New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-27

SENATE.
For folding documents and material tol
the same, eight Thousand dollars.
For labor, eight thousand dollars.
Fer miscellaneous items, eight thousand
dollars; furniture and repairs, tive nun
bred dollars: for fuel, oil, and cotton waste
for heating apparatus, one thousand collars
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 four hnn
| dred and sixty-three dollars and twenty
five cents. said sum to be carried tor the
purpose to the contingent fund of the
Senate. .
JUDICIARY.
For defraying the expenses Of the courts
| of the United States, including the District
Of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, and
| expenses of suits III which the United States
are concerned, Of prosecutions for Otfenses
| 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 OF
| supplementary thereto three million two
| hundred thousand dollars; Of which sum
! two hundred thousand dollars shall be avall-
| aDiC lOE lIlG EXPENSES IutuILtI NAuL lLlS INC
| present fiscal year, the said act being here
I by supplemented and amended so as to fur
| 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 Ieglstra-
| ton of voters for an election for Represent
| alive in Congress, or prior to any election
| at which Representative III Congress Is to
| be voted for, shall make known, in writing
= ~, s,,I1 nG In asr p+ NJ lsn
| 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 i'll 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 su-
pervisors OF election; and the said court,
when opened by the said judge as required
herein, shall, theretrOm 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 shalfbe exercised, as well in
vacation as term time; and a judge, sitting
at chambers shall have the same powers
and jurisdiction, including the power of
keeping order and of Furnishing any con
tempt of Lis 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 tho#s
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 tor which he il appointed
And no person shall be appoi ted deputy
marshal under the act OF which this is
amendatOry, who is not a 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 20 name
and appoint, as soon as may be after the
passage of this act. the commissioners pro-
viled for i'll 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 Ice 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 tn 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-tirst, 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
Tor 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 50 much of said sum herein
appropriated as may be necessary for said |
and amendatOry provisions is
hereby appropriated from and after the
passage of this act
For the support and maintenance of con
ricts transferred from the District Of Column
Jia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation of special counsel
md other legal services, and for incidental
expenses in taking testimony, fees Of wit
1.,t,r
lalms before the mixed American and
British claims commission, twenty five thou
and dollars.
For detlaying the expenses of defending
laims under the convention with Mexico Of
Ourth July, eighteen hundred and sixty
light, to be expended under the direction Of
he Attorney General, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of the necessary expenses
lcurred in defending suits against the Sec
atary OF the Treasury, or his agents, for
be seizure of captured or abandoned prop
rty; and for the examination Of witnesses
claims against the United States pend -
Il in any department.; and for the defense
t the United States in the Court of Claims,
} be expended under the direction of the |
ttorney General, thirty thousand dol
rs, no part Of which shall be paid to at
Dmeys or c0unselOrs at law for profess
onal services, for appearing and assisting (
the trial of causes in the supreme, cir /
lit or district courts of the United States,
: Court of Claims; and that the Attorney {
eueraI make report to Congress at the end
the fiscal year of the manner of the ex- /
enditure of this fund, and 10 whom and {
I what purpose paid.
For this sum. OF so much thereof as may {
necessary. to be expended under the S
rcction of the Attorney General in the de {
elton and prosecution ot crimes against {
e United States, fifty thousand dollars. c
For expenses 10 be incurred in the prose c