12 Stat. 394.

14. There shall be employed in the office of the assistant treasurer at St. Louis a 20 May 1862 ? 2. chief clerk and teller, with an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and one assistant clerk, with an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars: * * Provided, That the Clerks to assistclerks hereby authorized are to be in the place of all other clerical force now authorized St. Louis. by law for said office.

ant treasurer at

12 Stat. 646.

ries to unautho

15. No money shall be paid from the treasury of the United States to any person 9 Feb. 1863 ? 2. acting or assuming to act as an officer, civil, military or naval, as salary in any office, which office is not authorized by some previously existing law, unless where such office Payment of salashall be subsequently sanctioned by law; nor shall any money be paid out of the trea- rized officers forsury, as salary, to any person appointed during the recess of the senate, to fill a vacancy in any existing office, which vacancy existed while the senate was in session, and is by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the senate, until such appointee shall have been confirmed by the senate.

bidden.

12 Stat. 752.

16. The treasurer of the mint of the United States, by virtue of that office, assistant 3 March 1863 3 12. treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia, is authorized to designate from among the clerks in his said offices respectively, one to act as chief clerk to the treasurer of the mint, and one other to act as chief clerk to the assistant treasurer of the United States.

Chief clerk to asin Philadelphia.

sistant treasurer

Ibid. § 13.

17. In case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the treasurer of the mint, he may, in his discretion, authorize the respective chief clerks to act in his place, and to when to act as discharge all the duties required by law of the treasurer of the mint or assistant trea- assistant treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia.

surer.

Ibid. ? 14.

18. The chief and other clerks in the treasury department of the mint shall give such assistance in the assistant treasury of the United States at Philadelphia, in the receipt, Duties of clerks. custody and disbursement of the public money, as may be required of them by the treasurer, with the same responsibility for the faithful performance of such duty, as is imposed upon them by the laws in force for the government of the mint and the officers and clerks thereof.

13 Stat. 161.

ant treasurer at

19. In lieu of the clerks heretofore authorized and provided, the assistant treasurer 25 June 1864 27. at New Orleans be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, with the approbation of the secretary of the treasury, one chief clerk, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars Clerks to assistper annum; one clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum; two clerks, at New Orleans. a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum each; one porter, at a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum; and two watchmen, at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum each.

13 Stat. 427.

treasurers.

20. In case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of any assistant treasurer or depo- 13 Feb. 1865 1. sitory of the United States from his office, he may, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, to act Acting assistant in his place, and to discharge all the duties required by law of such assistant treasurer or depository: Provided, That the official bond given by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases: And provided further, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law, for the official misconduct, in like cases, of the assistant treasurer or depository respectively for whom he shall act.

14 Stat. 26.

ant treasurers

21. There shall be paid, annually, instead of the yearly salaries at present authorized, 7 April 1866 & 14. to the director of the mint at Philadelphia, four thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, three thousand five hundred dollars, and one thousand five hundred dollars Salaries of assistfor additional compensation as assistant treasurer of the United States; to the melter and officers of the and refiner, three thousand dollars; to the assayer, three thousand dollars; to the mint. assistant to the assayer, two thousand dollars; to the chief coiner, three thousand dollars; to the assistant to the chief coiner, two thousand dollars; to the engraver, three thousand dollars; to one clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; to two clerks, two thousand dollars each; to four clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars each; to the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, for salary as assistant treasurer of the United States, in addition to his salary as treasurer of said mint, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, eight thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, five thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Saint Louis, five thousand

dollars.

22. All amounts of moneys that are represented by certificates, drafts or checks, 2 May 1866 1. issued by the treasurer of the United States, or by any disbursing officer of any depart- 14 Stat. 41. ment of the government of the United States, upon the treasurer or any assistant Moneys to pay outstanding treasurer, or designated depository of the United States, or upon any national bank

2 May 1866.

drafts and checks

to be deposited.

