Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-04-04
POLITICAL.
Feom the National Intetligencer, 9th ut.
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.

Feon the National IRteutycncer, 2Ith Wt.
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
Concluded.
PART u.-TBL DEFALCATIoNs OF WILL
LIAM N. PRICE.
Conclusions O. The Committee.
1st. That William Nj Price, as district
attorney, is delaulter to the government
in large sum.
I'd. That his defalcations are attributa
BILE 10 the notorious responsibility and
want of character of said Price, al the pc
riod of his appointment and re-appoint-
ment, and during his entire term of Of
fee, and to the continued neglect of
proper and efficient discharge Of duties at
the Office OF Solicitor Of the Treasury, by
the lale and present incunbenis of the Of
fee.
PART nr.-The correctness Of the returns
achich haue been made by the present
Collector and Nauat officer Of the Port
ofNe,U York, respectively.
Conclusions Of the Committee.
lst. That the returns of the collector
OF customs at the port Of New York have
not been correct, as they have not al all
times embraced, as paid into the public
Treasury, the moneys received by him for
uuascerlained duties, and at no time for
duties paid under protest.
Cd. That SAID collector, in his returns.
has violated the Instructions Of the Treas
ury Department; has put at defiance the
duties assigned him by the Secretary Of
the Treasury; has repudaled the official
decision Of the responsible law officer Of
the Executive Department.; and is guilty
nf IN illegal retention and use OF The pub
lie money, in The amour, then held by
him for priest and unascertained duties.
Sd. That the Committee has been pre-
vented tom ascerlaining what is the ex-
teur Of the illegal retention and use Of The
public money by The present collect. Of
the port OF New York, either in funds
collected under protest, or for unascertain-
ed duties, or in other funds collected By
him, because of his refusal TO exhibit his
own book of cash deposires in bank, or to
permit the hanks used by him as deposto-
ries 10 exhibit their accounts OF his depos-
ties.
4,h. That the public moneys received
by said collector are mingled with his own
moneys on deposite, and are not kept by
him, nor by his banks of deposile, distinct
and separate from The individual moneys
OF the collector and of his professional
clients" and his returns canuot, therefore,
be founded upon them as separate and
independent fund, belonging to Govern
meul, though in his keeping.
5,h. That, as appears by the letter Of
Gorham A. Worm Worm, ihe cashier of the city
Bank, the present collector has deposited
moneys in his hands with a hank which
could not under the law prohibiting the
selection o. any bank as a depository
which has issued notes under the denomi
nation Of Gvc.dollars, he selected by The
Secretary of the Treasury himself, as a
,irlnsIory of moneys carried to the credit
Of the Treasurer of the United Stales.
6lIl. That the mode adopted and prac-
tised by the said collector, Of keeping and
making returns Of The public money col
lecIed by him for unascertained dulies and
under protest, in the language of the pres
ent Attorney General Of the United Slales,
"could have never been the intention of
Congress-" and being "toierated," it has
made it, in the language Of the same high
officer. "Ihe interest Of the collector TO
postpone the ascertainment of duties, as in
the mean time he would have unconrroI.
led use of the money" 1t has also in full
filment of the reasoning of the Attorney
General, increased "the danger of faith
lessness in the collector by permitting
large amounts of money to remain with
him. and under his individual control, in
stead Of being in the Treasury of the u
nited States"
9Th. That. in the language Of The Attor-
ney General "the tenor of The spirit of all
our revenue laws seem TO incuca.e the
idea that the intention of Congress has at
all times been. that money collected for
revenue should be promptly placed in the
Treasury, and not be permitted to remain
in the hands of the collector"
9th. Tha, the returns of the naval Off
Ger in New York have no, been correct, as
it is found in the testimony of the present
deputy naval officer, ''that the naval Off
Ger. under its existing system, is not eua-
tled, either to determine what amount of
bonds has been taken by the collector for
duties in any quarter, or who are the par.
ties to said bonds, or when such bonds
are paid, or whether the collector does Or
does not account truly for such bonds"
PART Iv.-Detalcations among Recsipers
Of Public Moneys.
The Committee, in ful6lment of thai
portion Of The duty assigned them. by
whirh they were directed to inquire into
ANY drfaIcations among receivers &C.,
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