Chapter CLIII. to compensate receivers of public moneys for transporting and depositing the same
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Chap. CLIII.— An Act to compensate receivers of public moneys for transporting and depositing the same. May 22, 1826. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Compensation to the receivers of public money, in the several land offices, for transporting and depositing moneys. That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to allow to the several receivers of public moneys, in the several land offices, a reasonable compensation for transporting to, and depositing such moneys in, any bank or other place of deposit, that may, from time to time, be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose, which compensation shall be regulated according to the actual labour, expense, and risk, of such transportation and deposit, to the place of deposit, and returning therefrom.(*a*)(*a*) The felonious taking and carrying away the public moneys in the custody of a receiver of public money, without any fault or negligence on his part, does not discharge him and his securities, and cannot be set up as a defence to an action on his official bond.
The United States *v*. Prescott, 3 Howard, 578. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That it shall be lawful for the SecretaryA like compensation to be made to them for similar services performed by them since the act of 30th of April, 1818, ch. 123. of the Treasury, in his discretion, to make a like compensation to the several receivers of public moneys for similar services by them performed since the reduction of their compensation by the act of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Approved, May 22, 1826.