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the first DAY Of January next, be allowed 10 check
ON the same, allowing the public creditors 10 re-
cciye their pay from the banks either in specie
OF bank notes.
Sec. 81. And be il further enacted, That il
shall be the duty Of the Secretary of the Treas
ury ioissue and publish regulations to enforce the
speedy presentation Of all government drafts for
the payment at the place where PAYABLE. and to
prescribe the time according To the different dis
lances Of the repositories from the seat of gov
ernmcnt, within which all drafts upon them, re-
specliyely, shall be presented for payment; and,
in default of such presentation, to direct any 9TH
er mode and place of payment which he may
deem proper but, in all those regulations and di-
reclons, il shall bc the duty of the Secretary Of
the Treasury to guard, as far as may be, against
those drafts being used or thrown into circulation
as a paper currency or medium of exchange.
Sec. 22. And be il further enacted, That the
assistant trcasurers directed by this act to be ap-
pointed shall receive, respectively, the following
salaries per annum, to be paid quartcr-ycary at
the Treasury of the United States, TO Wit the as
sislant treasurer at New York shall be paid SAL
airy of four thousand dollars per annum; the as
sistant treasurer at Boston shall be paid a salary
of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum;
the assistant treasurer al Charleston shall be paid
e salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per
annum; the assistant treasurer at st. Louis shall
be paid a salary Of two thousand five hundred
dollars per annum; the treasurer of the mint at
Philadelphia shall, in addition to his present sala-
ry, receive five hundred dollars annually, lor the
performance of the duties imposed by this act;
the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans
shall also receive five hundred dollars annually,
for the additional duties created by this act; and
these salaries respectively, shall be in full for the
services of the respective officers, nor shall eli.
ther of them be permitted to charge or receive
any commission, pay, or perqusile, for any off.
cial service, OF any character or description what.
soever; and the making of any such charge, OF
the receipt of any such compensation, is hereby
declared TO be a msdcmeanor for which the Off
Ger convicted thereof, before any court of the U.
nited States, of competent jurisdiction, shall be
subject to punishment by fine or Imprisonment
or both, at the discretion of the court before
which the offence shall be tried.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That there
shall be, and is hereby appropriated to be paiC
out OF any money in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of twelve thousand dollars
to be expended, under the direction of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury in such repairs or add
tons as may be necessary to put in good condi
tion for use, with as liulo delay as may be con
sistcnt with the public interests, theolicos, rooms
vaults and safes herein mentioned, and in thu
purchase of necessary additional furniture anC
fixtures, in the purchase of necessary books anC
stationary, and in delrayng any other ncidenta
expenses necessary to carry this act into effect.
Sec. Oh And be it further enacted, That al
acts or parts of acts which come in conflict will
the provisions of this act, be, and the same arc
hereby repealed.
The bill also provides for quarterly publ.
cation of the state of the sub-treasuries and the
treasury, specie on hand, drafts out, &c.