ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH 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 6th day of December, 1841, and ended the 31st day of August, 1842.
John Tyler, President; Samuel L. Southard, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,For Congress. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:
Pay and mileage.For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, four hundred thousand dollars;
Officers and clerks.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Expenses of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Expenses of H. of Reps.
Proviso.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them.
Approved, December 22, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. II.—An Act to authorize an issue of Treasury notes.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,An emission of not exceeding $5,000,000 at any one time outstanding, authorized.
To be issued under the provisions of the act of 12th October, 1837, ch. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes to be issued for such sum or sums as the exigencies of the Government may require, and in place of such of the same as may be redeemed to cause others to be issued, but not exceeding the sum of five millions of dollars of this emission outstanding at any one time, and to be issued under the limitations and other provisions contained in the act entitled “An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes,” approved the twelfth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, except that the authority hereby given to issue Treasury notes shall expire at the end of one year from the passage of this act.
