Supreme Court of the United States February 18, 1875, 479 (Donovan v. United States)

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD

delivered the opinion of the court.

Officers of the customs derive their compensation chiefly from certain enumerated fees, commissions, and allowances, to which is added, for the benefit of the collector of the port, a prescribed sum, called salary, which is very much less than the compensation to which the officer is entitled.