New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-16

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
bred dollars for fuel, oil, and cotton waste,
for heating apparatus, one thousand dollars
for the current fiscal year.
For the expenses Of the Joint Select Com
mittee on alleged outrages in the Southern
States, the sum Of one thousand tour hum
dred and sixtv-three dollars and twenty
Ave cents, said sum to be carried for 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 ottenses
committed against the United States; for
the safc-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 OF
supplementary thereto, three million two
hundred thousand dollars; Of which sum
two hundred thousand dollars shall be avail
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present fiscal year, the said act being here
by supplemented and amended so as to tur-
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 tcglstra-
ton OF voters for an election Tor represent
atiye in Congress, or prior to any election
at which D Representative in Congress ls TO
be voted for, shall make known, in writing,
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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
cay 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
be of different political parties, and able to
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, therefr0m 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
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 a 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 tho 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 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-
vided 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 ono 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 to 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
for shall have no power or authority to
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 a 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 after the
passage of this act.
For the support and maintenance OF con
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
nesses and OF commissioners in relation to
claims before the mixed American and
British claims commission, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For deftayiug 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 |
General thirty thousand dol |
lars, no part of which shall be paid to at |
torneys or counselors at law for profess
sional 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
De necessary, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General in the de-
lection and prosecution Of crimes against
he United States, fifty thousand dollars