ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the first day of December, 1825, and ended on the twenty-second day of May, 1826.
John Quincy Adams, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Nathaniel Macon, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 20th of May; J. W. Taylor, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
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Chapter I.—An Act making appropriation for compensation to the members and officers, and for the contingent expenses, of the two houses of Congress.
Compensation to the Senators and members of the House of Representatives, &c., for fuel, &c.
1826, ch. 13.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for compensation to the Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and delgates of territories, their officers and attendants; and the further sum of eighty thousand dollars, for fuel, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, and that the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 23, 1825.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. II.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.
Appropriations for the military service of the year 1826, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For pensions to revolutionary pensioners.For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million three hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
For the invalid and half pay pensioners.For the invalid and half pay pensioners, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For pensions to widows and orphans.
To be paid from the treasury.For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums, respectively, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 18, 1825.