Chapter LXIV. to supply a Deficiency in the Appropriation for Pay and Mileage of Members of Congress for the present Session
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Chap. LXIV.— An Act to supply a Deficiency in the Appropriation for Pay and Mileage of Members of Congress for the present Session.Sept. 20, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of one Mileage and pay. hundred and sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of mileage and per diem of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and delegates in Congress, at the present session: two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars for additional Stationery. expense of stationery for members of the House of Representatives, during the present session: *Provided,* That the mileage of the senators Proviso as to mileage from California and Oregon. and representatives from California, and the delegate from Oregon, be computed according to the most usual travelling route within the limits of the United States; and the per diem of said senators and representatives for this session shall commence from the day on which the Constitution of California was first communicated to the two Houses of Congress, respectively:
And that the sum of fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum Contingent expenses of H. of Representatives. already provided for, in the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives: And that Hugh N. Smith and Almon W. Babbitt, late claimants for Mileage and pay of H. N. Smith and A. W. Babbit, delegates from New Mexico and Utah. seats in the House of Representatives, from New Mexico and Utah, be allowed their per diem of five dollars, from the day of their arrival in Washington, to the day when their claim to a seat was rejected by a vote of the House of Representatives; and, also, the sum of two thousand dollars each for their mileage: *Provided,* That no per diem shall be Proviso. allowed, for any time previous to the commencement of the present session of Congress.
Approved, September 20, 1850.