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Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 7th day of December, 1840, and ended the 3d day of March, 1841.

, President;, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; , Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:

For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars.

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

. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice President of the United States.

, December 18, 1840.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “,” approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so construed as to abolish imprisonment for debt, on process issuing out of any court in the United States, in all cases whatever, where, by the laws of the State in which the said court shall be held, imprisonment for debt has been, or shall hereafter be, abolished.

, January 14, 1841.