the accounts of the assessors shall be certified by, and presented to the commissioners, in the name of the principal assessor of each assessment district, who shall be responsible to the other assessors. How accounts are to be presented.And the accounts of the assessors and commissioners in each state, shall be presented at the treasury, for adjustment, in the name of some one of the commissioners, to be designated for that purpose, by the other commissioners, who shall distribute the sums payable to the principal assessors, aforesaid: Provided,No allowance to be made to assessors until, &c. that no allowance shall be made to the assessors, other than for the expense of books and stationery, until it shall be ascertained and certified to the satisfaction of the commissioners, that the services directed by this act have been performed. Letters, &c. to and from commissioners free, &c.And all letters or packets to or from any commissioner, appointed under this act, shall, within the limits of the state for which such commissioner is appointed, be conveyed by post, free of postage.
Sec. 29.Compensation to surveyors of the revenue. And be it further enacted, That the surveyors of the revenue shall be allowed the following compensations, for services to be performed under this act: For recording each and every transfer of the valuation of every entire tract of land, or dwelling-house, twelve and an half cents: For apportioning each and every valuation of a tract of land, lot or dwelling-house, and recording the same, in consequence of any division or partition thereof, fifty cents for every division of the original tract, lot or dwelling-house: For viewing each and every dwelling-house, in consequence of an application for the reduction of a valuation, and for recording the proceedings thereon, one dollar: For every official certificate, except such as may be required by the treasury department, or the supervisors, inspectors or collectors of the revenue, twenty-five cents. And the compensations aforesaid shall be paid by the party or parties applying for such reduction, record, exoneration, or apportionment.
Sec. 30.Appropriation for the objects of the act. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the valuations and enumerations directed by this act, there be appropriated the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to he paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 9, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. ⅬⅩⅩⅠ.—An Act to regulate and fix the compensations of the officers employed in collecting the internal revenues of the United States, and to insure more effectually the settlement of their accounts.
Section 1.Allowances, in lieu of the former, to supervisors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the compensations now established, there shall, from and after the first day of July, instant, be allowed, for the collection of the internal duties which have heretofore been imposed by law,1791, ch. 15.
1802, ch. 19.
1815, ch. 9. the respective compensations following, to wit:
To the supervisor of the district of Virginia, an annual salary of one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
To the supervisor of the district of Pennsylvania, an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars.
To each of the supervisors of Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina, an annual salary of one thousand dollars.
To each of the supervisors of Connecticut and Ohio, an annual salary of seven hundred dollars.
To each of the supervisors of Rhode Island and New Jersey, an annual salary of six hundred dollars.
To each of the supervisors of New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Tennessee, and Georgia, an annual salary of five hundred dollars.