Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-01
The DAILY CHRONICLE.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
20 - Second Congress.
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ia7, GENERAL NATURE-No. 5S1 IS
AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative
executive, and judicial expenses of the government
for the year ending june thrtieth eighteen hundred
| and seventy four, and for other purposes.
L. (Continued)
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
| Office of the Attorney General.-For compensation
citor General seven thousand five hundrgd dollars
dollars diS each one Assistant Attorney General
Post Office Department. four thousand dollars; soci,
solicitor and judge advocate general three thousand
FIVE hundred dollars examiner Of claims three thou
y Of es dollars chef
two thousand two hundred dollars stenographic clerk.
two thousand dollars one clerk two thousand doll ans
clerk two hundred dollars two clerks Of class three
one clerk Of class two two clerks Of class one one
two watchmsn in ALL eighty thousand SIX hundred
ap Office Of the Solicitor of the Treasury-For COM
pensaon of the Solicitor of the Treasury three thou
sand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor: three
class hres
clerks OF class tTo two clerks OF class one one
sand sand six hundred and sixty dollars. " '. '.-'N
For contingent expenses Of the Department Of JUS
tce namely: Fuel sbor stationery and mjscelans-
ings seventeen thousand dollars for furniture and
| law books. six thousand dollars
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury is
directed to withhold all payment to any rail-
road company and its asssins, on account of
freights or transportation over their respective
roads of any kind. to the amount of payments
made by the United States for interest upon
bonds of the United States issued to any such
company, and which shall have not been reim-
| bursed, together with the five per cent. of net
earnings due and unapplied as provided by
law. And any such company may bring suit
in the Court of Claims to recover the price of
such freight or transportation, and in such suit
the right of such company to recover the same
upon the law and the facts of the case shall be
determined, and also the rights of the United
States upon the merits of all points presented
by it in answer thereto by them; and either
| party to such suit may appear to the Supreme
Court /; and both said courts shall give such
cause or causes precedence of all other bust
ness.
Sec. g. That from and after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and seventy three, the
salary ofthe Supervising Architect ofthe Treas
ury shall be five thousand dollars per annum,
and the salaries of the Examiner of Claims in
the Department of State, the Solicitor of the
Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture.
the Commissioner of Custom, the Auditors of
the Treasury, the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, the Commissioner of Pensions, and
the assistant postmasters general, the superin-
superintendent of foreign mails of the Post
Office Department shall be four thousand dol
lars each per annum and the salaries of the
two chiefs of diplomatic and of the consular
bureas in the Department of State, and of the
chiefs of the bureaus of accounts and of in
dexes and archives, shall be two thousand dol
lars each per annum; and sufficient sum to
carry into effect the provisions of this section
to the end of the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, is
hopo hxva tod.
Sec. f. That the Attorney General shall cause
q suit in equity to be instituted in the name of
the United States against the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. and against all persons who
may, in their own names or through any agents,
have subscribed for or received capital stock in
said road, which stock has not been paid for in
full in money, or who may have received, as |
dividends or otherwise, portions of the capital
stock of said road, or the proceeds or avails
thereof, or other property of said road unlaw-
fully aad contrary to equity. or who may have
received as profits or proceeds of contracts for
construction or equipment of said road or other
contracts Herewith, moneys or other property
which ought, in equity, to belong to said rail-
of having complied with the acts to which this
is an addition, have wrongfully and unlawfully
received from the United States, bonds, moneys
or lands which ought, in equity, to be account |
ed for and paid to said railroad company or to
the United States, and to compel payment for |
SdlQ otOCk, duu Luo COilcCbOu duu pdymeQG OF
such moneys, and the restoration of such prop |
erty, or its value, either to said railroad corpor-
alton or to the U nited tates, whichever shall |
in equity be held entitled thereto. Said suit may
be brought in the circuit court in any circuit, |
and all said parties may be made defendants in |
one suit. DEGREES may be entered and en-
forced against any one or more parties defend, |
ent without awaiting the final determination of |
the bause against other parties. The court |
weere said cause is pending may make such |
orders and decress and issue such process as it |
shall deem necessary to bring in new parties
or the representatives parties deceased, or to
carry into effect the purposes of this act. On |
fling the bill, writs of subpoena may be issued |
by said court against any parties defendent, |
process, by the marshal of sucn district The |
documents of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, shall at all times be open to inspection by
the Secretary of the Treasury, or such persons /
as he may delegate for that purpose. The laws /
OF the United States providing for proceedings |
in bankruptcy shall not be held to apply. to said
corporation: No dividend shall hereafter be /
made by said company but from the actual net |
earnings thereof; and no new stock shall be |
issued or mortgages or pledges made on :the |
property or future earnings of the company
pose of funding and securing debt now existing,
or the renewals thereof No director or officer
of said road shall hereafter be interested, di.
rectly or indirectly, in any contract Herewith
except for his lawful compensation as such Of /
ficer. Any director or o ficer who shall pay or
declare, or aid in paying or declaring, any div
idend, or creating any mortgage or pledge pro-
hibited by this act. thall be punished by impris-
onment not exceeding two years. and by fine |
not exceeding five thousand dollars. The prop.
er circuit court ofthe United States shall have |
jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases of |
to compel said Union Pacific Rail- |
road Company to operate its road as required by |
law.
Approved, March 8. 1878. /
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 55.1 |
AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil ex-
peDses OF the government FIR the fiscal year end-
ing June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and seventy
-, four, and for othee purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen.
tatyes of the United States of America in Congress
sembled That the following be- and the same are
hereby appropriated for the objects hereinafter eI
pressed for the fiscal year ending June hirtieth egh
teen hundred and seventy four, namely:
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.
For the public printing. for the public binding and