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aggregate amounts, directed to be filed by the marshals with the clerksof the several District Courts and Supreme Courts of the Territories ofthe United States , shall be preserved by said clerks and remain in theiroffices respectively, and so much of the act to which this is an amend-ment as requires that they shall be transmitted by said clerks to theDepartment of State is hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of State to cause to be noted all the clerical errors in thereturns of the marshals and assistants, whether in the additions, classi-fication of inhabitants or otherwise, and to direct to be printed in themanner provided for in the act to which this is an amendment the cor-rected aggregate returns only.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the thirteenthsection of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundredand twenty-five, as restricts the weight of packages by mail, shall notapply to the transmission of papers relating to the census or enumera-tion of the inhabitants of the United States , and upon the transmissionof said papers by the mail, between the marshals and their assistants, itshall be lawful for the postmasters to charge periodical pamphlet postageonly.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for themarshal of any district, to take part in the enumeration of a portion ofhis district, and upon his so doing he shall have the benefit of the com-pensation allotted therefor, as if it had been done by an assistant.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of therespective persons who are employed by the Secretary of State in exe-cuting the provisions of this act, shall be, fifteen hundred dollars to thesuperintending clerk, per annum; to the recording clerk, eight hundreddollars per annum; to an assistant clerk, six hundred and fifty dollarsper annum; and to the packer and folder, six hundred and fifty dollarsper annum; and the said salaries shall commence from the date of theirbeing so employed, and that of the persons to be employed, to examineand correct the returns from the marshals and their assistants, at thesame rates as were paid for the like services rendered under the act fortaking the fifth census, to be paid out of any money appropriated forcarrying into effect tbe act for taking the sixth census or enumerationof the inhabitants of the United States .
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of actswhose provisions are inconsistent with the enactments of this amenda-tory act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, February 26, 1840.
Copies of re-turns, &c. tobe preserved inthe courts.
All clerical er-rors to be noted.
Postage.
Marshals totake part in theenumeration oftheir districts.
Compensation.
Salaries whento commence.
Acts, &c. in-consistent withthis, repealed.
Chap. IV .—An Act to continue the office of commissioner of Pensions , and totranfer the pension business, heretofore transacted in the Navy Department , tothat office, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the office ofCommissioner of Pensions shall be and the same is hereby continued,until the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a Commissioner of Pensions shall be appointed by the President of the United States , by and withthe advice and consent of the Senate ; and that he shall execute, underthe direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy ,such duties in relation to the various pension laws as may be prescribedby the President.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioner shall
Statute I.March 4,1840.
Salary,
{a) See notes to net of duly 10, 1832, chap. 194, for the acts relating to the navy pension fund.
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