Public Law 66–26

That for the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of 25 cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States computed for one distance only, there is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $14,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.