United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 98
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Chap. XCVIII.—An Act to secure the payment of certain commissions on duty bonds to collectors of customs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Commissions to collectors on bonds postponed by act of Oct. 16, 1837, ch. 8. That, on all bonds for duties, taken by any collector of the customs, the payment whereof has been at any time postponed by virtue of “An act authorizing a further postponement of payment upon duty bonds,” passed on the sixteenth day of October last, the collectors who took said bonds, respectively, or their legal representatives, shall be allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and entitled to receive, the same commissions, whenever and as fast as the sums secured by such bonds shall be paid into the Treasury, as they would respectively have been entitled to be allowed and receive had the said bonds been paid at maturity and without such postponement; and no part of such commissions shall be claimed by or allowed to the successor in office of any such collector, in any case in which such successor would not have been entitled by law to a portion thereof, if such postponement of the payment of said bonds had not taken place:Proviso. Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to give to any collector of the customs, or to the representatives of any such collector, a sum greater than the compensation he would have been entitled to receive in case the law therein referred to, for the suspension of payment upon revenue bonds, had not been passed, and the said commissions had been paid to the collector, to whom the same are hereby given, during his continuance in office, and at the first maturity of the said bonds.
Approved, June 12, 1838.