Chapter CLXVI. *to increase the Compensation of the Registers of Land-Offices and Receivers of public Moneys under the Act entitled an Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted
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Chap. CLXVI.— An Act *to increase the Compensation of the Registers of Land-Offices and Receivers of public Moneys under the Act entitled an Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That each register of a land Compensation of registers and receivers for entries under the Graduation Act of 1854, ch. 244.office and receiver of public moneys shall receive the same amount of pay for each and every entry of land made under the act entitled “An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,” as such officer is by law entitled to receive for similar entries of land at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: *Provided,* That the whole amount received per year shall in no case exceed the limitation fixed by existing laws.
Approved, March 3, 1855.