New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-30

| SkNATE'
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 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
mittae on alleged Outrage5 IN the oonJaefh
| States. the SUN Of one thousand tonr hnn-
| dred and sixty-three dollars and twenty
| five cents. said sum to be earned tor the
purpose to the contingent fund OF the
| Senate r,r.,,x,
For defraying the expenses of the courts
of the United States, including the District
of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, and
I expenses Of suits in winch the United States
are concerned. Of prosecutions for Ottcnses
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-eightb, eighteen hundred and seventy
one, or any acts amcndatOry 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
nv supplemented and amended so as TO fur
Their provide as follows: "Ihat whenever, IN
any county or parish, il any congressional
district, there shall be ten citizens thereof
of good standing who, prior to any Iegistra-
ton Of voters for an election for Represent
alive in Congress, or prior to any election
at which a Representative in Congress is to
be voted for shall make known, in writing,
to the Judge of the circuit court of the
United States for the district wherein such
county or parish is situate, their desire TO
have said registration or election both
guarded and scrutinZed, 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 8G,
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 30 time, and un-
der the hand Of the said judge, and under
the seal of said count, 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 for the
transaction of business under this act; and
the powers and jurisdiction hereby granted
and conferred shall be exercised, as well in
vacation rs term time; and judge, sitting
at chambers, shall have the same pOWGrs
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 60 be appointed, except those
appointed in cities or towns or twenty thou
saEd or more inhabitants. An4 no person
son shall be appointed under this ace rs
supervisor of election who is not at the
time of his appointment q qualified voter
of the county, parish, election district, or
voting precinct Tor WhiGh he is appointed
And no person shal& be app0i ted deputy
marshal under Che act Of which this is
amendatory, who Is not qualified voter &c
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 ana amend
ment shall Sc 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 in
wh&ch 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 dcsig-
nate one or moro OF the judges of the dis
trct courts within bis circuit to discharge
the duties arising under this act or the act
30 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 20 which this is an amend
ment; provided, that nothing in this sec
ton shall BIO 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
Their, 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 return
ELttCUl. ANU 81 HUGH VI Shiu SUM iitleIu
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 COlum- |
bia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation Of special counsel |
and other legal services, and for incidental |
expenses in taking testimony, fees of wit |
nd pf in l1ti 70
claims before the mixed American and |
British claims commission, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For deflaying the expenses Of defending !
,laims under the convention with Mexico 0f /
ourth July, eighteen hundred and sixty
light, to be expended under the direction of
he Attorney General, ten thousand dollars
For payment Of tho necessary expenses
incurred in defending suits against the Sec
'et8rY Of the Treasury, or his agents, for
he seizure of captured or abandoned prop
'rty; and for the examination of witnesses
L claims against the United States pend
NJ in any departments and for tho defense
# the United States in the Court Of Claims. |
@ be expended under the direction Of the
attorney General, thirty thousand dol
ars, no part OF which shall he paid to at
orney5 or C0unSGlors at Law Ter profess
i0nal services for appearing and assisting
n the trial Of causes IN the Supreme, cir
nit or district courts Of the United States,
= Court Of Claims; and that the Attorney
feneTal make report to Congress at the end
f the fiscal year of the manner DC the cx-
endituro Of this fund, and to whom and
9r what purpose paid.
For this sum, or so much thereof as may
Q necessary, to be expended nnGcr the
lE' elton OF the Attorney General in the de
'ctlon and prosecution OF crimes against |
he InitAN Statas. fifty thnnaanl dollars.