United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 95
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XCV.—An Act to increase the compensation now allowed by law to inspectors, measures, weighers and gaugers, employed in the collection of the customs.[1]
Increase of inspectors’ compensation.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an addition of fifty per cent. upon the sums allowed as compensation to inspectors, or persons acting as occasional inspectors, employed in aid of the customs, and to the measurers, weighers or gaugers, by the act, entitled “An act to establish the compensations of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on imposts and tonnage, and for other purposes,” passed on the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby allowed, to the said inspectors, measurers, weighers, or gaugers, to be ascertained, certified and paid, under the regulations prescribed in the above-mentioned act.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
- ↑ The act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23, amended by the act of April 26, 1816, ch. 95, authorizing the collector to pay the fees due to the officers of the customs, out of the revenue of the United States. Held, 1. That this act creates no lien or specific claim on moneys in the hands of the collector arising from the revenue. 2. That an ex-collector, who is not in office, cannot lawfully appropriate the moneys of the United States in his hands to such a payment, for the act is an official act, and the authority can be exercised only by the collector actually in office. Champney v. Bancroft, 1 Story’s C. C. R. 423.