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 578 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 237-239. 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCXXXVII. —An Act to amend an Art entitled “An Act making Approprzb- Hcnsfbr the Support ey" the Amin for the Year ending June I/airtielh, eighteen hundred Vo}, xv, p, 313, and seventy," approved Zllarch third, eighteen hundred and szxt_y—mne. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The President States of America, in Congress assembled, '1`hat, the sixth section of an act “;”£t‘;l’p°‘“? °“° entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for a s nt adfu·_. . . . ,, mnegcnm with the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, approved UW *¤¤k»&°· March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is so fer modified as to authorize and permit the President of the United States to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint, one assistant adjutant-general with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a major in the said department. Approved, March 3, 1873. _ March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCXXXVIII. — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish the Dem parlment of J ustice, andfzr other Purposes." V°1‘ xvi p' m4` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the [/Pzited Annual report States of America in Congress assembled, Thut the twelfth section of the °f iW<;’“°Y G§¤· act entitled “An act to establish the Department of Justice, and for other g36C2v;::; {gis. purposes," approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, elude what. is hereby amended so as to read as follows: “That it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to make to Congress, at the commencement of each regular session of Congress, a report of the business of the said department for the last preceding fiscal year, and of any other matters appertaining thereto, that he muy deem proper, including a statement of the several appropriations now, or which may hereafter be, placed under its control, the amount appropriated. und a detailed statement of the amounts used for defraying the expenses of the United States courts in each judicial district; also the statistice of crime under the laws of the United States, and a statement of the number of causes, civil and criminal, pending during the preceding year in each of the several courts of the United tsttes. Statutes and Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, fqD<>Pt¤ *0 lie V¤¤‘· authorized and required to furnish to the head of the Department of g;E;?,;)€;;°,,,· Justice, from time to time, as they may be published, a sufficient number Justice for distri- of the statutes of the United States, and the reports of the Supreme b““°"· Court of the United States, to be by him distributed to such officers of the courts of the United States as are now or may hereafter be by law entitled to receive them; and all laws or parts of laws authorizing the Repeeling distribution of such statutes and reports of the Supreme Court to the clause- officers of the courts of the United States by the head of any other executive department of the government be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Register to be Sec. 3. That a. register of such books shall be kept, under the kept ot‘b<>oks _ authority of the head of the Department of Justice, showing the quan- “"d d‘“' tity of each kind received by him in pursuance of this act; and it shall be his duty to cause to be entered in such register, and at the proper time, when, where, and to wl1om the same, or any part of them, have been distributed and delivered, and to report the same to Congress in his annual report. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1g7g_ CHAP. CCXXXIX. — An Ad_fi:rin{; The Time for f/in E/c·r·z*z`nn of Represenfa!z°vesji·0m ·—————·· the State of Calgybrnia to lhejiarlyifburth Congress Be it enacted by the Senate and Abuse of Representatives of the United Tim yo, dw, States of America, in Congress assembled, That on the first \Ve<lnesday in tion of repre- September, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, there shall be elected in each congressional district in the State of California one