Chapter I. making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine
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Chap. I.— An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Dec. 22, 1838.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Appropriations.sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: Pay and mileage of members of Congress.For pay and mileage of members of Congress and Delegates, three hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars;
Pay of officers of Congress.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, forty-three thousand four hundred dollars; Cont. exp. of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars; Cont. exp. of House of Representatives.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. The said two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose.
Approved, December 22, 1838.