y for extraordinary occasions. His salary is six per
cent. of all money passing through his hands.

These are all the general officers belonging to that government, except
the court of admiralty, which has no standing officer. The present judge
of the admiralty is John Clayton, esq.

Sec. 10. The other public commission officers in the government, (except
those of the militia, for whom a chapter is reserved,) are escheators,
naval officers, collectors, clerks of courts, sheriffs of counties,
surveyors of land, and coroners.

The escheators have their precincts or bounds, according to the several
necks of land; for their profits, they demand five pound for each
inquest taken, being paid only as business happens.

The naval officers have their bounds according to the districts on the
rivers, and so have the collectors. The profits of the first arise from
large fees, upon the entering and clearing of all ships and vessels. The
collectors have each a salary out of the treasury in England of forty
pounds, sixty pounds, or an hundred pounds, according to their several
districts, they being appointed by the honorable commissioners of the
customs in England, pursuant to the statute made in the twenty-fifth
year of King Charles the second; and have, moreover, salaries of twenty
per cent. on all the duties they collect, by virtue of the same statute,
and also large fees for every entry and clearing.

The naval officers' other profits, are ten per cent. for all moneys by
them received; both on the two shillings per hogshead, port duties,
skins and furs, and also on the new imposts on servants and liquors when
such duty is in being.

The clerks of courts, sheriffs and surveyors, are limited according to
the several counties. The clerks of courts receive their commissions
from the secretary of State; the sheriffs theirs from the governor, and
the surveyors of land theirs from the governors of the college, in whom
the office of surveyor general is vested by their charter.

The clerks' profits proceed from stated fees, upon all law suits and
business in their respective courts, except the clerk of the general
court, who is paid a salary by the secretary, who takes the fees of that
court to himself.

The sheriff's profit is likewise by fees on all business done in the
county courts, to which he is the ministerial officer, and not judge of
the county court, as Mr. Oldmixon styles him, page 298; but the best of
his income is by