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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tilden, Samuel Jones

TILDEN, Samuel Jones, American lawyer and statesman: b. New Lebanon, N. Y., 9 Feb. 1814; d. Greystone on the Hudson, near Yonkers, N. Y., 4 Aug. 1886. He was educated at Yale and at New York University, being graduated from the latter in 1837. He then

studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He attained the first rank in his profession, being particularly successful in reorganizing corporations involved in litigation, and amassing one of the largest fortunes ever gained in the practice of law. While a student in college, he had taken an active part in politics, writing and speaking in favor of Martin Van Buren's policy; in 1845 was elected to the New York State legislature and was a member of a special committee to consider the settlement of anti-rent troubles, his report on the subject forming the basis of subsequent legislation. In 1846 he was a member of the State constitutional convention and in 1848 was one of the delegates of the Free Soil faction of the Democratic party to the National Convention, but his political activity then slackened until after the Civil War. During the war, however, he was several times consulted by President Lincoln; he believed that the war, once begun, must be carried through by the Federal government, but opposed some acts of the administration as unconstitutional. In 1866 he was made chairman of the Democratic State committee and in 1867 was a member of the State constitutional convention. As chairman of the State committee he took a leading part in the overthrow of the Tweed Ring, opposing their delegates in the State conventions and being active in collecting evidence against their leaders and bringing them to prosecution; in 1872, having been elected to the State legislature, he was the leader in the impeachment of two of the Tweed judges. (See ; ). In 1873 he resigned as chairman of the State committee; but in 1874 was nominated and elected Governor of New York. His administration was notable for his successful exposure of the “canal ring,” an association made up of persons who obtained contracts for canal work which they never fulfilled, but for which they were paid, and their political supporters. Governor Tilden employed a skilled engineer to examine their work and then surprised the legislature by a wholly unexpected special message setting forth in detail the fraudulent methods of the “ring.” This served as a direct appeal to the people; and so aroused public opinion that the legislature was forced to authorize the governor to appoint a canal commission. The reports of this commission resulted in a marked diminution in the appropriation for canals and the indictment of several officials for defrauding the State. In 1876 Tilden was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, and received the largest popular vote, but lacked one electoral vote neccssary for his election. As the electoral votes from several States were contested on account of aliened fraud, the matter was referred in a special Electoral Commission, which decided in favor of the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. (See ). Popular excitement had run high and many Democrats still claimed Tilden's election, but he urged his supporters quietly to accept the decision of the commission. In 1880 and 1884 his party again wished to nominate him for the Presidency, but each time he declined the nomination. He bequeathed the most of his fortune to establish a public library in New York; but the will was contested by the heir, and only a part of the

bequest came into the city's possession. (See ). Consult ‘Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden’ (ed. by John Bigelow, 2 vols., New York 1885); ‘Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden’ (ed. by John Bigelow, 2 vols., ib. 1908); Bigelow, J., ‘Life of Samuel J. Tilden’ (2 vols., ib. 1895); Haworth, ‘Disputed Presidential Election of 1876’ (Cleveland 1906).


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Another little saying has been reported to me, viz.: When a man's wife is about to give birth to a child, folk will chaff him and say: "You'll soon have to go to bed with the old woman and be nursed like they did years ago." Can this possibly be a faint reminiscence of the Couvade?

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Thomas Curtis, a farm labourer, about fifty years of age; he is well educated, and has lived in England.

Harry Mclntee, a small farmer, age about forty.

Margaret Collins, age about forty-five, a native of Co. Cavan, now living on the Forkill Road, just outside Dundalk. She lives principally on charity.]

1. Whenever anyone in the parish is about to die, the Dead Coach is to be seen on the road shown in the sketch-map. It goes southwards from Faughart Church, past the turn to Toberonan Bridge, across the Forkill Road, by Mount Bailey, to O'Hagan's cross-roads, and thence by Kilcurry back to the church again. The coach is black, drawn by four headless horses, and driven by a headless driver; it is perfectly noiseless, "like a bicycle." Seeing it does not appear to bring any ill-luck to the beholder; H. Mclntee has seen the coach on the road near his own house.—[H. Mclntee, T. Curtis, and others.]

2. Faughart Church, now disused, was built about the beginning of this century. It stands upon an ancient fort, and the following story concerning its building is current in the neighbourhood:

When Mr. Linley, the rector, was looking for a site for his church, he wished to buy Rice's Fort for the purpose, but the owner refused to sell it, so the present site was purchased instead The church was begun, and the work proceeded favourably. One evening, when the building was almost completed, the contractor

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Doe v. Commonwealth's Atty. for City of Richmond/Opinion of the Court

Bryan, Senior Circuit Judge:

Virginia's statute making sodomy a crime is unconstitutional, each of the male plaintiffs aver, when it is applied to his active and regular homosexual relations with another adult male, consensually and in private. They assert that local State officers threaten them with prosecution for violation of this law, that such enforcement would deny them their Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' assurance of due process, the First Amendment's protection of their rights of freedom of expression, the First and Ninth Amendments' guarantee of privacy, and the Eighth Amendment's forbiddance of cruel and unusual punishments. A declaration of the statute's invalidity in the circumstances is prayed as well as an injunction against its enforcement. Defendants are State prosecuting officials and they take issue with the plaintiffs' conclusions. With no conflict of fact present, the validity of this enactment becomes a question of law.

So far as relevant, the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, provides:

"§ 18.1-212. Crimes against nature.—If any person shall carnally know in any manner any brute animal, or carnally know any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submit to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a felony and shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years."

Our decision is that on its face and in the circumstances here it is not unconstitutional. No judgment is made upon the wisdom or policy of the statute. It is simply that we cannot say that the statute offends the Bill of Rights or any other of the Amendments and the wisdom or policy is a matter for the State's resolve.

