Chapter 392.
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CHAP. 392.— An act to secure for the District of Columbia a compilation of the laws of said District and for other purposesMarch 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. That the supreme court of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, authorized and Commission to compile laws relating to.directed to appoint two persons learned in the law as Commissioners to compile, arrange, and classify, with a proper index, all statutes and parts of statutes in force in the said District, including the acts of the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, and relating to all such matters as would properly come within the scope of a civil and criminal code: and the said court shall have power to fill any vacancies occurring in said commission.
Sec. 2— That each of the said commissioners shall receive for hisCompensation. services such sum. not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, as said court shall deem reasonable; said sum to be paid upon the completion of the work and the approval thereof in writing by the court; which sums, together with the reasonable costs, incurred by Expenses.the commission for clerical assistance and incidental expenses, not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, one half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. That of said compilation, when completed, upon the orderPrinting. of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, there shall be printed five thousand copies at the Government Printing Office, said copies to be sold at ten per centum above cost. Approved, March 2, 1889.