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so becoming due, at the rate of six per cent, per annum, bntil theyshall be respectively redeemed: Provided, That such interest shallcease at the expiration of sixty days’ notice, to be given at any time, bythe Secretary of the Treasury in one or more of the principal paperspublished at the seat of Government, of a readiness to redeem the same.And the said interest shall be payable semi-annually at the Treasury ofthe United States , on the first days of January and July in every year.
Approved, April 15, 1S42.
Proviso.
Interest paya-ble semi-annu-ally.
Chap. XXIX .—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic ex-penses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and are hereby, appropriated to the objects hereinafter ex-pressed, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury ,namely:
No. 1. For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and dele-gates from the Territories, in addition to the sum already appropriatedto that object during the present session, two hundred seventy-threethousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.
No. 2. For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and Houseof Representatives , in addition to the sum already appropriated to thatobject during the present session, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
No. 3. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and con-tingent expenses of the Senate , in addition to the sum already appro-priated to that object during the present session, thirty-five thousanddollars.
No. 4. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and con-tingent expenses of the House of Representatives , in addition to thesum already appropriated to that object during the present session, fiftythousand dollars : Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated forthe contingent expenses of either House of Congress shall be applied to-any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House ofRepresentatives , nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger or otherattendant of the said two Houses, or either of them; nor as payment orcompensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the saidtwo Houses, or either of them, unless such clerk, messenger, or otherattendant, be so employed by a resolution or order of one of saidHouses.
No. 5. For printing and binding ordered by the Senate during thetwenty-sixth Congress , and remaining unpaid, twenty-seven thousandtwo hundred eighty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents, or so much there-of as may be found due on auditing the account by the proper com-mittee.
No. 6. For preparing, printing, and binding documents ordered bythe resolutions of the Senate of second July, eighteen hundred andthirty-six, and March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, rela-ting to the establishment of the seat of Government, reports, plans, andsurveys, for improvements of harbors and rivers, roads and canals, (tobe disbursed under the direction of the committee to audit and controlthe contingent expenses of the Senate ; this sum being for printing andengraving done in pursuance of said resolutions prior to July, eighteenhundred and forty), twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: butnothing in this appropriation shall authorize the continuance of saidwork, unless Congress shall hereafter direct the same.
No. 7. For a deficiency in the appropriations for the twenty-sixth Con-gress , on account of the contingent and incidental expenses of theHouse , namely: for printing, lithographing, binding, and books, ninety-
Statdte II.May 18, 1842.[Obsolete.]
Proviso.