Chapter I. making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty
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Chap. I.— An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty. Jan. 8, 1840.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, fourMembers of Congress. hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives,Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps.Expenses of Senate. twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentExpenses of H. of Reps. expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. For arrears of printing, lithographing, and engraving, ordered by theArrears for printing, &c.
House of Representatives during the third session of the twenty-fifth Congress, and for the payment of which that Congress did not make the necessary appropriations, a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars. Approved, January 8, 1840.