Chapter XLIV. to provide for the Appointment of an Assistant Register in the Treasury Department and a Solicitor for the War Department, and for other Purposes
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Chap. XLIV.— An Act to provide for the Appointment of an Assistant Register in the Treasury Department and a Solicitor for the War Department, and for other Purposes.Feb. 20, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the President be, and hePresident may appoint Assistant Register of the Treasury.Salary. is hereby authorized, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the term of one year, an officer in the office of the Register of the Treasury, to be called the assistant register, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the duties of said assistantDuty. shall be such as may be devolved on him by the Register of the Treasury, and, in the absence of the Register, said assistant shall act in his place and stead; and any official record, certificate, or other document, excepting warrants, bonds, and drafts, if signed by the assistant register, shall have the same legal force and validity as if signed by the Register of the Treasury. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the President be, and he isSolicitor of War Department. hereby authorized, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an officer in the War Department, to be called the Solicitor of the War Department, at an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars.Salary.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the amounts necessary to payAppropriation. the salaries of the officers authorized to be appointed by this act, for the current and next fiscal years, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 20, 1863.