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B Y AUTH GRITTY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF 9th. CONGRESS.
I PUBLIC.-No. 4.

AN ACT to repeal the act entitled "An act to
provide for the collection, saGe-keeping, trans
fer, and disbursement Of the public revenue -
and TO provide for the punishment of embez-
zlers of public money, and for other pur-
poses.
BE enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatires of the United States Of .4nericG IN
Congress assembled That the act entitled g An
act 10 provide for the collection, safe-keeping,
transfer and disbursement OF the public revenue %
approved on the fourth day of July A. d. one
thousand eight hundred and forty, be, and the
anne is hereby repealed: Provided al,cays, That
for any offences which may have been commit
ted against the provisions of the seventeenth sec
ton Of the SAID act, the offenders NAV be prose-
cuted and punished according to those prOvis
ions; and that all bonds executed under the
provisions of said act, and all civil rights and
liabilities which have arisen or accrued under
said act, and the remedies therefor, shall remain
and continue as if said act had not been repeal
ed; any thing herein contained TO The contrary
Notwithstanding,
Sec. 2. .4nd be it further enacted, That if any
officer charged with the safe keeping, transfer or
Disbursement of public moneys or connected with
the Post Office Department, shall convert 10 his
own use, IN any way whatever, or shall use by
way of investment in any kind Of properly or
merchandise, or shall loan, with or without inter
est, any portion Of the public moneys entrusted
" un loi Sdie-heepnS, IdlSle1, DISBURSEMENT, or
tor any other purpose, every such act shall be-
deemed an adjulged to be an embeZzlement of so
much Of the said moneys as shall be thus taken,
converted, invested, used, or loaned, which is
hereby declared 10 be felony and the neglect
or refusal 10 pay over on demand anv public
moneys n his hands, upon the presentation of
drail,order or warrant drawn upon him, and signed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, or 10 transfer
OF dIsburse any such moneys promptly according
TO law, on The legal requirement of a superior
oiflcer shall be prlma facie evidence OF such con-
version to his own of so much of the public
moneys as may be in his hands. ANY officer or
agent in the United States and all persons ad
visirg, OF knowingly and willingly participating
in such embezzlemeDt,upon being convicted there
of before any court of the United States of COM
petent jurisdiction, shall, for every such off;nce,
forfeit and pay to The United States fine equal
TO the amount of the money emb ZZled, and shall
suffer imprisonment for term not less than six
months nor more than five years
Sc. 3. find be further enacted, That the
act entitled San act to regulate the depostes of
the public money!" approved on the twenty-hird
dav of June, eighteen hundred and thirty SIX, ex-
cepting the thirteenth and fourteenth sections
t, ereof, he and the same by is, repealed.
Sec. 4. find be ii further enacted, That so
much of an act passed the fourteenth of April,
eighteen hundred and thirty six, entitled "An act
making appropriations for the the payment of the
Revolutionary and other pensioners OF The United
States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty
six,F as provides that no bank note Of less de-
nomination than ten dollars, and after the third
day of March, eighteen hundred and thiFty-seven
no bank note of less denomination than twenty
dollars, shall be offered IN payment in any case
whatsoever in which money is 10 be paid by the
United States or the Post Office Department, be,
and the same hereby is, repealed.
JOHN WHITE.
r 10 IT,.
SAM'L l.. SOUTHARD,
President Of the Senate pro tenipore.
Approved, August IS, 1871.
JOHN TYLER,