Chapter LIV. *supplementary to an act, intituled “An Act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on impost and tonnage.”*(*a*)(*a*) Act of March 2, 1799, chap. 23
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Chap. LIV.— An Act *supplementary to an act, intituled “An Act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on impost and tonnage.”*(*a*)(*a*) Act of March 2, 1799, chap. 23.May 10, 1800. Section 1. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.Allowance to certain collectors. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, there shall be allowed and paid annually, to and for the use of the several collectors and surveyors appointed, and to be appointed pursuant to law, and employed in the collection of the duties of imports and tonnage, in the districts herein after mentioned, in addition to their fees and emoluments otherwise allowed by Jaw, the sums following respectively, that is to say:—To the collectors of Passamaquody, Waldoborough, and St.
Mary’s, two hundred and fifty dollars each; to the collectors of Machias, Great Egg Harbor, Little Egg Harbor, Perth Amboy, Bridgetown, Sunbury, and Georgetown in Maryland, one hundred dollars each; and to the collectors of Sagg Harbor, Brunswick, in Georgia, and Dumfries, fifty dollars each; to the surveyor of Bermuda Hundred, one hundred and fifty dollars; and to the surveyors of Newport, Providence, Port Royal, Alexandria, and Saybrook, one hundred dollars each. Sec. 2. Commissions to certain collectors. *And be it further enacted,* That in lieu of the commissions heretofore allowed by law, there shall, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, be allowed to the collectors for the districts of Alexandria, Petersburg, and Richmond respectively, two and an half per centum, on all monies which shall be collected and received by them; to the collector for the district of Boston and Charlestown, and to the collectors of Baltimore and Philadelphia, three eighths of one per centum; to the collectors of Charleston, South Carolina, Salem and Norfolk and Portsmouth, three quarters of one per centum; to the collector of the district of Portland, one per centum, for and on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels.
Sec. 3. Certain collectors to deposit bonds in bank for collection. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be the duty of the collectors of the several districts of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Norfolk and Charleston, and they are hereby respectively directed to deposit for collection in the Bank of the United States, or at an office of discount and deposit of the said bank, all the bonds taken, or to be taken by them, for duties by virtue of any law of the United States; but on all money collected by the said banks the commissions aforesaid are to be allowed the said collectors in like manner as if received by them.
Approved, May 10, 1800.