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Precedents cited to us as contra rest exclusively on the precept that the Constitution condemns State legislation that trespasses upon the privacy of the incidents of marriage, upon the sanctity of the home, or upon the nurture of family life. This and only this concern has been the justification for nullification of State regulation in this area. Review of plaintiffs' authorities will reveal these as the principles underlying the referenced decisions.

In Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965), plaintiffs' chief reliance, the Court has most recently announced its views on the question here. Striking down a State statute forbidding the use of contraceptives, the ruling was put on the right of marital privacy—held to be one of the specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights—and was also put on the sanctity of the home and family. Its thesis is epitomized by the author of the opinion, Mr. Justice Douglas, in his conclusion:

"We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights—older than our political parties, older than our school system. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred. It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions." p. 486, 85 S.Ct. p. 1682.

That Griswold is premised on the right of privacy and that homosexual intimacy is denunciable by the State is unequivocally demonstrated by Mr. Justice Goldberg in his concurrence, p. 499, 85 S.Ct. 1678, in his adoption of Mr. Justice Harlan's dissenting statement in Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497, 553, 81 S. Ct. 1752, 1782, 6 L.Ed.2d 989 (1961):

"Adultery, homosexuality and the like are sexual intimacies which the State forbids...but the intimacy of husband and wife is necessarily an essential and accepted feature of the institution of marriage, an institution which the State not only must allow, but which always and in every age it has fostered and protected. It is one thing when the State exerts its power either to forbid extramarital sexuality...or to say who may marry, but it is quite another when, having acknowledged a marriage and the intimacies inherent in it, it undertakes to regulate by means of the criminal law the details of that intimacy." (Emphasis added.)

Equally forceful is the succeeding paragraph of Justice Harlan:

"In sum, even though the State has determined that the use of contraceptives is as iniquitous as any act of extra-marital sexual immorality, the intrusion of the whole machinery of the criminal law into the very heart of marital privacy, requiring husband and wife to render account before a criminal tribunal of their uses of that intimacy is surely a very different thing indeed from punishing those who establish intimacies which the law has always forbidden and which can have no claim to social protection." At p. 553, 81 S.Ct. at p. 1782. (Emphasis added.)

Justice Harlan's words are nonetheless commanding merely because they were written in dissent. To begin with, as heretofore observed, they were authentically approved in Griswold. Moreover, he was not differing with the majority there on the merits of the substantive case but only as to the procedural reason of its dismissal. At all events, the Justice's exegesis is that of a jurist of widely acknowledged superior stature and weighty whatever its context.

With his standing, what he had further to say in Poe v. Ullman, supra, is worthy of high regard. On the plaintiffs' effort presently to shield the practice of homosexuality from State incrimination by according it immunity when committed in private as against public exercise, the Justice said this:

"Indeed to attempt a line between public behavior and that which is purely consensual or solitary would be to withdraw from community concern a range of subjects with which every society in civilized times has found it necessary to deal. The laws regarding marriage which provide both when the sexual powers may be used and the legal and societal context in which children are born and brought up, as well as laws forbidding adultery, fornication and homosexual practices which express the negative of the proposition, confining sexuality to lawful marriage, form a pattern so deeply pressed into the substance of our social life that any Constitutional doctrine in this area must build upon that basis." (P. 546, 81 S.Ct. p. 1778, accent added.)

Again:

"Thus, I would not suggest that adultery, homosexuality, fornication and incest are immune from criminal enquiry, however privately practiced. So much has been explicitly recognized in acknowledging the State's rightful concern for its people's moral welfare.... But not to discriminate between what is involved in this case and either the traditional offenses against good morals or crimes which, though they may be committed anywhere, happen to have been committed or concealed in the home, would entirely misconceive the argument that is being made." (Pp. 552-553, 81 S.Ct. p. 1782, accent added.)

Many states have long had, and still have, statutes and decisional law criminalizing conduct depicted in the Virginia legislation. The subject is comprehensively reviewed in State of New Jersey v. Lair, 62 N.J. 388, 301 A.2d 748, 58 A.L.R.3d 627 (1973) and in the accompanying ALR Annotation.

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With no authoritative judicial bar to the proscription of homosexuality—since it is obviously no portion of marriage, home or family life—the next question is whether there is any ground for barring Virginia from branding it as criminal. If a State determines that punishment therefor, even when committed in the home, is appropriate in the promotion of morality and decency, it is not for the courts to say that the State is not free to do so. Poe v. Ullman, supra, 367 U.S. 497, 81 S.Ct. 1752, Harlan, J., dissenting at p. 550, 81 S.Ct. 1752; see also California v. LaRue, 409 U.S. 109, 114, 93 S.Ct. 390, 34 L.Ed.2d 342 (1972). In short, it is an inquiry addressable only to the State's Legislature.

Furthermore, if the State has the burden of proving that it has a legitimate interest in the subject of the statute or that the statute is rationally supportable, Virginia has completely fulfilled this obligation. Fundamentally, the State action is simply directed to the suppression of crime, whether committed in public or in private. Both instances, as California, supra, recognizes, are within the reach of the police power.

Moreover, to sustain its action, the State is not required to show that moral delinquency actually results from homosexuality. It is enough for upholding the legislation to establish that the conduct is likely to end in a contribution to moral delinquency. Plainly, it would indeed be impracticable to prove the actuality of such a consequence, and the law is not so exacting.

If such a prospect or expectation was in the mind of the General Assembly of Virginia, the prophecy proved only too true in the occurrences narrated in Lovisi v. Slayton, 363 F.Supp. 620 (ED Va. 1973, now on appeal in the Fourth Circuit). The graphic outline by the District Judge there describes just such a sexual orgy as the statute was evidently intended to punish. The Lovisis, a married couple, advertised their wish "to meet people" and in response a man came to Virginia to meet the Lovisis on several occasions. In one instance the three of them participated in acts of fellatio. Photographs of the conduct were taken by a set camera and the acts were witnessed by the wife's daughters, aged 11 and 13. The pictures were carried by them to school.

