rpunI1c-No. 8s.l
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AN 'CTs9 compensate the Registers and Re-
ceis rs o'' lc Land Offices for extra services
renlr.- ander the provisions of the act ofthe
second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty
one.


Be ii enacted 5y the Senate and House Of
Retlresentanves ofMe United States Of n
nerica in CONGRESS assembled. That TO.
the services rendered by the Registers and
Receivers of the several Land Districts, in
carrying into effect the act for the relief Of
the purchasers of Public Lands, prior to the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and
twenty, passed on the second day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty one,
and the several acts supplementary thereto,
the Secretary Of the Treasury, with the ap-
probation OF the President, in addition to the
fees allowed by the said act and supplement
tary acts, shall be, and he is hereby, autho-
rized to make such allowance and compen-
sarion to each of the said officers, as shall
appear to him to be reasonable and Just
which allowance shall, in no case, exceed
the expenditure incurred in clerk hire, by
any Register or Receiver, in consequence OF
the duties imposed upon those officers by the
provisions of the said act, and the act sup
Elementary thereto, and the one half of one
per cent. on the amount of payments made
by relinquishments and discounts, calcula-
ting the value of the lands relinquished at
the rate of two dollars per acre: Propided
That the allowance made on account of per
centage, including their annual salary, ant
including their commission on the money ac.
sually paid, shall, in no case exceed, to an!
one officer for any one year, the sum of three
thousand dollars.


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker of the House of Representative


JOHN C. CALHOUN,


Vice.President of the United States, and


President of the Senate.


AprRovED-May %, 1926.


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.