Chapter I. making an Appropriation for bringing to the Seat of Government the Votes for President and Vice-President of the United States
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Chap. I.— An Act making an Appropriation for bringing to the Seat of Government the Votes for President and Vice-President of the United States. Dec. 16, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for payment of Electoral Messengers. That a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government, the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice-President of the United States.
Approved, December 16, 1852.