New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-19

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,
Tor 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 four nun
bred and sixty three dollars and twenty
| five cents, said sum to be carried for 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 in which the United States
are concerned, of prosecutions for ofenses
committed against the United States; for
the safe-kceping 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 fegistra-
ton of voters for an election for Represent
atiVe in Congress, or prior to any election
at which 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 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 un-
der the hand Of the said judge, and under
the seal of said court, for such election dis
tTiGt 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, thereirom 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
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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. Aud no person
son shall be appointed under this act as
supervisor of election who is not at the
time of his appointment g qualified voter
of the county, parish, election district, or
voting precinct Tor which he is appointed.
And no person shall he appoi ted deputy
marshal under the act Of which this is
who is not qualified voter at
the time Of his appointment, in the county,
parish, district or precinct III which his du-
ties are to be performed. And section thir-
teen of the act of which this is an amend
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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 TOR in said section, III 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
10 authorize each of the Judges Of the cir
e
nate one or more Of the judges of the dis
5rict courts within his circuit to discharge
lhe 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 -frst, eighteen hundred !
md seventy, shall be held to include any |
,ficer or other person having powers or |
tuties Of an official character under this |
sct or the act to which this is an amend |
nent; provided, that nothing in this sec |
ion shall be SO construed as to authorize |
he appointment OF any marshaIs or dep.
lty marshals in addition to those hereto
ore authorized by law; and provided fur
her, that the supervisors herein provided
or shall have no power or authority to
make arrests or to perform other duties
han to be in the immediate presence Of the
Ulcers holding the election, and to~witness
Ii their proceedings, including the count
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hereof. And so much Of said sum herein |
as may be necessary for said
and amendatOry provisions is
ereby appropriated from 'and after the |
assage OF this act
For the support and maintenance Of con
lets transferred from the District OF Colum-
ia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation of special counsel
nd other legal services, and for incidental
expenses in taking testimony, fees Of wit
esses and Of commissioners in relation to
aims before the mixed American and
ritish claims commission, twenty-five thou
md dollars.
For deflaying the expenses of defending
aims under the convention with Mexico Of
nrth July, eighteen hundred and sixty
ght, to be expended under the direction of
10 Attorney General, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of the necessary expenses
CURED in defending suits against the Sec
tary Of the Treasury, or his agents, for
e seizure of captured or abandoned prop
ty; and for the examination of witnesses
claims against the United States pend
g IN any department; and for the defense
the United States in the Court of Claims
be expended under the direction of the I
torney General, thirty thousand dol
rs, no part Of which shall be paid to at
rneys or cOunselOrs at law Tor profess
NAL services, for appearing and assisting :
the trial OF causes in the Supreme, cir I
it or district courts Of the United States,
Court Of Claims; and that the Attorney
neral make report to Congress at the end !
the fiscal year of the manner Of the ex- =
nditure Of this fund, and to whom and
what purpose paid.
For this sum, or so much thereof as NAV "
necessary, to be expended under the
ectiOn of the Attorney General in the de- .