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or assessed upon the vessels or cargoes, being the produce of suchfishery, because of a supposed insufficiency of a register to exempt themfrom such claims, are hereby remitted; and all bonds given for suchcause are hereby cancelled, and the Secretary of the Treasury is herebyrequired to refund all such moneys as have been, or which may be,paid into the Treasury, to the rightful claimants, out of the revenues inhis hands.

Approved, April 4, 1840.

Chap. XXII. — Jin Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expensesof the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.

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, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappro-priated money in the Treasury, viz :

For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates,two hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty-fourdollars;

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

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of theSenate , fifty thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of theHouse of Representatives , one hundred thousand dollars;

The two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment of the or-dinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives , sever-ally, 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 Secre-tary 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 watchmen 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 fifty dol-lars ;

For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-third June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “ An act to regu-late the deposites of the public money,” three thousand six hundreddollars ;

! For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three1 thousand 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 dollars;

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of theSecond Comptroller, including the compensation of two clerks trans-ferred from the office of the Fourth Auditor, twelve thousand two hun-dred and fifty dollars;

Statute I.May 6, 1840.[Obsolete.]

Members ofCongress .

Officers of theSenate andHouse of Reps .Expenses ofSenate .

Expenses ofHouse of Reps .

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

Secretary tosign patents forlands.

1833, ch. 91.

Off. Sec.State.

Clerks andmessengers.

Com. exp. ofdepartment.

Superint’t andwatchman N.E.Ex. building.

Contingent ex-penses of saidbuilding.

Office Sec.Treasury.

Clerks andmessengers.

Clerks per act23d June 1836,ch. 115.

First Comp-troller.

Clerks andmessengers.

Second Comp-troller.

Clerks andmessengers.