Chapter CXXIII. *to supply a Deficiency in the Appropriation for Compensation and Mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, in the Year eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXXIII.— An Act *to supply a Deficiency in the Appropriation for Compensation and Mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, in the Year eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*. June 6, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency appropriation for year ending June 30, 1870.Compensation and mileage of members and delegates.
That the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, to supply deficiency of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. Sec. 2. Collection of revenue from customs.*And be it further enacted*, That the sum of one million four hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy; and that the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated for the payment of fees to special counsel in such cases wherein Special counsel.the United States are parties in interest, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem it necessary and proper to employ the same, to be disbursed under his direction.
Approved, June 6, 1870.