United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 1
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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.