Chapter 6.
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CHAP. 6.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies on account of the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in regard to rebate of tax on tobacco, and to provide for the expenses of the meeting of the Legislature of the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes.Feb. 14, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter stated, namely: Rebate claims on tobacco, snuff, cigars, tec., 22 Stat., 489.For the purpose of paying the rebate claims as provided by section four of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes,” three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Payment of employés in Bureau of Internal Revenue, etc.For the purpose of reimbursing to the appropriation for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the sum of eight thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-two cents, expended by said Bureau in payment of persons employed in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in and about the work of counting, canceling and redeeming internal revenue checks and proprietary stamps, during the mouths of July, August, September, October and November, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for the payment of such persons as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall necessarily employ in his office in and about the work of counting, canceling, and redeeming internal-revenue checks and proprietary stamps, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may *Proviso*.be necessary: *Provided*, That the whole sum appropriated by this paragraph shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars.
New Mexico; payment of legislative expenses of.For the legislative expenses of the Territory of New Mexico, namely: For per diem of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage of members, printing, incidental expenses, including secretary’s office, and eight hundred dollars for translating bills, laws, and journals of the legislative assembly, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and *Proviso*.sixty-five dollars: *Provided*, That the legislative proceedings, records, and laws of said Territory shall be printed in the English language. 3 That the members elected to the Territorial Legislature of New Mexico,Territorial legislature of New Mexico, term of, for 1884 and for 1886. in November anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and all vacancies legally tilled since that time, if any, are hereby declared to be the legal members of the legislature hereby authorized, subject to all valid contests.
The said Territorial Legislature shall convene on the third Monday in February, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and shall not continue in session exceeding forty legislative days. The next Territorial Legislature of New Mexico shall convene in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at such time as may be fixed by the Legislature at the session hereby authorized. Approved, February 14th, 1884.