Proviso.
Exception.

Exchange with other stations.

Penalty for violation.

sel.

of the United States, or of any foreign country, carrying passengers and carrying fifty or more persons, including passengers and crew, to leave or attempt to leave any port of the United States unless such steamer shall be equipped with an efficient apparatus for radio-communication, in good working order, in charge of a person skilled in the use of such apparatus, which apparatus shall be capable of transmitting and receiving messages over a distance of at least one hundred miles, night or day: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to steamers plying only between ports less than two hundred miles apart. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of this Act apparatus for radio-communication shall not be deemed to be efficient unless the company installing it shall contract in writing to exchange, and shall, in fact, exchange, as far as may be physically practicable, to be determined by the master of the vessel, messages with shore or ship stations using other systems of radio-communication.

SEC. 3. That the master or other person being in charge of any such vessel which leaves or attempts to leave any port of the United States in violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not more than five thousand dollars, and any such fine shall Libel upon ves- be a lien upon such vessel, and such vessel may be libeled

Regulations.

June 25, 1910. [H. R. 25552.]

therefor in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such vessel shall arrive or depart, and the leaving or attempting to leave each and every port of the United States shall constitute a separate offense.

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall make such regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper execution of this Act by collectors of customs and other officers of the Government.

CHAP. 384.—An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, [Public, No. 266.] nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. 36, Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 703.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Sundry civil ex- the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely:

penses, appropriations.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE.

Quarantine service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, four hundred thousand dollars.

JUDICIAL.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

For defraying the expenses * of the circuit Expenses. and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; * * *; of the district court of Alaska; of the circuit court of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely:

rivers.

Lighting of rivers: For the pay of employees other than Lighting of clerks in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the * * * in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

Field expenses.

Proviso.
Island

Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That not more than twentyfive thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on tions. the coasts of said outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available;

limita

Pacific coast.

Proviso.

For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States: Employing, Provided, That this appropriation be available for the etc., Filipinos. transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available;

For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars;

Physical hy

drography.

For offshore soundings and examination of reported Coast Pilot. dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts

servations.

under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars;

Magnetic ob - For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Points to State Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to state surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.

surveys.

June 25, 1910.

[S. 5876.]

CHAP. 385.—An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

(Completion of water-supply system at naval station, island of Guam. See p. 57.)

CHAP. 386.-An Act To establish postal savings depositories for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government for [Public, No. 268.] repayment thereof, and for other purposes. 36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 814.

depositories.

tees to control.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Postal savings of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Board of trus- there be, and is hereby, created a board of trustees for the control, supervision, and administration of the postal savings depository offices designated and established under the provisions of this Act, and of the funds received as deposits at such postal savings depository offices by virtue thereof. Said board shall consist of the PostmasterGeneral, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the AttorneyGeneral, severally, acting ex officio, and shall have power Regulations, to make all necessary and proper regulations for the receipt, transmittal, custody, deposit, investment, and repayment of the funds deposited at postal savings depository offices.

Composition.

etc.

The board of trustees shall submit a report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session showing by States and Territories (for the preceding fiscal year) the number and names of post-offices receiving deposits, the aggregate amount of deposits made therein, the aggregate amount of withdrawals therefrom, the number of depositors in each, the total amount standing to the credit of all depositors at the conclusion of the year, the amount of such deposits at interest, the amount of interest received thereon, the

expenses.

amount of interest paid thereon, the amount of deposits
surrendered by depositors for bonds issued by authority of
this Act, and the number and amount of unclaimed de-
posits. Also the amount invested in government securi- Postal
ties by the trustees, the amount of extra expense of the
Post-Office Department and the postal service incident to
the operation of the postal savings depository system, the
amount of work done for the savings depository system by
the Post-Office Department and postal service in the
transportation of free mail, and all other facts which it
may deem pertinent and proper to present.

service

mail matter.

SEC. 2. That the Postmaster-General is hereby directed Stamps for free to prepare and issue special stamps of the necessary denominations for use, in lieu of penalty or franked envelopes, in the transmittal of free mail resulting from the administration of this Act.

post-offices.