Ibid. 2.

cient voucher.

designated as a depository of the United States, and which shall be represented on the books of either such offices as standing to the credit of any disbursing officer, and bearing date prior to July 1st 1863, and which were issued to facilitate the payment of warrants, or for any other purpose in liquidation of a debt due from the United States, which may remain outstanding on the first day of July 1866, shall be deposited by the treasurer of the United States, to be covered into the treasury by warrant, and to be carried to the credit of the parties in whose favor such certificates, drafts or checks were respectively issued, or to the persons who are entitled to receive pay therefor, and into an appropriation account to be denominated "outstanding liabilities."

23. The certificate of the register of the treasury, stating that the amount of any Register's certifi- draft issued by the treasurer of the United States, to facilitate the payment of a warrant cate to be a suffi- directed to him for payment, and which may have so remained outstanding and unpaid for three years or more as aforesaid, and which shall have been thus deposited and covered into the treasury, shall be and the same is hereby authorized to be, when attached to any such warrant, a sufficient voucher in satisfaction of any such warrant or part of any warrant, the same as if the drafts, correctly endorsed and fully satisfied, were attached to such warrant or part of warrant. And all such moneys mentioned in this and in the preceding section shall remain as a permanent appropriation for the redemption and payment of all such outstanding and unpaid certificates, drafts and checks as aforesaid.

Ibid. § 3. 24. The payee, or the bona fide holder of any such draft or check, the amount of Payment of such which has been so deposited and covered into the treasury, shall, on presenting the

drafts.

Ibid. 4.

to operate.

same to the proper officer of the treasury, be entitled to have it paid, by the settlement of an account and the issuing of a warrant in his favor, according to the practice in other cases of authorized and liquidated claims against the United States.

25. At the termination of every fiscal year after this act shall begin to operate, the On what moneys provisions thereof shall apply to all similar certificates, drafts and checks, which shall then have for three years or more remained outstanding, unsatisfied and unpaid, and to all disbursing officers' accounts that shall have so remained unchanged, as in the next section provided for.

Ibid. 5.

Accounts of disbursing officers,

when to be cov

ered and credit

ed.

Ibid. & 6.

secretary.

26. The amounts, except such as are provided for in the first section of this act, of the accounts of every kind of disbursing officer of the government of the United States, which shall have remained unchanged, or which shall not have been increased by any new deposit thereto, nor decreased by drafts drawn thereon, for the space of three years, shall in like manner be covered into the treasury, to the proper appropri ation to which they may belong, and the amounts thereof shall, on the certificate of the treasurer of the United States that such amount has been deposited in the treasury, be credited by the proper accounting officer of the treasury, on the books of the treasury department, to the officer in whose name it had stood on the books of any agency of the treasury, if it shall be made to appear that he is entitled to such credit.

27. For the purpose of giving force and effect to the full intent and meaning of this Annual reports act, it shall be the duty of the treasurer, and of all assistant treasurers, and of all to be made to the designated depositories of the United States, and of the cashiers of all national banks designated as such depositories, to report to the secretary of the treasury, at the close of business on the 30th day of June next, and in like manner at the close of business on every 30th day of June thereafter, the condition of every such account so standing, as in the preceding section specified, on the books of their respective offices, stating the name of each depositor, respectively, with his official designation, the total amount so remaining on deposit to his credit, and the dates, respectively, of the last credit and the last debit made to each of such accounts, respectively. And it shall be the duty of every and each disbursing officer in any and every department of the government of the United States, to make a like return of all checks issued by such officer, and which may then have been outstanding and unpaid for three years and more, stating fully in such report the name of the payee, for what purpose given, the office on which drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, and the date number and amount for which it was drawn, and when known, the residence of th payee.

3 March 18691. 15 Stat. 311.

treasury build

VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

28. There shall only be employed and paid for labor in the treasury building and th five other buildings used by the department, for lighting, cleaning and general care and Employees in the superintendence thereof, the following persons, to wit: one superintendent, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year; one clerk of class four and one clerk of class one; one engineer in charge of heating apparatus, at a salary of twelve hundred dol lars a year; five firemen, at a salary of six hundred dollars each per year; one machinist and gas-fitter, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per year; one captain of

ing.

