Chapter I. *making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.* Dec. 22, 1841. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following For Congress.sums be, and
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Chap. I.— An Act *making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.* Dec. 22, 1841. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following For Congress.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, four hundred Pay and mileage.thousand dollars;
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, Officers and clerks.twenty-five thousand dollars; For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent Expenses of Senate.expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars; For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent Expenses of H. of Reps.expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent Proviso.expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them.
Approved, December 22, 1841.