Chapter X. making further appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
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Chap. X.— An Act making further appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Oct. 16, 1837. [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 the members of Congress and delegates, two Pay and mileage of members of Congress. hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Expenses of the Senate. Senate, thirty thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Expenses of the House of Representatives. House of Representatives, fifty thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the navy, as enumerated in the act of Expenses of the Navy, act of March 3, 1837, chap. 30. the third of March last, in addition to the amount appropriated by that act, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief and protection of American seamen. ten thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses attending the prosecution of the claim of U. S. claim to the Smithson legacy. the United States to the legacy bequeathed by the late James Smithson, of London, five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Treasurer, five hundred Expenses in the Treasurer’s office. dollars. For preparing, printing, and binding documents ordered by the resolutions Documents ordered by resolutions of the Senate, &c. of the Senate of the second of July, 1836, twenty-fifth of February, 1837, and second of March, 1837, to be disbursed under the direction of the Committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, if the revenue from duties, If the revenue remaining in the hands of the collecting officers be not sufficient at any time to pay debentures, &c. or from the sales of public lands remaining in the hands of the receiving and collecting officers, be not sufficient at any time to pay debentures and other charges which are by existing laws made payable out of the accruing revenue before it is transferred to the credit of the Treasurer, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the said debentures and other charges out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to arrange and settle outstanding drafts given to transfer moneys to the States under act 23d June, 1836, ch. 115, &c. be, and he is hereby authorized, to arrange and settle any of the outstanding transfer drafts given to transfer moneys to the States under the act of twenty-third of June, 1836, and which have not been paid by the depositories upon which they were drawn, or otherwise arranged and settled by the United States, by receiving such drafts at par in payment of any debts due to the United States, without any allowance of interest for the time the drafts have been outstanding and unpaid, or any other allowance for interest or damages of any description.
Approved, October 16, 1837. RESOLUTION. No. 1: directing the postage on letters sent by the Express Mail to be paid in advance. Resolution 1 1837-10-12 5 Stat. 207 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 1 public No. 1. A Resolution directing the postage on letters sent by the Express Mail to be paid in advance.Oct. 12, 1837. [Obsolete.] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Postage on letters sent by the Express Mail to be paid in advance.
States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed to cause the postage on all letters sent by the Express Mail of the United States to be paid in advance at the time of depositing them for transportation by said mail. Approved, October 12, 1837. 25 2 1837 1838 ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the* 4*th* *day of December,* 1837, *and ended July* 7, 1838.
Martin Van Buren, President. Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.
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