United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 57
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Chap. LVII.—An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, and making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, authorized by the act of the tenth of February last, the further sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding five thousand four hundred and one dollars and twenty-seven cents, the balance of a former appropriation to that amount, for that object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.
Approved, April 23, 1808.