Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 10.djvu/119

 THIRTY—·SECCND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108. 1852. 99 and reimbursement according to contract of any loan or loans made on account of the United States, as likewise moneys appropriated for a purpose in respect to which a larger duration is specially assigned by law, for more than two years, after the expiration of the fiscal year in which the act shall have been passed, all and any such appropriations shall be deemed to have ceased and been determined, and the moneys so unexpended shall be immediately thereafter carried, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the account on the books of the Treasury denominated the " surplus fund," to remain like 5,,,,,1,,, yum; other unappropriated moneys in the Treasury, and it shall not be lawful, ¤<}¤ to b¤ 8P- for any cause or pretence whatsoever, to transfer, withdraw, apply, or gg3S0S;; °th" use for any purpose whatever, any moneys carried as aforesaid to the surplus fund without further and specific appropriations by law. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That where the ministerial officers Extraordinary of the United States have or shall incur extraordinary expense, in ex- expenses in exeecuting the laws thereof the payment of which is not specifically provid— °“°“‘g 1”‘“’“‘ ed for, the President of the United States is authorized to allow the payment thereof; under the special taxation of the district or circuit court of the district in which the said services have been, or shall be rendered, to be paid from the appropriation for defraying the expenses of the judiciary. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, -That the President of the United - Associate law States appoint an associate law-agent for California, learned in the law, ;§“” in C“M°' and skilled in the Spanish and English languages, whose duties and com- ` pensation shall be the same as those of the law-agent: Provided, That the compensation of the agent and associate shall not exceed five thousand dollars each. And in every case in which the board of commis— Twotranscrlpts sioners on private land claims in California, shall render a iinal decision, °f6(3‘“{u9°°iPi°” it shall be their duty to have two certified transcripts prepared of their {gd :1,,;:1,:, be proceedings and decision, and of the papers and evidence on which made. the same are founded, one of which transcripts shall be filed with the clerk of the proper district court, and the other shall be transmitted to the Attorney-General of the United States, and the tiling Ap 8,,;, of such transcript with the clerk aforesaid shall ipsa facto operate 17,Ilicw· 525. as an appeal for the party against whom the decision shall be rendered; and if such decision shall be against the private claimant, it shall be his duty to file ·a notice with the clerk aforesaid within six months thereafter, of his intention to prosecute the appeal; and if the decision shall be against the United States, it shall be the duty of the Att0rney—General within six months after receiving said transcript to cause a notice to be tiled with the clerk aforesaid, that the appeal will be prosecuted by the United States; and on a failure of either party to file such notice with the clerk aforesaid, the appeal shall be regarded as dismissed. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the Post-Master General Additional be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint and employ, five additional ‘3°'l§ei¤mu;> 1;; clerks in the Post-Oflice Department, namely; one at an annual salaryp‘ °° of sixteen hundred dollars, two at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, two at an annual salary of one thousand dollars. Sec. 14. And 6e ttfurther enacted, That the provisions contained in Extra pay gf the fourth section of the act entitled "An act to supply deficiencies in ¢>6§•§;*;- h the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth ’ ° ‘ 6G' of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 15. And be ttfurt/ter enacted, That from and after the passage Psy ¤f deputy of this act, in lieu of the compensation now allowed by law for his ser- ggwgegspotg vices, there shall be paid hereafter to each of the deputy naval onicers Philaddlphia, i at the ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New §‘*lgE;’;é and Orleans, two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid out of the fund for` the expenses of collecting the revenue.