at the rate per mile stipulated to be paid therein. The sufficiency of the sureties to all such bonds shall be approved and certified by the proper surveyor-general.

3 March, 1831, c. 116, s. 4, v. 4, p. 493. 3 March, 1853, c. 145, s. 10, v. 10, p. 247.

SEC. 2231. The surveyors-general, in addition to the oath now authorized by law to be administered to deputies on their appointment to office, shall require each of their deputies, on the return of his surveys, to take and subscribe an oath that those surveys have been faithfully and correctly executed, according to law and the instructions of the surveyor-general.

SEC. 2232. The district attorney of the United States, in whose district any false, erroneous, or fraudulent surveys have been executed, shall, upon the application of the proper surveyor-general, immediately institute suit upon the bond of such deputy; and the institution of such suit shall act as a lien upon any property owned or held by such deputy, or his sureties, at the time such suit was instituted.

SEC. 2233. In the event of the failure of a deputy in Louisiana to comply with the terms of his contract, unless such failure be satisfactorily shown by him to have arisen from causes beyond his control, he shall forfeit the penalty of his bond on due process of law, and ever afterward be debarred from receiving a contract for surveying public lands. 3 March, 1831, c. 116, s. 4, v. 4, p. 493.

SEC. 2234. There shall be appointed by the President, by and with

the advice and consent of the Senate, a register of the land-office and a receiver of public moneys, for each land-district established by law. See all acts establishing land-districts.

SEC. 2235. Every register and receiver shall reside at the place where the land-office for which he is appointed is directed by law to be kept. See all acts establishing land-districts.

SEC. 2236. Every register and receiver shall, before entering on the duties of his office, give bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, with approved security, for the faithful discharge of his trust.

10 May, 1800, c. 55, ss. 1, 6, v. 2, pp. 73, 75. 3 March, 1853, c. 145, s. 5, v. 10, p. 245.

SEC. 2237. Every register and receiver shall be allowed an annual salary of five hundred dollars.

30 May, 1862, c. 86, s. 6, v. 12, p. 409. 20 April, 1818, c. 123, v. 3, p. 466.

SEC. 2238. Registers and receivers, in addition to their salaries, shall be allowed each the following fees and commissions, namely:

4 Sept., 1841, c. 16, s. 12, v. 5, p. 456. 21 March, 1864, c. 38, s. 4, v. 13, p. 35.

First. A fee of one dollar for each declaratory statement filed and for services in acting on pre-emption claims.

Second. A commission of one per centum on all moneys received at each receiver's office.

20 April, 1818, c. 123, v. 3, p. 466.

Third. A commission to be paid by the homestead applicant, at the time of entry, of one per centum on the cash price, as fixed by law, of the land applied for; and a like commission when the claim is finally established, and the certificate therefor issued as the basis of a patent. 21 March, 1864, c. 38, s. 2, v. 13, p. 35. 20 May, 1862, c. 75, s. 6, v. 12, p. 393. 15 July, 1870, c. 294, s. 25, v. 16, p. 320.

Fourth. The same commission on lands entered under any law to encourage the growth of timber on western prairies, as allowed when the like quantity of land is entered with money.

3 March, 1873, c. 277, s. 6, v. 17, p. 606.

Fifth. For locating military bounty-land warrants, issued since the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for locating agricultural-college land-scrip, the same commission, to be paid by the holder or assignee of each warrant or scrip, as is allowed for sales of the public lands for cash, at the rate of one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre.

22 March, 1852, c. 19, s. 2, v. 10, p. 4. 2 July, 1862, c. 130, s. 7, v. 12, p. 505.

Sixth. A fee, in donation cases, of five dollars for each final certificate for one hundred and sixty acres of land, ten dollars for three hundred and twenty acres, and fifteen dollars for six hundred and forty

acres.

30 May, 1862, c. 86, s. 6, v. 12, p. 409.

Seventh. In the location of lands by States and corporations under grants from Congress for railroads and other purposes, (except for agricultural colleges,) a fee of one dollar for each final location of one hundred and sixty acres; to be paid by the State or corporation making such location.

1 July, 1864, c. 196, s. 1, v. 13, p. 335.

Eighth. A fee of five dollars per diem for superintending public land sales at their respective offices; and, to each receiver, mileage in going to and returning from depositing the public moneys received by him.

24 April, 1820, c. 51, s. 5, v. 3, p. 567.

Ninth. A fee of five dollars for filing and acting upon each applica. tion for patent or adverse claim filed for mineral lands, to be paid by the respective parties.

10 May, 1872, c. 152, s. 12, v. 17, p. 95.

Tenth. Registers and receivers are allowed, jointly, at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words for testimony reduced by them to writing for claimants, in establishing pre-emption and homestead rights. 21 March, 1864, c. 38, s. 4, v. 13, p. 35.

Eleventh. A like fee as provided in the preceding subdivision when such writing is done in the land-office, in establishing claims for mineral lands.

