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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Ch.99, 100. 1843.

Statute III .March 3, 1843.

LegislativeAssembly au-thorized to pro-vide for theelection or ap-pointment ofcertain officers.

Term of ser-vice of membersof the Legisla-tive Assembly.

Statute III .March 3, 1843.[Obsolete.]

Appropria-

tions.

Congress .

Officers of theSenate and H.of Reps.

Contingent

expenses.

Library ofCongress.

Contingent

expenses.

Purchase ofbooks.

Laying floor.

Sale of old fur-niture.

President ofUnited States .

State Depart-ment .

Secretary, &c.

Chap. XCIX. — An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in theTerritory of Wisconsin .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Assem-bly of the Territory of Wisconsin shall be, and are hereby, authorizedto provide, by law, for the election or appointment of sheriffs, judgesof probate, justices of the peace, and county surveyors, within the saidTerritory, in such way or manner, and at such times and places as tothem may seem proper; and after a law shall have been passed by theLegislative Assembly for that purpose, all elections or appointments ofthe above-named officers, thereafter to be had or made, will be in pur-suance of such law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of both housesof the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, shall,upon the expiration of the terms of service for which the present mem-bers have been elected, be hereafter elected to serve for the same terms ofservice as that for which the members of the Legislative Assembly inIowa are now elected.

Approved, March 3, 1843.

Chap. C .—in Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses

of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen

hundred and forty four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter ex-pressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousandeight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated mo-ney in the treasury, namely :

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the Houseof Representatives and delegates from the Territories, six hundred andthirty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;

For compensation of the officers and clerks of the Senate and Houseof Representatives , thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-sevendollars and fifty cents;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the Senate , sixty thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingentexpenses of the House of Representatives , one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars : Provided, That nothing in any resolution of eitherHouse of Congress shall prevent the settlement and payment of the billsfor the printing of the two Houses of Congress , agreeably to the pricesestablished by the joint resolution of March 3d, 1819;

For compensation of the principal and two assistant librarians, andmessenger of the library of Congress, four thousand five hundred dol-lars ;

For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars;

For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars;

For purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars;

For laying floor of principal library room with hydraulic cement, twohundred and twenty-five dollars; and the librarian is hereby authorizedto sell, at public auction, any portion of the old and useless furnitureof the library rooms, and pay the proceeds thereof into the treasury ofthe United States ;

For compensation of the President of the United States , twenty-fivethousand dollars.

Department of State . —For compensation of the Secretary of State,