ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH 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 2d day of December, 1839, and ended the 21st day of July, 1840.
Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.
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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:
Members of Congress.For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, four hundred thousand dollars.
Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of the Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of H. of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars.
Arrears for printing, &c.For arrears of printing, lithographing, and engraving, ordered by the House of Representatives during the third session of the twenty-fifth Congress, and for the payment of which that Congress did not make the necessary appropriations, a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, January 8, 1840.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. II.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and the other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty.
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 the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to the former appropriations, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Revolutionary pensioners.
1818, ch. 19.For the Revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one hundred and twelve thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Widows and orphans.
1836, ch. 362.For pensions to widows, and orphans, under the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, twenty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars.
