Commending to your attention a strict regard to the duties enjoined, in respect to the periodical deposite of the public moneys, and to the transmission of your quarterly accounts and monthly returns, S. W. BEALL, Esq., I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Green Bay, M. T. No. 82. TREASURY Department, October 12, 1835. SIR: Trusting to the assurances given in your letter of the 14th ultimo, and to those of your friends, made in your behalf, the President has consented, upon the facts now before him, to continue you in office until the 12th November, proximo; then, unless your monthly returns are all rendered, and satisfactory evidence that the whole of the public moneys with which you are chargeable are deposited, you must be removed from office, however painful to both him and this Department. I am, &c. W.P. HARRIS, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Columbus, Mississippi. No. 83. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 19, 1835. SIR: Complaints have been made to the Department of your long and frequent absence from the land office, and of the removal of your family and residence from Indianapolis; it is also represented that you refused, for a time, to receive bills of the denomination of $5 in payment for public lands, and again resumed the receipt of such bills, without giving any public notice so as to correct the error. You are requested to furnish prompt and full explanation on the subject. A. MCCARTY, Esq., I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Indianapolis. No. 84.. TREASURY Department, October 26, 1835. SIR: In answer to the inquiry made in your letter of the 19th instant, I have to inform you that, when the aggregate receipts for the month exceed the sum of $10,000, it is to be deposited immediately after the expiration of the month; if less than that amount, it may be retained until the close of the ensuing month, or until the end of the third month, in case the aggregate of both months is less than $10,000; but, under no circumstances, can it be retained longer than three months, be the amount what it may. I regret to perceive that you have transmitted your quarterly account, ending on the 30th September, and vouchers, to this office, and omitted the monthly return for September. On reference to your instructions, you will learn that your quarterly accounts and vouchers are to be sent to the General Land Office, and that one of your duplicate monthly returns is to be sent to this office. I have, however, referred your quarterly account and vouchers to the General Land Office, and request that you will transmit to me the usual monthly returns for September. I am, &c. SIR: I have to observe, in reply to your letter of the 9th instant, that the allowance authorized by the regulations of the Department, as a compensation for travelling expenses, and risk in the transmission of the public moneys to the bank of deposite, can only be made when such expenses and risk have actually been incurred, and not in any case where both are avoided, by means of the facilities afforded by the mail or deposite banks; moreover, inasmuch as the branch bank of Columbus receives and credits the moneys received by you in the first instance, I can perceive no reason why each deposite in past months should not have embraced the whole amount in your possession at the time of such deposite, as the instructions require. W. P. HARRIS, Esq., I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury: Receiver of Public Money, Columbus. No. 86. TREASURY DEepartment, November 4, 1835. SIR: I have to request that monthly returns for June and July last may be transmitted to this office, and that you will, in future, observe to transmit similar returns for each month. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury, R. EASTIN, Esq., Receiver of Public Money, Ouachita, Louisiana. No. 87. TREASURY DEpartment, November 17, 1835. SIR: I return my letter to you, dated the 21st July last, and request that you will state why your letter of the 7th inst. is silent as to the charge of speculating in Spanish coin. I am, &c. A. MCCARTY, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Indianapolis, Indiana. No. 88. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 17, 1835. SIR: The quarterly returns received with your letter of the 20th ultimo should have been transmitted to the General Land Office, where it has been referred, while the monthly return for September, which the instructions require to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, is with SIR: No monthly return of the transactions of your office, since that for the month of May last, has been received. In claiming your attention to the subject, I take occasion to add, that the omission is looked upon as a serious neglect of duty, and one which, if continued, will be made the subject of a complaint to the President. I am, &c. T. CARLIN, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Receiver of Public Money, Quincy, Illinois.' No. 90. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SIR: Your letter of the 11th instant, and return for the month of October, is received. As your deposites of public moneys are made at Columbus, no reason whatever can be seen why the whole money in your hands at the end of the month is not deposited; it is expected that it will be hereafter. Ju SIR: For a knowledge of the returns which you are required to make to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, you are referred to that officer. Those which you are required to make to the Secretary of the Treasury are one for every month in the year, corresponding in form with that rendered for the month of September last, and to be forwarded immediately after the expiration of each month. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, Lima, Ohio. No. 92. TREASURY Department, November 30, 1835. SIR: As your returns for the months of September and October are not received, I have to request that they may be forwarded, and that you will observe greater strictness in this respect hereafter. I am, LEVI WOODBURY, RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, Chillicothe, Ohio; Shawneetown, Illinois; New Orleans and Ouachita, Louisiana. No. 93. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 30, 1835. SIR: Your monthly duplicate returns for the months of August, September, and October, have not been received. The frequent occasions on which it becomes necessary to notice the neglect of receivers in this respect suggests a resort to some more effectual remedy than mere complaint. Hence, as a means of enforcing a strict attention to this duty, I shall report any future omission in this respect for the action of the Executive, unless satisfactory reasons are assigned for the neglect. The returns in arrear are expected to be transmitted forthwith. I am, &c. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. at Galena, Illinois, and Tallahassee, Florida. No. 94. TREASURY Department, December 11, 1835. SIR: You are not authorized to receive any moneys, on public account, from the widow or representatives of the late receiver at Shawneetown. To entitle his estate to a discharge for any balance which may be due to the Government, it will be proper that the same should be placed to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in the nearest deposite bank, and that a certificate of such deposite be transmitted to this Department by his legal representatives. STEPHEN W. Rowan, I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Shawneetown, Illinois. No. 95. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 8, 1835. SIR: I have to request that a statement of the different kinds of bank notes received in payment for public lands may accompany your monthly returns, and that a like statement be endorsed on each certificate of deposite, as the instructions of the Department require. I am &c. S. MCROBERTS, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Receiver of Public Money, Danville, Illinois. |