y to the
provisions of this act; nor shall any claim, account, voucher, order,
certificate, warrant, or other instrument providing for or relating to
such payment, receipt, or retention, be presented, passed, allowed,
approved, certified, or paid by any officer of the United States, or
by any person exercising the functions or performing the duties of
any office or place of trust under the United States, for or in respect
such office, or the exercising or performing the functions or duties
thereof; and every person who shall violate any of the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon
trail and conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor by a fine
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding
ten years, or both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

AN ACT TO AMEND "AN ACT REGULATING THE TENURE OF CERTAIN CIVIL OFFICES."

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of American in Congress assembled,_ That the first and second
sections of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain
civil offices," passed March 2, 1867, be, and the same are, hereby
repealed, and in lieu of said repealed sections the following are
hereby enacted:

That every person holding any civil office to which has been or
hereafter may be appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and who shall have become duly qualified to act therein, shall
be entitled to hold such office during the term for which he shall
have been appointed, unless sooner removed by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, or by the appointment, with the like advice and
consent, of a successor in his place, except as herein otherwise
provided.

SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted,_ That during any recess of the
Senate the President is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to
suspend any civil officer appointed by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, except judges of the United States courts, until the
end of the next session of the Senate, and to designate some suitable
person, subject to be removed in his discretion by the designation of
another, to perform the duties of such suspended officer in the
meantime; and such person so designated shall take the oaths and give
the bonds required by law to be taken and given by the suspended
officer, and shall, during the time he performs his duties, be entitled
to the salar