Although a questionable law is not removed from question by the lapse of any prescriptive period, the longevity of the Virginia statute does testify to the State's interest and its legitimacy. It is not an upstart notion; it has ancestry going back to Judaic and Christian law. The immediate parentage may be readily traced to the Code of Virginia of 1792. All the while the law has been kept alive, as evidenced by periodic amendments, the last in the 1968 Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, c. 427.

In sum, we believe that the sodomy statute, so long in force in Virginia, has a rational basis of State interest demonstrably legitimate and mirrored in the cited decisional law of the Supreme Court. Indeed, the Court has treated as free of infirmity a State law with a background similar to the Virginia enactment in suit. Wainwright v. Stone, 414 U.S. 21, 94 S.Ct. 190, 38 L.Ed.2d 179 (1973).

The prayers for a declaratory judgment and an injunction invalidating the sodomy statute will be denied.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Müller, Johannes

MÜLLER, Johannes, German physiologist: b. Coblenz, Prussia, 14 July 1801; d. Berlin, 28 April 1858. He studied, from 1819, at Bonn and Berlin, started service (1824) as private dozent of physiology and comparative anatomy at Bonn, and became assistant professor (1830), then (1833) professor of anatomy and physiology at Berlin. His first important works, ‘Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtsinns’ (Leipzig 1826) and ‘Uber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen’ (Coblenz 1826), are of a subjective philosophical tendency, the first concerning the most important facts as to human and animal sight; the second sounds depths of difficult psychological problems. He soon became the leader in the science of the morphological treatment of zoology as well as

of experimental physiology. To his active researches (1830) are due the foundation of the Bell law concerning the work of the roots of the nerves of the spinal marrow, the settlement of the theory of reflex action, the more exact knowledge of the blood's constitution, lymphs, chyle, etc. He even investigated the vocal organs and sound expression, producing fundamental work on the sense of hearing. He finished his great work ‘Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen’ (Coblenz 1833-40; 4th ed., 1841-44) in Berlin. It has been translated into English under the title ‘Elements of Physiology’ (1837-43). The work discloses an entire knowledge of physiology, including comparative organology and medical histology from their microscopical and chemical viewpoints. The work was epoch-making. From 1833 he issued numerous treatises on comparative and pathological anatomy and systematic zoology. Of such should be cited ‘Der vergleichende Anatomie der Myxinoiden’ (Berlin 1835-41); ‘Beschreibung der Plagiostomen’ (ib. 1838-41), in collaboration with Jacob Henle; ‘Ueber den Bau und die Grenzen der Ganoiden und das natürliche System der Fische’ (ib. 1844); ‘Ueber die Larven und die Metamo r phose der Echino-dermen’ (ib. 1849). His ‘Ueber den feineren Bau der krankhaften Geschwülste’ (ib. 1838), which was never finished, was a pioneer for microscopical research in pathological anatomy. From then on he worked almost exclusively in the realm of comparative anatomy and brought forth numerous researches concerning the lower animals. He took 19 trips to the Baltic and North Sea, the Adriatic and the Mediterranean to investigate salt-water life. It is declared of him that he was the most versatile, fruitful, genial and lucky investigator of modern days, and he maintained his vitality till the end. He never questioned the rights of philosophy or even faith nor positive religion, but no single being has done more toward placing physics and chemistry in their correct place in physiology and establishing the true method in contrast with the errors of natural philosophy, spiritualism and orthodoxy, for all rime. From 1834 he published Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medizin. In 1899 a bronze statue was erected in his memory at Coblenz. Consult his biographies by Virchow (Berlin 1858) and De Bois-Reymond (ib. 1860).


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 TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

ETHNOLOGICAL DATA IN FOLKLORE:

A Criticism of the President's Address in January, 1898.

BY G. LAURENCE GOMME, F.S.A.

(Read at Meeting of 10th November, 1898.)

President in his annual address claims to have stated "the principles which should govern the inquiry [into 'racial elements in the folklore of the British Isles'], the lines along which it should move" (Folk-Lore, vol. ix., P. 52).

I venture to make the observation that the address, able and valuable as it is, does not accomplish, or nearly accomplish, its object. In the first place, I cannot ascertain, possibly through faults of my own, what principle governed Mr. Nutt's inquiry. He appears to have first stated the historical evidence as to different races occupying these islands (p. 34); and because there is no historical evidence for any race prior to the Celts, he uses language which implies that, in his opinion at all events, there was no such race. And upon this statement of the racial elements he founds conclusions as to the impossibility of using folklore for the discrimination of race-elements.

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 130 its subject matter—the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the people. The question is: Does an examination of the subject matter of folklore reveal racial distinctions; and, if so, to what races can these distinctions be referred? If no other science, save that of folklore, had discovered racial distinctions in the people of Britain, it would behove ethnologists to examine the subject. Such is the position I would claim for folklore in opposition to the dependent position advocated by the President in his address.

Now the element of folklore used by the President for his purpose is that of "traditional literature." I do not agree that the traditional literature element of folklore is the best element upon which to found the principles of investigation into ethnological data. All that can be done by taking into consideration the traditional literature of the historical races is to show that these literatures are too much alike, being all products of one language—that of the Aryan-speaking people—for there to be any prospect of discovering race-distinctions. I agree that this is so. But the reason is an obvious one, and Mr. Nutt himself tells us this reason. It is because of the "artistry" (to use a very happy word of Mr. Nutt's own creation, I think) of this traditional literature. We know it because of its artistry. It has spread because of its artistry. It appeals to all races alike because of its artistry. It is adopted by all races alike, and therefore ceases to be of racial significance. I agree with all this, but I cannot conclude therefrom that therefore folklore contains no race-elements that can be discriminated, and I altogether demur to the proposition that folk-literature is the best element of folklore whereby to test the evidence of race.

