# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 259

Chap. CCLIX.—An Act to provide for the settlement of certain accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Accounts of the Legislative Assembly to be settled. No extra compensation to any member, except the presiding officer, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be directed to audit and settle the accounts for the expenses of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, including the printing of the laws and other incidental expenses which have not heretofore been closed and settled at the Treasury Department; but no allowance shall be made for extra compensation to any member of the Legislative Assembly of said ​Territory for extra services, except to the presiding officers of the two Houses of said Assembly, nor for extra compensation to the Secretary of said Territory, nor to the Clerk of either House of said Legislative Assembly for the performance of duties required by law, nor for any other purpose not authorized by the eleventh section of the act of Congress, approved April twenty, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled1836, ch. 54. “An act establishing the Territorial Government of Wisconsin;” and the incidental expenses therein authorized shall be construed to be the ordinary and necessary expenses of the sessions of said Legislative Assembly, and no other.
Accounts of territories to be adjusted at the Treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all accounts for disbursements in the Territories of the United States, of money appropriated by Congress for the support of Government therein, shall be settled and adjusted at the Treasury Department; and no act, resolution, or order, of the Legislature of any Territory, directing the expenditure of the sum, shall be deemed a sufficient authority for such disbursement, but sufficient vouchers and proof for the same shall be required by said accounting officers.No payment to be made, unless approved by Congress. What officers allowed, and their pay. And no payment shall be made or allowed, unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall have estimated therefor, and the object been approved by Congress. No session of the Legislature of a Territory shall be held until the appropriation for its expenses shall have been made. In the adjustment of said accounts, no charge for the services of a greater number of officers and attendants shall be allowed than for one secretary and assistant secretary, or clerk, one sergeant-at-arms, or doorkeeper, one messenger, and one foreman for each House of the Legislature, to neither of whom shall a greater compensation than three dollars per day be paid.Secretaries of territories to prepare the acts for publication. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of each Territory to prepare the acts passed by the Legislature for publication, and to furnish a copy thereof to the public printer of the Territory within ten days after the passage of each act.
Amount found due to be paid.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whatever sum of money shall be found due, upon such auditing and settlement, beyond the amount of former appropriations, whether the same have been expended or not, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Accounts of the Legislative Assembly of Florida to be settled in the same manner, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said accounting officers of the Treasury be directed to audit and settle the accounts for expenses of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Florida, not heretofore audited and settled, in the same manner and upon the same principles herein prescribed for the settlement of the accounts of the Territory of Wisconsin; and whatever sum of money shall be found due, upon such auditing, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 29, 1842.