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usual evidences of such dcposites to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, as the instructions
require"
Immediately afterwards, the Secretary writes
to he following effect:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 90, 1896
SIR: since the date of my letter to YOU ofthe
25th ultimo, your returns for the month of A
pril have been received, from which perceive
that the public moneys in your hands on the
30h ultmo amounted TO the sum or S247,251
Ga. which amount is the accumulated receipts
of your Office sinOe the lst of January last -
You cannot but btaware that the retention of
the public moneys in your hands, beyond the
period of one month, unless the receipts of such
month be less than $4,000, is a violation Of
your instructions. The object of this letter is,
LIST. To require that the whole balance on
hand at the time Of the receipt Of this letter
shall be Immediately deposited, and ccrlf-
cute OF such deposite transmitted TO the De-
partment without delay. 2d. To inform you
that the Department cannot overlook the omiS-
sion TO do SO, or your future neglect to depositc
monthIy, and to transmit your monthly returns,
accompanied by the evidence of your deposite,
in time to be received at this Office within the
month next preceding that for which the re.
turn is rendered Sd, That any neglect or in
attention to these requirements, unless satislac-
torily accounted for, will require of me from a
sense Of official duty, that you be reported to
the President, with recommendation that you
be removed from office
am, very respectfully, &c.
LEVI WOODBURY.
Col. SPENCER. Secretary ofhc Treasury
On the 9Th Of July, the Secretary directed
that Mr.. West (who, it seems, was = sort Of
rotary portion of the Department, called an
eXaminer) snould proceed in person 'to make
special inquiry into the matter, and report to
the Department the result"
Accordingly, Mr., West proceeded to Fort
Wayne, to examine into the delinquency Of the
receiver; and having accomplished his task,
made report to the Department. From this
report it appears that he met Colonel Spencer,
who was on his way to Richmond to raise mon
ey to make up his deficit to the government
The following is an extract from the report, in
relation to charge of"shaving" upon the pub
lie moneys:
"Upon the subject of using the money ofthe
United States, beg leave to state, that find it
universally stated and believed, and It's conce-
ded to asa fact by the clerks in the receivers
Office, that both he and his relative Dawson
have been much in the habit, in the office, Of
shaving money!. e. exchanging the money
which could not be received for public lands;
the rate of exchange or discount varying from
three tosfve per cent. find in the case Of ISai-
ah Wells, Of Marion county, Ohio, that so re-
Gently as the 9th instant, he paid into the hands
of the receiver, in his office, eight dollars for
exchanging two hundred and forty dollars Of
Ohio bank notes, of five dollars each. To
lin the Office, OF course do not know, but / am
satisfied il has been to rery considerable ertent;
and that the Government money paid in by one
person, has been handed out by the receiver in
exchange for uncurrent (or not land office
money-he receiving for his own private use
the discount as agreed upon and that the same
government money again is passed into the
land office, to be again used for the like pur-
pose, in pay for the public lands.
"That the receiver has taken in bank notes
of five dollars, contrary to orders, the schedule
prepared at his office, herewith enclosed, will
prove; that he received bonus for taking the
same, is, think, almost beyond doubt"
In postscript TO his report, he says: "Mr.
Spencer has just come in, having been as lar
as Richmond, where, by obtaining discount
upon some drafts due in September, originally
taken here for land, he was enabled TO swell his
deposite there to $52,83l "a; which, together
with the money taken with him from here, the
silver in the bank here, and some other money
enabled him to deposte," &c. The following
lis the supplemental report Of Mr.. West:
MIAMI COUNTY, INDIANA, August 90, 1886.
SIR: hasten TO correct an oversight in my
statement of Mr. Spencer's account, in the post
script ormy letter from Fort Wayne. wrote
the postscript just upon the point Of starting
and Mr. Spencer being present, requesting me
to give the assurance Of his good intention fol
the future, must be my excuse for the over
sight
1t consists in passing either the whole amount
of his deposite at indianapolis, in which is in
cluded certificate of deposite of $4,000 o
silver at Fort Wayne; or, as the gold was LEI
in the bank at Fort Wayne as collateral, tt
make up deficiency of So 900, silver, shoult
not have passed all the gold to his credit.
His account as corrected, should stand thus
THE REcEIvER-Dr.
June 80. To balance $loO,699 81
Received in July, ($355,897 75) 1856, 81
Reed in Aug. up to lth, at JPN. 29,774 g.
$486,529 81
June 80. To cash deposited at
'''N indianapolis $455,9O6 OF
| Gil ia Lonk at Fort WaVnC,