Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-21
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
PASSED AT rur FIRsr SESSION OF TwEsrY-sEvESrr



CONGRESS.
TPUBLIc.--NO. l.
AN ACT to repeal the act entitled "An net TO pro
vide for the collection, safskeeping, transfer on
disbursement OF the public revenue" and to pro
vide for the punishment of embczz ers of publ
money, ana Tor other purposes.
BE IL enacted bv the Senate and ITous, Of Rsnrs
SeHtaiipts Of the United States Of .isisricI in Con
srsss assembled, That the act entitled "An act e
provide for the collection, safe keeping trs nsfer nd
disbursement OF the public revenue" approved OF
the fourth day OF July, A. ID. thousand eis HI
hundred and forty, be, and the same Is hereby re,
pealed PToridsd dliedy,, That, for any offences
which may have been committed against the pro.
visions ct the seventeenth section Of the said oct
the offenders may be prosecuted and punished &C.
eordns to those provisions; and that all bonds ex.
ecuted under the provisions OF said act and Nh civ.
al rights and Liabilities which have arisen or accrued
under said act, and the remedies therefor shat re-
main and continue as Il said act had not been re-
peaed; any thing herein contained to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
SEC ?. .fnd be il further enacted, That IL any Of
hcer charged with the safe keeping transfer or dis
bursement Of public moneys, or connected with the
Post Office Department, shall convert to his own
use, m any way whatever, or shall use 10y way OF
investment IN any kind Of property or merchandise
or shall loan, with or without interest any portion
oil the public moneys entrusted 10 him for safe keen
ing, transfer, disbursement for any other purpose
"
embezzlcment OF so much Of the said moneys as
shall be thus taken, converted, invested. used or
loaned, which is hereby declared TO be a felony; and
the neglect refusal TO pay over on demand any
public moneys IN his hands, upon the presenta-
ton Of draft, order, warrant drawn upon him,
and signed by The Secretary of the Treasury or 10
transfer or Glsbursc any such moneys promptly ac-
cordIng TO law on the legal requirement Of a superb
or oitceF, shall be prima iace evidence OF such con-
version TO his oSn use so much of the public mo-
Eeys as may be in his hands Any officer or agent
of the United States, and ali persons advising or
knowingly and willingly participating in such en-
bezzoment, upon being convicted thereof before
any court Of the United States Of competent iuris-
dicton. shat, for every such offence forfeit and pay
10 the United States tirs equal to the amount OF
the money erabezZled, and shall suffer imprisonment
for term not less than slX months nor more than
I've years.
SIC. 5. ind be it further enacted, That the
act entitled "An act 10 regulate the dcpOsites OF the
public money!" approved on the twenty third day
Of June eighteen hundred and IhirtysIx, eGcepling
the thitCerth and fourteenth sections thereof be
and the same hereby is, repealed.
SEC. (. .1Hd be il ftIrilsr enacted, Tha, so much
OF an act passed the fourteenth Of April, eighteen
hundred and thirty-sIH, entitled IAN act making
appropriations for the payment of the Revolutions
~ and other pensioners OF the United States for the
year eighteen hundred and thirty six" as provides
that no bank note Of less denomination than ten
dollars, and after the third day of March, eighteen
hundred aud thirty seven, no bank note of ess de-
omnalion than twenty dollars shall be offered in
payment in any case whatsoever in which money is
TO be paid by the United States or the Post Office
Department, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.
JOHN WHITE,
Speaker oflEs House q Representatives..
SAM'L l.. SOUTHARD,
President Of the Senate pro isnp0rs
Approved, August 10, 1871.
JOHN TYLER.