HEAD

Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or principal source of a stream. -Head m~ney. A sum"of money r,eckoned at a fixed amount for each head (person) in a des-- ignated cla. . Particularly (1) a capitation or poll tax. (2) A bounty offered by the laws of the United States for each person on board an enemy's ship or ve el, at the commencement of a naval engagement, which shall be sunk or de!;troyed by a ship or ve el of the United States of equal or inferior force, the same to be divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prize money. In re Farragut, 7 D. C. 97. A similar reward is offered by the British statutes. (3) The tax or duty imposed by act of congre of Aug. 3, 1882, on owners of steamships and sailing ve els for every immigrant brought into the United States. Head Money Cases, 112 U. S. 580, 5 Sup. Ct. 247, 28 L. Ed. 798. (4) A bounty or reward paid to one who pursues and kills a bandit or out· law and produces his head as evidence; the offer of such a reward being popularly called "putting a price on his head."-Head of creek. This term means the source of the longest branch, unle general reputation has given the appellation to another. Davis v. Bryant. 2 Bibb (Ky.) 110.-Head of department. In the constitution and laws of the United States, the heads of departments are the officers at the head of the great executive departments of government (commonly called "the cabinet") such as the secretary of state, secretary of the interior, attorney general, postmaster general, and so on, not including heads of bureaus.,,,P· S. v. Mouatt, 124 U. $. 303, 8 Sup. Ct. ~5, 31 L. Ed. 463; U. S. v. Germaine, 99 U. S. 511, 25 L. Ed. 482.-Head of a family, A -term used in homestead and exemption laws to designate a person who maintains a family; a householder. Not nece arily a husband. or father, but any person who has charg-e of, supervises, and manages the affairs of the household or the collective body of persons residing tog-ether and constituting the family. See Duncan v. Frank. 8 Mo. App. 289; Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App. 459. 79 S. W. 1163; Whalen v. Cadman, 11-low a. 227; Brokaw v. Ogle, 170 Ill. 115, 48 N. E. 394; Bennett v. Georgia Trust Co., 106 Ga. 578, 32 S. E. 625.-Head of stream. The highest point on the stream which furnishes a continuous stream of water i not' nece arily the longest fork or prong. Uh v. Reynolds, 64 S. W. 498, 23 Ky. Law Re]). 759; State v. Coleman, 13 N. J. Law. 104.- Head of water. In hydraulic engineering,. mining, etc., the effective force of a body or f volume of water, expre ed in terms of the vertical distance from the level of the water in the pond, reservoir, dam, or other source of supply, to the point where it is to be mechanically applied, or expre ed in terms of the pre ure of the water per square inch at the latter point. See Shearer v. Middle ton, 88 J Mich. fl21. 50 N. W. 737; Cargill v. Thompson, 57 Minn. 534, 59 N. W. 638. [s. 569]