United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act allowing additional salary and clerk hire to the surveyor for the Illinois and Missouri territories, and for other purposes.
Surveyor of lands in Illinois and Missouri allowed two thousand dollars per annum, in lieu, &c.
Three clerks, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, shall hereafter be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation now fixed by law, and shall allow be allowed three clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum.
Accounting officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of William Rector, and allow him the fees specified, in addition to salary.
Proviso; no allowance where he has received similar fees from individuals.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of William Rector, for his services as principal deputy surveyor, and surveyor of the Illinois and Missouri territories, and to allow him, in addition to his salary as fixed by law, the following fees, that is to say: for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of his deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of the surveys executed under his direction in the offices aforesaid: Provided, The allowance shall not be made on surveys of private claims in any case where he has received, or is entitled to receive, similar fees from individuals.
Approved, April 3, 1818.