E. Statement of the amount of the Public Debt paid from the 4th March, 1845, to the 1st December, 1846. Amount. Old funded and unfunded debt $42,441 83 Debts of the corporated cities of the District of Columbia... 60,000 00 Reimbursements of Treasury notes under acts prior to act of 22d July, 1846. 856,748 25 Reimbursement of Treasury notes per act July, 1846 513,600 00 207,814 94 $1,680,605 02 Statement of the amount of interest on the Public Debt paid from 4th March, 1845, to 1st December, 1846. Amount. Interest on the public debt. $1,399,567 33 Interest on Treasury notes. 21,666 72 Interest on debts of several corporate cities, D. C... 106,808 57 $1,528,042 62 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, REGISTER'S OFFICE, December 3, 1846. R. H. GILLET, Register of the Treasury. F. Statement of the Debt of the United States on the 4th March, 1845. Of the principal and interest of the old funded and un funded debt.. Treasury notes issued during the war of 1812. $176,450 55 4,317 44 4,320 09 Debt of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia. Outstanding Treasury notes of the issues of 1837 to 1843... 1,200,000 00 1,244,779 22 Loan of 1841, at 6 per cent., (interest ceased 31st December, 1844)... 210,814 94 Statement of the Debt of the United States on the 1st December, 1846. Of the principal and interest of the old funded and un- Treasury notes issued during the war of 1812..... Debt of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia. Do. $134,008 72 4,317 44 4,320 09 1,140,000 00 388,030 97 $1,766,450 3,853,100 00 3,000 00 8,343,886 03 6,604,231 35 3,461,600 00 18,412,717 38 Loan of 1846, at 5 per cent., in payment of the fourth and fifth instalments of the Mexican indemnity of the $320,000 authorized.... (Certificates have been issued for $246,809 87.) TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 320,000 00 $24,256,494 60 REGISTER'S OFFICE, December 1, 1846. R. H. GILLET. F F. Proposals for United States loan. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 30, 1846. An act having been passed by Congress and approved by the President of the United States on the 22d July, 1846, entitled "An act authorizing an issue of Treasury notes and a loan," the undersigned, Secretary of the Treasury, will, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, receive proposals at the Treasury until the 12th of November, 1846, inclusive, for the subscription of a loan of five millions of dollars, on a stock bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable semiannually. The proposals will state the price to be paid for said stock. The money loaned to be placed to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, with him or with either of the assistant treasurers at Boston, New York, or Charleston, or the treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia or New Orleans. Stock will be inscribed on the books of the Department, and certificates issued for the sums thus agreed for, on evidence of the deposite of the money as provided above, bearing interest from the date of the deposite, and irredeemable before the 12th of November, 1856. The proposals will state where the money will be deposited, and should be directed in letters, under seal, to the Secretary of the Treasury, endorsed, "Proposals for the United States loan." No offer for any sum under one thousand dollars will be considered. R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury. G. Statement exhibiting the value of Merchandise imported paying duty, the amount of duty which accrued on the same, and also the rate per centum ad valorem of the said duties on the respective values, during the years 1844, 1845, and 1846. Excess in 1845 and 1846...... Deduct excess of specific duties in 1844 Excess in three years of ad valorem duties over the specific..... TREASURY DEPARTMENT, REGISTER'S OFFICE, December 7, 1846. $81,860 74 .$1,737,379 57 2,663,534 94 4,400,914 51 81,860 74 4,320,053 77 R. H. GILLET, Register, &c.. REGULATIONS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. H. Circular to Collectors, Receivers, Treasurer of the Mint and Branch Mints, Assistant Treasurers, Disbursing Agents, and Officers of the Government of the United States. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 25, 1846. By the act of the 6th August, 1846, establishing the constitutional Treasury, it is provided as follows: "SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That no exchange of funds shall be made by any disbursing officers or agents of the Government, of any grade or denomination whatsoever, or connected with any branch of the public service, other than on exchange for gold and silver; and every such disbursing officer, when the means for his disbursements are furnished to him in gold and silver, shall make his payments in the money so furnished; or when those means are furnished to him in drafts, shall cause those drafts to be presented at their place of payment, and properly paid according to the law; and shall make his payments in the money so received for the drafts furnished, unless, in