I am not concerned in this paper with matters of detail, but I must draw attention to one statement of Mr. Nutt's which seems to me little short of amazing. "Man," he says, "in the folklore stage philosophises with a view to action; it is in the last degree essential that this philosophy


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 Rh should be sound, as it is to result in action the effects of which involve life or death, dearth or plenty, weal or woe for him. Philosophical speculation in the air, without any definite relation to or bearing upon the practical conduct of life, is one of those benefits of progress which man in the folklore stage not only contrives to do without, but the excellence of which he fails to grasp."

I have called this passage amazing. I cannot agree that primitive philosophies were propounded for the purpose of founding social or political action upon their formularies. I see little evidence of this, though I do see that primitive philosophies very often resulted in action being taken upon their findings, and that with disastrous results. To give only an instance from Mr. Hartland's Legend of Perseus, perhaps the most widespread and certainly the most remarkable of all the unsound conclusions arrived at by primitive philosophy, was one that imperfectly recognised the great natural fact of fatherhood and taught in its place that paternity was possible by other than natural causes—indeed, we may say by all other than natural causes. In this case, at all events, man's intellect played him false through probably long ages of life, and there is no evidence that I can discover which shows that it was formulated for the practical conduct of life. Because action and conduct have resulted from the findings of primitive philosophies, I do not understand that this was the intention and cause of the philosophical speculations of early man.

But even more amazing is the statement that "philosophical speculation in the air, without any definite relation to or bearing upon the practical conduct of life," is not a part of primitive life. Does Mr. Nutt know the first chapter of Genesis, or, better still, the Maori story of the Children of Heaven and Earth, and will he not agree that this and most, if not all, of the primitive conceptions of the world's beginnings and man's origin (and there are many) are not philosophical speculations in the air of the most unpractical


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 132 kind? To me at least they are full of pathos, full of wonder, for they show that men situated as early people were situated can stand aside from the practical part of life and ask questions of the infinite. Each of these primitive cosmogonies is a pausing place in the history of human thought; each indicates an immensity of progress not to be measured, I fear, by modern minds, or at all events not until psychology shall have become a more exact science than it is at present; each has been arrived at by we know not what tremendous effort on the part of those who, amidst the dangers and stress of the primitive life-struggle, yet stood aside to philosophise as to whence man came, to ask the same question which Darwin asked and answered for us.

Let me pass from criticism of Mr. Nutt's expressions to criticism of his results. In 1892 I ventured to publish a little work entitled Ethnology in Folklore. Ethnology is out of fashion; so my book was received with only moderate acceptance by my folklore colleagues; but I am glad to place on record that at least one of the most distinguished members of our Society, Dr. Haddon, has recently done me the honour of accepting my main conclusions. In 1896, at the British Association, I read a memoir on the method of determining the value of folklore as ethnological data—a memoir which was received at the Association with approval as a scientific basis for treating this aspect of folklore. These studies are based, not upon the element of traditional literature in folklore, but upon the elements of custom, ritual, and belief; and my views, drawn from these elements of folklore, stand in direct antagonism to those of the President. I attempted to work out a principle of research and analysis, and to apply it to the problem of racial elements in folklore. I stated that principle in unmistakably plain language; and as my methods have not been brought directly before the Society, I will venture to restate them on the present occasion.

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 Rh folklore research without proper safeguards. The unmeaning custom or belief of the peasantry of the western world of civilisation has been taken into the domains of savagery or barbarism for an explanation, without any thought as to what this action really signifies to the history of the custom or belief in question. No doubt the explanation thus afforded is correct in most cases; but I question whether such an explanation will be admitted as an important element in the history of European peoples, until it has been proved to be scientifically justified. For it must be obvious that the effective comparison of a traditional peasant custom or belief with a savage custom or belief is only a very short cut indeed to the true process that has been accomplished. This process includes the comparison of an isolated custom or belief, belonging, perhaps secretly, to a particular place, a particular class of persons, or perhaps a particular family or person, with a custom or belief which is part of a whole system belonging to a savage race or tribe; of a custom or belief whose only sanction is tradition, the conservative instinct to do what has been done by one's ancestors, with a custom or belief whose sanction is the professed and established polity or religion of a people; of a custom or belief which is embedded in a civilisation of which it is not a part and to which it is antagonistic, with a custom or belief which helps to make up the civilisation of which it is part. In carrying out such a comparison, therefore, a very long journey back into the past of the civilised race has been performed. For unless it be admitted that civilised people consciously borrow from savages and barbaric peoples, or constantly revert to a savage original type of mental and social condition, the effect of such a comparison as we have taken for an example is to take back the custom or belief of the modern peasant to a date when a people of savage or barbaric culture occupied the country now occupied by their descendants, the peasants in question, and to compare


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 134 the custom or belief of this ancient savage or barbaric culture with the custom or belief of modern savage or barbaric culture. The line of comparison is not therefore simply drawn level from civilisation to savagery; but it consists, first, of two vertical lines from civilisation and savagery respectively, drawn to a height scaled to represent the antiquity of savage culture in modern Europe, and then the level horizontal line drawn to join the two vertical lines. Thus the line of comparison is:

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Now if the several items of custom and belief preserved by tradition are really ancient in their origin, they must be floating fragments, as it were, of an ancient system of custom and belief—the cultus of the people among whom they originated. This cultus has been destroyed. It has either struggled unsuccessfully against foreign and more vigorous systems of religion and society, or it has slowly developed from one stage to another. In the western world, at all events, we know that the former has been the process at work, and that it is matter of definite historical record that all non-Christian culture has had to succumb to Christianity. To be of service to the historian of our country and people, therefore, each floating fragment of ancient custom and belief must not only be labelled "ancient," but it must be placed back in the system from which it has been torn away. To do this is to a great extent to restore the ancient system; and to restore an ancient system of culture, even if the restoration be only a mosaic and a shattered mosaic, is to bring into evidence the prehistoric race of people to which it belongs.

