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Chap. XCVI.—An Act to provide for erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, to be expended, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, in erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania avenue, between the Capitol and the President’s square.
Approved, July 27, 1842.
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Chap. CVI.—An Act in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Clergymen authorized to marry, &c. That the ministers of the gospel, or clergy, who at any time may be legally authorized to unite persons in the bands of wedlock, or to join them together as man and wife, either in the county of Washington or the county of Alexandria, shall be, and are hereby, authorized to do so in any place within the District of Columbia.
Approved, July 27, 1842.
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Chap. CVII.—An Act to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Additional clerks authorized in P. O. Department. That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ in the Post Office Department, a topographer, at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars; and eight additional clerks, whose annual compensation shall be as follows: three clerks at fourteen hundred dollars each, four clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each, and one clerk at one thousand dollars.
Arrears due said clerks to be paid.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the arrears of pay due to said clerks from the first day of January last, at the rates aforesaid, and their regular salaries for the residue of the current year, be regularly paid to them by the proper officer of the Department, and for this purpose the sum of eleven thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Certain temporary clerks in P. O. Department made permanent.
Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 33.
Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 169.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That eleven additional clerks heretofore temporarily employed in the office of the Auditor of the Post Office Department under the provisions of the acts of Congress of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be permanently added to the force in that office, at the rates of compensation heretofore allowed for their services respectively, and the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of their salaries for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Approved, July 30, 1842.
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Chap. CVIII.—An Act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia.[1]
- ↑ See act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia,” approved August 1, 1842; June 17, 1844, chap. 100.
