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thiFirst [S?]ession.
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That from and after the thirtieth day of June, (eighteen hundred and forty-(eight) ^nine^, the gross amount of all duties received from customs, from the sales of public lands, and from all miscellaneous sources, for the use of the United States, shall be paid by the office or agent receiving the same, into the treasury of the United States, at as early a day as practicable, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claim of any description whatever: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the existing laws regulating the collection of the revenues of the Post Office Department.

Section 2. And be it further enacted, That so much money as may be necessary for the payment of debentures or drawbacks, bounties and allowances which are, or may be authorized and payable after the day aforesaid be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of that department, according, to the laws authorizing said debentures or drawbacks, bounties and allowances: Provided, That the Collectors of the Customs shall be the disbursing agents

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to pay the aforesaid debentures, drawbacks, bounties and allowances, and that all debenture certificates issued according to law shall be received in payment of duties at the Custom House where the same has been issued, the laws regulating drawbacks, having been complied with.

Section 3. And be it further enacted, That is shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to submit to Congress, at the commencement of the next regular session, estimates of appropriations which may be required to provide for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs and also from the public lands, for the second half of the sext fiscal year, and separate estimates for the said purpose for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty: and similar estimates from year to year thereafter.

Section 4. And be it further enacted, That so much money as may be necessary to pay to expenses of collections referred to in the next preceding section including the first half of the next fiscal year, and until specific appropriations for the objects shall be made by Congress, be and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury to be expended after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-(eight)^nine^, under the direction of the Secretary thereof, conformably to law and regulation: Provided, That the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs shall not thereafter exceed the sum of one million five hundred ^and^

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and sixty thousand dollars per annum, ^together & c^ and in proportion for a less time.