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 Rh principles of inquiry. It would be impossible to suppose that all these relics have been preserved equally well, all at the same stage of arrested development, all equally untouched by later influences. Their existence has been attacked in different places, at different times, by different influences; and therefore the actual form of their survival must vary almost as frequently as an example occurs. The modern connection of a custom or belief is no sure guide, and is very often a misleading guide, to its ancient connection. It is only by correct analysis and classification, therefore, that the various examples can be put into a condition for examination and identification.

We have for our purpose nothing more than a series of notes of customs and beliefs obtaining among the lower and lowest classes of the people, and not being the direct teaching of any religious or academic body. These notes are very unequal in value owing to the manner in which they have been made. They are often accidental, they are seldom if ever the result of trained observation, and they are often mixed up with theories as to their origin and relationship to modern society and modern religious beliefs.

The method of using these notes for scientific purposes is therefore a very important matter. It is essential that each single item should be treated definitely and separately from all other items, and, further, that the exact wording of the original note upon each separate item should be kept intact. The original account of every custom and belief is an organism, not to be tampered with except for the purpose of scientific analysis; and then, after that purpose has been effected, all the parts must be put together again, and the original organism restored to its form.

The handling of each custom or belief, and of its separate parts, in this way enables us, in the first place, to disentangle it from the particular personal or social stratum in which it happens to have been preserved, and^ secondly, to prepare it for the place to which it may ultimately be found to belong. The first step in this preparation is to get together


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136 all the examples which have been preserved, and to compare these examples with each other, first as to common features of likeness, secondly as to features of unlikeness. By this process we are able to restore whatever may be really deficient from insufficiency of any particular record—and such a restoration is above all thing essential—and to present for examination not an isolated specimen but a series of specimens, each of which helps to bring back to observation some portion of the original.

The first important characteristic which distinguishes a custom or belief in survival from a custom or belief belonging to an established system is that not only do different examples present points of common likeness, but also points of unlikeness. The points of likeness are used to determine and classify all the examples of one custom or belief, the points of unlikeness to trace out the line of decay inherent in survivals.

This partial equation and partial divergence between different examples of the same custom or belief allows a very important point to be made in the study of survivals. We can estimate the value of the elements which equate in any number of examples, and the value of the elements which diverge; and by noting how these values differ in the various examples we may discover an overlapping of example with example which is of the utmost importance. A certain custom consists, say, of six elements, a, b, c, d, e, f. Another example of the same custom has four of these elements, a, b, c, d, and two divergent elements, g, h. A third example has elements a, b, and divergences g, h, i, k. A further example has none of the elements, but only divergences, g, h, i, l, m. Then the statement of the case is reduced to the following:—


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 Rh "A child near two years old fell into the River Kennet and was drowned. After diligent search had been made in the river, but to no purpose, a twopenny loaf, with a quantity of quicksilver put into it, was set floating from the place where the child had fallen in, which steered its course down the river upwards of half a mile, before a great number of spectators, when the body hap- pening to lay on the contrary side of the river, and gradually sunk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediately brought up, with grabbers ready for that purpose."

We cannot find this passage in the volumes hitherto published of the Gentleman's Magazine Library. The superstition is well known, but it is interesting to record so modern a case as that at Everdon.

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A few days ago my sister was told by a Lincolnshire peasant woman that "a midnight child" has peculiar gifts: "it can see everything"—that is spirits and other supernatural beings. My sister has also lately been told that the old nurse of a young man who is a clever amateur actor attributes his powers to the fact that he was born at midnight.

It is a common belief that people born on the midnight which links together Christmas Eve and Christmas Day have wonderful gifts; but it is new to us that all midnight children are endowed beyond others.

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Health services programs, extension. AN ACT To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the assistance programs for health services research; health statistics; comprehensive public health services; hypertension programs; migrant health; community health centers; medical libraries; cancer control programs; the National Cancer Institute; heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Research Service Awards; population research and voluntary family planning programs; sudden infant death syndrome; hemophilia; national health planning and development; and health resources development; to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend it through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978; to extend the assistance programs for home health services; and for other purposes Water research and conversion. AN ACT To extend certain authorities of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to water resources research and saline water conversion programs, and for other purposes... Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriation for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. AN ACT To provide for the cooperation between the Secretary of the Interior and the States with respect to the regulation of surface coal mining operations, and the acquisition and reclamation of abandoned mines, and for other purposes International Development and Food Assistance Act of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize development assistance programs for fiscal year 1978, to amend the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to make certain changes in the authorities of that Act, and for other purposes Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act of 1958, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase loan authorization and surety bond guarantee authority; and to improve the disaster assistance, certificate of competency and Small Business set-aside programs, and for other purposes Federal Home Loan Bank Board, vacancies. JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act Department of Energy Organization Act. AN ACT To establish a Department of Energy in the executive branch by the reorganization of energy functions within the Federal Government in order to secure effective management to assure a coordinated national energy policy, and for other purposes

