New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-30

| SENATE.
| For folding documents and material tor
| the same, eight thousand dollars.
| For labor, eight thousand dollars.
| For miscellaneous items, eight thousand
| dollars; furniture and repairs five hun
| dred dollars; for fuel, Oil, and cotton waste,
! for heating apparatus, one thousand dollars
| tor the current fiscal year
! For the expenses of the Joint Select com
mittee on alleged 0utrages in the Southern
| States, the sum of one thousand four hum
| dred and sixtv-three dollars and twenty
| five cents. said sum to be carried tor the
| purpose to the contingent fund OF the
| Senate. ~
For defraying the expenses of the courts
| of the United States, including the District
of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, and
| expenses of suits in which the United States
are concerned, Of prosecutions for ofenses
committed against the United States; for
the safe-keeping Of prisoners; and for the
expenses which may be incurred in the
enforcement OF the act, relative to the
right of citizens TO vote, of February TWEEN
ty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy
one, or any acts amendatOry thereof or
supplementary thereto, three million two
hundred thousand dollars; of which sum
two hundred thousand dollars shall be avail
able for the expenses incurred during the
present fiscal year, the said act being here
by supplemented and amended so as to fur
Their 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 registra-
ton Of voters for an election for Represent
alive III Congress, or prior to any election
at which Representative IN Congress Is to
be voted for shall make known, in writing,
In
United States for the district wherein such
county or parish is situate, their desire to
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, shall
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
sional 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
precinct in said county or parish, who shall
read and write the English language, and
who shall be known and designated as SUI
pervisors 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 for the
transaction of business under this act; and
the powers and jurisdiction hereby granted
and conferred shall be exercised, as well in
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 qualified voter
of the county, parish, election district, or
voting precinct for which he is appointed.
And no person shall be appOi ted deputy
marshal under the act OF which this is
amendatOrY, who is not q 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 thir-
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 after the
passage OF this act, the commissioners pro"
yided for in said section, in all cases in
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 May thirty first, eighteen hundred
and seventy shall be held 20 include any
officer or other person having powers or
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 |
TOR shall have no power or authority TO !
make arrests OF 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 a return |
thereof And so much Of said sum herein |
appropriated as may be necessary for said |
and amendatOry provisions is |
hereby appropriated from and afteG the |
passage of this act.
For the support and maintenance of cone |
victs transferred from the District OF Column |
bia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation of special counsel |
and other legal services and for incidental |
expenses in taking testimony, fees Of wit
1esses and OF commissioners in relation. to |
claims before the mixed American and
British claims commission, twenty-five thoU
sand dollars.
For deflaying 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
-he Attorney General, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of the necessary expenses
incurred in defending suits against the Sec
'etary OF the Treasury, or his agents, for
jhe seizure of captured or abandoned prop
3rty; and for the examination of witnesses !
n claims against the United States pend.
ng in any departments; and for the defense
VI the United States in the Court of Claims. |
% be expended under the direction of the
Attorney General, thirty thousand dol
arse no part of which shall be paid to at
Orneys or GOunselors at law tor profess
lonal services, for appearing and assisting
n the trial of causes in the Supreme, cir
nit or district courts of the United States,
IT Court OF Claims and that the Attorney
General make report to Congress at the end
# the fiscal year of the manner of the ex-
enditure of this fund.- and to whom and
or what purpose paid
For this sum. OF 50 much thereof as may
g necessary, to be expended under the
ERECTION of the Attorney General in the de
eetion and prosecution Of crimes against
he United States, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses to be incurred in The prose