CHAPTER 7. ASSISTANTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
IC 4-6-7
Chapter 7. Assistants in Washington, D.C.
IC 4-6-7-1
Number of assistants
Sec. 1. The attorney-general is hereby authorized to employ one
(1) or more assistants, residing in the city of Washington, District of
Columbia, to assist him in the presentation and prosecution of claims
of the state against the United States, pertaining to swamplands, or
swampland indemnity, as he may think necessary.
(Formerly: Acts 1905, c.75, s.1.)
IC 4-6-7-2
Duration of employment
Sec. 2. The attorney-general shall have power to limit the duration
of such employment, and, if not otherwise expressed in the contract
of employment, the same shall cease with the term of the
attorney-general making such employment.
(Formerly: Acts 1905, c.75, s.2.)
IC 4-6-7-3
Compensation
Sec. 3. As compensation and for all their costs and expenses, such
assistant or assistants shall receive a sum equal to not more than
twenty-five per cent (25%) of the money recovered and turned over
to the state, to be fixed in the contract of employment. The state shall
not be liable to such assistant or assistants for any other sum, either
for compensation or costs: Provided, That in case money so
recovered is paid into the state treasury without such per cent having
been first deducted, the auditor of state shall issue his warrant, upon
a voucher approved by the attorney-general, for a sum equal to not
more than twenty-five per cent (25%) of the money so recovered and
paid in; and there is hereby appropriated out of the funds of the
treasury not otherwise appropriated such sums as may be necessary
for such purpose.
(Formerly: Acts 1905, c.75, s.3.)