it may, in default of the payment of the fine imposed, commit the defendant for such a term as the court thinks right and proper, not to exceed one year." omit. Sec. 2. That section ten hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes P_]f§j,g§,;;§§Y* 1°°°· relating to the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so that said section shall read: onem no mms- “Sec. 1060 The clerk and the deputy clerks, and such other officers ‘°‘ °""‘“‘ of the court as may be assigned by the judges of the court for that purpose, shall have the power to administer oaths and atHrmations." Approved, July 23, 1892. Jury 23, 1392, CHAP. 23'l.—An act to accept a bequest made by General George W. Cullum for

-————————- the erection of a memorial hall at West Point, New York, and to carry the terms and

- conditions of the same into execution. rmmtis. Wliereas George W. Cullum, colonel of the Corps of Engineers on the retired list, brevet major-general United States Army, a resident of the city of New York, lately deceased, did, by his last will and testament, give and bequeath to the United States the sum of two hundred and nity thousand dollars upon the terms and conditions that the United States shall build and maintain, in accordance with certain stipulations, upon the public grounds at West Point, New York, a lire-proof memorial hall for certain designated purposes hereinafter specified: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mnmy Acwmyé States of America in Congress assembled, That the said bequest be, and ,,,;§,,°°"{:,“",_;°§,,_°(*Q_ w_ the same hereby is, accepted by the United States under the terms and v¤H¤¤¤ fer ¤~¤¤¤>ri•1 conditions thereto annexed by the said testator in his said last will and ML testament; the said sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be paid into the Treasury of the United States, subject to the disposition hereinafter to be made of the same and for the faithful execution of the objects and purposes of said bequest according to the will of the donor. · B<>¤¤i ¤¤' ¤'¤¤¤m Sec. 2. That the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, three other members of the academic board, and }I3j01'-GQ1I9TH] James B. Fry, during his lifetime, be, and they are, constituted a board, by the name of “The Board of Trustees of the Memorial Hall D¤¤¤¤· of the United States Military Academy," whose duty it shall be to erect the said memorial hall according to the provisions of the will of the testator, and on completion thereof to transfer the same to the United States for perpetual use as a memorial hall, to be devoted to the objects and purposes as defined in the said will. And the members of the said board of trustees, to be selected as aforesaid, shall be appointed, immediately upon the passage of this act, by the Secretary of War, from members of the academic board of the said academy vmmm. who are graduates thereof And in the event of any vacancy occurring in the said board of trustees, either by the death or inability to serve of Major-General James B. Fry, or by the death or vacation of office of any member thereof who was appointed by selection from the members of the said academic board, the Secretary of War shall in each case, and from time to time as often as vacancies occur, fill such vacancy by the appointment of a member of the said academic board, who shall be a graduate of the said Military Academy. in the same manner as provided for the original appointments. Erection of building. Sec. 3. That when the said sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall have been paid into the Treasury of the United States the