Chapter XXI. providing for the Payment of the Expenses of Investigating Committees of the House of Representatives
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Chap. XXI.— An Act providing for the Payment of the Expenses of Investigating Committees of the House of Representatives.Feb. 5, 1859.*Post*, p. 438. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of ten thousandAppropriation for expense of investigating committees. dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the expenses of the several investigating committees of the House of Representatives during the present session, and that the same be added to the miscellaneous item of the contingent fund of said House: *Provided,* That no portionProviso. of this sum shall be paid for constructive mileage for summoning witnesses.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That hereafter the mileage or travellingMileage of officer serving precepts. allowance to the officer or other person executing precepts or summons of either house of Congress shall not exceed ten cents for each mile necessarily and actually travelled by such officer or other person in the execution of any such precept or summons. Approved, February 5, 1859.