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Chap. XXXV.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. 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, one hundred and eleven thousand four hundred and eight dollars;
Officers of the Senate and House of Representatives.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars;
Expenses of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Expenses of the House of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expense of the House of Representatives, fifteen 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. And the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed in the settlement of the accounts of the contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, to credit the payments made in pursuance of the resolutions of the Senate of the eighteenth of July, eighteen hundred and forty, and the resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-first of July,Contracts for article for the next Congress, to an amount exceeding 2000 dollars, not authorized. eighteen hundred and forty: and nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or sanction any contract for stationery or other articles for the use of the next Congress by any officer of the present Congress to an amount exceeding in the whole two thousand dollars;
President.
Vice President, and heads of departments.
Secretary to sign patents for lands.For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars;
For salary of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, per act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, fifteen hundred dollars;
Off. Sec. State.For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars;
For the contingent expenses of the Department of State, including publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Biennial register.For compiling, printing, &c., the Biennial Register, one 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;
For the contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Office Sec. Treasury.
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-third June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled1836, ch. 115. “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 messengers.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 messenger.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;
