United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 58
Chap. LVIII.—An act relative to the compensations of certain officers of the customs, and to provide for appointing a surveyor in the district therein mentioned.
Salaries of certain officers of the customs augmented.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the last day of June, in the present year, the salaries heretofore allowed by law, to the several collectors of the customs, for the districts of Bath, Portsmouth, Newport, Middletown, New Haven, Delaware, Richmond, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern, and Edenton, shall cease and be discontinued. And there shall be allowed and paid, annually, to the officers of the customs hereafter named, the following sums respectively, viz:
Allowance to the collector of Natchez, and to the surveyors of New London, Middletown, New Haven and Alexandria.To the collector for the district of Natchez, in addition to the fees and other emoluments of office, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; and to each of the surveyors at New London, Middletown, New Haven and Alexandria, in addition to the allowances already established by law, the sum of fifty dollars.
To the collectors of Wilmington and Newbern, in North Carolina.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June, in lieu of the commissions heretofore allowed by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the customs for Wilmington, in North Carolina, and Newbern, two and a half per cent.
Petersburg and Richmond.To the collectors for Petersburg and Richmond, two per cent.
Kennebunk and New London.To the collectors for Kennebunk and New London, one and three quarters per cent.
Bath.To the collector for Bath, one and an half per cent.
New Haven and Middletown.To the collectors for New Haven and Middletown, one and three eighths per cent.
Providence and Alexandria.To the collectors for Providence and Alexandria, one and one quarter per cent.
Newburyport.To the collector for Newburyport, one and one eighth per cent.
Portland.To the collector for Portland, three quarters of one per cent.
And to the collectors for Salem and Beverly, five eighths of one per cent. on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, on the tonnage of ships and vessels.
Surveyor to be appointed for Marblehead.
Allowance to him.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed a surveyor for the district of Marblehead, to reside at Marblehead; who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars, annually.
Approved, March 27, 1804.