or assessed upon the vessels or cargoes, being the produce of such fishery, because of a supposed insufficiency of a register to exempt them from such claims, are hereby remitted; and all bonds given for such cause are hereby cancelled, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to refund all such moneys as have been, or which may be, paid into the Treasury, to the rightful claimants, out of the revenues in his hands.
Approved, April 4, 1840.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXII.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the 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 the members of Congress and delegates, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars;
Officers of the Senate and House of Reps.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars;
Expenses of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, fifty thousand dollars;
Expenses of the House of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars;
The two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose;
President, Vice President, and heads of departments.For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars;
Secretary to sign patents for lands.
1833, ch. 91.
Off. Sec. State.
Clerks and messenger.For salary of the Secretary to sign patents for public lands, per act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars;
Cont. exp. of department.For the contingent expenses of the Department of State, including publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Superint’t and watchmen N. E. Ex. building.For the superintendent and watchmen of the northeast executive building, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses of said building.For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Office Sec. Treasury.For compensation to clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
Clerks per act 23d June 1836, ch. 115.For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-third June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” three thousand six hundred dollars;
First Comptroller.For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Clerks and messenger.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars;
Second comptroller.For compensation to the Second Comptroller, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Second Comptroller, including the compensation of two clerks transferred from the office of the Fourth Auditor, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
