United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/5th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 33
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Chap. XXXIII.—An Act to grant an additional compensation, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to certain officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to the secretary of the Senate and to the clerk of the House of Representatives, each two hundred dollars; and that the sum of one hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby allowed to each of the principal and engrossing clerks in the office of the secretary of the Senate and of the clerk of the House of Representatives, and a like sum to the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives,Ante, p. 448. and to each of the doorkeepers and assistant doorkeepers of the two Houses of Congress, in addition to the compensations heretofore established by law, for the said officers, respectively; and that the aforesaid sums be paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1799.