3 March 1869.

tingent expen

the watch, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per year; one storekeeper, at a salary of one thousand dollars per year; thirty watchmen, at a salary of eight hundred and twenty dollars each per year; thirty laborers, at a salary of six hundred dollars each per year; seventy women, as cleaners, at a salary of one hundred and eighty dollars each per year: And it is hereby provided, That no account for contingent ex- Accounts for conpenses at any of the bureaus of the treasury department shall hereafter be allowed, gen. except on the certificate of the general superintendent of the treasury buildings, that they are necessary and proper, and that the prices paid are just and reasonable; and the said superintendent shall keep a full, just and accurate account, in detail, of all amounts expended, under the head of contingent expenses, for the several bureaus of the treasury department, which shall be transmitted to congress, by the secretary of the treasury, at every December session. And the expenditure for furniture and repairs Expenditures for for the same shall be made by the said superintendent, subject to the approval of the secretary of the treasury; and it shall be the duty of said superintendent to keep a just and accurate account, in detail, of all the amounts paid for the purchase of furniture, and also for the repairs thereof, as well as a full statement of the disposition of the old furniture; all of which shall be transmitted to congress, at every December session thereof, by the secretary of the treasury: And provided further, That no part of the appropriations made by this or any subsequent act for contingent and incidental expenses shall be paid for clerk-hire, messengers or laborers.

furniture and repairs.

15 Stat. 242.

1. The governor of Utah territory shall assign the district judges of said territory to 27 July 1868 1. their respective districts, and appoint the time and place of holding court in each of said districts, not exceeding two terms in each district in any one year.

II. LAND OFFICES.

Governor to as

sign judges, &c.

ral.

15 Stat. 91.

2. The president, by and with the advice [and consent] of the senate, shall be and 16 July 1868 2 1. he is hereby authorized to appoint a surveyor-general for the territory of Utah, whose annual salary shall be three thousand dollars, and whose power, authority, and duties Surveyor-geneshall be the same as those provided by law for the surveyor-general of Oregon. He shall have proper allowances for clerk-hire, office-rent and fuel, not exceeding what is now allowed by law to the surveyor-general of Oregon.

Ibid. 2.

3. The public lands of the United States within said territory of Utah, shall constitute a new land district, to be called the Utah district; and the president is hereby Utah land disauthorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, a register and trict. receiver of public money for said district, who shall be required to reside at the places at which said offices shall be located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in other territories.

Ibid. 3.

4. The secretary of the interior is hereby authorized to locate said offices of surveyorgeneral, and register and receiver of public moneys, at some suitable place or places in Location of said territory.

5. The pre-emption, homestead and other laws of the United States applicable to the disposal of the public lands, are hereby extended over said district.

offices.

Ibid. 4.

1. Spring terms of the circuit and district courts.

2. Term to be holden in Burlington.

4 May 1858 21. 11 Stat. 272.

Vermont.

3. Court-house in Burlington.

I. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS.

1. The circuit court of the United States now directed to be holden at Windsor in and for the district of Vermont, on the twenty-first day of May, shall, after the first day Spring terms of of July next, be holden on the fourth Tuesday of July, annually, at said place. And the

the circuit and district courts.

22 Feb. 1869 1. 15 Stat. 274.

district court of the United States, within and for said district, instead of the twentyseventh day of May, shall, after the first day of July next, be holden on the Monday next after the fourth Tuesday in July, annually.

2. A regular term of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Vermont shall hereafter be held at Burlington, in said district, on the fourth Term to be holden Tuesday in February, in each year: Provided, however, That this act shall not be construed to authorize any expenditure for the use of a building for such courts.

at Burlington.

Ibid. ¿ 2. Court-house in Burlington.

3. Permission is hereby given to the authorities of the state of Vermont to erect and maintain, at their own expense, a court-house, and also a jail, upon or partly upon the southerly side of the lot of land belonging to the United States, in said Burlington, on which the custom-house building stands: Provided, That no part of said lot shall be built upon or used for said purpose within fifty feet of said custom-house: And provided further, That said state authorities shall permit the courts of the United States to be held in said court-house, without charge for the use thereof, and shall permit prisoners held under the authority of the United States to be imprisoned in such jail. And for the purposes aforesaid, jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the state of Vermont over the land so to be used and occupied.

Virginia.

[See WEST VIRGINIA.]

