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Chap. XCIX.—An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Legislative Assembly authorized to provide for the election or appointment of certain officers. That the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin shall be, and are hereby, authorized to provide, by law, for the election or appointment of sheriffs, judges of probate, justices of the peace, and county surveyors, within the said Territory, in such way or manner, and at such times and places as to them may seem proper; and after a law shall have been passed by the Legislative Assembly for that purpose, all elections or appointments of the above-named officers, thereafter to be had or made, will be in pursuance of such law.
Term of service of members of the Legislative Assembly.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of both houses of the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, shall, upon the expiration of the terms of service for which the present members have been elected, be hereafter elected to serve for the same terms of service as that for which the members of the Legislative Assembly in Iowa are now elected.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
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Chap. C.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, namely:
Congress.For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates from the Territories, six hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;
Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps.For compensation of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Contingent expenses.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, sixty thousand dollars;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing in any resolution of either House of Congress shall prevent the settlement and payment of the bills for the printing of the two Houses of congress, agreeablyVol. 3, p. 538. to the prices established by the joint resolution of March 3d, 1819;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars;
Purchase of books.For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars;
Laying floor.
Sale of old furniture.For laying floor of principal library room with hydraulic cement, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; and the librarian is hereby authorized to sell, at public auction, any portion of the old and useless furniture of the library rooms, and pay the proceeds thereof into the treasury of the United States;
President of the United States.For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
State Department.Secretary, &c.Department of State.―For compensation of the Secretary of State,
