# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 17

Chap. XVII.—An Act supplementary to the acts authorizing a loan for several sums of twenty-five millions of dollars and three millions of dollars.
Treasury notes to be issued for sum deficient in an authorized loan. Act of March 24, 1814, ch. 29. Act of Nov. 15, 1814, ch. 4.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to cause treasury notes to be prepared, signed and issued, for and in lieu of so much of the sum authorized to be borrowed on the credit of the United States, by the act of Congress, entitled “An act to authorize a loan for a sum not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars,” passed on the twenty-fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and also for, and in lieu of so much of the sum authorized to be borrowed on the credit of the United States by the act of Congress, entitled “An act authorizing a loan for [a] sum of three millions of dollars,” passed on the fifteenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, as has not been borrowed or otherwise employed in the issue of treasury noted according to law: Provided always,The amount of treasury notes which may be issued shall not exceed 7,500,000 dollars. That the whole amount of treasury notes issued by virtue of this act, for and in lieu of the residue of the said two sums as aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of seven ​millions five hundred thousand dollars: and further, that the treasury notes so issued shall be applied to the same uses to which the said two loans authorized as aforesaid were respectively by law made applicable.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a further sum in treasury notes to be issued.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States to cause treasury notes to be prepared, signed, and issued, for a further sum of three millions of dollars, to defray the expenses of the War Department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for those purposes respectively.
Regulations with respect to the reimbursement, &c. &c. of treasury notes. Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 18.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the treasury notes to be issued by virtue of this act, shall be prepared, signed, and issued, in the like form and manner; shall be reimbursable at the same places, and in the like periods; shall bear the same rate of interest; shall in the like manner be transferable; and shall be equally receivable in payments to the United States for duties, taxes, and sales of public lands, as the treasury notes issued by virtue of the act of Congress, entitled “An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,” passed on the fourth day of March, in the year aforesaid. And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, shall have the like powers, in all respects, to prepare, issue, sell, pay, and distribute the treasury notes authorized to be issued by this act, or to borrow money on the pledge thereof, and to employ and pay an agent or agents for the purpose of making sale thereof, as were vested in him by the said last-mentioned act of Congress, in relation to the treasury notes therein and thereby authorized to be issued; and the forms and course of proceeding in all respects, for paying, receiving, and accounting for the treasury notes issued by virtue of this act, shall be similar to those prescribed in and by the said last-mentioned act of Congress, in relation to the treasury notes therein and thereby authorized to be issued.
Sum pledged for paying treasury notes, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a sum equal to the whole amount of the treasury notes issued by virtue of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall be and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment and reimbursement of the principal and interest of such treasury notes, according to contract, and the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to provide adequate funds for any deficiency in the appropriation hereby made.
Appropriation for defraying expenses under this act.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a sum of forty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expense of preparing, printing, engraving and signing the said treasury notes; the expense of employing agents to make sale thereof, and all other expenses incident to issuing the treasury notes as authorized by this act.
Penalties for forging, &c. treasury notes.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall with intent to injure or defraud the United States, or any person or corporation, falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any note, in imitation of, or purporting to be, a treasury note, or shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or wilfully aid or assist in falsely altering any treasury note issued by virtue of this act, or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any false, forged, or counterfeited note, purporting to be a treasury note as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited; or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any falsely altered treasury note, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely altered, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned for ​a period not less than three years, nor more than ten years, or imprisoned and kept to hard labor for a period not less than three years, nor more than ten years; and in either case be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.
Approved, December 26, 1814.