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tion in their power in relation to the titles of the public property 

 lying within their respective ilistricts. And the Si'cretaries of the 

 Departments, upon the application of the Attorney-(Jeneral, shall 

 J ;i procure any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, 

 1^ I and which may not be in the possession of the officers of the Govern- 

 ■ ment, and the expense of procurinc: it shall be paid out of the appro- 

 priations made for the continoencies of the Departments respectively. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1889. c. 411. (25 Stat. 939.) 



Legal services to be rendered by United States attorneys; abstracts of title to 

 be furnished by grantors. 



That hereafter all Icffal services connected with the procurement of 

 titles to site for public buildings * * * shall be rendered by 

 United States district attorneys: Provided further. That hereafter, 

 in the procurement of sites for such public buildings, it shall be the 

 duty of the Attorney-General to require of the grantors in each case 

 to furnish, free of all expenses to the Government, all requisite ab- 

 stracts, official certifications, and evidences of title that the Attomey- 



* • Greneral mav deem necessary. 

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" ' Act March 2. iaS9. c. 411, s. 1. 25 Stat. 941. 



J [ This is a provision of the sundiy civil appropriation act for the fiscal 



I I year 1S90. clletl above. 



! ■ EEV. ST. SEC. 184. 



J ; Subpoena for witnesses in claims pending in departments. 



Sec. 184. Anj' head of a Department or Bureau in which a claim 

 against the Ignited States is properly pending may apply to any judge 

 i, , or clerk of any court of the Ignited States, in any State, District, or 

 tj ' Territory, to issue a subpoena for a witness being within the jurisdic- 

 » tion of such court, to appear at a time and place in the subpoena 

 stated, before any officer authorized to take depositions to be used in 

 the courts of the United States, there to give full and true answers to 

 such written interrogatories and cross-interrogatories as may be sub- 

 mitted with the application, or to be orally examined and cross- 

 examined upon the subject of such claim. 



I EEV. ST. SEC. 187. 



' Professional services in claims pending In departments. 



J ! Sec. 187. AMienever any head of a Department or Bureau having 



J i made application pursuant to section one hundred and eighty-four, 



■ ! for a subpopna to procure the attendance of a witness to be examined. 



. is of opinion that the interests of the United States require the at- 



' tendance of counsel at the examination, or require legal investigation 



of any claim pending in his Department or Bureau, he shall give 



notice thereof to the Attorney-General, and of all facts necessary to 



enable the Attorney-General to furnish proper professional service 



, I in attending such examination, or making such investigation, and it 



' ' shall be the duty of the Attornev-tJeneral to iirovide for such service. 



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f '. REV. ST. SEC. 364. 



II Services of counsel in examination of witnesses in claims pending in depart- 

 ments. 



Sec. 3(54. Whenever the head of a Department or Bureau gives the 

 Attorney-General due notice that the interests of the United States 



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