Chapter XCVIII. *amendatory of the Acts relative to the Attorney-General’s Office, and to fix the Compensation of his Assistant and Clerks.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter the salary of Salary of assista
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act *amendatory of the Acts relative to the Attorney-General’s Office, and to fix the Compensation of his Assistant and Clerks.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter the salary of Salary of assistant attorneygeneral.the assistant attorney-general shall be, and the same is hereby, raised to the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars per annum. Clerks in office of Attorney-General.
Salaries. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That in lieu of the provisions of law prescribing the Attorney-General’s powers as to the employment of clerks in his office, it is provided that the Attorney-General shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ in his office one chief clerk at a salary of two thousand and two hundred dollars per annum, two fourth-class clerks (being one “pardon clerk” and one “opinion clerk”) at annual salaries of eighteen hundred dollars each, two third-class clerks at annual salaries of sixteen hundred dollars each, and one first-class clerk at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, besides such temporary clerks as may Proviso.from time to time be needed: *Provided, however,* That the allowances to such temporary clerks shall in no one year exceed one thousand dollars.
Additional pay to come from unexpended balances. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That for the purpose of paying, for the current fiscal year, the increased compensation above provided, the Attorney-General is hereby authorized, in addition to the amounts already appropriated for the payment of salaries in his office in the appropriation bill for the current fiscal year, to draw on and use from the unexpended balance of moneys standing on the books of the treasury, on the first of July last, to the credit of his office for the pay of clerks and messenger, or from any other appropriation then standing to the credit of his office, and yet subject to his control and unexpended, a sum not exceeding, in the whole, twenty-four hundred dollars, towards such additional compensation for the current fiscal year.
Approved, March 3, 1865.