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FRIDAY, NAV AZ. 1889.

instruction require"
Immediately afterwards, the Secretary
writes again to the following effect:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May %, 1886.
SIR .--Sincc the date of my letter to
you of the 25th ultimo. your returns for
the month Of April have been received,
from which ! perceive that the public mon
cvs in your hands on tho 30th u'llmo
amounted to the SUN of S247 90 Cd, which
amount Is the accumulated receipts of your
Office since the first Of January last You
cannot but be aware 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 $40, 900, is u
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, aud certificate of such depositc
transmitted to the Department without
delay. Cd. TO inform you that the De-
par,mept cannot overlook the omission to
Go so, or your future neglect to deposte
monthly, and to transmit your monthly re-
turns. accompanied by the evidence OF your
| dcpositc, in time to be received at this office
within the month next preceding that tor
VIII CHI the return is rendered. Sd. That
any neglect or iDattentlon to these require
ments, unless satisfactorily accounted for,
will require Of nc. from sense of official
duty, that you be reported to the President
with a recommendation that you be remov-
ed from office. | am, very respectfully,
&c. &c.
LEVI WOODBURY., Secretary OF
Treasury.
Col. SPENCER.
On the 9Th Of July, the Secretary direct
ed that Mr., West (who. 1t seems, was a
sort of rotary portion Of the Department,
called an cxaminer) should proceed IN per
son ITO make specla inquiry into the mat
Ter, and report to the Department the
result"
Accordingly, Mr.. West proceeded to
Fort Wayne to examine into the Delinquent
cy Of the receiver; and having accomplish
ed bis task, made report to the Depart.
ment. From this report it appears that
he met Col. Spencer, who was on his way
to Richmond to raise money to make up
his deficit to the Government The fol
lowing is an extract from the report, in
relation to a charge Of shaving" upon the
public moneys:
Upon the subject of using the money OF
the United States, beg leave to state,
that find it universally stated and belev-
ed, and it is conceded to as a. fact by the
clerks IN the receivers office, that both he
ard his relative. Dawson, have been much
IN The habit, ~, The ,,Gice. of shaving money
Ia, Vtht
not be received for public lands: the rate
of exchange or discount varying from three
to five per cent. find in the case o
Isaiah Wells, of Marion county, Ohio, tina
so recently az the 9Th inst, he paid int
the hands of the receiver. in his office
eight dollars for exchanging two hundred
and forty dollars of Ohio bank notes of fiv
dollars each. To what extent this 'shav
mo" business has been carried on IN TIT
office. of course | do not know, but an
satisfied IL has been TO q very cons'dera6i
erient aud that the Government none
paid in by one person has been handed on
by the receiver in exchange for uncuren
for not land office money-he receiving 10
, his own private use the discount as agree
uDon; and that the same Government mon
ey again is passed into the land office. TO b
y. again used for the like purpose, IN pay 70
! the public lands.
"rha, the receiver has taken in ban
] notes of five dollars, contrary TO orders. IN
schedule prepared at his Office, herewit
f enclosed, will prove that he received
2 bonus for taking the same is, think, almo.
e. beyond a doubt"
n In postscript to his report, he says:
+. "Mr. Spencer has Just come in, hayln
;, beeen as far as Richmond, " here, by OF
/ tanning a discount upon some drafts due
: September, originally taken here for lam
J, he was enabled to swell his deposlle the,
,, to S52 1871 "a; which, together with I!
ofl money taken with him from here, the si'v
IN he bank here, and some other none
" enabled him to deposlte," &c.
Of In supplemental report of Mr.. Yves
II dated Miami county, Ind. Aug. 90, 1873
10 he corrects an error in his statement
IS Mr. Spencers account IN the postscript
is his letter from Fort Wayne. 1t consist
he says, in passing either the lchoie amou
IN of his dcposle at Indianapolis, in which
i. included certificate OF deposre of S25 o.
m of silver at Fort WAYNE; or, as the %
was left IN the bank at Fort Wayne as C,
rs lateral to make up deficiency of 50 0C
n. silver, ! should not have passed all /
re gold to his credit. His account, as &C
ne rected, leaves balance due the UGr
he States of 2O6 "a Mr. West saws fur hi
re at is also proper for me to state that | {
ne quite satisfied Mr. Spencer, by his visit
d, Richmond was enabled to increase
n. available fund there S94 064 90 (he havI
e. drawn in favor of The Indianapolis bran
e, for that much more, by obtaining disco,
- there and upon drafts received by him
IN Fort Wayne for public lands, before the
he OF June last, which drafts were not due
lct September: and, of course, in order TO
duce the sum a0tO to cash, he made ,
&c, ductlon. Whether the deduction for I
err, yet remaining time was equal to what "
allowed him in May last, of course do
nd know; but the difference of time wo,
at seem to place it beyond doubt that it "
en- much less The latter view, in part,
cir Plies to the discount made upon uncurr,
Ter Tor not land office paper, which he depo
me ed at Indianapolis; certificate OF the !
Ell. upon which enclose at his request"
ent By this document It appears that the
The ceiver turned his office into shaving sh
,it. far himself nd hia friends II further