Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅸ.—An Act relative to the Compensations and Duties of certain Officers employed in the collection of impost and tonnage.
Compensation to officers of the revenue.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the commissions heretofore established by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the duties of impost and tonnage, on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties aforesaid,1799, ch. 22. arising on tonnage, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported after the last day of March in the present year, as follows, to wit:
Compensation to collectors.To each of the collectors of the districts of Pennsylvania and New York, one quarter per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Boston and Charlestown, and of Baltimore, one half per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Charleston, Salem, and of Norfolk and Portsmouth, seven eighths of one per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Alexandria, and Savannah, one per cent.
To the collector of the district of Newburyport, one and one fourth per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Portland, Newport, Providence and New Haven, one and one half per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Georgetown, (in Maryland) and Marblehead, two and one half per cent.
To each of the collectors of the districts of New London, Biddeford, Bath and Wiscasset, two per cent.
And to each of the collectors of the districts of Tappahannock, Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Ipswich, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgartown, New Bedford, Dighton, York, Penobscot, Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Passamaquoddy, Waldoborough, Middletown, Fairfield, Sagg Harbor, Hudson, Perth Amboy, Burlington, Bridgetown, Little Egg Harbor, Wilmington (in Delaware,) Havre-de-Grace, Chester, Oxford, Vienna, Snowhill, Annapolis, Nottingham, Nanjemoy, Bermuda Hundred, Hampton, Yorktown, Yeocomico, Dumfries, Foley Landing, Cherrystone, Southquay, Kentucky, Wilmington, (North Carolina,) Newbern, Washington, Edenton, Camden, Georgetown, (South Carolina,) Beaufort, Sundbury, Brunswick, St. Mary’s, Hardwick, and Tennessee, three per cent.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March, in the present year, in lieu of the yearly allowances heretofore established by law, there shall be yearly allowed to the following officers, the sums following, to wit:
To each of the collectors of the districts of Annapolis, Havre-de-Grace, Gloucester, Southquay, Yeocomico, Tappahannock, Newbern, Edenton, Camden, Wilmington, (North Carolina,) Nanjemoy, Ipswich, York, Washington, Passamaquoddy, Saint Mary’s, Vermont, Champlain, and Bermuda Hundred, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Oxford, Vienna, Chester, Sagg Harbor, Nottingham, Hampton, Yorktown, Dumfries, Foley Landing, Cherrystone, Beaufort, Brunswick and Hardwick, the sum of two hundred dollars.
To each of the collectors of the districts of Perth Amboy, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Hudson, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgartown, New Bedford, Dighton, Penobscot, Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Newport, Middletown, Fairfield, Burlington, Bridgetown, Great Egg Harbor, Little Egg Harbor, Wilmington, (in Delaware,) Snowhill, Georgetown, (in South Carolina,) Sunbury, Tennessee, Marblehead, New Haven, and Georgetown, (in Maryland,) the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.