I. CIRCUIT COURTS.

1. Terms of the circuit court.

22 May 1866 1. 14 Stat. 51.

Terms of the circuit court.

11 July 1862 § 1. 12 Stat. 537.

II. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. 2. Deputy-collector at Chincoteague Island.

I. CIRCUIT courts.

1. The circuit court of the United States in the district of Virginia shall be held at the city of Richmond, commencing on the first Monday in May and on the fourth Monday of November, in each year; and the said court may adjourn its session, now authorized, from Norfolk to Richmond, and there hold the same, and transfer to said lastnamed place all records, files, process and property pertaining to said court. And all proceedings and process in or issuing out of said court, which are or may be made returnable to any other times or places appointed for holding said court than herein prescribed, shall be deemed legally returnable on the days specified and at Richmond, and not otherwise; and all suits and other proceedings in said court which stand continued to any other time or place shall be deemed continued to the place and time prescribed by this act. And special or adjourned terms of said court may be held at such time and on such notice as may be ordered and prescribed by the chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, with the same power and jurisdiction as at regular terms. And said court, at any such regular, special or adjourned terms, shall have power to issue and enforce all writs and process, make all orders and do all acts necessary for the due administration of justice and the exercise of their jurisdiction.

II. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. (a)

2. That the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, according to law, a deputy-collector of customs to reside on Chincoteague Island, in the Deputy-collector state of Virginia, and to exercise such powers, under the revenue laws, as he, the secreat Chincoteague Island. tary of the treasury, may prescribe; the compensation of the said deputy-collector to be the legal fees on the business he may transact, and no more.

(a) See tit. "Maryland," 2.

War Department.

1. Transportation of troops to be under the control of the 2. Additional clerks, &c. secretary.

3. Settlement of accounts of company officers.

12 Stat. 334. Transportation of troops, &c.

1. The transportation of troops, munitions of war, equipments, military property and 31 Jan. 1862 2 4. stores, throughout the United States, shall be under the immediate control and supervision of the secretary of war, and such agents as he may appoint; and all rules, regulations, articles, usages and laws in conflict with this provision are hereby annulled. 2. There shall be added to the clerical and other force in the office of the quarter- 7 Feb. 1863 ? 1. master-general, to be appointed by the secretary of war, four clerks of class four, and ninety clerks of class one; also thirty copyists and six laborers at an annual sation of six hundred dollars each.

compen

12 Stat. 641. Additional clerks, &c.

Ibid. 2.

pany officers.

3. In settling the accounts of the commanding officer of a company for clothing and other military supplies, the affidavit of any such officer may be received to show the Settlement of loss of vouchers or company books, or any matter or circumstance tending to prove that accounts of com any apparent deficiency was occasioned by unavoidable accident, or lost in actual service, without any fault on his part, or that the whole or any part of such clothing and supplies had been properly and legally used and appropriated; and such affidavit may be considered as evidence to establish the facts set forth, with or without other evidence, as may seem to the secretary of war just and proper under the circumstances of the

13 Stat. 135.

power.

1. Every bill which shall have passed the legislative assembly of Washington terri- 17 June 1864 § 1. tory shall, before it become a law, be presented to the governor; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall Governor's veto have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it; if, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it. shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of that house it shall become a law; but in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house, respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within five days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislative assembly by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

14 Stat. 77.

Biennial ses

2. After the next annual session of the legislative assembly of said territory the ses- 29 June 1866 § 1. sions shall be biennial; members of the council shall be elected for the term of four years, (a) and members of the house for the term of two years, and shall receive the sum of six dollars per day instead of three dollars heretofore allowed, and shall also receive the same mileage now allowed by law.

3. Each house shall have authority to elect, in addition to the officers now allowed by law, an enrolling clerk, who shall receive five dollars per day; the chief clerks shall receive six dollars per day, and the other officers elected by said legislature shall receive five dollars per day each.

sions.

Compensation of members.

Ibid. 2.

Clerks.

4. Elections in the territories of Washington and Idaho for delegates to the house of 3 March 1869 3 1. representatives of the forty-second congress shall be held on the first Monday of June,

(a) See tit. "Territories," 8.

15 Stat. 339.

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