Chapter 236. to provide for the payment of the salaries and compensation of members of the houses of Congress and their officers and employees in certain contingencies
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CHAP. 236.— An Act to provide for the payment of the salaries and compensation of members of the houses of Congress and their officers and employees in certain contingencies.June 22, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Disbursment of Congressional pay-in certain contingencies. That whenever any appropriation made for the payment of the salaries of Senators, Members, and Delegates in Congress, or the officers and employees of both or either of the houses thereof, or for the expenses of the same, or any committees thereof, cannot be lawfully disbursed by or through the officers specially charged with such disbursements, such disbursements may be made for the purposes named in said appropriations by the Treasurer of the United States, who shall take proper vouchers therefor and charge such disbursements against such appropriations; and the accounts therefor shall be audited and passed or rejected, as the law may require, in the same manner that similar accounts are or may be required by law to be audited and passed or rejected.
Approved, June 22, 1882.