The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-07-19
KENosHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY JULY 49, 1866

river at such places as may be suitable for that pu,
| poss: Propede6, That the proper officers of sale
company shall transmit to the Commissioner of the
General Land Officer correct plat of the survey anC
location Of said canal, and of the sites needed fo
mills depots, waste gates, and other uses of said
canal, before the appropriation thereof for said uses
shall become operative: Ind l)rOvide6 JWTtber.
That unless thirty miles of said canal shall be
waited within one year. the whole within three years
from the date hereof the grants hereby made shall
cease and determine: Ind pr00tdeq further, That
if SAID canal shall at any time after it's completion be
discontinued or abandoned by said company, the
grants hereby made shall cease and deternane, and
the lands hereby granted shall revert to the Unite
States and pr00aded FURTHER That nothing in this
acC snail be SO construed as to interfere with any
grant OF the right of way and of public lands hereto
fore made to any railroad company. =
Approved, June II, 1866.
[PUBLIc-No Ill
AN ACT to regulate and secure the safe-keeping OF
public money intrusted to dssbursing officers OF
the United States.
Be it enacted 6Y the Senate and House of Repre-
se'.tati0ss Qfta United States of america in Con-
Qress dssendled That from and after the passage OF
this act it shall be the duty of every disbursng Off
Ger OF the United States having any public money
intrusted to him for disbursement to deposit the
same with the Treasurer or some one of the assis-
ant treasures of the United States and draw for
the same only as it may be required for payments to
be made by him in pursuance of law; and all trans
fers from the treasury of the United States to dis
bursting o&cer shall be by draft warrant on the
treasury or an assistant treasurer of the United
States: PF0Uaded, Thatin places where there is no
treasurer assistant treasurer of the United States
the Secretary of the Treasury may when he deems
1t essential to the public interest, specially author
Ze in writing the deposit of such public money in
any other public depository or, in writing, author
iZe the to be kept any other manuer, and
under such rules and regulations as he NAV deem
most safe and effectual to facilitate the payments
to public creditors
Sec 2. A1ad 6eat further enacted Shat if any dis
bursting officer of the United States shall deposit
any public money intrusted to him in any place or
in any manner, except as authorized by law shall
convert 70 his own use in ANY way whatever, shall
loan, with or without interest shall for any pur-
pose not prescribed by law withdraw from the
Treasurer any assistant treasurer any author
lied depository, or shall for any purpose not pre-
scribed by law transferred apply any portion of
the public money intrusbed to him, every such act
shall be deemed and adudged an embezzement OF
the money so deposited, converted, used, loaned,
Withdrawn, transferred, or applied and every such
act is hereby declared a felony, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a
term not less than year than ten years,
or by fine not more than the amount embeZZled nor
less than one thousand dollars by both such fine
and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court
Sec. Ii. And be ft FURTHER enacted, That if any
banker, broker or any person. not an authorized de-
postary of public moneys, shall knowingly receive
from any discussing officer, or collector of internal
revenue, or other agent of the United States any
public money on deposit or by way of loan ac-
cOmodatiOn. with or without interest or otherwise
than in payment OF debt against the United States
shall use, fer, convert appropriate or apply
any portion OF the public money for any purspose
not prescribed by law; or shall counsel, aid abet
any disbursing officer collector of internal
other agent of the United States in doing,
every such act shall be deemed and adiudged en-
btzzement of the money so depo ted, loaned trans
ferrsd, used, converted appropriated, or applied !;
and presideut cashier, teller, director other
officer ofany bank or banking association who shall
violate any of the provisions of this act shall be
deemed and adiudged guilty Of embezzleInent of pub
lie money, and punished as provided in section two
of this act.