rately, to the commanding officer, the sums due to the respective corps, which shall have been examined as aforesaid, who shall thereon issue his warrant on the said deputy paymaster, for the payment accordingly. That copies of all reports to the commanding officer, and the warrants thereon, shall be duly transmitted to the office of the accountant of the war department, in order to be there examined, and finally adjusted at the treasury. That the said paymaster shall give bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties, for the faithful discharge of his duty, and he shall take an oath faithfulVol. i. p. 830. ly to execute the duties of his office. That the compensation to the said paymaster shall be sixty dollars monthly, with the sanie rations and forage as a major. Assignment of pay, invalid, &c. Contracts for supplying the army, &c. Vol. i. p. 556. Superintendence of col ties, &c. office of assistant secretary abolished, &c. Vol. i. p. 46, 316. § 4. That no assignment of pay made after the first day of June next, by a noncommissioned officer or private, shall be valid. § 5. That all purchases and contracts, for supplying the army with provisions, clothing, supplies in the quarter master's department, military stores, Indian goods, and all other supplies, or articles for the use of the department of war, be made by, or under the direction of the treasury department. § 6. That the secretary of the treasury shall direct the sulection of du- perintendence of the collection of the duties on imposts and tonnage, as he shall judge best. That the present office of assistant to the secretary of the treasury be abolished, and that, instead thereof, there be an officer in the department of the treasury, to be denominated commissioner of the revenue, who shall be charged with superintending, under the direction of the head of the department, the collection of the other revenues of the United States, and shall execute such other services, being conformable to the constitution of the department, as shall be directed by the secretary of the treasury. That the compensation of the said commissioner shall be a salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars per annum. Vol. ii. p. 845. The office of commissioner of the revenue discontinued. Commission § 7. That in every case of an account or claim, not finally ader, &c. to ad- justed, upon which the present comptroller of the treasury, as just claims de- auditor, may have decided, it shall be the duty of the commiscided upon by the comptrol- sioner of the revenue, and of the auditor of the treasury, finally ler as auditor. to adjust the same, and in case of disagreement between the said commissioner, and auditor, the decision of the attorney general shall be final. In case of of government § 8. That in case of the death, absence from the seat of godeath, absence vernment, or sickness, of the secretary of state, secretary of the from the seat treasury, or of the secretary of the war department, or of any offior sickness, of cer of either of the said departments, whose appointment is not chief and other in the head thereof, whereby they cannot perform the duties of officers of the their said respective offices, it shall be lawful for the president departments of the United States, in case he shall think it necessary, to aupresident may thorize any person or persons, at his discretion, to perform the authorize a duties of the said respective offices until a successor be appointperson or per- ed, or until such absence, or inability by sickness, shall cease. § 9. That the forms of keeping and rendering all public accounts whatsoever, shall be prescribed by the department of the treasury. mentioned, the sons to dis charge the du- p. 382. The treasury department to prescribe the forms of keeping accounts. to the officers 10. That, in addition to the compensations allowed to the Additional comptroller, auditor, treasurer, and register of the treasury, by compensations the "act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of mentioned. government, their assistants, and clerks," and to the attorney Vol. i. p. 48, general, by the "act for allowing certain compensation to the 52. judges of the supreme and other courts, and to the attorney general of the United States," the said officers, respectively, shall be allowed the following yearly sums, viz: the comptroller, four hundred dollars; the auditor, four hundred dollars; the treas urer, four hundred dollars; the register, five hundred dollars; the attorney general, four hundred dollars. The secretary to have two § 11. That the secretary of the treasury be authorized to have of the treasury two principal clerks, each of whom to have a salary of eight principal hundred dollars per annum; and that the salary of the chief clerks, with a clerk of the department of war, be at the rate of eight hundred salary of 800 dolls. each, dollars per year. &c. strictions on 196. of the revenue, §. 12. That the restriction on the clerks of the department of Certain rethe treasury, so far as respects the carrying on of any trade, or the clerks of business, other than in the funds, or debts of the United States, the treasury, or of any state, or in any kind of public property, be abolished; abolished. and that such restriction, so far as respects the funds or debts of Vol. i. p. 46, the United States, or of any state, or any public property of ei- Restriction ther, be extended to the commissioner of the revenue, to the extended tothe several commissioners of loans, and to all persons employed in commissioner their respective offices, and to all officers of the United States commissioners concerned in the collection or disbursement of the revenues of loans, xc. thereof, under the penalties prescribed in the eighth section or the act, entitled "An act to establish the treasury department;" Privilege of and the provisions relative to the officers in the treasury depart- franking exment, contained in the "Act to establish the post office and commissioner post roads," shall be, and hereby are, extended and applied to of the revethe commissioner of the revenue. [Approved, May 8, 1792.] tended to the nue. Vol. i. p. 46, 211. CHAP. [38.] An act supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of