Chapter CCLVI. to authorize the continued Employment of an Agent and Counsel of the United States
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CHAP. CCLVI.— An Act to authorize the continued Employment of an Agent and Counsel of the United States.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPresent agent and counsel of the United States under the treaty with Great Britain may be continued, but not after, &c.*Post,* pp. 867–869. it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in his discretion, to continue the appointment and employment of the present agent and counsel of the United States, under articles twelve to seventeen, inclusive, of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for said agent and counsel to act under such continued appointment and employment, notwithstanding the election of the said agent and counsel as a representative in the forty-third Congress: *Provided,* That such appointment and employment shall not continue after said agent and counsel shall have taken the oath of office as such representative.
Approved, March 3, 1873.