United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 272
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CCLXXII.—An act for the relief of the assistants of the Marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit judge for Circuit judge for the 8th circuit authorized to examine the allowances made by the marshal for Kentucky to his assistants, for taking the sixth census.
Proviso.the eight judicial circuit of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to examine and review the allowances made by the marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky, to his assistants, for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States within said district; and that the appropriate officers of the United States account to and pay the said assistants so much of the said allowances as shall be approved by said judge: Provided, That no allowances to be made by the said circuit judge, by virtue of the provisions of this act, to any assistant marshal, shall exceed the allowances which the district judge of the District of Kentucky might have made, under the provisions of the census laws, or the allowances which the marshal of the District of Kentucky proposed to make, subject to the revision and approbation of the said district judge.
Approved, August 30, 1842.