Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-13
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che whole fun within the calenda: year.
Ii was fuficient if they applied il within
twelve months from the paaage OF the law
and that might ftill Be done. But laid
Mr.. Grilwold, the commiiiiouers have
already given the true contribution to the
law in toe report, and the execute
now offered is st war; with the report
The commiGioners fay in express terms,
that they have received the fund OF
800, 900 dolls. for thejyear lso2-not
for one year or twelve months from the
psllaee sof the law. The law required
that the fund fhould be received in each
wear, and that it fhould be applied yearly
& every year. Now, faid Mr.. 6. WHAT
10 be underaood by this. If the gentle,
man who offered this execute does not M
derHand the meaning, the commltiloners
da, and they have declared in Their report
that. although The law psaed in May,
they were authorized to receive the fund
for the year 1902, and having receiv-
ed ii, it is for the houie to declare, whether
they were ,oot bound to apply it in the
fame year.
Some remarks faid Mr.. G. have been
made by gentleman from Maryland
MIR. Nichollonl TO prove that the balance
of iI4,sso dolls. a. cents which appeared
10 be entirely unaccounted in the commit
fieners report, nigh, hereat:er be explain
ed, and latisfattory account rendered for
the fame. What will appear hereafter
faid Mi. G. / cannot fay fpeak only
of what appears at this time. But the
gentleman from Maryland has faid, that
money remains in the hands Of agents and
to his knowledge there is fun fill re
naming in protected bills. This may be
the cafe or the gentleman may be mihaken
bu, if it is the cafe, why IN the name OF
common icnfc and common honsay, has il
not been i9ated in the report. If this had
been done, we might determine for cur
felves how far the deficiency was covered.
The gentleman from Maryland however
has iaid thar 1894 dolls. o. eents has
beeen paid 10 foreign officers, & 1906
dolls. 81 cents for certain parts OF the do
meftic debt, which were not included ia
the PLACEMENTS which ! submitted TO The
houfe, and that rhele payments appear IN
the frf Placement on page 8 of the com
miilioners report. If, faid Mr.. G. the
gentleman from Maryland win re-exa.
mine the hatemen, to which he refers, he
will find thar he has taken the debtor fde
Of he account ard carried il to tie credit
of the commiflioners. The gentleman
will End that the two frs Of 1894 dolls.
OF cents ara 1906 dolls. 81 cents are
only dilburisments from the tTeafury to
she commil1ioners, TO enable them TO diff
charge d debt Cue TO foreign officers, and
90 dilcharge certaia parts of The dornef.
tic dsbt, which, fad Mr.. c. fupPcfe TO
8 he the iegifered debt, on which interef
has for feveysl years been tapped, and the
principal ordered TO be be paid. And OF
co1rie that the eon.mithoners are at this
tire to be charged with thsfe foms and
are n6t entitled 70 credit. 70 convince
the gentleman that / am right beg that
lie viii look again at page6 Of thersport,
4 he viii thrrc fni all the tcp OF the page
The account Of all the diaaliements rom
the treafusy in 1902. 10 the conrlifion.
ers. including the two iusns which he has
mentioned aud forming the aggregate of
o,37a7Sa dolls. as cents, for this ag-
ereea,e, together with the unexpended
balance of guilders in Holland at the clofe
of The year 1907. The commissioners
ere accountable, and ought to be charged,
and if the gentleman will then look down
10 the bottom fthe page he will find all
the payments which fhe connliiEonsfs
claim 20 have made 10 the creditors. The
words uicd by the comrnifioners are,
That ths Aforementioned difburiemen.s
made during the year 1901, and amount
ing TO o,37i,7sz dolls. - cents, toge-
4 80 ~.