dred and thirty, and the act entitled “An act to extend the time for issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,” approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled “An act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants,” approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided for in said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers, soldiers and others therein described; and the certificates of scrip, issued pursuant to said acts shall be receivable in payment for any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry:Proviso. Provided, That no scrip shall be issued until the first day of September next, and warrants shall be received in the general land office until that day and immediately thereafter, if the amount filed exceed six hundred and fifty thousand acres, the commissioner of the general land office shall apportion the said six hundred and fifty thousand acres of land among the warrants which may be then on file, in full satisfaction thereof.
Second section of the act making appropriations for 1834, ch. 92, repealed, and Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain amounts to officers of the custom.
1832, ch. 227.
Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the second section of the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, is hereby repealed, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers of the several ports of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, respectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, according to the importations of that year, as they would have been entitled to receive, if the act of the fourteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, had not gone into effect: Provided, That no officer shall receive under this act a greater annual salary or compensation than was paid to such officer for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and that in no case, shall the compensation of any other officers than collectors, appraisers and surveyors, whether by salaries, fees, or otherwise, exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each per annum; nor shall the union of any two or more of these offices in one person entitle him to receive more than that sum per annum:Proviso. Provided, That the whole number of the custom-house officers in the United States on the first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall not be increased until otherwise allowed by Congress:Proviso. Provided, further, That the said collectors, naval officers and surveyors shall render an account, quarterly, to the treasury, and the other officers herein named or referred to, shall render an account, quarterly, to the respective collectors of the customs, where they are employed, to be forwarded to the treasury, of all the fees and emoluments whatever by them respectively received; and of all expenses incident to their respective offices; which accounts shall be rendered on oath or affirmation, and shall be in such form, and be supported by such proofs, to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, as will, in his judgment, best enforce the provisions of this section, and show its operation and effect:Proviso. Provided also, That any salary or compensation due for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall not be affected by this section.
Payments not to be made in bank notes below par at place of payment.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no payment of the money appropriated by this act, or any other act passed at the present session of Congress, shall be made in the note or notes of any bank which shall not be at par value at the place where such payment may be made: Provided, that nothing here contained shall be construed to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of any debt due from the United States to individuals.
Approved, March 3, 1835.
