Chapter 9. Providing for the payment of electoral messengers
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CHAP. 9.— An Act Providing for the payment of electoral messengers. January 11, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Payment of electoral messengers authorized. That for the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for one distance only, the sum of twelve thousand seven hundred dollars be. and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 11, 1901.