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fUBLIC.-No '. AN ACT relative to Collectors and other officers of the Customs.
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 AN ACT relative to Collectors and other

 officers of the Customs.

 SEC. l. Be a enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. of the Unifed States of America tn Congress assembled, That collectors and all other officers of the customs, serving for a less period than year, shall not be paid for the entire year, but shall be allowed in no case greater than a pro rata of the maximum compensation of the sald of. ficers respectively for the time only which they actually serveE as such collectors or officers, whether the same be under one or more ap. polDtments, or before or after confirmation. And no collectors or other officer shall, in any case, receive for his services either as fees, sal ary, fines, penalties, forfeitures or otherwise for the time he may be in service, beyond the maximum pro rata rate provided by law.

 SEC. ?. find De Il further enacted, That all accounts for salary compensation, and emolu- ments shall be rendered quarterly at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year.

 SEC. 3. find De ta further enacted, That no portion of the additional duties provided by the seventeeth section of the act of August thir. tieth, eighteen hundred and forty two, entitled "An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports. and for other purposes" shall be deemed fine, penalty or forfeiture, for the purpose of being distributed 10 any officer of the customs but the whole amount thereof, when received, shall be paid directly into the treasury.

 Sec. 4. And be further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

 Approved, February II, 1S46.