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International Security Assistance Act of 1977. AN ACT - ;< ^,To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize international security assistance programs for fiscal year 1978, to amend the Arms Export Control Act to make certain changes in the authorities of that Act, and for other purposes Aug. 4, 1977 614 Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. AN ACT To provide employment and training opportunities for youth, and to provide for other improvements in employment and training programs Aug. 5, 1977 627 Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Aug. 5, 1977 653 Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes Aug. 7, 1977 685 Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for public works for water and power development and energy research for the fiscal ..';.., |>8~',fl year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Aug. 7, 1977 797 Agriculture and related agencies appropriations, fiscal year 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for Agriculture and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other pur- Aug. 12, 1977 810 poses AMVETS, corporate name, amendment. AN ACT To amend the corporate name of AMVETS (American Veterans of World War II), and for other purposes.... Aug. 15, 1977 830 National Science Foundation Authorization Act, fiscal year, 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for activities of the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes Aug. 15, 1977 831 National Family Week, designation authorization. JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning on November 20, 1977, as "National Family Week".... Aug. 15, 1977 836 Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Aug. 15, 1977 837 Peace Corps, appropriation authorization, fiscal year 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps for fiscal year 1978 Aug. 15, 1977 841 Indian claims, commencement of actions. AN ACT To amend the statute of limitations provisions in section 2415 of title 28, United States Code, relating to claims by the United States on behalf of Indians Aug. 15, 1977 842 River basin plans, additional appropriation authorizations. AN ACT Authorizing additional appropriations for prosecution of projects in certain comprehensive river basin plans for flood control, water conservation, recreation, hydroelectric power and other purposes... Aug. 15, 1977 843 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1978. AN ACT To authorize fiscal year 1978 appropriations for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, and for other purposes Aug. 17, 1977 844 United States International Trade Commission. AN ACT To authorize appropriations to the United States International Trade Commission, to provide for greater efficiency in the administration of the Commission, and for other purposes Aug. 17, 1977 867 Emergency drought relief AN ACT To amend Public Law 95-18, providing for emergency drought relief measures Aug. 17, 1977 870

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Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1978, and for other purposes Consumer Credit Protection Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prohibit abusive practices by debt collectors Atomic Energy Act of 1954, amendment. AN ACT To aboUsh the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and to reassign certain functions and authorities thereof, and for other purposes Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Education Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To extend certain programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for one year, and for other purposes Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. AN ACT To provide price and income protection for farmers and assure consumers of an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes Uniformed services, medical officers, special pay provisions, extension and reinstatement. AN ACT Extending the special pay provisions for physicians and dentists in the uniformed services and reinstating the special pay provisions for optometrists and veterinarians in the uniformed services Juvenile Justice Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes Veterans. AN ACT To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide an automobile assistance allowance and to provide automotive adaptive equipment to veterans of World War I Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Acf o/iZf. AN ACT To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans; to increase the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for their survivors; and for other purposes International financial institutions, U.S. participation, increase. AN ACT To provide for increased participation by the United States in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Fund, and for other purposes Department of Housing and Urban Development—Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent executive agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes Public debt limit, temporary increase. AN ACT To increase the temporary debt limit, and for other purposes Council on Wage and Price Stability Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Council on Wage and Price Stability Act to extend its termination date, and for other purposes

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Sept. 20, 1977

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Sept. 20, 1977

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Sept. 21, 1977

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Sept.24, 1977

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Sept. 29, 1977

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D.C. water and sewer services. Federal payment esti-, %,^.,. mates, revision. AN ACT To revise the basis for estimating the annual Federal payment to the District of Columbia for water and water services and sanitary sewer services furnished to the United States Oct. 6, 1977 Library Services and Construction Act Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To extend and revise the Library Services and Construction Act, and for other purposes Oct. 7, 1977 Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977. AN ACT To reduce the hazards of earthquakes, and for other purposes Oct. 7, 1977 Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950, amendments; IRS and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, audits. AN ACT To amend the Accounting and Auditing Act , V of 1950 to provide for the audit, by the Comptroller General, of the Internal Revenue Service and of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Oct. 7, 1977 Veterans' benefits; entitlement, denial to certain veterans with upgraded discharges. AN ACT To deny entitlement to veterans' benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of other than honorable discharges from service during the Vietnam era; to require caseby-case review under uniform, historically consistent, generally applicable standards and procedures prior to the award of veterans' benefits to persons adminis" ' ^ tratively discharged under other than honorable conditions from active military, naval, or air service; and for other purposes Oct. 8, 1977 Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to extend the authorization of appropriations contained in such Act Oct. 12, 1977 Housing and Community Development Act of 1977. AN ACT To amend certain Federal laws pertaining to community development, housing, and related programs Oct. 12, 1977 Library of Congress; Center for the Book, establishment. AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and for other purposes Oct. 13, 1977 Continuing appropriations, 1978. JOINT RESOLUTION Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1978, and for other purposes Oct. 13, 1977 District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Self-Government and , » Governmental Reorganization Act with respect to the borrowing authority of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes Oct. 13, 1977 Civil Rights Commission Authorization Act of 1977. AN ACT 'To raise the limitation on appropriations for the United States Commission on Civil Rights Oct. 13, 1977 Indians; Te-Moak Bands, Western Shoshone; lands in trust. AN ACT To declare certain federally owned land held in trust by the United States for the TeMoak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians Oct. 15, 1977 Territories of the United States, appropriation authorization. AN ACT To authorize certain appropriations for the territories of the United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes Oct. 15, 1977

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Territories of the United States, appropriation authorization, amendment. JOINT RESOLUTION To amend an Act entitled "To authorize certain appropriations for the territories of the United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes" (enrolled bill H.R. 6550, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session) Oct. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, amendments, research grants, appropriation authorization. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1978 to carry out the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Oct. Controlled Substances Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Controlled Substances Act to extend for three fiscal years the authorization of appropriations under that Act for the expenses of the Department of Justice in carrying out that Act Oct. Staff allowances for former Presidents, limitation. AN ACT To amend the Act of August 25, 1958, with respect to staff allowances for former Presidents Oct. Justice Department, position of Associate Attorney General, establishment. AN ACT To establish within the Department of Justice the position of Associate Attorney General Oct. Defense Department, Deputy and Under Secretaries of Defense, position changes. AN ACT To amend title 10, United States Code, to abolish one of the two positions of Deputy Secretary of Defense and establish the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and to change the title of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Oct. Hubert H. Humphrey Building, designation. AN ACT To name a certain Federal building in Washington, District of Columbia, the "Hubert H. Humphrey Building" Oct. Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments. AN ACT To strengthen the capability of the Government to detect, prosecute, and punish fraudulent activities under the medicare and medicaid programs, and for other purposes Oct. Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, amendments; export financing, international agreements. AN ACT To extend and amend the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 Oct. Treaties for the transfer of offenders to or from foreign countries, implementation. AN ACT To provide for the implementation of treaties for the transfer of offenders to or from foreign countries Oct. Indochinese refugees, permanent residence status, adjustment and refugee assistance, extension. AN ACT To authorize the creation of a record of admission for permanent residence in the cases of certain refugees from Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, and to amend the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 to extend the period during which refugee assistance may be provided, and for other purposes Oct. National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, extension. AN ACT To extend by seven months the term of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works Oct. Public Moneys investment authority. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to invest public moneys, and for other purposes Oct.

