New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-15
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IPCBLIC-NO. S0.
AN ACT to provide for the appointment
of an assistant treasurer of the United
States AT Baltimore.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That IN
addition to the officers provided Tor in the
fifth section of the act approved August
six eighteen hundred and forty-six. enti-
tied IAN act to provide for the better Or
ganization of the treasury. and for the
collection. safe-keeping, transfer, and dis
bursement of the public revenue" there
shall be appointed an assistant treasurer
Of the United States. to be located in the
city of Baltimore, 10 the State of Mary
land, and such assistant treasurer shall
be appointed in like manner, for like time,
and be subject to all the provisions Of law
to which the other assistant treasurers
provided for in said fifth section are sub
ject.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted,
That there shall be prepared within the
Customhouse of the city of Baltimore, in
the State OF Maryland, suitable and con-
venient rooms for the use of the assistant
treasurer berein authorized, and sufficient
aud secure 6re-proof vaults and safes for
the keeping Of the public moneys col
lected and deposited with him; and the
said assistant treasurer shall have the
custody and care of said rooms, vaults,
and safes. respectively, and of all the
public moneys deposited therein, and
shall perform all the duties required to be
performed by United States assistant trea-
surers in reference to the receipt, safe
keeping, transfer, and disbursements of
such moneys Provided, that the rooms
and vaults now used by the United States
designated depository at Baltimore shall
be set apart for the purposes named in
this section, as far as they may be ap-
plicable.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted.
That upon the appointment and qualifca-
ton of said assistant treasurer. the Secre-
tary of the Treasury shall revoke the de-
signa,ion as United States depositary of
the collector of customs at Baltimore, and
shall direct the transfer of all the books,
accounts, vouchers, property, and public
moneys in the office of said depositary to
the Office of said assistant treasurer.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted,
That the assistant treasurer directed by
this act to be appointed shall receive
salary of five thousand dollars per annum,
to be paid quarter yearly at the treasury of
the United States; which salary shall be
in full for all his services and sufficient
amount to pay said salary until June
thirtieth. eighteen hundred and seventy
one, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the United States assistant treasurer here
in provided for, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury, may appoint
the same number of clerks and messengers
in his Office, and at the same compensation,
as is now provided by law for the Office of
United States depository in Baltimore; and
all unexpended balances of moneys here
tofore appropriated, or that may hereafter
be appropriated, for the payment of the
clerks and messengers in the Office of said
depository, shall be applied to the payment
of the clerks and messengers appointed in
the Office of the assistant treasurer under
this act. .. n
SEC. G. And be it further enacted,
That there shall be appropriated and paid,
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated. the sum Of one
thousand dollars, to be expended under
the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury in such repairs and additions as
may be necessary to put in good con.
dition, for immediate use, the Office, rooms.
vaults, and safes herein mentioned. and in
the purchase of any necessary additional
furniture and fixtures, and in defraying
any other incidental expenses necessary to
carry this act into effect.
Approved, June Is, 1870.
[PuBLIC-No. 80.
AN ACT to regulate credits to prisoners
for good behavior.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That pris-
oners who are now or who may hereafter be
confined in prisons of any of the States.
as punishment for crimes of which thew
have been convicted and sentenced by
courts of the United States, shall hereafter
be entitled to the same system of credits
for good behavior as other prisoners con.
fined in the same prison. And hereafter
the act approved March two, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, entitled IAN act
in relation to persons imprisoned under
sentence for offepses against the United
States. shall only apply to such persons
as are confined in prisons where no crdits |
ior good behavior are allowed.
Approved, June II, 1870.
IPUBLIC No. "a
AN ACT concerning divorces in the |
District of Columbia.
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