REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS. Revised Statutes, sections 2334-2347.-Appointments-Bonds- Act of June 16, 1874 (18 Stat., 72).-Actual traveling expenses, Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat., 484).-Testimony fees-Compen- UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. Page. 273 276 276 276 277 277 277 278 of registers and SEC. 2234. There shall be appointed by the President, Appointment by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a receivers. register of the land office and a receiver of public moneys for each land district established by law. The above section (2234) was amended by an act of Congress approved January 27, 1898, which reads as follows: "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, who shall have charge of and attend to the sale of public and Indian lands within their respective districts, as provided by law and official regulations, and receivers shall be accountable under their official bonds for the proceeds of such sales, and for all fees, commissions, or other moneys received by them. under any provision of law or official regulation." Residence of register and re SEC. 2235. Every register and receiver shall reside at the place where the land office for which he is appointed ceiver. is directed by law to be kept. and receiver. SEC. 2236. Every register and receiver shall, before Bond of register 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. SEC. 2237. Every register and receiver shall be allowed, an annual salary of five hundred dollars. Salaries of reg ister and receiver. missions of regis SEC. 2238. Registers and receivers, in addition to their Fees and salaries, shall be allowed each the following fees and com- ter and receiver. missions, namely: First. A fee of one dollar for each declaratory state-Preemption ment filed, and for services in acting on preemption claims. 22019-16-18 273 One per cent on moneys. Homestead applications. Timber-culture entries. Warrants and scrip. Donation claims. State and railroad selections. Public sales. Mineral patents. Taking mony. testi on Per cent fees and commissions. Second. A commission of one per centum on all moneys received at each receiver's office.1 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. 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. 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 twenty-five cents per acre. Sixth. A fee, in donation cases, of two dollars and fifty cents for each final certificate for one hundred and sixty acres of land; five dollars for three hundred and twenty acres; and seven dollars and fifty cents for six hundred and forty acres. 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. 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."] Ninth. A fee of five dollars for filing and acting upon each application for patent or adverse claim filed for mineral lands, to be paid by the respective parties. 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 preemption desert land and homestead rights. (As amended May 29, 1908.) 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. 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. 1 This clause is construed to refer only to receipts from cash sales. It does not apply to fees and commissions. Part in brackets repealed. Actual expenses only allowed. Act June 16, 1874 (18 Stat., 72). |