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United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1

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3876467United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, First Session, Chapter 1United States Congress


Jan. 8, 1840.
[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.