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ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the 3d day of December, 1838, and ended the 3d day of March, 1839.

Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE ⅠⅠⅠ.

Dec. 22, 1838.
[Obsolete.]

Chapter I.An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:

Pay and mileage of members of Congress.For pay and mileage of members of Congress and Delegates, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars nine hundred and forty-four dollars;

Pay of officers of Congress.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, forty-three thousand four hundred dollars;

Cont. exp. of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars;

Cont. exp. of House of Representatives.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars.

The said two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose.

Approved, October 2, 1837.

Statute Ⅰ.



Jan. 11, 1839.

Chap. II.An Act to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas marking the boundary between them.[1]

Act of May 18, 1842, ch. 29.
Commissioner and surveyor how appointed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner and surveyor to be appointed on the part of the United States, according to the first article of the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them, concluded April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be severally appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate, together with a clerk to the said commissioner, to be appointed in the same manner;A clerk to be appointed in the same manner. and that for the purpose of carrying into effect the said first article of said convention

  1. An act for the relief of persons residing within the reputed limits of the States of Arkansas or Louisiana, and beyond the boundary line between the United States and the republic of Texas, as established by the commissioners appointed to ascertain the same; June 15, 1844, chap. 75.

    A joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845.