IV. The officers above named, on the conclusion of the duties above
assigned to them, will repair to their respective stations.
By order of Alexander Macomb, Major-General Commanding in Chief:
R. JONES,
_Adjutant-General_.
SPECIAL SESSION MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, _September 4, 1837_.
_Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives_:
The act of the 23d of June, 1836, regulating the deposits of the public
money and directing the employment of State, District, and Territorial
banks for that purpose, made it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
to discontinue the use of such of them as should at any time refuse to
redeem their notes in specie, and to substitute other banks, provided a
sufficient number could be obtained to receive the public deposits upon
the terms and conditions therein prescribed. The general and almost
simultaneous suspension of specie payments by the banks in May last
rendered the performance of this duty imperative in respect to those
which had been selected under the act, and made it at the same time
impracticable to employ the requisite number of others upon the
prescribed conditions.
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