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 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS Sess. I. C11. 90. 1846. 65 and silver at par. And it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the omcm violathead of the proper department immediately to suspend from duty any i¤Hb;hiS S°°:;°3 disbursing officer who shall violate the provisions of this section, and gd ,,5,:sing $0 forthwith to report the name of the officer or agent to the President, with the President. the fact of the violation, and all the circumstances accompanying the same, and within the knowledge of the said Secretary, to the end that such officer or agent may be promptly removed from olhce, or restored to his trust and the performance of his duties, as to the President may seem just and proper: Provided, however, That those disbursing oili- Pmvisc. cers having at present credits in the banks shall, until the first day of January next, be allowed to check on the same, allowing the public creditors to receive their pay from the banks either in specie or bank notes. Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the The Secretary Secretary of the Treasury to issue and publish regulations to enforce  gjfgg the speedy presentation of all government drafts for payment at the lish regulations place where payable, and to prescribe the time, according to the dif- *° ;,¤*`°'°*’ if ferent distances of the depositaries from the seat of government, ifs, oi- within which all drafts upon them, respectively, shall be presented for for payment, ate. payment; and, in default of such presentation, to direct any other mode and place of payment which he may deem proper; but, in all these regulations and directions, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to guard, as far as may be, against those drafts being used or thrown into circulation as a paper currency or medium of exchange. And no officer of the United States shall, either directly N E { or indirectly, sell or dispose to any person or persons, or corporations, the 6_°s_°:i,:u whatsoever, for a premium, any treasury note, draft, warrant, or other dispose of; for a public security, not his private property, or sell or dispose of the g';|':;';“· ugfey avails or proceeds of such note, draft, warrant, or security, in his draft, arc., noi hands for disbursement, without making return of such premium, and his P"i'°*°,P;°P; accounting therefor by charging the same in his accounts to the Z;gQ’,,,,,gijitS?ii,, credit of the United States; and any officer violating this section shall his accountebe forthwith dismissed from office. Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That the assistant treasurers _$¤l¤¤‘i¤¤ of ¤¤· directed by this act to be appointed shall receive, respectively, the ;':£"t l"""' following salaries per annum, to be paid quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States, to wit: the assistant treasurer at New York shall be paid a salary of four thousand dollars per annum; the assistant treasurer at Boston shall be paid a salary of two thousand live hundred dollars per annum; the assistant treasurer at Charleston shall be paid a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; the assistant treasurer at St. Louis shall be paid a alary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; the treasurer of the mint _ _ at Philadelphia shall, in addition to his present salary, receive five com Q;':;;?":: hundred dollars annually, for the performance of the duties imposed the pe imamrsn by this act; the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans shall °f lhs ¤Ai¤¥ md also receive five hundred dollars annually, for the additional duties beach mm' created by this act; and these salaries, respectively, shall be in full for the services of the respective officers ; nor shall either of them be No smeerto permitted to charge or receive any commission, pay, or perquisite, for ¤*¤*2j)°* '?°*;;'° any odicial service, of any character or description whatsoever; and €;;Z_°;·:m§£c;:i the making of any such charge, or the receipt of any such compen- ·¢¤i·=¤•- sation, is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, for which the officer convicted thereof, before any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, shall be subject to punishment by line or imprisonment, Prmirhmqnt ¤f or both, at the discretion of the court before which the offence shall "‘°h °’°°'"°"‘ be tried, _Q5A1X! appro Ssc.23. And be it further enacted, That there shall be and hereby PEM é:' 'Q;. is appropriat.ed_,_to be paid out of any money in the treasury not limit. me Lf", Von. IX. Pus.——9