Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-04

VIC OuisoO StoLcoy lOI buO Suio hCcpiuS w prs
oners; and for the expenses which may be in
CURED in the enforcement of the act relative
to the right of citizens to vote, of February
twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy
one. or any scta amendatary thereof or sup
bred thousand; of which two hundred
thousand dollars shall be available for
the expenses incurred during the pres
emit fiscal year. the said act being hereby sup
plsmented and amended so as to further pro-
vide 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 registration of voters for an
election for Representative in Congress, or pri-
or 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 situated, their desire to have
raid 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 ut the
most convenient 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 under the
hand Of the said judge, aud under the seal of
said court, for such election district or voting
precinct in said congressional district, as shall,
in the manner herein prescribed, have been ap
piled for. and to revoke, change or renew said
appointment from time to time, two citizens, res
idents of said election district voting precinct
in eaid county or parish, who shall be of differ
ent political parties, and able to read and write
the English language, and who shall be known
and designated as supervisors Of election and
the said court when opened by the said judge
"a required herein, shall, therefrom and there
after 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 con-
ferred shall be exercised as well in vacation as
in term time; and judge, sitting at chambers
including the power of keeping order and pun
ishing any contempt Of his authority, as when
sitting in the court: Provided, That no COM
pensstion shall be allowed to the supervisors
herein authorized to be appointed, except those
appointed in cities or towns of twenty Thousand
or more inhabitants. And no persoa shall be
appointed under this act as supervisor of cleo
ton who is not at the time Of his appointment
qualified voter of the county, parish, election
district, or voting precinct for which he is APP
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 precinct in which his duties are to be
performed. And section thirteen of the act Of
which this is an amendment shall be construed
10 authorize and require the circuit courts Of the
United States in said section mentioned to name
and appoint, as soon az may be after the pass
age of this act, the commissioners provided for
in said section, in all cs-es in which such ap-
pointments have not already been made in CON-
formity Herewith. And the third section of the
act to which This is an amendment shall be ia
ken and construed to authorize each of the |
judges of the circuit courts of the United States
20 designate one or more of the judges of the |
district 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 3lst |
1870, 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 amendment: Provided. That nothing in |
this section shall be so construed as to authorize
the appointment of any marshals or deputy |
marshals in addition to those heretofore author !
lied by law: And prorided further. That the
supervisors herein provided for shall have no
other duties than to be in the immediate pres
ance of the officers Gliding the election, and to
witness all their proceedings, including the |
counting of the votes and the making the return
thereof. And so much of said sum herein ap-
propriated as may be necessary for said supple |
mental and amendatory provisions is hereby |
appropriated from and after the passage Of this |
For the support and maintenance of convicts |
transferred from the District of Columbia, ten |
thousand dollars. Aa-
For the compensation Of special counsel and |
other legal services, and for incidental expen- |
ses in taking testimony, fees Of witnesses and of
in relation to claims before the
mixed American and British claims commits
sion, twenty FIVE thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of defending
claims under the convention with Mexico of |
fourth of July. eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, to be expended under the direction of the
Attorney General, ten thousand do lars.
For payment of the necessary expenses in
Cured in defending suits against the Secretary
of the Treasury, Or his agents, for the seizure |
Of captured or abandoned property; and for the
examination of witnesses in claims against the |
United States pending in any Department; and
Tor the defense of the United States in the Court
of Claims, to be expended under the direction
of the Attorney General, thirty thousand dol
lars. no part of (which shall be paid to attorneys
or chancellors at law for professional services,
for appearing and assisting in the trial of causes
in the Supreme circuit, 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 |
of this. fund, and to whom and for |
what purposes paid.
For this sum, or 30 much thereof as may be |
to be expended under the direction |
Of the Attorney General in the detection and |
prosecution of crimes against the United States |
Fifty thousand dollars ef..f...l .ia.rlf-T |
For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution |
and collection of claims due the United States
to be disbursed under the direction of the At |
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
collect captured and abandoned property of the
United States, and to collect, procure and pre-
serve all vouchers, papers. records, and evil
dence, and to take testimony as to claims against
the United States, to be paid only upon the GER
tifcate Of the commissioners of claims, one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. lz
MISCELLANEOUS
For continuing the collection of statistics of
mines and mining, to be laid before Congress
to be expended under the direction of the Sec.
rotary Of the TreasurA fifteen thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the geological survey
of the Territories of the United States by Pro-
fessor F. V. Hayden under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy three, seventy fve thousand dollars
For compile ing the survey of the Colorado of
the West and its tributaries by Professor j. w.
Powell, under the direction of the Smithsonian
Institution, twenty thousand dollars. s, sy
For continuing the inquiry into the causes of
the decrease Of the food fishes OF the coast and