United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 123
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.