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Provisions ofacts inconsist-ent with thisrepealed.
1812, ch. 68.
The GeneralLand Officeand other officesto be open dur-ing certainhours.
Penalty of Re-gister for falseinformation giv-en by him.
Officers of theland office pro-hibited frompurchasing, &,c.public lands.
Statute I.July 4, 1836.[Obsolete.]1836, ch. 7.
TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.353. 1836.
and after the date of their respective commissions; and that the saidcommissioner be authorized to employ, for the service of the GeneralLand Office, one clerk, whose annual salary shall not exceed fifteenhundred dollars; four clerks, whose annual salary shall not exceed four-teen hundred dollars each; sixteen clerks, whose annual salary shall notexceed thirteen hundred dollars each; twenty clerks, whose annualsalary shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars each; five clerks, whoseannual salary shall not exceed eleven hundred dollars each; thirty-fiveclerks, whose annual salary shall not exceed one thousand dollars each;one principal draughtsman, whose annual salary shall not exceed fifteenhundred dollars; one assistant draughtsman, whose annual salary shallnot exceed twelve hundred dollars; two messengers, whose annual salaryshall not exceed seven hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers,whose annual salary shall not exceed three hundred and fifty dollarseach; and two packers, to make up packages of patents, blank forms,and other things necessary to be transmitted to the district land offices,at a salary of four hundred and fifty dollars each.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That such provisions of the actof the twenty-fifth of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred andtwelve, entitled “ An act for the establishment of a General LandOffice in the Department of the Treasury, ” and of all acts amendatorythereof, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and thesame are hereby, repealed.-
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That from the first day of themonth of October, until the first day of the month of April, in eachand every year, the General Land Office and all the bureaus and officestherein, as well as all those in the Departments of the Treasury, War,Navy, State, and General Post Office, shall be open for the transactionof the public business at least eight hours in each and every day,except Sundays and the twenty-fifth day of December; and from thefirst day of April, until the first day of October, in each year, all theaforesaid offices and bureaus shall be kept open for the transaction of thepublic business at least ten hours in each and every day, except Sundaysand the fourth day of July.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall applyto any register of any land office to enter any land whatever, and thesaid register shall knowingly and falsely inform the person so applyingthat the same has already been entered, and refuse to permit the personso applying to enter the same, such register shall be liable therefor tothe person so applying, for five dollars for each acre of land which theperson so applying offered to enter, to be recovered by action of debtin any court of record having jurisdiction of the amount.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That all and every of the officerswhose salaries are hereinbefore provided for, are hereby prohibited fromdirectly or indirectly purchasing, or in any way becoming interested inthe purchase of any of the public land; and in case of a violation of thissection by such officer, and on proof thereof being made to the Presi-dent of the United States , such officer, so offending, shall be forthwithremoved from office.
Approved, July 4th, 1836.
Chap. CCCLIII. —Jin Act in addition to the act entitled “ An act making appro-priations, in part, for the support of Government, for the year eighteen hundredand thirty-six, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the follow-ing sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out ofany money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: For compen-