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Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1978. AN ACT Making appropriations for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes General Thaddeus Kosciuszko. JOINT RESOLUTION Commemorating General Thaddeus Kosciuszko by presenting a memorial plaque in his memory to the people of Poland on behalf of the American people.... Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1977. AN ACT To provide for the study of certain lands to determine their suitability for designation as wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964, and for other purposes Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage rate under that Act, and for other purposes Tinicum National Environmental Center, additions. AN ACT To provide for certain additions to the Tinicum National Environmental Center Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal year 1978 Federal Reserve Act, amendment. AN ACT To extend the authority of the Federal Reserve banks to buy and sell certain obligations Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for activities of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes Wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. AN ACT To exempt disaster payments made in connection with the 1977 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice from the payment limitations contained in the Agricultural Act of 1970 and the Agricultural Act of 1949 Northern Mariana Islands, District Court, establishment. AN ACT To create the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, implementing article IV of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America Alaska natural gas transportation system. JOINT RESOLUTION Approving the Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation system, and for other purposes Horses, duty suspension. AN ACT To continue to suspend for a temporary period the import duty on certain horses, and for other purposes Latex sheets, duty suspension. AN ACT To suspend until the close of June 30, 1978, the duty on certain latex sheets, and for other purposes Synthetic tantalum/columbium concentrate, duty suspension. AN ACT To suspend until the close of June 30, 1980, the duty on synthetic tantalum/columbium concentrate, and for other purposes Copying lathes for shoe lasts, duty-free treatment. AN ACT To provide duty-free treatment for certain copying lathes used for making rough or finished shoe i'T lasts and for parts of such lathes, and for other purposes

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Federal Aviation Act of 1958, amendments. AN ACT To amend title XIII of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to expand the types of risks which the Secretary of Transportation may insure or reinsure, and for other purposes Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977. AN ACT To promote safety and health in the mining industry, to prevent recurring disasters in the mining industry, and for other purposes Continuing appropriations. JOINT RESOLUTION Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1978, and for other purposes National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 in order to revise and extend the summer food program, to revise the special milk program, to revise the school breakfast program, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a program of nutrition information and education as part of food service programs for children conducted under such Acts, and for other purposes Big Brothers of America. AN ACT To amend the Federal charter of the Big Brothers of America to include Big Sisters International, Incorporated, and for other purposes United Daughters of the Confederacy. AN ACT Granting an extension of patent to the United Daughters of the Confederacy Madera Cemetery District, Madera, Calif, land conveyance. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands in the Sierra National Forest, California, to the Madera Cemetery District.. Latex rubber mattress blanks. AN ACT To suspend until July 1, 1978, the rate of duty on mattress blanks of latex rubber, and for other purposes Social Security Act, amendments. AN ACT To extend certain Social Security Act provisions, and for other purposes Silk yarns, duty suspension. AN ACT To extend for an additional temporary period the existing suspension of duties on certain classifications of yarns of silk, and for other purposes Marine Appropriation Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1978 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Commerce, and for other purposes Chugach and Tongass National Forests, Alaska. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain homesites within the Chugach and Tongass National Forests, Alaska United States Capitol Police. AN ACT To extend the supervision of the United States Capitol Police to certain facilities leased by the Office of Technology Assessment Taxes, distilled spirits or wines. AN ACT To amend certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to distilled spirits, and for other purposes Merchant Marine Act, 1936, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 10 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

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Executive Protective Service. AN ACT To amend title 3 ..,,.,, Ki?'-'-' of the United States Code to change the name of the ' ''""' Executive Protective Service Nov. 15, 1977 1371 95-180 Higher Education Act of 1965, amendments. AN ACT To Y amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in the definition of the term "State" for the purpose of participation in programs authorized by that Act Nov. 15, 1977 1372 95-181 Federal Crop Insurance Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, and for other purposes Nov. 15, 1977 1373 95-182 Folger Shakespeare Library, airconditioning system, water supply. AN ACT To authorize the Architect of the Capitol to furnish chilled water to the Folger Shakespeare Library Nov. 15, 1977 1374 95-183 Energy Research and Development Administration Authorization Act of 1977 and 1978—Military Applications. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the Energy Research and Development Administration for national security programs for fiscal year 1977 and 1978, and for other purposes Nov. 15, 1977 1375 95-184 Department of Defense Supplemental Appropriation Authorization Act, 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropri.. ations during fiscal year 1978, in addition to amounts ' ' ^' previously authorized, for procurement of aircraft and -.J,I - missiles for the Navy and the Air Force and for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Air f,..,, Force and the Defense agencies, and for other purposes Nov. 15, 1977 1381 95-185 D.C. Armory Board, fiscal to calendar year change. AN ACT To amend section 441 of the District of Columbia . =._ Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act Nov. 15, 1977 1383 95-186 Budget authority rescissions. AN ACT To rescind certain budget authority contained in the message of the President of July 19, 1977 (H. Doc. 95-188), transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 Nov. 16, 1977. 1384 95-187 Urban Mass Transportation Act of 196^, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to revise the program of Federal operating assistance provided under section 17 of such Act Nov. 16, 1977 1385 95-188 Depository institutions, interest rate controls, extension. j.M. I -• AN ACT To extend the authority for the flexible '"' " '' regulation of interest rates on deposits and accounts .., in depository institutions, to promote the accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes Nov. 16, 1977 1387 95-189 River basin plans, monetary authorization increase. AN ACT Authorizing an increase in the monetary authorization for nine comprehensive river basin plans Nov. 16, 1977 1392 95-190 Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1977 AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (Public Law 93-523) to extend and increase authoriza" tions provided for public water systems Nov. 16, 1977 1393 95-191 Ely Indian Colony, Nev., land conveyance. AN ACT To convey to the Ely Indian Colony the beneficial interest in certain Federal land Nov. 18, 1977 1406 95-192 Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977. AN ACT To provide for furthering the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the Nation's soil, water, and related resources for sustained use, and for other purposes Nov. 18, 1977 1407 95-193 Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, amend,, p, ments. AN ACT To amend the Applachian Regional •'* ' Development Act of 1965 to permit an extension of the "^'^• period of assistance for child development programs while a study is conducted on methods of phasing out Federal assistance to these programs Nov. 18, 1977 1412

