Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. Let the bill be read. The bill was read. The 1st section provides that all auteunts of money that are represented by certificates, drafts, or checks issued by the the asurer of the U.S., or by any disbursing officer of any Dept of the Government of the U.S. upon the Treas urer, or any Asst Treasurer, or designated depositary of the U.S., or upon any national bank desi nated as a depositary of the U.S., and gwhich shall be represented on the books of either of such offices as standing to the credit of any disbursing officer, and bearing date prior to July 1, 1863, and which were issued to facilitate the payment of war rants or for any other purpose in liquidation of a debt due from the U.S., which shall remain outstanding on the 1st of Jul, 1866, shall be deposited by the TreaSurer of the U.S., to be covered into the Treasury by warrants to be carried to the credit of the parties in whose favor such certificates, drafls, or checks were respectivel issued, or to the persons which were entitle to receive payfhereof, and into the appropriation account to bedenom inated “outstanding liabilities.” The 2nd section provides that the certificate of the Register of the Treasury, stating the amount of any draft issued by the Treasurer of the U.S. to facilitate the puyment of a warrant directed to him for payment, and which shall have remained outstanding and unpaid for 3 years or more as aforesaid, an which shall have been thus do osited and covered into the Treasury, shall e, and the same is hereby authorized to be, when attached to any such warrant, a sufficient voucher in satisfaction of any such warrant or part ofany warrant, the same as if the drafts correctly indorsed and fully satisfied were attached to such warrantor part of warrant; and all mon eysmentioned in this and the preceding section shall remain as a permanent appropriation for the payment of all such outstanding and unpaid certificates, drafts, or checks. vhe3rd section provides that the payee or the bonafide holder of any such draft or check the amount of which has been so deposited an covered into the Treasury shall, on presenting the same to the properofficer of the Treasury, be entitled to have it paid by the settlement. of an account and the issuing of a warrant in his favor, according to the practice in other cases of authorized and liqui ated claims against the U.S. The 4th section provides that at the termination of every fiscal year after this act shall begin to o erate, the provisions thereof shall a pl to a l similar certificates, drafts, and ciiec s which shall then have remained for 3 years or mom outstanding, unsatisfied, and unpaid, and to all disbursing officers accounts that shall have so remained unchanged as in the next section provided for. The 5th section provides that the amounts, except such as are provided for in the 1st section of this act, of the accounts of any kind of disbursing otfieer of the Government of the U.S. which shall have remained unchanged or which shall not have been increased by any new depOsit thereto, nor decreased by drafts drawn thereon for the space of 3 ycars, shall, in like manner, he covered into the lreasury to the propera propriation to which they may belong; an the amounts thereof shall on the certificate of the Treas urer of the U.S. that such amount has been deposited in the Treasury, be credited by the propemccountin otheer of the Treasury, on the books of the Treasury Dept, to the officer inwhose name it had stood on the booksof any agency of the treasury, if itshall be made to appear that he is entitled to such credit. The 6th section enacts that for the purpose of giving force and effect to the full intent and meaning of this act, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer, and of all Asst Treasurers, and of all designated depositaries of the U.S., and of the cashiers of all national banks designated as such depositaries, to report to the SecyTreasury at the close of business On the 80th day of June next, and in like manner at the close of business on every 30th day of June thereafter, the coadition of every such account O standing, as specified in the precedin sections, on the books of their respective o ces, statln the name of each depositor respectively with his official designation, the tota amount so remaining on de osit to his credit, and the dates respectively of the last credit and the last debit made to each of such accounts respectively; and it shall be the dut of every and each disbursing oificer in any an every Dept of the Government of the U.S. to make a like return of all checks issued by such officer, and which may then have been outstandin and unpaid for 3 years and more, statin fu l in such report the name of the payee, or what purpose given, the office on which drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, and the date, number, and amount for which it was drawn, and when known the residence of the payee.