Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the District of Columbia , on Monday, the frst dayof December, 1828, and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1829.
John Quincy Adams, President; J. C. Calhoun , Vice President ofthe United States and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith ,President of the Senate , pro tempore ; Andrew Stevenson, Speakerof the House of Representatives .
STATUTE II.
Chap. I.— Jin Act making appropriations for the support of government, for thefirst quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
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 thefirst quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine;that is to say :
For compensation to the senators and members of the House of Rep-resentatives , their officers, and clerks, and for the contingent expensesof both Houses of Congress , four hundred and sixty-five thousand ninehundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary of thelibrarian, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the President of the United States , six thousandtwo hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States , onethousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hun-dred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State , per act oftwentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, three thou-sand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said Department , per act of secondof March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, one thou-sand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in the Department of State , in-cluding the messenger in the patent office, in full of all allowances, threehundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to one machinist in the patent office, per act oftwenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, onehundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department ofState , including the expenses of printing and distributing the laws, andfor extra copying of papers, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-fivedollars.
Jan. 6, 1829.[Obsolete.]Appropria-tion for serviceof first quarter,&c.
Vice President*
Secretary ofState.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Machinist inpatent office.1824, ch. 157.
Contingent
expenses.
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