Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-12
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wherein President johnson has OnenQ-
ed, if he has offended at all, we publish
the law, which is as follows:
SECTION 1. Persons holding or APP
pointed to any civil Office by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall be entitled to hold such Office until
a successor shall have been in like MAN.
ner appointed and duly qualified. The
secretaries of state, of the treasury, OF
war, of navy, and of the interior, the
postmaster general and the attorney
general, shall hold their offices respec-
lively for and during the term of the
president by whom they may have been
appointed and for one month thereafter,
subject to removal by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate.
SEC. 9. When civil officers, excepting
judges of the United States courts,
shall, during a recess of the Senate, be
shown, by evidence satisfactory to the
president, to be guilty of misconduct III
office, or for any reason shall become
incapable or legally disqualified to per-
form his duties, in such case the presi-
dent may suspend such officer and de-
signate some suitable person to perform
temporarily the duties of such Office
until the next meeting of the Senate,
and until the case shall be acted upon by
the Senate. Such persons shall take
the oaths and give the bonds required
by law. In such case it shall be the du-
ty of the president, within twenty days
after the meeting of the Senate, to re-
port to the Senate such suspension, with
the evidence and reasons for his action
in the case, and the name of the person
so designated to perform the duties of
such office. If the Senate concurs the
president may remove the officer and
appoint successor. If the Senate does
not concur the suspended officer resumes
his Office, and receives again the official
salary and emoluments. The president,
in case he shall become satisfied that
the suspension by him of a civil officer
war made ON insufficient grounds, shall
be authorized, at any time before re-
porting the suspension to the Senate, to
revoke the suspension and reinstate the
officer in the performance of the duties
of his office.
SEC. 3. The president shall have pow
er to fill all vacancies which may hap
pen during the recess of the Senate, by
reason of death or resignation, by grant
ing commissions which shall expire at
the end of their next session. And If
no appointment, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, shall be
made to such office so vacant or tempo
rarily filed during the next session of
the Senate, the Office shall remain i'll
allegiance, without any salary, fees OF
emoluments attached thereto, until it
shall be filed by appointment there, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate; and during such time all the
powers and duties belonging to the of
flee shall be exercised by such other Off
Ger as may by law exercise such powers
and duties in case of a vacancy in such
Office.
SEC. A. No term of office. the duration
of which is limited by law, shall be ex-
tended by this act.
SEC. 8. Persons accepting or eXercis-
ing Office contrary to this act are de-
clared to be guilty of high misdemean-
or, and upon trial and conviction there
of, shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $4,000. or by imprisonment not
exceeding five years, or both.
SEC. 6. Every removal, appointment,
or employment, made, had or exercised,
or contrary to the provisions of this act,
and the making, signing, sealing, coun-
tersigning, or issuing of any commits
sion or letter of authority for or in re-
spect to any such appointment or en-
ployment, are declared to be high misde-
meanors, and, upon trial and conviction
thereof, persons guilty thereof shall be
punished by fine not exceeding S1O,-
600, or by Imprisonment not exceeding
five years, or both; provided, that the
president shall have the power to make
out and deliver, after the adjournment
of the Senate, commissions for all Off
GERS whose appointment shall have been
advised and consented to by the Senate.
Sec. z. 1t shall be the duty of the Sec
rotary of the Senate, at tae close of each
session, to deliver to the secretary of
the treasury, and to each of his assis-
tants, and to each of the auditors and
to each of the controllers in the treasu-
ry, and to the treasurer, and to the reg
lister of the treasury, y full and complete
list, duly certified, of all the persons
who shall have been nominated to and
rejected by the Senate during such SEES
sion, and like list of all the offices to
which nominations shall have been
made and not confirmed and filed at
such session.
SEC. 8. The president shall notify the
secretary of the treasury when he has
made an appointment to office without
the consent of the Senate; and it shall
be the duty of the secretary of the treas
ury thereupon to communicate such no.
tees to all the proper accounting and
disbursing officers of his department.
SEC. 8. No money shall be paid or re-