Vol. i. p. 109. the United States. tic debt not § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the term for receiving on loan Term for rethat part of the domestic debt of the United States, which hath ceiving on not been subscribed pursuant to the terms proposed in the act, loan that part entitled "An act making provision for the debt of the United of the domesStates," shall be, and it is hereby, extended, on the same terms subscribed, as in and by the said act is provided, to the first day of March extended to next; and books, for receiving such farther subscriptions, shall March, 1793. be opened at the treasury of the United States, and by the com- Books for remissioners of loans, in each of the said states, on the first day of receiving subJune next, which shall continue open until the said first day of scriptions, to March next inclusively; for which purpose the said commission- the treasury, ers, respectively, are hereby invested with the like powers, and &c. required to perform the like duties, as in and by the said act is directed. be opened at § 2. That such of the creditors of the United States as have creditors not not subscribed, and shall not subscribe, to the said loan, shall, subscribing, to nevertheless, receive a rate, per centum, on the amount of so much of their respective demands, as well for interest as prin- according to receive a rate per centum, the act mentioned, &c. Term enlarg ed to 1st March, 1793, for receiving on loan state debts, &c. Books to be opened at the treasury, &c. Certificates issued by Pat rick Travers, and the com missioners, &c. at War renton, excluded. cipal, as, on or before the first day of March, shall be registered, conformably to the directions of the said act, as shall be equal to the interest payable to the subscribing creditors, which shall be payable at the same times and places, and by the same persons, as in and by the said act is directed. § 3. That the term for receiving upon loan that part of the debts of the respective states, which hath not been subscribed pursuant to the terms proposed in the act aforesaid, shall be, and it is hereby, enlarged, on the same terms, as in and by the said act is provided, until the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, inclusively for which purpose books shall be opened, at the treasury of the United States, and by the commissioners of loans in each of the said States, on the first day of June next, which shall continue open until the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, inclusively; for which purposes the said commissioners are hereby invested with the like powers, and required to perform the like duties, as in and by the said act is directed. 4. Provided, &c. That the commissioner of loans for North Carolina, shall not be allowed to receive any certificate issued by Patrick Travers, commissioner of Cumberland county, or by the commissioners of army accounts at Warrenton. § 5. And whereas the United States are indebted to certain foreign officers, on account of pay and services during the late The president war, the interest whereof, pursuant to the certificates granted to the said officers by virtue of a resolution of the United States in discharged the principal and congress assembled, is payable at the house of to cause to be interest of debts due to foreign officers, &c. out of moneys ob tained on loan, &c. secretary of sury, and attorney general constituted commissioners for purchasing the debt of the U. States, &c. Grand, banker, at Paris, and it is expedient to discharge the same; Be it, therefore, enacted, That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be discharged the principal and interest of the said debt, out of any of the moneys which have been, or shall be obtained on loan, in virtue of the act aforesaid, and which shall not be necessary ultimately to fulfil the purposes for which the said moneys are, in and by the said act, authorized to be borrowed. The president 6. That the president of the senate, the chief justice, the of the senate, secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and the attorchief justice, ney general, for the time being, shall be commissioners, who, or state, secreta- any three of whom, are hereby authorized, with the approbation ry of the trea- of the president of the United States, to purchase the debt of the United States, at its market price, if not exceeding the par or true value thereof; for which purchase the interest on so much of the public debt as has already been, or may hereafter be, purchased for the United States, or as shall be paid into the treasury, and so much of the moneys appropriated for the payment of the interest on the foreign and domestic debt, as shall Fund for pur- exceed what may be sufficient for the payment of such interest chasing, &c. to the creditors of the United States, shall be and are hereby The commis appropriated. And it shall be the duty of the said commissionsioners to ren- ers to render to the legislature, within two months after the commencement of the first session thereof, in every year, a full and precise account of all such purchases made, and public debt redeemed, in pursuance of this act. der an account annually, of the public debt redeem ed, &c. gradual reduc § 7. And whereas it is expedient to establish a fund for the Fund appro gradual reduction of the public debt; Be it further enacted, priated for the That the interest on so much of the debt of the United States, tion of the as has been, or shall be, purchased or redeemed, for or by the public debt. United States, or as shall be paid into the treasury thereof in satisfaction of any debt or demand, and the surplus of any sum or sums appropriated for the payment of the interest upon the said debt, which shall remain after paying such interest, shall be, and hereby are, appropriated and pledged, firmly and inviolably, The fund apfor and to the purchase and redemption of the said debt, to be propriated to applied, under the direction of the president of the senate, the der the direc be applied unchief justice, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasu- tion of the ry, and the attorney general, for the time being, or any three of president of them, with the approbation of the president of the