Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-30

GENERAL MATURING. III

GEN ERAL NAIU KE-N0. IL.
AN ACT regulating the compensation of the
members and officers of the legislative assem-
blies of the several Territories of the United
States and limiting the duration of the ses-
sions of said assemblies
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the sessions of the
legislative assemblies of the several Territories
of the United States shall be limited to forty
days duration.
Sec. g That the members of each branch of
said legislatures shall receive compensation of
six dollars per day during the sessions herein
provided for and they shall receive such mile
age as now provided by law: Provided, That
the president of the council and the speaker of
the house of representatives shall each receive
compensation of ten dollars per day and that the
additional officers of each branch of said legis-
lative assemblies shall consist ofone chief clerk,
who shall receive compensation OF oightdOl
per day and of one assistant clerk, one enrolling
clerk, one engrosslng clerk, one sergeant at
arms. one door keeper ane messenger and one
Waterman who shall each receive compensa-
ton of five dollars per day during the sessions.
Sec. 5. That from and after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and seventy three, the
annual salaries of the governors of the several
Territories Of the United States shall be three
thousand five hundred dollars and the salaries
of the secretaries of said Territories shall be two
thousand five hundred dollars each.
Dec. ludL Guc pTOFlSlOuS OI ILLS dCG Suall nOC
apply to the District of Columbia: Provided
That no law of any territorial legislature shall
be made or enforced by which any officer of a
Territory herein provided for or the officers or
members of any territorial legislature, shall be
paid any compensation other than that provided
by the laws of the United States. .-.- =.
Approved, January %, 1878. , sal
GENERAL NATURE-No.]15Js
AN ACT establishing post routes in the State
of Maine. TI-t- A# .HssE -la
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
in Congress assembled, That the following be
established as post roads; u
Maine-From East Baldwin via North Bald
win, Sebago and South Bridgeton to Bridgeton;
from Gray Depot to Gray Corner. in the county
Approved January %, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. I6.J
AN ACT to amend an act entitled San act to
amend the fifth section Of an act entitled An
act donating public lands to the several States
and Territories which may provide colleges for
arts approved July second, eighteen hun
dred and sixty two, so as to extend the time
within which the provisions of said act shall
be accepted and such colleges established"
approved July thenty third, eighteen hundred
and sixty six.
representatives. of the Unised States of America
in Congress assembled, That the time within
whe several States may comply with the provis-
ions Of the act of July twenty third, eighteen
hundred and sixty six entitled IAN act to amend
the fifth section Of an act entitled An act donat-
ing public lands to the several States and Terri
tories which may provide colleges for the bene-
fit of agriculture and the mechanic arts APP
proved July second, eighteen hundred and six
ty two, so as to extend the time within which the
cofc oofc cbon hoo al
colleges established" is hereby extended so that
the States which have not complied with the
provisions of said acts in establishing colleges
shall have the period of two years after the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
within which to provide at least one college as
described in the fourth section of an act entitled
AN act donating public lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide col
leges for the benefit of agriculture and the me-
cEanic arts" approved July second, eighteen
hundred and sixty two.
Approved January %, 1873.
GENERAL MATURING. III
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "Act act to
incorporate national military and naval asy-
lum for the relief of the totally disabled off
GERS and men Of the volunteer forces of the
United States" approved March twenty one,
eighteen hundred and sixty six, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the said act be SO
amended that wherever the word asylum oc-
ours therein the word ''home" shall be inserted
instead thereof. I1.
Sec. 2. That the act approved March twenty
second, eighteen hundred and sixty seven, en-
titled IAN act for the relief of manned and des-
titute soldiers" shall be construed to extend to
all soldiers who have been or are in the national
asylum, so as to give to each one suit of cloth
ing or its equivalent in clothing from the stock
and that Frederick Smythe, of New Hampshire,
Benjamin e. Butler, Of Massachusetts and