and may be improved for that purpose by order of the corporation of the said city.
Approved, April 20, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. CXXIII.—An Act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land offices.
Instead of present compensation, receivers to be paid an annual salary of 500 dolls. each, and commission of one per cent. &c.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law to the receivers of public moneys for the lands of the United States, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on the moneys received, as a compensation for clerk hire, receiving, safe keeping, and transmitting, such moneys to the treasury of the United States: Provided always, That the whole amount which any receiver of public moneys shall receive under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars.
Registers to receive, each, 500 dolls. per annum and commission of one per cent. &c.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law, to the registers of the land offices, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on all the moneys expressed in the receipts by them filed and entered, and of which they shall have transmitted an account to the Secretary of the Treasury; Provided always, That the whole amount which any register of the land offices shall receive, under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars.
Approved, April 20, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. CXXIV.—An Act for transferring the claims in the office of the commissioner to the third auditor of the Treasury Department.
All claims under the act authorizing payment of property lost, &c. not finally acted on &c., transferred to the office of the third auditor.
Act of 1816, ch. 40.
Act of 1817, ch. 110.
The third auditor to be governed by the same rules, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all claims under the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment of property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed on the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act in amendment thereof, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, now remaining in the office of the commissioner of claims, and not acted on finally by said commissioner before the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the office of the third auditor of the Treasury Department; and the said third auditor, in all adjudications upon the claims aforesaid, shall be governed, in all respects, by the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, as have heretofore been prescribed to the commissioner of claims under the above-recited acts.
500 dolls. for performing the duties under this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third auditor aforesaid, for performing the duties hereby required by him, shall be allowed and paid the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 20, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. CXXVI.—An Act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama territory.
