United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1
[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations for the present session of Congress.
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:
Senate―pay and mileage.For the pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the present session, sixty-eight thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty cents;
Chaplain.For the pay of the Chaplain of the Senate, five hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For printing, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate for the present session, twenty thousand dollars;
House of Representatives―pay and mileage.
Chaplain.For the pay and mileage of the members of the House of Representatives, including five hundred dollars to the Chaplain, for the present session of Congress, two hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For the printing, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the present session, thirty thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Stationery for 2d session 27th Congress.
Contingent expenses of Congress, how to be applied.For the supply of stationery for the House of Representatives for the second session of the twenty-seventh Congress, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, always, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures for the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them.
Approved, June 25, 1841.