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Certain provi-so in part re-pealed.

Statute I.April 23, 1830.

Secretary ofState authorizedto employ cer-tain clerks, &c.

All formeracts, inconsist-ent, &c. repeal-ed.

Statute I.April 24, 1830.

Secretary ofTreasury au-thorized, undercertain circum-stances, toappropriatemore than$ 10 , 000 , 000 ,annually, to thesinking fund.

Comm’rs sink-ing fund autho-rized to applyany surplus ofthat fund to theextinguishmentof the publicdebt.

TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS, Sess. I. Ch. 74, 78. 1830.

thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and no patent shall issue in con-sequence of any warrant obtained after that time. And that the secondproviso, inserted in the first section of the above recited act, except onlythat part thereof which requires “a certificate of the register of the landoffice of Virginia, that no warrant has issued from the said land office forthe same services,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, April 23, 1830.

Chap. LXXIV. — Jin Act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in theDepartment of State .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Statebe, and he is hereby, authorized to employ one chief clerk, whose com-pensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum; one clerk,whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand six hundred dollarsper annum; one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thou-sand five hundred dollars per annum; six clerks, whose compensationshall not exceed one thousand four hundred dollars, each, per annum;one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand one hundred andfifty dollars per annum; one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed onethousand dollars, to be charged with the duty of translating foreign lan-guages, in addition to other duties; one clerk, whose salary shall notexceed one thousand dollars per annum, one clerk, whose salary shall notexceed nine hundred dollars per annum; one clerk whose compensationshall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum; one superintendent inthe patent office, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand five hun-dred dollars per annum; two clerks in the patent office, whose compen-sation shall not exceed one thousand dollars, each, per annum; one clerk,whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts,inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby,repealed.

Approved, April 23, 1830.

Chap. LXXV1II. — Jin Act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund toredeem the public debt of the United States , (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever in the opinionof the Secretary of the Treasury, the state of the treasury will admitof the application of a greater sum than ten millions of dollars in anyone year, to the payment of interest and charges, and to the reimburse-ment or purchase of the principal of the public debt, it shall be lawfulfor him, with the approbation of the President of the United States , tocause such surplus to be placed at the disposal of the commissioners ofthe sinking fund, and the same shall be applied by them to the reim-bursement or purchase of the principal of the public debt, at such timesas the state of the treasury will best admit.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever, in any year, thereshall be a surplus in the sinking fund beyond the amount of interest andprincipal of the debt which may be actually due and payable by the UnitedStates in such year, in conformity with their engagements, it shall belawful for the commissioners of the sinking fund to apply such surplusto the purchase of any portion of the public debt, at such rates as, in

tfi) See notes of acts relating to the redemption of the public debt, vol. ii. p. 415.