United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 16

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Resolution No. 16
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June 15, 1844.

No. 16. A Joint Resolution authorizing the transfer of certain clerks in the Treasury Department.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. of Treas. may transfer three clerks to arrange statistical information, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized to transfer from any office or offices of the Treasury Department from which their services may, in his opinion, be dispensed with, three or more clerks to be employed under his direction in collecting, arranging and classifying such statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show each year the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency and banks of the several States and Territories of the United States.Clerks to receive same pay as before. The clerks which may be transferred and employed under this authority shall receive the same salaries as at present―and a report containing the results of the information obtained upon the before mentioned subjects, shall be annually made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January.

Approved, June 15, 1844.