SEC. 3. That said board of trustees is hereby authorized Designation of and empowered to designate such post-offices as it may select to be postal savings depository offices, and each and every post-office so designated by order of said board is hereby declared to be a postal savings depository office within the meaning of this Act and to be authorized and required to receive deposits of funds from the public and to account for and dispose of the same, according to the provisions of this Act and the regulations made in pursuance thereof. Each postal savings depository office shall be kept open for the transaction of business during such hours as the Postmaster-General, with the approval of the board of trustees, shall direct.

counts.

Opening ac-
Persons quali

fied.

Limitation.

SEC. 4. That accounts may be opened and deposits made in any postal savings depository established under this Act by any person of the age of ten years or over, in his or her own name, and by a married woman in her own name and free from any control or interference by her husband; but no person shall at the same time have more than one postal savings account in his or her own right. SEC. 5. That the postmaster at a postal savings deposi- Pass books, etc. tory office shall, upon the making of an application to open an account under this Act and the submission of an initial deposit, deliver to the depositor a pass book free of cost, upon which shall be written the name and signature or mark of the depositor and such other memoranda as may be necessary for purposes of identification, in which pass book entries of all deposits and withdrawals shall be made in both figures and writing: Provided, That the Postmas- Proviso. ter-General may, with the approval of the board of trustees, adopt some other device or devices in lieu of a pass book as a means of making and preserving evidence of deposits and withdrawals.

Other devices.

deposits.

SEC. 6. That at least one dollar, or a larger amount in Restrictions i multiples thereof, must be deposited before an account is opened with the person depositing the same, and one dollar, or multiples thereof, may be deposited after such account has been opened, but no one shall be permitted to deposit more than one hundred dollars in any one calendar

Proviso. Cards for small amounts.

posits.

month: Provided, That in order that smaller amounts may be accumulated for deposit any person may purchase for ten cents from any depository office a postal savings card to which may be attached specially prepared adhesive Savings stamps. stamps, to be known as "postal savings stamps," and Credited on de- when the stamps so attached amount to one dollar, or a larger sum in multiples thereof, including the ten-cent postal savings card, the same may be presented as a deposit for opening an account, and additions may be made. to any account by means of such card and stamps in amounts of one dollar, or multiples thereof, and when a card and stamps thereto attached are accepted as a deCancellation. posit the postmaster shall immediately cancel the same. It is hereby made the duty of the Postmaster-General to cards and stamps. prepare such postal savings cards and postal savings stamps of denominations of ten cents, and to keep them on sale at every postal savings depository oflice, and to prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for the issue, sale, and cancellation thereof.

Preparation of

Interest on deposits.

SEC. 7. That interest at the rate of two per centum per annum shall be allowed and entered to the credit of each depositor once in each year, the same to be computed on such basis and under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may prescribe; but interest shall not be Balance lim- computed or allowed on fractions of a dollar: Provided, That the balance to the credit of any one person shall never be allowed to exceed five hundred dollars, exclusive of accumulated interest.

ited.

Withdrawals.

SEC. 8. That any depositor may withdraw the whole or any part of the funds deposited to his or her credit, with the accrued interest, upon demand and under such regulations as the board of trustees may prescribe. WithdrawPayment by als shall be paid from the deposits in the State or Territory, so far as the postal funds on deposit in such State or Territory may be sufficient for the purpose, and, so far as practicable, from the deposits in the community in which No charge for the deposit was made. No bank in which postal savings

banks.

cashing, etc.

Funds to be deposited in solvent banks.

quired.

funds shall be deposited shall receive any exchange or other fees or compensation on account of the cashing or collection of any checks or the performance of any other service in connection with the postal savings depository system.

SEC. 9. That postal savings funds received under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited in solvent banks, whether organized under national or state laws, being subject to national or state supervision and examination, and the sums deposited shall bear interest at the rate of not Interest re- less than two and one-fourth per centum per annum, which rate shall be uniform throughout the United States and Reserve fund. Territories thereof; but five per centum of such funds shall be withdrawn by the board of trustees and kept with the Treasurer of the United States, who shall be treasurer of the board of trustees, in lawful money as a reserve. The Security from board of trustees shall take from such banks such security

banks.