Chapter 328.
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CHAP. 328.— An act provide for the expenses of the Select Committee on Alleged Frands in the late Presidential Election. June 19, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of twenty thousandAppropriations.Committee to investigate alleged frauds in Presidential election. dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary be and the same is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the actual expenses necessarily incurred by the select committee of the House of Representatives appointed under resolution of the House of May seventeenth, and under that resolution and the resolution of May twenty-second, following, directed to investigate alleged frauds in the late Presidential election said to have been committed in Louisiana and Florida, or that may be charged to have been committed in any other State.
Said appropriation to be added to the contingent fund of the. House of Representatives, and to be disbursedDisbursement. upon vouchers approved by the chairman of said committee or of any subcommittee thereof; and the clerk of the House shall pay such parts of said sum as the chairman of the said committee shall in writing direct for the purpose aforesaid to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, who shall, as soon thereafter as practicable, make report in writing to theReport. House, of the manner in which the sums thus paid to him have been expended, accompanied by vouchers in detail which report and vouchers when examined and approved by the Committee, of Accounts of the House shall be deemed a sufficient settlement of his accountability, and any unexpended balance remaining in his hands, after such settlementUnexpended balance. shall be paid by him into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the fund for which it was appropriated.
Sec. 2. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the sameInvestigations by Senate. hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be placed to the credit of the contingent fund of the Senate, and be applied toward defraying the expenses of said investigations and inquiries as have already been, or may hereafter be, directed by the Senate during the period of the Forty-fifth Congress; 178 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.
II. Ch. 328, 329. 1878. paid expenses to be vouched and accounted for in the same manner as in the case of the other contingent expenses of the Senate. Sec. 3. Prosecution of crimes in matters investigated. That the sum of ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used under the direction of the Attorney-General, to defray any expenses that may be incurred by the Department of Justice, for the detection and punishment of any crime committed against the United States in the affairs or in the course of the investigations mentioned in this act.
Approved, June 19, 1878.