Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-11
GENERAL NATURE-No. D.
VIZ Il S-1A NNL
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State.

| GENERAL NATURE-NO. y.
| AN ACT to restore the Records of the
| United States courts of the Southern
| district of Illinois.
Be 1T enacted 6y the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
Americd In Congress assembled, That in
proceedings to restore the records of the
circuit and district courts of the northern
| district of Illinois, destroyed by fire on
the ninth of October, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, under the act of March
third, eighteen hundred and seventy
one entitled can act relating to records of
the United States,' the notice required by
said act may be served upon any non-resi-
dent of said district anywhere within the
Jurisdiction of the United States, or in
any foreign country, the proof of the SER
vice of such notice, if made in foreign
country, to be certified by minister or
consul of the United States in such cOun-
try, under his official seal.
SEC. ?. That a certified copy of the Off
cial return of the district attorney, clerk
of the district or circuit or district court,
or marshal of the northern district of Hill
nois, made in pursuance of the law, and
on file in the Department of Justice, relat-
ing to any cause in either of said courts to
which the United States was a party, the
record of which was destroyed in said fire,
may be filed in the court to which it APP
pertains, and shall have the same force
and effect as if it were an original return
made to said court; and in any case in
which the names of the parties, and the
date and amount of the judgment or de-
cree shall appear from such returns, it
shall be lawful for the court in which they
are filed to issue the necessary process to
enforce such degree or Judgment in the
same manner as if the original record was
before said court.
SEC. 8. That itshall be the duty of the
district attorney for the northern district
af Illinois to take such steps as may be
necessary to restore the records and files of
the circuit and district courts of said dis
trict which were destroyed by fire on the
ninth of October, eighteen hundred and
seventy-One, in which the United States
is interested, so far as the judges of said
courts respectively, shall deem it essential
to the interests of the United States that
said records and files be restored; and the
judges of said courts, respectively, are au-
thoriZed to direct such steps to be taken as,
in their opinion, shall be advisable to re-
store the Judgment dockets and ind:ces of
said courts, and, for that purpose, may di-
rect the performance, by the clerks of said
courts, and by the United States attorney
for said district, of any duty incident
thereto, and said clerks and said district at
torney shall be allowed such eompensa-
ton and disbursements for services render
ed under this section lin cases where no
compensation is now provided by law for
such seryiees) as may be allowed by the
Attorney General, and certified to be Just
and reasonable by the judge of the court
IN which said services are rendered, and
the amount so allowed shall be paid out
of the judiciary fund: Provided, ho,0erer.
That the sum allowed the clerks of said
courts shall not exceed the sum of twelve
thousand dollars, and the entire compensa-
ton Of the United States attorney for such
services shall not exceed the sum of six
thousand dollars.
Approved, March Is, 1872.