ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
Dec. 18, 1840.[Obsolete.]
Fay to mes-sengers forbringing theelectoral votes.
Statute II.Jan. 14, 1841.
Constructionto be given tothe act of 28thFeb. 1839, ch.25.
OF THE
Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 7th dayof December, 1840, and ended the 3 d day of March, 1841.
Martin Van Buren, President. Richard M. Johnson , Vice Presi-dent of the United States, and President of the Senate . RobertM. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives .
STATUTE II.
Chap. I. —An Act making appropriations, in part, far the support of Governmentfor the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
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, twohundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Re-presentatives , twenty-five thousand dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the Senate , twenty-five thousand dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the House of Representatives , one hundred thousand dol-lars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twelvethousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of anymoney in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment ofthe sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States,as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote ofthe electors of the said States for President and Vice President of theUnited States .
Approved, December 18, 1840.
Chap. II.— An Act supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in
certain cases, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled“An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,” approvedFebruary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be soconstrued as to abolish imprisonment for debt, on process issuing outof any court of the United States , in all cases whatever, where, by thelaws of the State in which the said court shall be held, imprisonmentfor debt has been, or shall hereafter be, abolished.
Approved, January 14, 1841.
(a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to imprisonment for debt, vol. 1, 269.
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