New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-20

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SENATE.
For folding documents and material Tor
the same, eight thousand dollars
For labor, eight thousand dollars; a
For miscellaneous items, eight THOUSAND
dollars; furniture and repairs, nNe ~
bred dollars; for fuel, OIL and Gotto9 z mTsvo,
for heating apparatus, one Vhou'''D"
for the current fiscal year. c,,oo4 Gam
For the expenses Of the Joint Selec0 GoLl-
miffee on alleged Outrages IN the oouVnoLn
States. the sum of one thousand IouL III
Jrod a1d aivtv-three dollars and twenty
Ave cents, said sum to be carried for the
nurnose 70 the contingent tund OF Inc
Senate. rrn,cr.yv
Eor defraying the expenses of the courts
of the United States, including the DlStFlcI
Of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, anu
expenses OF suits in which the United SCates
are concerned, of prosecutions for ottenses
committed AGAINST the United States for
the safe-k keeping Of prisoners; and Tor the
expenses which may be incurred IN the
enforcement of the act relative to the
right of citizens to vote, OF February TWEEN
ty-eiphth, eighteen hundred and seventy
one, or any acts amendatory Thereon OF
supplementary thereto, three mllllon Two
hundred thousand dollars; OF winch sum
two hundred thousand dollars shall be avail
able for the expenses incurred during the
present fiscal wear, the said act being here
nv supplemented and amended so as to tur-
ther provide as follows: THAT whenever, IN
any county or parish, in any congressional
district. there shall be ten citizens thereof
Of good standing who, prior to any feglstra-
ton Of voters for an election tor Represent
ative in Congress, or prior TO any eIection
at which Representative IN Congress IS 10
be voted for, shall make known, III WrIuug'
to the Judge of the circuit court OF the
limited States for the district wherein such
county or parish is situate, their desire 70
have said registration or election both
guarded and scrutinized, it shall be the
duty of the said Judge of the circuit court,
within not less than ten days prior to SAID
registration or election, as the case may be,
to open the said court at the most con-
venient point in said district; and the SAID
court, when so opened by SAID JUDGE s s
proceed to appoint and commission, from
day to day, and from time to time, and I'M
der the hand of the said judge, and under
| the seal of said court, for such election dis
trict or voting precinct in said congress
| siOnsI district, as shall in the manner herein
| prescribed, have been applied for, and to
revoke, change or renew said appoint
ment from time to time, two citizens, resi-
| dents of said election district or voting
QEGCluGk LII SttLu VI PSpA3DLAt SA~'NN-
| be of different political parties, and able to
read and write the English language, and
| who shall be known and designated as SUI
peryisors of election; and the said court,
when opened by the said judge as required
| herein, shall, therefrom and thereafter and
| up to and including the day following the
| day of the election, be always open Tor the
| transaction of business under this act and
| the powers and jurisdiction hereby granted
| Tarrad shall hn nYpPpISpN. we'll
| vacation as term time; and judge, sitting
| at chambers, shall have the same powers
| and jurisdiction, including the power OF
| keeping order and of Furnishing any con
| tempt of his authority, as when sitting IN
! the court; provided, that no compensation
! shall be allowed to the supervisors herein
! authorized to be appointed, except those
| appointed in cities or towns or twenty thou
! sand or more inhabitants. And no person
| son shall be appointed under this act as
! supervisor of election who is not at the
| time of his appointment a qualified voter
| of the county, parish, election district, or
| voting precinct for which Re Is appointed
! And no person shall be appoi ted deputy
marshal under the act OF which this Is
amendatory, who is not qualified voter at
| the time of his appointment, in the county,
parish, district or precinct in which his du-
| ties are to be performed. And section thlr
| teen of the act of which this is an amend
| ment shall be construed to authorize and
REQUIRE the circuit courts OF the United
States in said section mentioned to name
| and appoint, as soon as may be alter the
| passage OF this act the commissioners pro
vided for in said section in all cases IL
! which such appointments have not already
been made in conformity herewith. And
the third section of the act to which this Is
an amendment shall be taken and construed
to authorize each Of the judges OF the cir
cult courts of the United States to desig
nate one or more of the judges OF the dis
| trict courts within his circuit to discharge
the duties arising under this act or the ACT
to which this is an amendment. And the
words ''any person" in section four of the
act of NAV thirty-trst, eighteen hundred
and seventy, shall be held to include any
officer or other person having powers OF
duties of an official character under this
act or the act to which this is an amend
| ment; provided, that nothing in this sec
| ton shall be SO construed as to authorize
the appointment OF any marshals or dep
| uty marshals in addition to those hereto
fore authorized by law; and provided fur
| ther, that the supervisors herein provided
for shall have no power or authority tC
| make arrests or to perform other duties
than to be in the immediate presence OF the
officers holding the election and to witness
| all their proceedings, including the count
ing of the votes and the making OF return
thereof. And so much of said sum herein
appropriated as may be necessary for said
supplemental and amendatOry provisions Is
| hereby appropriated from and alter the
passage Of this act.
| For the support and maintenance of con
yiets transferred from the District of COlum
| bia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation of special counsel
| and other legal services and tor incidental
expenses in taking testimony, fees Of wit
nesses and of commissioners in relation to
claims before the mixed American and
| British claims commission, twenty-five thou:
sand dollars.
For def laying the expenses of defending
claims under the convention with Mexico OF
| fourth July, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, to be expended under the direction OF
the Attorney General, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of the necessary expenses
incurred in defending suits against the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, or his agents, for
the seizure of captured or abandoned prop
| erty; and for the examination Of witnesses
| in claims against the United States pend.
| ing in any department.; and for the defense
of the United States in the Court of Claims,
| to be expended under the direction of the
| Attorney General, thirty thousand dol
| lars, no part of which shall be paid to at
| torneys or COunselOrs at law tor profess
sionaI services for appearing and assisting
in the trial of causes in the Supreme, cir
| cult or district courts of the United States,
| or Court Of Claims; and that the Attorney
| General make report to Congress at the end
Of the fiscal year Of the manner Of the ex,
| penditure of this fund, and to whom and
for what purpose paid.
For this sum, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General in the de-
lection and prosecution of crimes against
the United States, fifty thousand dollars.