514 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 114. 1871. Persons en- Secretary of the Treasury that parties are entitled to refund oft duties ?m°d·*° "€f’~'“d‘ under the twenty-sixth section of the act of July fourteen, eighteen
- ),5,3; :,1,;*:;,,, hundred and seventy, and joint resolution B.ppl'0*/Gd January tbirtieth,
acts to be paid. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, it shall be the duty of the Secretary ’8Q;f;‘·25Q;,f,26* of the Treasury to draw his warrant upon the treasurer, directing said Pub. 1€ei»);N¤.ia. treasurer to refund the same out of any money in the treasury not other- Pour P- 592- wise appropriated. Appropriation Sncig. Ffhat there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury
- `°' ”§“*“°£ to not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred
Egligdghémgipei dollars for the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and twenty-five hundred dollars for the salary of a secretary, and eighteen hundred dollars for that of an assistant secretary of legation to the German Em ire. for building Sec. 6. That thep appropriation made March three, eighteen hundred for ¤°¤*‘¤·h°¤¤° and sixty-nine, having been covered into the treasury, the Secretary of E,?,£giEz¤g?°ét the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed, upon the site already given to and owned by the United States, a suitable building, fire-proof, at Columbia, South Carolina, for the accommodation of the post-office and United States circuit and district courts; and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the full completion of state firstto said building beyond the amount herein appropriated: Provided, That f_§l;:‘}K“;,‘;2 3,*};** no money hereby appropriated shall be used or applied for the purposes 3,, ’ mentioned until it shall appear that the State has duly released and relinquished to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess the site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereotl _ Fines, penal- Sec. 7. That all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, heretofore or that may
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- i£f‘2;{*S°“"°d be hereafter incurred, the acts entitled respectively, "An act to extend
,8,,8, ,,;,_ 27s_ the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and naviga- Vol. xv. p. 240. tion over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish 1;:;; °h’}§g‘ a collection district therein, and for other purposes," approved July to 5J gigpqsed twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and "An act to prevent
- `¤¤¤¤¤‘d?¤8 to the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July one,
1U7' 6h_ 188- eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be disposed of according to the pro- Vol. xiv. p.648. visions of the act entitled "An act to regulate the disposition of the proceeds of fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred under the laws relating po tlpe customs, and for other purposes," approved March two, eighteen pa 0,- mm. un red and sixty-seven. antdiarslials for Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, author-
- ‘;;':1§,Q;y"{)’;'h ized to increase the compensation of assistant marshals in taking the
incren,scd by the census of eighteen hundred and seventy, whenever, in his judgment, the
of M same shall be necessary: Provided, That in no case shall such increase
VOL xm Pp_,,' exceed fifty per centnm of the amount of compensation now allowed by 12. _ _ law, nor shall the entire compensation be more than eight dollars per day 5;L:*·880‘ for the time actually employed ; and the joint resolution entitled “A res- ’ olution in relation to the compensation of assistant marshals for taking the census of eighteen hundred and seventy," approved June nine, eighteen hundred and seventy, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. President to Sec. 9. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, §l‘;S§;°3];‘Q§f• authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations for the admission of missipn of per. persons into the civil service of the United States as will best promote the
z*;_<;i;*;° efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to
VOL xvi, 7_ age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service mw which he seeks to enter; and for this purpose the President is au-
