No. 113. TREASURY DEpartment, May 23, 1836. SIR: Since the date of my letter to you of the 25th ultimo, your returns for the month of April have been received; from which I perceive that the public moneys in your hands on the 30th ultimo amounted to the sum of $247,251 64, which amount is the accumulated receipts of your office. since the 1st of January last. You cannot but be aware that the retention of the public money in your hands beyond the period of one month, unless the receipts of such month be less than $10,000, is a violation of your instructions. The object of this letter is: 1st. To require that the whole balance on hand at the time of the receipt of this letter shall be immediately deposited, and a certificate of such deposite transmitted to the Department without delay. 2d. To inform you that the Department cannot overlook the omission to do so, or your future neglect to deposite monthly, and to transmit your monthly returns, accompanied by the evidence of your deposite, in time to be received at this office within the month next preceding that for which the return is rendered. 3d. That any neglect or inattention to these requirements, unless satisfactorily accounted for, will require of me, from a sense of official duty, that you be reported to the President, with a recommendation that you be removed from office. I am, &c. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. No. 114. TREASURY DEpartment, June 6, 1836. SIR: Your letter of the 23d ultimo, accompanied by your returns for the month of April, is received. Seeing the balance of public moneys in your hands amounted to $128,884 70 at the end of that month, I have to request that you will explain why it was that the whole of the public moneys in your hands on the last of the previous month was not deposited, instead of a part, in conformity to explicit and frequent instructions on that point. It is painful to be obliged to ask you so often for explanations. I am, &c. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, Columbus, Mississippi. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. No. 115. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 29, 1836. SIR: I am in the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, stating that, owing to the large amount of sales of public lands for the past month in your district, you cannot comply with the regulations requiring the transmission of an account current at the close of each month. In reply, I have to inform you that no excuse can be admitted for not furnishing the account current at the end of each month; other business must be delayed for this, if necessary. I am, &c. WILLIAM BLAKELY, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Palmyra, Missouri. No. 116. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 30, 1836. SIR: In reply to your letter of the 13th instant, stating the reasons why your accounts have not been rendered within the time prescribed, I have to remark, that the returns required to be made by the Department must be rendered promptly, whatever other business is thereby necessarily delayed. I am, &c. EDWARD HUMPHREYS, Esq., LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Kaskaskia, Illinois. No. 117. TREASURY Department, July 8, 1836. SIR: Your accounts, as receiver of public moneys at Fort Wayne, for the month of May last, with the enclosed certificate of deposite in the branch State Bank of Indiana for $540,433 09, has been received, leaving a balance in your hands of $60,947 40. I have to request to be informed why the whole amount in your hands was not deposited at the same time with the first mentioned sum. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. JOHN SPENCER, Esq., Receiver of Public Money, Fort Wayne, Indiana. No. 118. TREASURY Department, July 8, 1836. SIR: The application made in your letter of the 11th ultimo, to be allowed to exchange the specie received at your office for the notes of such banks as are taken in payment of public lands, cannot be allowed, as it would be a violation of established regulations. M. LEIPER, Esq., I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Fayetteville, Arkansas. No. 119. TREASURY Department, July 6, 1836. SIR: I have to request your explanation of the complaint made in the enclosed copy of a letter addressed to the Department by John Caperston, in which he alleges that you refused to receive in payment of public lands a $20 note on the Bank of Virginia, unless he first paid you $2 discount on the same. I am, &c. SIR: I am in the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo, covering your account current for the month of June, with two certificates of deposite; one of which bears date on the 30th of said month. I wish, therefore, to be informed why the entire amount of money on hand at the time the last deposite was made was not included in it; the balance appearing by your account, not deposited, amounts to $15,129 04, which I have to request may be forthwith placed in bank to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States. SIR: I am in the receipt of your two letters of the 4th inst., covering your account current for the month of March last, together with certificates of deposite, leaving a balance in your hands of $14,839 30, on the 31st of said month. I have to request to be informed why this ac count has been so long delayed, and also why those for the months of April, May, and June, have not been furnished. It becomes my duty to inform you, that unless the accounts now due are forthwith transmitted, and the whole amount of money received by you on account of sales of public lands be deposited in bank to the credit of the Treasurer, it will be my unpleasant task to report your delinquency to the President for his consideration and action. I am, very respectfully, &c. EDWARD HUMPHREYS, Esq. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Receiver of Public Money, Kaskaskia, Illinois. No. 122. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SIR: Your letter of the 28th ultimo, enclosing your monthly return for June, is received. Seeing that the balance in your hands amounts to the sum of $100,599 32, I must require that the same be transmitted to the bank of deposite forthwith, and request you to explain why the amount has been so long retained in your hands. No answer to my letter of the 8th ultimo has been received. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, Fort Wayne, Illinois. No. 123. TREASURY Department, September 2, 1836. SIR: I have received the report of Mr. West upon the transactions of the land office under your charge, upon which I beg leave to remark, that the Department trusts your deposites will hereafter be promptly made, and that no exchanges whatever of money will take place, on any terms, as they open a door to improper practices and unfounded imputations. I am happy to add, that the Department can readily see the difficulties in resisting importunities to exchange money, and to receive what is not permitted by regulation. It can also duly appreciate your excuses for not making prompt returns and more frequent deposites; but it trusts that hereafter a more rigid conformity to your instructions will be practicable, and will remove all cause of apprehension or complaint. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, Fort Wayne, Indiana. No. 124. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, September 7, 1836. SIR: Again it becomes necessary to notice your neglect to make your monthly returns for April, May, and July last, and to request your immediate attention to the subject. I am, &c. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY, LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. St. Stephen's, Alabama. No. 125. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, September 7, 1836. SIR: I embrace this occasion to call your attention to the duty required by your instructions of making monthly duplicate returns of the transactions of your office; one to be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the other to the Secretary of the Treasury. I am, &c. SIR: Your letter of the 27th ultimo, addressed to the President, has been referred to this office. Your duties as receiver will, of course, have ceased, or been suspended, after the 31st ultimo, the time when you proPose your resignation should take effect; immediate steps, it is hoped, will be taken to adjust your accounts, and pay over the balance. Soon as the President returns, a further communication will be made to you. W. P. HARRIS, Esq. I am, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Columbus, Mississippi. |