# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 23

Chap. ⅩⅩⅢ.—An Act relative to the compensations of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. [Obsolete.] Specific allowance to collectors, &c.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the commissions heretofore by law established, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the duties of impost and tonnage, on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties aforesaid arising on tonnage, and on goods, wares and merchandise imported after the last day of March next, as follows, to wit:
To the collectors of the districts of Pennsylvania and New York, three tenths of one per cent:
To the collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and to the collector of the district of Baltimore, five eighths of one per cent:
To the collectors of the districts of Salem and Norfolk, seven eighths of one per cent:
To the collectors of the districts of Alexandria, Charleston and Savannah, one per cent:
To the collector of the district of Newburyport, one and a quarter per cent.
To the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Portland, Newport, Providence, New Haven and Tappahannock, one and a half per cent:
And to the collectors of the districts of Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Marblehead, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgar Town, New Bedford, Dighton, York, Biddeford, Bath, Wiscasset, Penobscot, Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Passamaquoddy, New London, Fairfield, Sagg Harbor, Perth Amboy, Burlington, Bridgetown, Great Egg Harbor, Wilmington in Delaware, Chester, Oxford, Vienna, Snowhill, Annapolis, Nottingham, Cedar Point, Georgetown in Maryland, Bermuda Hundred, Hampton, York Town, Yeocomico, Dumfries, Foley Landing, Cherrystone, South Quay, Kentucky, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern, Washington, Edenton, Cambden, Georgetown in South Carolina, Beaufort, Sunbury, Brunswick, Saint Mary’s, and Hardwich, two per cent.
Specific allowance to collectors, surveyors, &c.To the collectors of the districts of Annapolis, Chester, South Quay, Yeocomico, Wilmington in North Carolina, Cedar Point and Washington, the sum of two hundred dollars each:
To the collectors of the districts of York, Passamaquoddy, Oxford, Vienna, Nottingham, Hampton, York Town, Dumfries, Foley Landing, Cherrystone, Beaufort, Saint Mary’s, Brunswick and Hardwich, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars each:
To the collector of the district of Perth Amboy, one hundred and twenty dollars:
To the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgartown, New Bedford, Biddeford, Penobscot, Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Newport, Fairfield, Burlington, Bridgetown, Great Egg Harbor, Wilmington in Delaware, Snowhill, Kentucky, Bermuda Hundred, Cambden, Georgetown in South Carolina, and Sunbury, the sum of one hundred dollars each:
To the collectors of the districts of Marblehead, Bath, Wiscasset, New Haven and Georgetown in Maryland, the sum of fifty dollars each:
To the naval officer of the district of Portsmouth, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars:
To the naval officers of the districts of Newburyport, Salem, Newport, Providence, Wilmington in North Carolina, and Savannah, the sum of one hundred dollars each:
To the surveyor of the port of Salem, two hundred dollars:
To the surveyors of Portsmouth, Newburyport, Bristol, Warren, East Greenwich, Saint Mary’s, Suffolk, Smithfield, Richmond, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Wilmington, Beaufort, and Swansborough, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars each:
To the surveyors of Newport and Providence, one hundred and thirty dollars each:
To the surveyors of Gloucester, Beverly, New Haven, Middletown, Albany, Hudson, Little Egg Harbor, and Lewellensburg, one hundred and twenty dollars each:
And to the surveyors of Ipswich, Portland, North Kingston, Pawhatuck, Patuxet, New London, Stonington, Town Creek, Bermuda Hundred, Westpoint, Urbanna, Portroyal, Alexandria, Windsor, Hertford, [[w:|Plymouth, Skewarky, Murfreesborough, Bennet's Creek, Winton, Nixonton, Newbiggen Creek, Pasquotank River, Indian Town, Currituck Inlet, Savannah, and New Brunswick in New Jersey, the sum of one hundred dollars each.
Allowance to inspector; and for weighing.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, in lieu of the sum heretofore established by law, there shall be paid to each inspector, for every day he shall be actually employed in aid of the customs, a sum not exceeding one dollar and sixty-six cents; and that instead of the sum heretofore established by law, to be paid for the weighing of every one hundred and twelve pounds, in the districts of Pennsylvania, New York, Boston, Baltimore and Norfolk there shall be paid one cent and a half.
Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors to keep and transmit accounts.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, it shall be the duty of the several collectors, naval officers and surveyors, to keep accurate accounts of their official emoluments and expenditures, and the same to transmit, annually, on the last day of December, to the Comptroller of the Treasury, who shall annually lay an abstract of the same before Congress.
Approved, February 14, 1795.