10 May, 1872, c. 152, s. 12, v. 17, p. 95.

Twelfth. Registers and receivers in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana, are each entitled to collect and receive fifty per centum on the fees and commissions provided for in the first, third, and tenth subdivisions of this section.

21 March, 1864, c. 38, s. 6, v. 13, p. 36, and several acts establishing land-offices for Utah, Wyoming, and Montana.

SEC. 2239. The register for any consolidated land-district, in addition to the fees now allowed by law, shall be entitled to charge and receive for making transcripts for individuals, or furnishing any other record information respecting public lands or land-titles in his consolidated land-district, such fees as are properly authorized by the tariff existing in the local courts of his district; and the receiver shall receive his equal share of such fees, and it shall be his duty to aid the register in the preparation of the transcripts, or giving the desired record information.

18 Feb., 1861, c. 38, ss. 1, 3, v. 12, p. 131.

SEC. 2240. The compensation of registers and receivers, including salary, fees, and commissions, shall in no case exceed in the aggregate three thousand dollars a year, each; and no register or receiver shall receive for any one quarter or fractional quarter more than a pro-rata allowance of such maximum.

21 March, 1864, c. 38, s. 6, v. 13, p. 36. 20 April, 1818, c. 123, v. 3, p. 466. 20 May, 1862, c. 75, s. 6, v. 12, p, 393. 30 May, 1862, c. 86, s. 6, v. 12, p. 409. 1 July, 1864, c. 196, s. 1, v. 13, p. 335 22 March, 1852, c. 19, s. 3, v. 10, p. 4. 2 July, 1862, c. 130, s. 7, v. 12, p. 505. 2 Feb., 1859, c. 19, v. 11, p. 378. 18 Feb. 1861, c. 38, ss. 1, 3, v. 12, p. 131.U. S. vs. Babbit, 1. Bl., 55.

SEC. 2241. Whenever the amount of compensation received at any land-office exceeds the maximum allowed by law to any register or receiver, the excess shall be paid into the Treasury, as other public moneys.

3 March, 1853, c. 97, s. 1, v. 10, p. 204. 18 Feb., 1861, c. 38, ss. 1, 3, v. 12, p. 131.

SEC. 2242. No register or receiver shall receive any compensation out of the Treasury for past services who has charged or received illegal fees; and, on satisfactory proof that either of such officers has charged or received fees or other rewards not authorized by law, shall be forthwith removed from office.

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22 March, 1852, c. 19, s. 3, v. 10, p. 4. 17 July, 1854, c. 84, s. 6, v. 10, p. 306.

SEC. 2243. The compensation of registers and receivers, both for salary and commissions, shall commence and be calculated from the time they, respectively, enter on the discharge of their duties.

24 Feb., 1855, c. 124, s. 3, v. 10, p. 615.

SEC. 2244. All registers and receivers shall be appointed for the term of four years, but shall be removable at pleasure.

15 May, 1820, c. 102, s. 1, v. 3, p. 582.

SEC. 2245. The receivers shall make to the Secretary of the Treasury monthly returns of the moneys received in their several offices, and pay over such money pursuant to bis instructions. And they shall also make to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office like monthly returns, and transmit to him quarterly accounts-current of the debits and credits of their several offices with the United States.

4 July, 1836, c. 352, s. 9, v. 5, p. 111.

SEC. 2246. The register or receiver is authorized, and it shall be their duty, to administer any oath required by law or the instructions of the General Land-Office, in connection with the entry or purchase of any tract of the public lands; but he shall not charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation for administering such oath.

12 June, 1840, c. 35, v. 5, p. 384.

SEC. 2247. If any person applies to any register to enter any land whatever, and the register knowingly and falsely informs the person so applying that the same has already been entered, and refuses to permit the person so applying to enter the same, such register shall be liable therefor to the person so applying, for five dollars for each acre of land which the person so applying offered to enter, to be recovered by action of debt in any court of record having jurisdiction of the amount.

4 July, 1836, c. 352, s. 13, v. 5, p. 112.

SEC. 2248. Whenever the quantity of public land remaining unsold in any land-district is reduced to a number of acres less than one hundred thousand, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discontinue the land-office of such district; and if any land in any such district remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land-office, the same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land-offices most convenient to the district in which the land-office has been discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice.

12 June, 1840, c. 36, s. 2, v. 5, p. 385.

SEC. 2249. The Secretary of the Interior may continue any land-district in which is situated the seat of government of any one of the States, and may continue the land-office in such district, notwithstanding the quantity of land unsold in such district may not amount to one hundred thousand acres, when, in his opinion, such continuance is required by public convenience, or in order to close the land-system in such State.

4 Sept., 1841, c. 16, s. 7, v: 5, p. 455.

SEC. 2250. Whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any land-district is as much as one-third of the whole amount of revenue collected in such district, it may be lawful for the President, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land-office in such district, and to annex the same to some other adjoining land-district.

194. 3 March, 1853, c. 97, s. 1, v. 10, pp. 189,

SEC. 2251. The President is authorized to change the location of the land-offices in the several land-districts established by law, and to relo