army accounts, which are not foreclosed by
the acts of limitation of the late Congress,
and he shall report from time to time, all fuch
fettlements as have been made by him, for the
inspection and revision of the Comptroller of
the Treasury. The compenfation of the faid
accountant shall be a yearly falary of one thou- Salary.
and two hundred dollars.

of the U. S.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Duty of the Treafurer of the United States shall disburse Treasurer all fuch monies as shall have been previously herein. ordered for the use of the department of war by warrants from the treasury; which difbursements shall be made pursuant to warrants, from the Secretary at War, countersigned by the

accountant.

Sec. 3. And be it be further enacted, That Paymaster there be a paymaster to refide near the head of the troops, his quarters of the troops of the United States. duty. That it shall be the duty of the faid paymafter, to receive from the treasurer all the monies which shall be entrusted to him for the purpose of paying the pay, the arrears of pay, fubfiftence or forage, due to the troops of the United States. That he shall receive the pay abstracts of the paymasters of the several regiments or corps, and compare the fame with the returns or muster rolls which shall accompany the faid pay abstracts. That he shall certify accurately to the commanding officer, the fums due to the respective corps, which shalt have been examined as aforesaid, who shalt thereon issue his warrant on the faid deputypaymaster, for the payment accordingly. That copies of all reports to the commanding officer, and the warrants thereon, shall be duly tranfmitted to the office of the accountant of the war department, in order to be there ex

To give bond.

amined and finally adjusted at the treasury. That the faid paymaster shall give bond in the fum of twenty thousand dollars, with two fufficient fureties, for the faithful discharge of his

duty, and he shall take an oath faithfully to exHis falary. ecute the duties of his office. That the compensation to the said paymaster shall be fixty. dollars monthly, with the fame rations and forage as a major.

of

1

Afflignment Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no of pay by a affignment of pay made after the first day of ter 1st June June next, by a non-commiffioned officer or next not private, shall be vaild.

valid.

Contracts

army to be

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all for fupply purchases and contracts for fupplying the army ing the with provifions, clothing, fupplies in the quarmadeunder ter-mafter's department, military stores, Indian the Secre- goods, and all other fupplies or articles for the tary of the Treafury. ufe of the department of war, be made by or under the direction of the treasury depart

To direct the collec

ties, &c.

ment.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the tion of du- Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the fuperintendance of the collection of the duties on impost and tonnage as he shall judge best. That the present office of Afsistant to the Se

Affiftant
Secretary

cretary of the Treasury, be abolished, and that abolished & inftead thereof there be an officer in the deCommif- partment of the Treasury, to be denominated Commiffioner of the Revenue, who shall be nue fubfti- charged with superintending, under the direc

fioner of the Reve

tuted.

tion of the head of the department, the collec

tion of the other revenues of the United States, His duty. 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 compenfation of the

faid Commissioner shall be a falary of one thou- Salary. fand nine hundred dollars per annum.

tor and At

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in And powevery cafe of an account or claim not finally ers, with adjusted, upon which the present Comptroller the Audiof the Treafury, as Auditor, may have deci- torney Geded, it shall be the duty of the Commiffioner neral. of the Revenue, and of the Auditor of the Treafury, finally to adjust the fame, and in cafe of difagreement between the faid Commiffioner and Auditor, the decision of the Attorney General shall be final.

dent on

heads of

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That in Power of cafe of the death, abfence from the feat of the Prefigovernment, or fickness of the Secretary of death, & State, Secretary of the Treasury, or of the Se- of the cretary of the War Department, or of any the three officer of either of the faid departments whose departappointment is not in the head thereof, where- ments. by they cannot perform the duties of their faid refpective offices, it shall be lawful for the Prefident of the United States, in cafe he shall think it necessary, to authorize any perfon or perfons at his difcretion to perform the duties of the faid respective offices until a fuccessor be appointed, or until fuch abfence or inability by fickness shall ceafe.

ment to

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Treasury. forms of keeping and rendering all public ac- departcounts whatsoever. shall be prescribed by the prefcribe 'deparment of the Treafury,

forms for keepingac

counts.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the compenfations allowed to the Yearly alComptroller, Auditor, Treafurer, and Regif lowance to ter of the Treasury, by the "act for establish- ficers of ing the falaries of the executive officers of go- fury & At

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certain of

the Trea

neral,

torney Ge- vernment, their afsistants and clerks," and to the Attorney General by the " Act for allowing certain compenfations to the judges of the fupreme and other courts, and to the Attorney General of the United States," the faid officers respectively shall be allowed the following yearly fums, viz, the Comptroller four hundred dollars; the Auditor four hundred dollars; the Treafurer four hundred dollars; the Regifter five hundred dollars; the Attorney General four hundred dollars.

of the

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to Treasury have two principal clerks, each of whom to allowed 2 have a falary of eight hundred dollars per annum; and that the falary of the chief clerk of the department of war, be at the rate of eight hundred dollars per year.

principal.. cleaks.

on his

on trade

to the funds

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That Restriction the restriction on the clerks of the depart. clerks as to ment of the treasury, fo far as respects the carcarrying rying on of any trade or business, other than abolithed; in the funds, or debts of the United States or and that as of any state, or in any kind of public properextended ty, be abolished, and that fuch restriction, fo to all reve far as respects the funds or debts of the United cers, &c. States, or of any state, or any public property of either, be extended to the commiffioner of the revenue, to the feveral commiffioners of loans, and to all perfons employed in their refpective offices, and to all officers of the United States concerned in the collection or difbursement of

nue offi

the revenues thereof, under the penalties prePrivilege of scribed in the eighth section of the act, intitled, franking " An act to establish the treafury department, to commif. and the provisions relative to the officers in the fioner of treafury department, contained in the "Act the reve- to establish the poft office and poft roads," Thall be and hereby are extended and applied to the commiffioner of the revenue.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. RICHARD HENRY LEE, President pro tempore of the Senate.

APPROVED, May eighth, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

An Act fupplementary to the Act making Provision for the Debt of the United States.

Sec. 1.

E

Bouncedepresentatives of ane

enacted by the Senate and

United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the term for receiving on loan that part Terms for of the domeftic debt of the United States, receiving which hath not been subscribed pursuant to unfubfcrithe terms propofed in the act, intitled, " An bed domefact making provifion for the debt of the Uni- U. States ted States," shall be, and it is hereby extend- extended. ed, on the fame terms, as in and by the faid act is provided, to the first day of March next; and books, for receiving fuch farther fubfcrip- Subfcrip tions, fhall be opened at the treasury of the to be opene United States, and by the commissioners of ed. loans, in each of the faid states, on the first day of June next, which shall continue open until the faid first day of March next inclufively; for which purpose, the faid commif