TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.202. 1842.
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For compensation to a clerk in the office of Superintendent of IndianAffairs at St. Louis , authorized by a previous section of this act, twelvehundred dollars : Provided, That any sum heretofore appropriated fortwo clerks, now dispensed with, be not used or applied.
For compensation to two commissioners to examine claims under thetreaty with the Cherokees of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and payof a secretary, and provisions for Indians during the session of theboard, and for contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dol-lars; and for arrearages of the late board of commissioners under sametreaty, one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
For compensation to two clerks, authorized to be continued by theSecretary of War in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,by joint resolution, approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and forty-two, in addition to former appropriations, fifteen hundred dollars.
Judiciary. —No. 37. For the contingent expenses of the AttorneyGeneral’s office, five hundred dollars.
Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That in case the sum appro-priated for any object shall be found more than sufficient to meet theexpense thereby contemplated, the surplus may be applied, under thedirection of the head of the proper department, to supply the deficiencyof any other item in the same department or office: Provided, Thatthe expenditure for newspapers and periodicals shall not exceed theamount specifically appropriated to that object by this act.
Sf.c. 24. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, andhereby are, appropriated for the objects hereinafter mentioned, viz.
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates fromthe Territories, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that ob-ject during the present session, one hundred and twenty-two thousandsix hundred and thirty dollars.
For stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent ex-penses of the Senate , in addition to the sum already appropriated tothat object during the present session, seven thousand and fifty-eightdollars.
For stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent ex-penses of the House of Representatives , in addition to the sum alreadyappropriated to that object during the present session, twenty-five thou-sand dollars.
Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That it shall not, at any timehereafter, be lawful for any accounting or disbursing officer of the Go-vernment to allow or pay any account or charge whatever, growing outof, or in any way connected with, any commission or inquiry, exceptcourts martial or courts of inquiry in the military or naval service of theUnited States , until special appropriations shall have been made by lawto pay such accounts and charges : Provided, That this shall not extendto the contingent fund connected with the foreign intercourse of theGovernment placed at the disposal of the President of the United States .
Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be ap-propriated from the patent fund, viz :
A sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, for printing a digest ofpatents from January first, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
For the purchase of such scientific books as are necessary for the useof the Patent Office , one thousand dollars.
For the collection of agricultural statistics and for other agriculturalpurposes, one thousand dollars.
Approved, August 26, 1842.
Clerks in officeSuperintendentIndian Affairsat St. Louis .
Commission toexamine claimsunder Cherokeetreaty.
Clerks in officeCommissionerIndian Affairs.
Judiciary.
Attorney Gen-eral’s office.
Surplus for oneobject may beappropriated tosupply a defi-ciency for an-other, exceptnewspapers andperiodicals.
Pay and mile-age.
Expenses ofH. of Reps.
Accounts of nocommissionor inquiry, ex-cept courts mar-tial, &c. to bepaid without aspecial appro-priation.
Proviso.
Appropriationsfrom the patentfund.
Digest of Pa-tents.
Scientific
books.
Agricultural
statistics.
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