Chapter LXXVI. *making Appropriations to reimburse the contingent Fund of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including Compensation of additional Clerks who may be employed according to the Exigencies of the Public Service, and for temporary Clerks, for the current fiscal Year and for the Year ending Jun
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Chap. LXXVI.— An Act *making Appropriations to reimburse the contingent Fund of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including Compensation of additional Clerks who may be employed according to the Exigencies of the Public Service, and for temporary Clerks, for the current fiscal Year and for the Year ending June thirtieth. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, and to provide for the Employment of additional Clerks in the Office of the Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis.* May 20, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes hereafter expressed, viz: Additional clerks.To reimburse the contingent fund of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, for additional clerks authorized by the act of July twenty-seventh, 1861, ch. 22.*Ante*, p, 276.eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, fitly thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Temporary clerks.For temporary clerks in the Treasury Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one hundred and three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and Classification.he is hereby authorized in his discretion to classify the temporary clerks so authorized according to the character of their services, or assign to such of them as he shall see fit any compensation not exceeding that of clerks of the first class.
Furniture, stationery, &c.For the necessary furniture, stationery, and labor consequent upon the increased clerical force, seven thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Chief clerk and assistant authorized in office of Assistant Treasurer of St. Louis.*And be it further enacted*, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, there shall be employed in the office of the Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis a chief clerk and teller with an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and one assistant clerk Salaries.with an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; and the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury Appropriation.not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries of said chief clerk and assistant clerk for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-three: *Provided*, That the clerks hereby authorized are to be in the place of all other clerical force now authorized by law for said office.
Approved, May 20, 1862.