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Payment ofarrears to clerksin the custom-house at Phila-delphia.
Additional ac-counts to berendered bycollectors, &c.
The excess ofmoney over$2000 a year,received forrents, storage,&c. to be paidinto the Trea-sury.
Compensationof collectorslimited.
Naval officerslimited.
Surveyors li-mited.
Proviso.
All stores here-after rented tobe on publicaccount, &c.
False swear-ing to the ac-counts required
propriated, the arrears of their salaries from eighteen hundred andthirty-two, to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so as to make the sameequal in proportion to what they received in the last mentioned year, onthe same principle as has been applied to the custom-houses at NewYork and Philadelphia ; and the payments under this section shall begoverned by what has been the practical construction of the formerlaws on this subject, at the Treasury Department , applicable to the lastnamed ports;
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to pay to the clerksin the custom-house at Philadelphia such sum of money as, with theamount appropriated by the general appropriation act of the third ofMarch, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, will make up the arrears oftheir respective salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteenhundred and thirty-seven, the sum to be so paid being first ascertainedby the proper accounting officers of the Treasury;
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the accountnow required to be rendered by every collector of customs, naval officerand surveyor of ports, every such collector, naval officer and surveyorshall, each and every year hereafter, render a quarter-yearly account,under oath, to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as said Sec-retary shall prescribe, of all sums of money by each of them respec-tively received or collected for fines, penalties, or forfeitures, or forseizure of goods, wares, or merchandise, or upon compromises madeupon said seizure; or on account of suits instituted for frauds againstthe revenue laws; or for rent and storage of goods, wares, or merchan-dise, which may be stored in the public store-houses, and for which arent is paid, beyond the rents paid by the collector or other such officer;and if from such accounting it shall appear that the money received inany one year by any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, on accountand for rents and storage, as aforesaid, and for fees and emoluments,shall in the aggregate, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, suchexcess shall be paid by the said collector, naval officer, or surveyor, asthe case may be, into the Treasury of the United States , as part andparcel of the public money; and no such collector shall, on any pre-tence whatsoever, hereafter receive, hold, or retain for himself, in theaggregate, more than six thousand dollars per year, including all com-missions for duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, orany other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limitedby law. Nor shall such naval officer on any pretence whatever, in theaggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than fivethousand dollars per year, including all commissions on duties, and allfees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions orsalaries which are now allowed and limited by law. Nor shall suchsurveyor, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter,more than four thousand five hundred dollars per year, including allcommissions or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or sala-ries which are now allowed and limited by law: Provided, The aggre-gate sums allowed per year to the several officers aforesaid shall beexclusive of the necessary expenses incident to their respective offices,in the same year, subject to the regulation of the Secretary of the Trea-sury ;
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all stores hereafter rentedby the collector, naval officer, or surveyor, shall be on public account,and paid for by the collector as such, and shall be appropriated exclu-sively to the use of receiving foreign merchandise, subject as to therates of storage, to regulation by the Secretary of the Treasury;
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That every collector, naval officer,and surveyor of the several ports of the United States , who shall be guilty