New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-16

| expiration OF tuo tine Oos1gnaCeu 1Of per-
forming that service, to wit, the fourth day
of May, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, ard to discharge said commissioners.
| from and after which all acts and parts OF
| acts declaring the duties, powers, rights,
| and privileges of said commissioners, are
hereby repealed but nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed as an approval or
adoption by Congress OF any part vt the
! work OF the commissioners.
| SEC. . That the Committee Of the House
of Representatives on the Revision of the
Laws, together with such committee as the
Senate may join, be and they hereby are au-
thorized 10 contract with sUIue suitab bic per
son or persons. learned il the law, to pre-
pare bill revising and embodying in one
act all the laws authorizing post roads in
force at the expiration Of the present Seq
slon of Congress, and also to prepare
bill codiiying and regulating the laws in
regard to military ofienses. according to
the reconline ndatlOn made by the President
OF the United States in his annual message
communicated to Congress at the present
session, and also to prepare a revision Of all
| tho Indian treaties now in force as laWs.
SEC. ). That SAID committee are also au-
thorIzed to contract with some suitable
| person or parsons, under the supervision of
| said committee and such regulations as
may be by them prescribed, to prepare the
| revision of the statutes already reported by
| tEe commissioners, or which may be re-
| ported before said fourth day OF May, in
the torn of bill to be presented at the
| opening OF the session of Congress in De-
cenlb-r next, embodying all the laws so
vised and the bills and provisions herein
] provided Tor, with proper indexes. 60 that
| the same may be in form to be acted upon
forthwith by Congress at said session.
SEC. 4. That said conan jttee is further an
| thorized to have such revisions and bills
h~-f Cn al De-,
| time to time, uniform with the revision al
ready reported and to distribute them, and
also the consolidation and cOdiGcatlon of
the postal and military laws and treaties
herein provided for, to members of Con
gress and Others competent to judge of
their merits, in order for their correction by
such persons
SEC. ). That any moneys appropriated for
the payment of the work herein provided
for shall be disbursed by the Department of
Justice from time to time only SO far as that
Department shall be satisfied that the work
has been well and faithfully performed, and
as said Department shall be satisfied that
the work will be fully done and completed
By the commencement OF said session OF
Congress in December next. |
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NAtURE-Eo. ?3I
An act - 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
coart in any foreign country, in any suit or
proceeding in which the government of such
foreign country shall be a party of record
nv in IrA.A g.. j
sWering specific written interrOgatOries is
sued with and accompanying such letters
rogatory and addressed to such witness; pro-
Vided, that when counsel for all the parties
attend the examination they may consent
that questions in addition to those accom-
panying the letters rogatory may be put to
the witness, unless the letters rogatory ex-
clude such additional Undergraduates.
SEC. =. That no witness shall be required, |
on such examination, or any other under
letters Togatory, TO make any disclosure
or discovery which shall tend TO crininata
him either under the laws Of the State or
Territory within which SUCH examination
IL had, OF anv other. or any foreign State
Approved March 3, 1873.
{GENERA.. NArURE-Nn "a.t
An set TO amend an act entitled an ac. to
prevent smuggling, and for other purpo
.ses. approved July eighteenth. eighteen
hundred and sixty-six
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That the
seventh section of the act entitled an act
TO further prevent smuggling. and for other
approved July eighteenth !
eighfeen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby
amended 50 a. 20 read as follows: That it
shall be the duty of the several collectors |
,f customs and of internal revenue to re
port within ten days to the district attorney ,
If the district in which any fine. penalty, :
" forfeiture may be incurred for the viola
ion OF any Law of the United $
tatement of all the facts and
circumstances OF the case within their :
together with the names of the !,
ard which may come 60 their r
from time TO time stating the a
of the law believed to be vio- +
ated. and on which a reliance may be has n
or condemnation or conviction, and such :
istrict attorney shall cause rhe proper pro- | a
eedlngs to be commenced and prosecuted | -
'ithout delay for the fines penalties, and :,
Drfeirures by law in such case provided. | =
Mess, upon inquiry and examination, he | s.
hall decide that such proceedings can not !,
robably be sustained, or that the ends of n
ubic justice do not require that proceed r,
lgs should be instituted, in which case he | VI
| ca
ie Secretary of the Treasury, and y
internal revenue cases 30 the Cotn- | +,
issioner Of Internal Revenue. for q,
,eir direction; and for the OK. ~
nDses incurred and services rendered in all | =
lch cases the district attorney shall receive -
nd be paid from the treasury such allm as H.
le Secretary of the Treasury. shall deem ~
st and reasonable upon the certificate .,
the Judge before whom such cases are a.
led or disposed Of; provided, however. ~
lat tho annual compensation of such dis q,
let attorney shall not exceed the Ii axi 80
nm amount now prescribed by law: and m
any collector shall in any case fail to Fl,
port to the proper district attorney as ~
esrribed in this section, such collectors %
1ht TO any compensation, benefit or allow r,
zee in such case shall be forfeited TO the an
nlted States. and the same nav, in thcit To-
secretion Of the Secretary of the Treasury. | or
awarded to such persons as may al-tii +,
mplaint end prosecute the sam. "a iud.-l a.
ent or conviction. -
Approved March 3. 1875; ~
[GESERAL NATUaE-No. -! ~
! ect providing for the pay .nent I, the its
OF Japan the sum due On *!
account of rents for lands and building. ST.
occupied by the diplomatic and consular IA
of the United States to or.
Japan, aud for other purposes. p7
Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of an
presentatives of the United States OF hu
heuea IN Congress assembled. That tie an