Chapter CVII. *to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.* July 30, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Po
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Chap. CVII.— An Act *to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.* July 30, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Postmaster Additional clerks authorized in P. O. Department.General be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ in the Post Office Department, a topographer, at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars; and eight additional clerks, whose annual compensation shall be as follows: three clerks at fourteen hundred dollars each, four clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each, and one clerk at one thousand dollars.
Arrears due said clerks to be paid. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the arrears of pay due to said clerks from the first day of January last, at the rates aforesaid, and their regular salaries for the residue of the current year, be regularly paid to them by the proper officer of the Department, and for this purpose the sum of eleven thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Certain temporary clerks in P.
O. Department made permanent. Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 33. Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 169. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That eleven additional clerks heretofore temporarily employed in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under the provisions of the acts of Congress of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be permanently added to the force in that office, at the rates of compensation heretofore allowed for their services respectively, and the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of their salaries for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Approved, July 30, 1842.