Chapter XIX. to fix and regulate the Compensation of Receivers and Registers of the Land-Offices under the Provisions of the Act approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen
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Chap. XIX.— An Act to fix and regulate the Compensation of Receivers and Registers of the Land-Offices under the Provisions of the Act approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen.Feb. 2, 1859.1818, ch. 128. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act entitled “An act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land-offices,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, shallConstruction of act, 1818, ch. 123, vol. iii. p. 466. be so construed by the proper accounting officers of the government as to restrict the aggregate amount allowed as compensation for the registers and receivers commissions on moneys received at any land-office in anyPay not to exceed $2500 per annum. one calendar year, to the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars each; and that the registers and receivers shall not receive for any one quarter or fractional quarter more than a pro rata allowance of said maximum ofAnd pro rata per quarter.When pay to commence. twenty-five hundred dollars.
Their compensation, both for salary and commissions, to commence and be calculated from the time they enter on the discharge of their duties. Approved, February 2, 1859.