66 EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS To the people of the United States on the subject of the report of a Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to "Examine and report, whether "monies drawn from the Treasury, have been faithfully 'applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly ac"counted for". Which report was presented on the 29th of April, 1800, By Oliver Wolcott, late Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 66 3d. The expenses of the officers and clerks, attached to the Seat of government, for the removal of themselves and families from Philadelphia to Washington, and amounting, as is stated, to the sum of 32,372 Dollars and 34 Cents, the Committee are of the opinion "was drawn from the Treasury, and expended without any legal authority". The act, establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States, was passed on the 16th of July 1790, at which time, Congress and the public officers were convened in New York. The act directed, that prior to the first Monday in December 1790, all the offices should be removed to Philadelphia, where they were directed to remain, until the first Monday in December 1800. No provision was made for defraying any expenses, incident to the removal from New York, to Philadelphia. The Section, directing the removal from Philadelphia to Washington, and upon which the Committee have founded their opinion, is expressed in the following words. "That on the said first Monday in December in the "year 1800, the seat of the government of the United "States, shall, by virtue of this Act be transferred to "the district and place aforesaid; and all OFFICES, at"tached to the said seat of government, shall accord"ingly be removed thereto, by their respective holders, "and shall, after the said day, cease to be exercised "elsewhere; and that the necessary expense of such re"moval, shall be defrayed out of the duties on imports "and tonnage, of which a sufficient sum is hereby ap"propriated". In March 1791, after the removal from New York to Philadelphia, Congress, by a special law, directed, "that there be allowed to the Clerks, employed in the "several offices, attached to the Seat of Government, in “addition to their respective salaries, their reasonable "and necessary expenses, incurred by the removal of "Congress, from the City of New York, to the City of "Philadelphia.' During the same Session, a temporary addition was made to the Salaries of the Attorney-General, Comptroller, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Auditor and Register, which was sufficient to cover the expenses of the removal. On the 24th of April, 1800, Congress by Law, authorised the President, to direct the various offices to be removed to Washington, at any time, after the end of the then session, and before the time appointed, for such removal, by the Act of July 16th, 1790. By the same act of April, 1800, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, was appropriated for providing furniture, for the house, allotted for the President of the United States; a sum not exceeding nine thousand dollars, for furniture, for the Capitol, and for the removal of the records and papers of the two Houses of |