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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 54. 1838.

All causestransferredfrom said dist.courts to circuitcourt at Lewis-burg, removedback, &c.

Appellate ju-risdiction fromsaid dist. courtsto be exercisedby circuit courtat Lewisburg.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all causes transferred byauthority of said act from the said district courts to the circuit court,directed by law to be held in the town of Lewisburg, in the State ofVirginia , and which remain undetermined, be removed back to thedistrict courts from whence they were transferred, to be there finallydetermined.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That appellate jurisdiction fromthe judgments or decrees of the said district courts of the western dis-trict of Virginia , as now authorized by law, shall be exercised by thesaid circuit court at Lewisburg.

Approved, March 28, 1838.

Statute II.April 6, 1838.

[Obsolete.]

Pay and mile-age of membersof Congress .

Pay ot officers,&c., of Con-gress .

Contingentexp. of Senate .

Contingentexpenses of Ho.Reps.

Two last sumsapplicable onlyto ordinary exp.

President,Vice President,and heads of de-partments.

Secretary tosign patents forlands. 1833, ch.91.

Off. Sec. Stale,clerks, &c.

Contingent

expenses.

Supdt. andwatchman.

Contingent

expenses.

Off.Sec.Treas.clerks, &c.

Additionalclerks, 1836,ch. 115.

1st Comptrol-ler.

Clerks andmessengers.

2d Comptrol-ler.

Clerks andmessenger.

Chap. L1V.— Jin Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expensesof Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of anyunappropriated money in the treasury, viz :

For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates,five hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars;

For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Repre-sentatives , forty thousand four hundred dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses ofthe Senate , fifty thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses ofthe House of Representatives , two hundred and twenty-five thousanddollars ;

The two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment of theordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives ,severally, and to no other purpose.

For compensation to the President and Vice President of the UnitedStates , the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Sec-retary of War, the Secretary of the Navy , and the Postmaster General,sixty thousand dollars;

For salary of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, per actof March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand fivehundred dollars;

For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State,twenty thousand three hundred dollars;

For the contingent expenses of the Department of State , includingpublishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars ;

For the superintendent and watchman of the northeast executivebuilding, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil,and repairs, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of theSecretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand four hundred and fiftydollars ;

For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twenty-thirdof Jane, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, three thousand six hundreddollars;

For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, threethousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of theFirst Comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars;

For compensation to the Second Comptroller, three thousand dol-lars ;

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the