either case, he can exchange the means in his hands for gold and silver at par. And it shall be, and is hereby, made the duty of the head of the proper Department immediately to suspend from duty any disbursing officer who shall violate the provisions of this section, and forthwith to report the name of the officer or agent to the President, with the fact of the violation, and all the circumstances accompanying the same and within the knowledge of the said Secretary, to the end that such officer or agent may be properly removed from office, or restored to his trust and the performance of his duties, as to the President may seem just and proper: Provided, however, That those disbursing officers having, at present, credits in the banks, shall, until the first day of January next, be allowed to check on the same, allowing the public creditors to receive their pay from the banks either in specie or bank notes. "SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue and publish regulations to enforce the speedy presentation of all Government drafts for payment at the place where payable, and to prescribe the time, according to the different distances of the depositories from the seat of Government, within which all drafts upon them, respectively, shall be presented for payment; and, in default of such presentation, to direct any other mode and place of payment which he may deem proper; but, in all these regulations and directions, it shall be 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. And no officer of the United States shall, either directly or indirectly, sell or dispose to any person or persons, or corporations, whatsoever, for a premium, any Treasury note, draft, warrant, or other public security, not his private property, or sell or dispose of the avails or proceeds of such note, draft, warrant, or security, in his hands for disbursement, without making return of such premium, and accounting therefor by charging the same in his accounts to the credit of the United States; and any officer violating this section shall be forthwith dismissed from office." It is obvious that the great and beneficial purpose of Congress in these provisions is, to enlarge the circulation of gold and silver, and to prevent Treasury drafts becoming a paper currency. It being made the duty of this Department to enforce these provisions of the law, and to issue and publish regulations for that purpose, the following have been adopted: 1st. All Government drafts shall be made payable to order, and not to bearer. 2d. They shall be assignable only by special endorsement. 3d. They shall be presented for payment at the places where payable, namely: If payable at a place distant not more than fifty miles from the seat of Government of the United States, they must be presented within twenty days from the date of the draft. If payable at a place distant more than fifty miles from the seat of Government, and not exceeding one hundred miles, they must be presented within forty days from the date of the draft. If payable at a place distant more than one hundred miles, and not exceeding two hundred, from the seat of Government, they must be presented within sixty days from the date of the draft. If payable at a place more than two hundred miles from the seat of Government, and not exceeding four hundred, they must be presented within eighty days from the date of the draft; and if payable at any place exceeding four hundred miles from the seat of Government, they must be presented within ninety days from the date of the draft. 4th. All drafts not presented within the times above described must be returned by the holders to the Treasurer of the United States, when such order shall be made for the payment of such drafts as will best comport with the public interest, and tend to prevent delay in the presentation of future drafts, or any attempt to convert them into a paper circulation. 5th. No exchange of funds shall be made by disbursing officers or agents of the Government, except for gold and silver; and every such disbursing officer, when furnished with specie for disbursement, shall make his payments in the money so furnished, or when furnished with drafts, shall cause those drafts to be presented at the place of payment and properly paid according to the law, and shall make his payments in the money so received for the drafts furnished, unless in either case he can exchange the means on his hand for gold and silver at par. 6th. No payment can be made in Treasury drafts by disbursing agents to the public creditors, even at the request of such creditors. 7th. All premiums received by any agent or officer of the Government on any Treasury draft or public security not the private property of the holder, must be accounted for and paid to the Government of the United States. 8th. No Treasury drafts shall be reissued, but the same when paid at the place where payable, shall be immediately cancelled by the public officer receiving the same, by punching two or more holes through the drafts, not defacing the date or number, and writing on the face of each |