EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30,31,32. 1824.
Chap. XXX.— An Act to change the terms of the district court of the UnitedStates for the Kentucky district. («)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the pas-sage of this act, the sessions of the district court of the United States , inand for the Kentucky district,shall commence and be holden on the firstMonday of May and of November, in each year, instead of the termsnow appointed by law.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all motions, process, pleas, andsuits, returnable to the term of said court, heretofore appointed to beholden in April next, shall stand adjourned and continued over to theMay term, next appointed by this act, and shall be as effectual in law asif the said April term had not been abolished.
Approved, March 24, 1824.
Chap. XXXI. —An Act to authorize the employing of certain assistants in thegeneral land office.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ in the general landoffice, for a term not exceeding twelve months, one assistant draughtsmanand two colourers, for the purpose of completing the maps directed tobe made by a resolution of the Senate of the United States , passed onthe twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
Approved, March 24, 1824.
Chap. XXXII.— An Act making appropriations for the support of government forthe year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the service of theyear one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four ; that is to say:
For compensation to the Senators and members of the House ofRepresentatives , their officers, and attendants, including the sum of twohundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars, appro-priated by an act making a partial appropriation for the year one thou-sand eight hundred and twenty-four, passed the nineteenth day of Janu-ary last, four hundred and fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and all other contin-gent expenses of the two Houses of Congress , sixty thousand sevenhundred dollars.
For expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary ofthe librarian, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the President of the United States , twenty-fivethousand dollars.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States , five thou-sand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State , per actof the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
ta) See notes to act of March 1, 1823, ch. 23.
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Statute I.March 24,1824.
Act of March1, 1823, ch. 23.
The sessionsof the districtcourt of Ken-tucky , to beheld on the firstMondays ofMay and No-vember.
Motions, &c.to stand ad-journed.
Statute I.March 24,1824.
One draughts-man and twocolourers to beappointed inthe general landoffice for oneyear.
Statute I.
April 2, 1824.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appro-priated for theservice of theyear 1824.
1823, ch. 3.