United States, the senate, for the time being, in manner following, that is to say: First, to &c. the purchase of the several species of stock constituting the Rules prescridebt of the United States, at their respective market prices, not bed for the purchase of exceeding the par or true value thereof, and, as nearly as may the stocks be, in equal proportions, until the annual amount of the said constituting funds, together with any other provisions which may be made the public debt, &c. by law, shall be equal to two per centum of the whole amount of the outstanding funded stock bearing a present interest of six per centum: Thenceforth, secondly, to the redemption of the said last mentioned stock, according to the right for that purpose reserved to the United States, until the whole amount thereof shall have been redeemed: And lastly, after such redemption, to the purchase, at its market price, of any other stock, consisting of the debt of the United States, which may then re : main unredeemed and such purchase, as far as the fund shall at Time of pur any time extend shall be made within thirty days, next after each chase. day on which a quarterly payment of interest on the debt of the Purchase by a United States shall become due: and shall be made by a known known agent, agent, to be named by the said commissioners. &c. 8. That all future purchases of public debt, on account of Purchases of the United States, shall be made at the lowest price at which public debt at the same can be obtained, by open purchase, or by receiving seal the lowest ed proposals, to be opened in the presence of the commissioners, price, open, or or persons authorized by them to make purchases, and the per- posals. sons making such proposals. application of tlement. § 9. That quarter yearly accounts, of the application of the Quarterly ac said fund, shall be rendered for settlement, as other public ac- counts of the counts, accompanied with returns of the sums of the said debt fund appropri which shall have been, from time to time, purchased or redeem- ated to be rened; and full and exact report of the proceedings of the said dered for setcommissioners, including a statement of the disbursements which Report of the shall have been made, and of the sums which shall have been commissionpurchased or redeemed, under their direction, and specifying ers' proceeddates, prices, parties, and places, shall be laid before congress laid before ings, &c. to be within the first fourteen days of each session which may ensue congress at the present, during the execution of the said trust. [Approved, each session. May 8, 1792.] VOL. I. 34 Vol. i. p. 282, 770. of the mint to per, to be Vol. i. p. 227 to be paid in- ry as they are coined, &c. ter the payment of worth of CHAP. [39.] An act to provide for a copper coinage. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the director of the mint, with the approbation of the president of the United States, be authorized to contract for and purchase a quantity of copper, not exceeding one hundred and fifty tons, and that the said director, as soon as the needful preparations shall be made, cause the copper by him purchased to be coined, at the mint, into cents and half cents, pursuant to the " act, establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States ;" and that the said cents and half cents, as they shall be coined, be paid into the treasury of the United States, thence to issue into circulation. § 2. That after the expiration of six calendar months from Six months af- the time when there shall have been paid into the treasury, by the said director, in cents and half cents, a sum not less than 50,000 dolls. fifty thousand dollars, which time shall forthwith be announced by the treasurer, in at least two gazettes, or newspapers, published at the seat of the government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid, or offered to be paid, or received in payment, for any debt, demand, claim, matter, or thing, whatsoever; and all to pass current copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, as money, &c. Forfeit of the which shall be paid, or offered to be paid, or received in payment, contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been so paid, or offered to be paid, or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeiture and penalty shall and may be recovered, with costs of suit, for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given. Approved, May 8, 1792.] cents, &c. in to the treasury, to be announced by advertise ment, no other copper coins amount and ten dolls. for attempting to pass other copper coin after the time notified, &c. Laws of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, to be printed, &c. 200 copies, and 10 sets of the ed, &c. CHAP. [42.] An act respecting the government of the territories of the United § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the laws of the territory northwest of the Ohio, that have been, or hereafter may be, enacted laws of the by the governor and judges thereof, shall be printed, under the United States, direction of the secretary of state, and two hundred copies thereto be deliver- of, together with ten sets of the laws of the United States, shall Governor and be delivered to the said governor and judges, to be distributed judges of the among the inhabitants, for their information, and that a like territory number of the laws of the United States shall be delivered to northwest of the Ohio authe governor and judges of the territory southwest of the river thorized to re- Ohio. peal their laws, &c. Official duties § 2. That the governor and judges of the territory northwest of the river Ohio shall be, and hereby are, authorized to repeal of secretaries their laws, by them made, whensoever the same may be found under the con- to be improper. trol of territorial laws. One supreme or superior judge may § 3. That the official duties of the secretaries of the said territories shall be under the control of such laws as are, or may be, in force in the said territories. § 4. That any one of the supreme or superior judges of the hold court, in said territories, in the absence of the other judges, shall be, and hereby is, authorized to hold a court. the absence of the others. |