ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
Dec. 22, 1838.[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
Statute III.
Jan. 11, 1839.
Act of May 18,1842, ch. 29.
Commissionerand surveyor,how appointed.
A clerk to beappointed in thesame manner.
OF THE
Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 3 d dayof December, 1838, and ended the 3 d day of March, 1839.
Martin Van Buren, President. Richard M. Johnson , Vice Presi-dent of the United States, and President of the Senate. James K.Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives .
STATUTE III.
Chap. I .—Jin Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government,for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
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 members of Congress and Delegates, threehundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars;
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Repre-sentatives , forty-three thousand four hundred dollars;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the Senate , thirty-five thousand dollars;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the House of Representatives , one hundred thousand dol-lars.
The said two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment ofthe ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives severally, and to no other purpose.
Approved, December 22, 1838.
Chap. II .—An Act to provide for carrying into effect the convention between theUnited States of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundarybetween them, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the commis-sioner and surveyor to be appointed on the part of the United States ,according to the first article of the convention between the United Statesof America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary be-tween them, concluded April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be severally appointed by the President of the United States , byand with the consent of the Senate , together with a clerk to the saidcommissioner, to be appointed in the same manner; and that for thepurpose of carrying into effect the said first article of said convention,
(a) An act for the relief of persons residing within the reputed limits of the States of Arkansas orLouisiana, and beyond the boundary line between the United States and the republic of Texas, as estab-lished by the commissioners appointed to ascertain the same; June 15, 1844, chap. 75.
A joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States , March 1, 1845.
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