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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C1I.4]. 1840. 387 customs, all surveyors of the customs acting also as collectors, all receivers-general of public moneys, all receivers of public moneys at the several land offices, and all post-masters, except as is hereinafter particularly provided, be, and they are hereby, required to keep safely, without leaning or using, all the public money collected by them, or otherwise at any time placed in their possession and custody, till the same is ordered by the proper department or officer of the Government to be transferred or paid out; and when such orders for transfer or payment are received, faithfully and promptly to make the same as directed, and to do and perform all other duties as fiscal agents of the Government, which may be imposed by this or any other acts of Congress, or by any regulation of the Treasury Department, made in conformity to law; and also to do and perform all acts and duties required by law, or by direction of any of the Executive Departments of the Government, as agents for paying pensions, or for making any other disbursements which either of the heads of those departments may be required by law to make, and which are of a character to be made by the depositaries hereby constituted, consistently with the other official duties imposed upon them. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, ’I`hat the Treasurer of the United Bonds w be States, the Treasurer of the Mint of the United States, the Treasurer of €£"°“ by 'b° d the Branch Mint at New Orleans, and the receivers-general of public money hereinbefore directed to be appointed, shall, respectively, give eral, &.c. bonds to the United States, in such form, and for such amounts, as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, by and with the advice and consent of the President, with sureties to the satisfaction of the Solicitor of the Treasury; and shall, from time to time, renew, strengthen, and increase their official bonds, as the Secretary of the Treasury, with the consent of the President, may direct; any law in reference to any of the official bonds of any of the said officers to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. S. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Se- Bonds to be qrletary of the Treasury, at as early a day as possible after the passage of glggfey ;l;§,,_ t is act, to require from the several depositaries hereby constituted, and ms c,,,,;),,,,,,,.,,, whose official bonds are not hercinbefore provided for, to execute bonds by this set. new and suitable in their terms to meet the new and increased duties imposed upon them respectively by this act, and with sureties, and in sums such as shall seem reasonable and safe to the Solicitor of the Treasury, and from time to time to require such bonds to be renewed and Bonds ma be increased in amount and strengthened by new sureties, to meet any in- renewed, gc, creasing responsibility which may grow out of accumulations of money in the hands of the depositary, or out of any other duty or responsibility arising under this or any other law of Congress. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all collectors and receivers CO",,,,,,,,, and of public money, of every character and description, within the District receivers of _ of Columbia, shall, as frequently as they may be directed by the Secre- l’,;‘;’¥:,{;‘,‘:l’:g' m tary of the Treasury, or the Postmaster General, so to do, pay over to p;,,,,,,,, to p,,,, the Treasurer of the United States at the Treasury thereof, all public over, when and moneys collected by them, or in their hands; that all such collectors ";)Y,‘;;’,::·,,,C°_ and receivers of public moneys within the cities of Philadelphia and ],,,,,b;,,_ New Orleans, shall, upon the same direction, pay over to the Treasurers Philadelphia of the Mints in their respective cities, at the said mints, all public mo- ““d N·°'l°°“’· neys collected by them, or in their hands; and that all such collectors N and receivers of public moneys within the cities of New York, Boston, B,,;l";,¥,‘§g“,,s_ Charleston, and St. Louis, shall, upon the same direction, pay over to ,0,,, ,,,{d SL the receivers-general of public money in their respective cities, at their Louis. offices respectively, all the public moneys collected by them, or in their hands, to be safely kept by the said respective depositaries, until otherwise disposed of according to law; and it shall be the duty of the Said payments at Secretary and Postmaster General to direct such payments, by the sard leasponce a collectors and receivers, at all the said places, at least as often as once “'°" ·
