Chapter CCXLI. *to provide for the Preparation and Presentation to Congress of the Revision of the Laws of the United States, consolidating the Laws relating to the Post-roads, and a Code relating to military Offenses, and the Revision of Treaties with the Indian Tribes now in Force*
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CHAP. CCXLI.— An Act *to provide for the Preparation and Presentation to Congress of the Revision of the Laws of the United States, consolidating the Laws relating to the Post-roads, and a Code relating to military Offenses, and the Revision of Treaties with the Indian Tribes now in Force*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Committee authorized to accept, for Congress, the draft of the revision of the laws from the commissioners, and to discharge them;
That a committee of three of the committee of the House of Representatives on the revision of the laws, with committee on the part of the Senate, is hereby authorized, by resolution, to be filed in the Department of Justice, to accept, on the part of Congress, the draft on revision of the laws of the United States prepared by the commissioners to revise the statutes, so far as the same has been reported by them, and may be hereafter reported by them, at the expiration of the time designated for performing that service, to wit: the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to discharge saidcertain acts repealed from, &c.; commissioners, from and after which all acts and parts of acts declaring the duties, powers, rights, and privileges of said commissioners, are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as an approvalwork of commissioners not hereby approved. or adoption by Congress of any part of the work of the commissioners.
Sec. 2. That the committee of the House of Representatives on theThe committee may contract, for a bill embodying in one act all laws authorizing post-roads in force;for codifying laws as to military offences;for revision of Indian treaties in force as laws. revision of the laws, together with such committee as the Senate may join, be, and they hereby are, authorized to contract with some suitable person or persons, learned in the law, to prepare a bill revising and embodying in one act all the laws authorizing post-roads in force at the expiration of the present session of Congress; and also to prepare a bill codifying and regulating the laws in regard to military offenses, according to the recommendation made by the President of the United States in his annual message communicated to Congress at the present session, and also to prepare a revision of all the Indian treaties now in force as law: 580 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 242–244. 1873. Sec. 3. The committee may contract for preparing the revision reported by the commissioners in a bill to be presented to Congress, and with indexes, &c.That said committee are also authorized to contract with some suitable person or persons under the supervision of said committee and such regulations as may be by them prescribed, to prepare the revision of the statutes already reported by the commissioners, or which may be reported before said fourth day of May, in the form of a bill, to be presented at the opening of the session of Congress in December next, embodying all the laws so revised and the bills and provisions herein provided for, with proper indexes, so that the same may be in form to be acted upon forthwith by Congress at said session.
Sec. 4. Revisions and bills, &c., to be printed by congressional printer, and distributed, for correction.That said committee is further authorized to have such revisions and bills printed by the congressional printer from time to time, uniform with the revision already reported, and to distribute them, and also the consolidation and codification of the postal and military laws and treaties herein provided for, to members of Congress and others competent to judge of their merits, in order for their correction by such persons.
Sec. 5. Appropriations herefor to be distributed by the Department of Justice.That any moneys appropriated for the payment of the work herein provided for shall be disbursed by the Department of Justice from time to time only so far as that Department shall be satisfied that the work has been well and faithfully performed, and as said Department shall be satisfied that the work will be fully done and completed by the commencement of said session of Congress in December next. Approved, March 3, 1873.