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482 1=·rr·rY.roU1rru conenuss. sms. 11. cus. 4, 5. 1897. h_P¤¤·¤*v_ {gr vi··¤¢· obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of said dramatic or iL°si:{;`ci4oéa,p.ss¤, musical composition, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages "'“°"d°‘*· therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred dollar for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the court shall appear to be just. If the unlawful performance and representation be willful and for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction ,_,§j¤,;'j,f¥’:;c;,Qf* be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year. Any injunction that may be granted upon hearing after notice to the defendant by any circuit court of the United States, or by a judge thereof, restraining and enjoinin g the performance or representation of any such dramatic or musical composition may be served on the parties against whom such injunction may be granted anywhere in the United States, and shall be operative and may be enforced by proceedings to punish for contempt or otherwise by any other circuit court or judge in the United iw1m." *i¤•¤l'° States; but the defendants in said action, or any or either of them, may ` make a motion in any other circuit in which he or they may be engaged in performing or representing said dramatic or musical composition to dissolve or set aside the said injunction upon such reasonable notice to the plaintiff as the circuit court or the judge before whom said motion shall be made shall deem proper; service of said motion to be made on c °’ "**· the plaintif in person or on his attorneys in the action. The circuit ` courts or judges thereof shall have jurisdiction to enforce said injunction and to hear and determine a motion to dissolve the same, as herein provided, as fully as if the action were pending or brought in the circuit in which said motion is made. ¤°•"*°¤'· “The clerk of the court, or judge granting the injunction, shall, when required so to do by the courtheering the application to dissolve or enforce said injunction, transmit without delay to said court a certified copy of all the papers on which the said injunction was granted that are on file in his office? Approved, January 6, 1897. ` Jmuny 4g_;;;-;, CHAP. 5.-An Act Authorizing the issuing and loaning of the ensigns, flags, €—=-— signal numbers, and so forth, of the United States for the purpose of ecorating the streets of the city of Washington on the occasion of inaugural ceremonies on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. rnrmtis. Whereas the citizens! reception committee of the District of Columbia, for the entertainment of the citizens of the Republic at the inauguration of the President of the United States on the fourth day of Marcin, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, within the city of Washington, desires to add to the pleasure of the occasion by an extensive decoration of the streets of the city, and in order that the General Government may render such assistance as may be within its power: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Inauguration cm. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War and ""f,‘f,'f,§·{,’,¢ (Q,,,,,,, um Secretary of the Navy be authorized to loan to Louis D. Wine, chairf¤r•1¤¤<·r¤¤¤z ¤¤r¤¤¢»· man of the subcommittee in charge of street decorations, or his successor in said office, for the purpose of decorating the streets of the city of Washiiigtou, District of Columbia, on the occasion of the inauguration of the President of the United States on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, all of the United States ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, belonging to the Government of the United States as in their judgment can be spared and are not in use by the Government at the time of the inauguration. The loan of said ensigns, flags, mgnal numbers, and so forth, to said chairman shall not take place prior to the twentieth day of February, and they shall be returned by him by the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. B¤¤d· Sec. 2. For the protection and the return of said ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, the said Louis D. ¥Vine, or his successor in office,