Chapter XLIX. *relating to the Salaries of Officers of the Territories of the United States.*June 15, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Salaries of territorial officers not to be paid in case of their absence from the territory,
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Chap. XLIX.— An Act *relating to the Salaries of Officers of the Territories of the United States.*June 15, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Salaries of territorial officers not to be paid in case of their absence from the territory, unless the President shall certify that there was good cause for such absence.That whenever any officer of either of the Territories of the United States shall be absent therefrom, and from the duties of his office, no salary shall be paid him during the year in which such absence shall occur, unless good cause therefor shall be shown to the President of the United States, who shall officially certify his opinion of such cause to the proper accounting officer of the treasury, to be filed in his office.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the proviso contained in an Proviso in act of 1851, ch. 32, modified.act entitled “An act making appropriations for the payment of the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, relating to the officers of the Territories of the United States,” be, and the same is hereby so modified as to authorize the payment of the salary of any officer therein named, notwithstanding such officer may have been absent from such Territory and his official duties for more than sixty days: *Provided,* The President of the United States shall certify officially his opinion that the absence of such officer has been for good and sufficient cause.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,*Neither the proviso in act of 1851, ch. 32, nor this act to apply to certain officers in Utah. That nothing in the said proviso, or in this act, shall be so construed as to prevent the payment of the salaries of the Chief Justice, Associate Justice, and Secretary of State of the Territory of Utah, who have withdrawn from said Territory, for reasons set forth in their report to the President of the United States. Approved, June 15, 1852.