United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 52
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Chap. ⅬⅡ.—An Act to regulate the Compensation of Clerks.
Compensations of clerks in the departments may be varied for the present year.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the department of State and the Secretary of the department of War, be authorized to vary, for the present year, the compensations heretofore established for clerks in their respective departments, in such manner as the services to be performed shall in their judgment require; so however that no principal clerk shall receiveIncrease of compensation to one of the clerks of the director of the mint.
1796, ch. 40. more than at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, and that the aggregate of the compensations for clerks in either of the said departments shall not for the said year exceed the aggregate of the compensations allowed for clerks in the same department for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that an additional compensation not exceeding the rate of two hundred dollars per annum be allowed for one clerk employed by the director of the mint during the present year.
Clerk hire of the commissioners of loans, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be allowed for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to the commissioners of loans in the states of Massachusetts and New York respectively not exceeding five clerks at the rate of five hundred dollars each; to the commissioner of loans in the state of Connecticut not exceeding two clerks at the rate of four hundred dollars each; and to the commissioner of loans in the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina respectively not exceeding two clerks at the rate of five hundred dollars each. The aggregate of the compensations for clerks employed by either of the said commissioners to be apportioned among them at his discretion. That there be allowed for the year aforesaid in lieu of clerk hire to the commissioner of loans in the state of New Hampshire three hundred and fifty dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of Rhode Island four hundred dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of New Jersey three hundred dollars; and to the commissioner of loans in the state of Maryland two hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1795.