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of the several ports, shall be paid for the year one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-three, as if they had been specifically included in thethird section of the act of the second of March, of said year, entitled“ An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses ofgovernment, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three Provided,however, that in no case shall the compensation of any other officersthan collectors, naval officers and surveyors, whether by salaries, fees, orotherwise, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars each per annum; norshall the union of any two or more of these officers in one person entitlehitn to receive more than the sum of two thousand five hundred dollarsper annum; and provided, also, that no officer shall receive under thisact a greater annual salary or compensation than was paid to such officerfor the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, provided, however,that the number of officers to be employed in any of the custom-housesshall not be augmented beyond those now in service; and providedfurther, that the said collectors, naval officers and surveyors shall renderan account quarterly to the treasury, and the other officers herein namedor referred to shall render an account quarterly to the respective collec-tors of the customs where they are employed, to be forwarded to thetreasury, of all the fees and emoluments whatever by them respectivelyreceived, and of all expenses incident to their respective offices, whichaccounts shall be rendered on oath or affirmation, and shall be in suchform, and be supported by such proofs, to be prescribed by the Secretaryof the Treasury, as will in his judgment best enforce the provisions ofthis section, and show its operation and effect.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no payment of the money,appropriated by this act, or any other act passed at the present session ofCongress , shall be made in the note or notes of any bank which shallnot be at par value at the place where such payment may be made, pro-vided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to make any thingbut gold and silver a tender in payment, of any debt due from the UnitedStates to individuals.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, directed to pay, out of the fund appropriated by lawfor the pay of members of Congress , to Elisha R. Potter, of the state ofRhode Island , such compensation as is allowed by law to members ofCongress , for his travel from his place of residence to the city of Wash-ington, to claim a seat in the Senate , and for his return and also the perdiem compensation for the days he was in actual attendance at the seatof government from the commencement of the present session of Con-gress, until the final decision by the Senate against his right to the seatso claimed by him.

Approved, June 27, 1834.

Chap. XCV".— An Act concerning the gold coins of the United States , and for

other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the gold coins of theUnited States shall contain the following quantities of metal, that is tosay: each eagle shall contain two hundred and thirty-two grains of puregold, and two hundred and fifty-eight grains of standard gold; each halfeagle one hundred and sixteen grains of pure gold, and one hundredand twenty-nine grains of standard gold; each quarter eagle shall containfifty-eight grains of pure gold, and sixty-four and a half grains of stan-dard gold; every such eagle shall be of the value of ten dollars; everysuch half eagle shall be of the value of five dollars; and every suchquarter eagle shall be of the value of two dollars and fifty cents; and the

Act ofMarch2, 1833, ch, 54.

Proviso.

Payments notto be made inbank notes be-low par at placeof payment.

Elisha R. Pot-ter to be paidfor mileage andattendance.

Statute I.June 28, 1834.

Standard andweight of coins.

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