so becoming due, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, until they shall be respectively redeemed:Proviso. Provided, That such interest shall cease at the expiration of sixty days’ notice, to be given at any time, by the Secretary of the Treasury in one or more of the principal papers published at the seat of Government, of a readiness to redeem the same.Interest payable semi-annually. And the said interest shall be payable semi-annually at the Treasury of the United States, on the first days of January and July in every year.
Approved, April 15, 1842.
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Chap. XXIX.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely:
Congress―pay and mileage.No. 1. For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates from the Territories, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, two hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.
Officers of the Senate and House of Reps.No. 2. For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.No. 3. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, thirty-five thousand dollars.
No. 4. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, fifty thousand dollars;Proviso. Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them; nor as payment or compensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them, unless such clerk, messenger, or other attendant, be so employed by a resolution or order of one of said two Houses.
Preparing, &c. documents.No. 6. For preparing, printing, and binding documents ordered by the resolutions of the Senate of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, relating to the establishment of the seat of Government, reports, plans, and surveys, for improvements of harbors and rivers, roads and canals, (to be disbursed under the direction of the committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate; this sum being for printing and engraving done in pursuance of said resolutions prior to July, eighteen hundred and forty),Continuation of work not authorized hereby. twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: but nothing in this appropriation shall authorize the continuance of said work, unless Congress shall hereafter direct the same.
Deficiency in appropriations for contingent expenses of the House.No. 7. For a deficiency in the appropriations for the twenty-sixth Congress, on account of the contingent and incidental expenses of the House, namely: for printing, lithographing, binding, and books, ninety-eight