United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 37

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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Public Acts of the Twenty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, Chapter 37
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March 2, 1839.

Chap. XXXVII.An Act to revise and extend “An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes to meet the current expenses of the Government,” approved the twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.[1]

Act of May 21, 1838, ch. 82.
Sec. Treas. to cause to be issued the remainder of the Treasury notes authorized by act of 21st May 1838, ch. 82.
1837, ch. 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, is hereby authorized to cause to be issued the remainder of the Treasury notes authorized to be issued by the “act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes to meet the current expenses of the Government,” approved the twenty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, according to the provisions of said act, at any time prior to the thirtieth day of June next, any limitation in the act aforesaid or in the act “to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes,” approved the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 2, 1839.


  1. Notes of the acts which have been passed relative to the issuing of Treasury notes, vol. 3, 100.