Chapter CVI. *to equalize the Compensation of the Surveyors-General of the public Lands of the United States, and for other Purposes.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That, from andCompensation of surveyors-general of
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Chap. CVI.— An Act *to equalize the Compensation of the Surveyors-General of the public Lands of the United States, and for other Purposes.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That, from andCompensation of surveyors-general of Wisconsin and Iowa. after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, the surveyor-general of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the surveyor-general of Arkansas, shall each receive the same annual salary as the other surveyors-general of the public lands of the United States; and each of said surveyors-general shall be allowed the same amount for clerkClerk hire allowed. hire in their respective offices as is now allowed by law for the office of the surveyor-general north-west of the Ohio.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the surveyors-general of the public lands of the United States, in addition to the oath now authorizedDeputies to make oath. by law to be administered to deputies on their appointment to office, shall require each of their deputies, on the return of his surveys, to take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that those sur-80TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 107, 108. 1846.veys have been faithfully and correctly executed, according to law and Penalty for swearing to false surveys.the instructions of the surveyor-general; and, on satisfactory evidence being presented to any court of competent jurisdiction that such surveys, or any part thereof, had not been thus executed, the deputy making such false oath or affirmation shall be deemed guilty of per-jury, and shall suffer all the pains and penalties attached to that of-fence; and the district attorney of the United States for the time being, in whose district any such false, erroneous, or fraudulent surveys shall have been executed, shall, upon the application of the proper surveyor-general, Bond to be sued.Suit to be a lien on property.immediately institute suit upon the bond of such deputy; and the institution of such suit shall act as a lien upon any property owned or held by such deputy, or his sureties, at the time such suit was instituted.
Approved, August 8, 1846.