ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 7th day of December, 1840, and ended the 3d day of March, 1841.
Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
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, two hundred and fifty 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 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.
Pay to messengers for bringing the electoral votes.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice President of the United States.
Approved, December 18, 1840.
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Chap. II.—An Act supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Construction to be given to the act of 28th Feb. 1839, ch. 35. That the act entitled “An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,” approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so construed as to abolish imprisonment for debt, on process issuing out of any court in the United States, in all cases whatever, where, by the laws of the State in which the said court shall be held, imprisonment for debt has been, or shall hereafter be, abolished.
Approved, January 14, 1841.
