Show conscience money sent to U S put into fund money sent to the treasury department part ment by persons who have defrauded the government known as conscience money Is turned into the general fund and expended the same as any other money received conscience money sent to the federal tre treasury usually runs to several thousand dollars a year notes a writer in the cleveland plain dealer the total amount which thus has been paid Is more than a half million dollars and is increasing at the rate of several thousand Ulo usand dollars yearly the identity of the contributors is usually unknown their contributions range from a few cents to thousands of dollars the largest amount ever received in one year was and was the fourth conscience payment made by this unknown contributor bringing his total to who he was or in what relation to the government he acquired thi the money he felt called upon to pay have never been found out the usual conscience contributions however are amounts of a few dollars from former village postmasters or income taxpayers who cheated a little or the like the fund began in 1811 with a contribution trib ution of 11 |