The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-02
TENURE-OF-OFFICE LAWS.
The Acts of 1920, 1867 and 1s69-Th
Text of the Laws Regulating Removals.

The Acts of 1920, 1867 and 1S60-The
Text of the Laws Regulating Removals.
The general interest felt in the FEEDER
al offices of the country will attract much
interest to the statutes regulating re-
movals. In order that they may be
generally understood, we subjoin the
texts of the laws on the subject:
By the act of May 10, 1920, "all Dis
trict Attorneys, Collectors of Customs,
naval officers and Surveyors of the Gus
toms, navy agents, receivers of public
moneys for lands, Registers of the Land
Offices, paymasters in the army, the
Apothecary General, the Assistant
Apothecaries General and the Commits
sary General of purchases shall be APP
pointed for the term of four years, but
shall be removable from Office at pleas
ure.h
BY the third section of the act to reg
ulate the tenure of certain civil offices,
passed March 2, 1867. as amended by
the third section of the supplementary
act of April 5, 1869. it is provided ..that
the President shall have power to fill all
vacancies which may happen during the
recess of the Senate, by reason of death,
resignation or expiration of term of Of
flee, by granting commissions which
shall expire at the end of the next ses-
sion thereafter, and if no appointment
by the advice and consent of the
Senate shall be made to such Office
so vacant, or temporarily filed as
aforesaid, during such next session of
the Senate, such office shall remain in
allegiance without any salary, fees or
emoluments attached thereto until the
same shall be filled by appointment
thereto by and with the consent of the
Senate, and during such time all the
powers and duties belonging to such
office shall be exercised by such other
officer as may by law exercise such
powers and duties in case of a vacancy
in such Office"
The first section of the act of April 5,
1869, (after repeating the first and Sec
ond sections of the act of 1860 provides
That every person holding any civil
office to which he has been or may be
hereafter appointed by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and
who shall have become duly qualified TO
act therein, shall be entitled to hold
such Office during the term for which
sooner removed by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate. or by the ap-
pointment with like advice and consent
of successor in his place. except as
herein otherwise provided"
Another section of the act.provides:
THAT during any recess of the Senate
the President is hereby empowered at
his discretion to suspend any civil
officer appointed by and with the add
vice and consent of the Senate, except
Judges of the United States courts,
until the end of the next session of the
Senate, and to designate some suitable
person, subject to be removed at his
discretion, to perform the duties of
such superseded officer in the
meantime; and such person so des-
and give the bonds required by law to
be taken and given by the suspended
officer, and shall during the time he
performs his duties be entitled to the
salary and emoluments of such office,
no part of which shall belong to the
officer superseded; and it shall be the
duty of the President within thirty days
after the commencement of each session
of the Senate, except for any Office
which in his opinion ought not to be
filled, to nominate persons to fill all
vacancies in Office which existed at the
meeting of the Senate, whether tenn
porarily filled or not, and also in the
place of all officers suspended; and if
the Senate, during such session, shall
refuse to advise and consent to an APP
pointment in the place of any suspended
officer, then, and not otherwise, the
President shall nominate another per-
son as soon as practicable to said ses-
sion of the Senate for said Office.
By the sixty-third section of the act
to revise and consolidate the laws re-
lating to the Postoflice Department,
passed June 8, 1872, it is provided:
THAT Postmasters of the fourth and
fifth classes shall be appointed and may
be removed by the Postmaster General,
and all others shall be appointed and
may be removed by the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and shall hold their offices for
four years, unless sooner removed or
suspended according to law. All ap-
pointments and removals shall be mott
fed to the Sixth Auditor"