Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-07-19

No personal claims to Office orr promotion are leeog
,.d n Ills Dpnarlmcnt The offices are the property
of the people and the office holders 'iie i''L r.
opoointed promoted discharged At Tue ,,
'ITp - ~, tho constitution und laws are maze tne
tnoSe who " FIR such purposes Each clerk is paid
r. Iii for his servcrs by his current saiary, ana III re-
j.,;on to anv higher more lucrative sutton, MY
may become vacant, S'"' " Wv
r;,,zeus out of office.
II,se principles now stated: that should you ac
cep, this appointment YOU may not hereaflfr eher'alh
any impression that injustice has been done you, where
h ~ shall he carried into practice Very respectfully,
your u Is;gned9 AMOS KENDALL.
CIRCULAR.
To Rcceirers Of Public Money a"Ito Mc Opposite Eanhs
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Jnly IL, 1896.
I'm consequence Of complaints which have been made
OF frauds culaons and monnpoles in the purchase oil
the pubc lands aud the aid which is said to be t.
effect these objects by excessive bank credits, and dan.
gerous if not partial facilities through bank drafts and
bank depositcs and the general evil influence likely to
result TO the public interests, and especially The
qrent ouount of money in the Treasury, and the
sound condition the currency of the country from the
further exchange Of the national domain IN this man.
ner. and chiefly for bank credits and paper money:
the President of the United States has given drec-
lions and YOU are hereby instructed after the 10th day
of ugust next 10 receive in paynento OF the pubic lands
nothing except what is directed by the existing laws,
viz: gold and silver and III the proper cases, virginia
land scriD ptoydrd that till the 18th oil December next,
the same indueences heretofore extended TO the kind
of money received may he continued Tor any quantity
of land not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres
to each purchaser who is actual settler or bona de
resident in tic State where the sales are made.
In order to the faithful execution of these in
structions all Receivers strictly prohibited from nc
ceplng for land sod any draft Certificate or other evil
dences of money opposite though for specie unless
signed by the Treasurer of the u S. in conformity to
the act of April 2I lS2n And ench Of those officers is
required to annex his monthly returns to this Depart
nrnt the amount of guild and of silver respectively, as
we'll as the bills received under the foregoing exception;
and each deposi bank required to to every GER
tcate given upon depnste Of money, the proportions
OF il actually paid in gd in silver and in bank notes
All fruer instructions these Subjects except as now
modified, will be considered remaining IN tuii oTee
The principal objects Of the President IN adopting ths
measure being rrprcSs alleged frauds and To withhold
any cuunlrnance aces IN the power Of the Cavern
nenl from the monopoly of the public lands in The hands
of and capitalists, to TIE injury ni the actual
settle rs in the new States, and of cmgrants in search
of new homes us well TO discourage the ruinous eS
tension OF bank issues and bank credits by which those
results are generally supposed TO be promoted, your Ut
lance required uad relied on, to carry this
order. into complete execution -
LEVI WOODBURY.,
Secretary If the Treasury