Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-07-11
Naws Of the United States
PUBLISHED DY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT providing for the better organiza-
ton ofthe Treasury Department.
Be il enacted BY the Senate and Hous,


ton ofthe Treasury Department.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of'the United States
Of .1mcrica in Congress assembled
That it shall be the duty Of such officer
Of the Treasury Department as the Pre-
sidcnt of the United States shall, from
time to time, designate for that purpose,
as the agent of the Treasury, to direct
and superintend all orders, suits, or pro-
ceedings, in law or equity, for the re-
covery of money, chattels, lands, tene-
Inents, or Entertainments, in the name,
and for the use, Of the United States.
Sec. .. Ind be IL FURTHER enccted,
That, from and after the thirticth day of
September next, if any collector of the
revenue, receiver OF public money, or
other officer, who shall have received
the public money before it is paid into
the Treasury ofthe United States, shall
fail to render his account, or pay over
the same in the manner, or within the
time, required by law, it shall be the du-
ty of the First Comptroller Of the Trea-
sury to cause to be stated the account of
such collector, receiver of public mo-
ney, or other officer, exhibiting truly the
amount due to the United States, and
certify the same to the agent of the
Treasury, who is hereby authorized and
required to issue warrant of distress
against such delinquent officer and his
sureties, directed to the marshal Of the
district in which such delinquent officer
and his surety or sureties shall reside /;
and where the said officer and his sure
ty or sureties shall reside in different
districts, or where they, or either them,
shall reside in district other than that
in which the estate of either may be
situate, which may be intended to be
taken and sold, then such warrant shall
be directed to the marshals of such dis
'tricts, and to their deputies, respective
ly; therein specifying the amount with
which such delinquent is chargeable,
and the sums, if any, which have been
paid. And the marshal authorized to
execute such warrant, shall, by himself
or by his deputy, proceed to levy and
collect the sum remaining due, by dis
tress and sale of the goods and chattels
Of such delinquent officer; having given
ten days previous notice of such in
tended sale, by atfixing an advertisement
OF the articles to be sold at two or more
public places in the town or county
where the said goods or chattels were
taken, or in the town or county where
the owner of such goods or chattels may
reside; and if the goods and chattels be
not sufficient to satisfy the said warrant,
the same may be levied upon the person
of such officer, who may be committed
to prison, there to remain until dis
charged by due course of law. Not
withstanding the commitment of such
officer, or if he abscond, or if goods and
chattels cannot be found sufficient to
satisfy the said warrant, the marshal or
his deputy may and shall proceed to
levy and collect the sum which remains
due by such delinquent officer, by the
distress and sale of the goods and chat
tells of the surety or sureties of such
officer; having given ten days previous
notice of such intended sale, by affixing
an advertisement of the articles to be
sold, at two or more public places in
uhe town Or county where the said goods
or chattels were taken, or in the town or
county where the owner of such goods
or chattels resides. And the amount
due by any such officer as aforesaid
shall be, and the same is hereby declared
to be, lien upon the lands, tenements,
and hereditaments, of such officer and
his sureties, from the date of levy in
pursuance of the warrant OF distress is
sued against him or them, and record
thereof made in the Office of the clerk of
the district court of the proper district,
until the same shall be discharged ac-
cordine to law. And for want of goods
and chattels of such officer, or his sure
ty or sureties, sufficient to satisfy any
warrant of distress issued pursuant to
the provisions of this act, the lands, tene-
.1ncnts, and hereditaments ofsuch officer,
and his surety or sureties, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary for that Pur-
pose, after being advertised for at least
three weeks in not less than three pub
lie places in the county or district where
such real estate is situate, prior to the
tine CT sale, may and shall be sold by
the marshal of such district or his depu-
ty; and for all lands, tenements, or
hS.reditaments, sold in pursuance OF the