Chapter LXXXI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court for the Investigation of Claims against the United States,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.* Aug. 6, 1856.1855, ch. 122. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court for the Investigation of Claims against the United States,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.* Aug. 6, 1856.1855, ch. 122. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Any of the two judges of the court of claims to be a quorum.Vol. x. p. 612. That any two of the Judges of the Court of Claims, authorized by the act to which this is an amendment, approved the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, shall constitute a quorum, and may hold a court for the transaction of business, and the court may appoint commissioners to take testimony in the manner prescribed in the said act Sec. 2.
Assistant solicitor. *And be it further enacted,* That an assistant solicitor shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to aid the solicitor in the performance of Oath.the duties mentioned in the said act, and shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and discharge faithfully the duties Salary.of his office, and he shall receive a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and shall hold his office for a period of four years, Solicitor may appoint a deputy.unless sooner removed by the President.
And the solicitor of the United States, mentioned in the act to which this is an amendment, shall have power, and he is hereby authorized to employ a deputy, who shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and whose duty it shall be to aid the said solicitor in the performance of the duties mentioned in said act, in such way as the said solicitor shall direct. Sec. 3. Clerk to disburse contingent fund. *And be it further enacted,* That the clerk of the said court shall be, and he is hereby authorized to disburse, under the direction of the said court, the contingent fund which may hereafter be appropriated from time, Bond.to time for the use of the said court: *Provided,* he shall first give bond in such an amount and in such form, and with such security, as shall be His accounts.approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *And, provided further,* That his accounts shall be settled by the proper accounting officers of the treasury in the same way as the accounts of other disbursing agents of Salary of clerk and assistant clerk.the government are now settled.
And from and after the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, the salary of the said clerk shall be three thousand dollars per annum, and the salary of the assistant clerk shall be two thousand dollars per annum. Approved, August 6, 1856. Chapter LXXXII: to alter and amend “An Act to appropriate Money to remove Obstructions in the Savannah River, below the City of Savannah, in the State of Georgia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. 11 Stat. 30 1856-08-07 Chapter LXXXII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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Chapter LXXXI
*to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court for the Investigation of Claims against the United States,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.* Aug. 6, 1856.1855, ch. 122. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
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