New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-04
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1871
An act to regulate the taking of testimony
in certain cases

GENERAL NATURE-No. 1871
An act to regulate the taking of testimony
in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives OF the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That no
witness shall be compelled to appear or
to testify before any commissioner or officer
appointed to take testimony under letters
rOgatory. issued or to be issued from any
court in any foreign country, in any suit or
proceeding in which the government OF such
foreign country shall be party of record
or in interest, except FOR the purpose OF an
swering specific written interrOgatories is
sued with and accompanying such letters
rOgatory and addressed to such witness; pro-
vlded, that when counsel for all the parties
attend the examination they may consent
that questions in addition to those accom-
paying the letters rogatory ms " be put to
the witness, unless the letters rogatory ex-
clnde such additional Undergraduates
SEC. 2. That no witness shall be required,
on such examination, or any other under
letters rogat0ry, to make any disclosure
him either under the laws Of the State or
Territory within which such examination
is had, or anv other. or any foreign State.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NArURE-No. 76.]
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to
furnish duplicate certificate Of discharge
where the same has been lost.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, that When
ever satisfactory proof shall be furnished to
the War Department that any nOn-cOmmis-
stoned officer or private soldier who served
in the army of the United States in the late
war against the rebellion has lost his certi-
ticate of discharge, or the same has been
destroyed without his privity or procure
ment, the Secretary of War shall be author
lied to furnish. ON request, to such non
commissioned officer or private, duplicate
of such certificate of discharge, to be indeli-
bly, marked so that it may be known as a
duplicate: Provided. such certificate shall
not be accepted as voucher for the pay
ment OF any claim against the United States
for pay, bounty, or other allowance, or ds
evidence in any other case.
SEC. 2. That the army regulations now in
force are hereby modified in accordance
with the provisions of this act.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. I'LL
An act authorizing joint entry by pre-
emption settlers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Represen tatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That when
settlements have been made upon agricul-
tural public lands of the United States,
prior to the survey thereof, and it has been
or shall be ascertained, after the public sur
veys have been extended over such lands,
that two or more settlers have improve
mentS upon the same legal subdivision, it
shall be lawful fer such settlers to make
Joint entry of their lands at the local land
office, or for either of said settlers to enter
into contract with his cO-settlers to convey
to them their portion of said land after q
patent ia issued to him, and, after making
said contract. to file a declaratOry state
ment in his own name, and prove up and
pay for said land, and proof of joint Occu-
patton by himself and others. and of such
contract with them made, shall be equiva-
lent to proof of sole occupation and pre-
empt;on by the applicant; provided, that in
no case shall the amount patented under
this act exceed one hundred and sixty
acres, nor shall this act apply to lands not
subject to homestead or presumption entry.
Sec. 2. That effect shall be given to this
act by regulations to be prescribed by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 66.l
An act to amend an act entitled IAN act to
establish the Department of Justice, and
for other purposes"
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
twelfth section OF the act entitled IAN act
to establish the Department OF Justice, and
for other purposes" approved June twenty
second, eighteen hundred and seventy, Is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
That it shall be the duty of the Attorney
General to make to Congress, at the
commencement of each regular session
of Congress, a report of the business
of the said Department for the last proceed
lug fiscal year, and of any other matters
appertaining thereto, that he may deem
proper, including statement of the sew
eral appropriations now or which may
hereafter be, placed under its control, the
| amount appropriated, and detailed state
ment Of the amounts used for defraying the
expenses of the United States courts in each
| judicial district; also the statistics of crime
under the laws of the United States, and
statement of the number of causes, civil
| and criminal. pending during the preceding
year in each of the several courts OF the
United States.
SEC 2. That the Secretary of the Interior
be, and he is hereby, authorized and re-
quired to furnish to the head of the De-
partment of Justice, from time to time, as
they may be published, a sufficient number
of the statutes of the United States, and
the reports of the Supreme Court of the
United States, to be by him distributed to
such officers of the courts of the United
States as are now or may hereafter be by
law entitled to receive them; and all laws
or parts of laws authorizing the distribu-
ton OF such statutes and reports OF the Su-
preme COnrt to the officers of the courts OF
the United States by the head of any other
| executive department of the government
be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
SEC. 3. That a register OF such books
shall be kept, under the authority of the
| head of the Department of Justice, showing
| the quantity of each kind received by him
| in pursuance of this act; and it shall be his
| duty to cause to be entered in such regis
| ter, and at the proper time, when, where,
and to whom the same, or any part OF them,
| have been distributed and delivered, and
| to report the same to Congress III his an
| nual report.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATCRE-No. 81.
| An act to establish board of local inspec-
| tors of steam vessels for the customs dis
! trict of Michigan in the State of Michi-
/ gan.
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States of
| America in Congress assembled, That there
| shall be a local board of inspectors desig
| mated and appointed for the customs dis
| trict of Michigan, in the State of Michigan,
| and the inspector of hulls and the inspec-
| tor OF boilers, composing the said board,
| shall receive a salary of nine hundred dol
| lars a year each.
Approved March g. 1873.
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