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Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967, amendment. AN ACT To extend the provisions of the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967, relating to the reimbursement of seized commercial fishermen, until October 1, 1978. Nov. 18, 1977 1413 Siletz Indian Tribe Restoration Act. AN ACT To restore the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon as a federally recognized sovereign Indian tribe, to restore to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon and its members those Federal services and j benefits furnished to federally recognized American Indian tribes and their members, and for other purposes Nov. 18, 1977 1415 U.S. courts of appeals, judges, accommodations. AN ACT To amend section 142 of title 28, United States Code, relating to the furnishing of accommodations of judges of the courts of appeals of the United States... Nov. 19, 1977 1420 National Day of Prayer for the Year 1977. JOINT RESOLUTION To express the sense of the Congress that, in the light of history, the third Thursday in December 1977, would be a most appropriate day for designation as the "National Day of Prayer for the Year of 1977", '' * and respectfully to request that the President, under the provisions of Public Law 82-324, issue a proclamation designating such date as a "National Day of Prayer for the Year 1977" Nov. 21, 1977 1421 Aircraft engines, duty-free treatment. AN ACT To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide duty-free treatment of any aircraft engine used as a temporary replacement for an aircraft engine being - •'' overhauled within the United States if duty was paid on such replacement engine during a previous importation Nov. 23, 1977 1422 Regional Rail Reorganizaiton Act of 1973, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize additional appropriations for the United States Railway Association, and for other purposes Nov. 23, 1977 1423 National Forest System lands, Oreg., water resource management. AN ACT To provide improved authority for the administration of certain National Forest System lands in Oregon Nov. 23, 1977 1425 Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975, as amended, in order to extend the authority to enter into special• '• iS" * v; pay agreements with physicians and dentists; to amend title 38 of the United States Code to modify certain provisions relating to special-pay agreements; and for other purposes Nov. 23, 1977 1429 GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977. AN ACT To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, and special training allowance paid to eligible veterans and persons, to make improvements in the educational assistance programs, and for other purposes Nov. 23, 1977 1433 Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. AN ACT To require studies concerning carcinogenic and other toxic substances in food, the regulation of such food, the impurities in and toxicity of saccharin, and the health benefits, if any, resulting from the use of nonnutritive sweeteners; to prohibit for 18 months the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking certain ^-™ '• action restricting the continued use of saccharin as a food, drug, and cosmetic; to require certain labels and notices for foods containing saccharin; and for other purposes Nov. 23, 1977 1451

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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Date

Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act of 1977. AN ACT To amend title 38 of the United States Code to increase the rates of disability and death pension and to increase the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for parents, and for other purposes. Dec. 2, 1977 Continuing appropriations, 1978. JOINT RESOLUTION Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1978, and for other purposes Dec. 9, 1977 Intravenous fat emulsion, duty suspension. AN ACT To suspend until July 1, 1980, the duty on intravenous fat emulsion, and for other purposes Dec. 12, 1977 Career Education Incentive Act. AN ACT To authorize a career education program for elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes Dec. 13, 1977 International Safe Container Act. AN ACT To establish uniform structural requirements for intermodal cargo containers, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, designed to be transported interchangeably by sea and land carriers, and moving in, or designed to move in, international trade, and for other purposes Dec. 13, 1977 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, appropriation authorization, 1978. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the fiscal years 1978, and for other purposes Dec. 13, 1977 Social Security Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide payment for r u r a l health clinic services, and for other purposes Dec. 13, 1977 Securities and Exchange Commission, appropriation authorization. AN ACT To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for the ' ^ Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal year " 1978 Dec. 19, 1977 Endangered Species Act of 1973, amendment. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1978, 1979, and 1980 to carry out State cooperative programs under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 Dec. 19, 1977 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to make it unlawful for an issuer of securities registered '• pursuant to section 12 of such Act or an issuer required to file reports pursuant to section 15(d) of such Act to make certain payments to foreign officials and other foreign persons, to require such issuers to maintain accurate records, and for other purposes Dec. 19, 1977 Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, amendment. AN ACT To amend title IV of the Em:j, ployee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to postpone, for two years, the date on which the corporation first begins paying benefits under terminated multiemployer plans Dec. 19, 1977 Public Health Service Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the conditions for schools receiving capitation grants under section 770 of such Act, and for other purposes Dec. 19, 1977 Social Security Amendments of 1977. AN ACT To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to strengthen the financing of the social security system, and for other purposes Dec. 20, 1977 Clean Water Act of 1977 AN ACT To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for additional authorizations, and for other purposes Dec. 27, 1977 D.C. revenue bonds, payment. AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganizaiton Act with respect to the payment of certain revenue bonds issued by the Council of the District of Columbia Dec. 28, 1977

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