Decisions of the First Comptroller in the Department of the Treasury of the United States with an Appendix, Band 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 |
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18 Stats 21 Stats accounting officers act of June act of March allowed amount apply appointed appropriation act approved artificial limbs assignment Attorney-General authority Bank bond centum certified charged claimant clerk collector Commissioner of Internal commissions compensation Compt Comptroller's Office Congress construction construed contract Court of Claims deputy disbursing agent disbursing officer District of Columbia dollars draft duty employés entitled executive expenses February 22 fees fiscal fixed gaugers Government Internal Revenue issued judgment June 16 June 30 jurisdiction Kansas Land Office liability lien marshal ment paid party payment perform person postmaster power of attorney prescribed proper prosecute provisions public lands public money purpose question receive refund regulations rendered repeal Revised Statutes salary Secretary Senate set-off stamps subpoena sureties thereof tion Treasury Department trust United vouchers warrant WILLIAM LAWRENCE witnesses
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Seite 198 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void...
Seite 155 - ... absolutely null and void unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof.
Seite 357 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Seite 384 - Nothing can be clearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrine, that the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract.
Seite 12 - No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Seite 416 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Seite 17 - No allowance or compensation shall be made to any officer or clerk, by reason of the discharge of duties which belong to any other officer or clerk in the same or any other Department; and no allowance or compensation shall be made for any extra services whatever, which any officer or clerk may be required to perform, unless expressly axithorized by law.
Seite 561 - All balances of appropriations contained in the annual appropriation bills, and made specifically for the service of any fiscal year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made within that year; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund.
Seite 319 - That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union...
Seite 526 - Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued...