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to the proper officer of the Treasury, be entitled to have it paid by 

 the settlement of an account and the issuin<jj of a warrant in his 

 favor, accordintj; to the practice in other cases of authorized and 

 liquidated claims against the United States. 



REV. ST. SEC. 309. 



Accoants of disbiirsing officers remaining unchanged for three years. 



Sec. 309. The amounts, except such as are provided for in section 

 three hundred and six. of the accounts of every kind of disbursing 

 officer, which shall have remained unchanged, or which shall not 

 have been increased by any new deposit thereto, nor decreased by 

 draft.s drawn thereon, for the space of three years, shall in like 

 manner be covered into the Treasury, to the proper appropria- 

 tion to which they belong; and the amounts thereof shall, on the 

 certificate of the Tl>easu*r that such amount has been deposited 

 in the Treasury, be credited by the proper accounting officer of the 

 Department of the Treasury on the books of the Department, to the 

 officer in -whose name it had stood on the books of any agency of the 

 Treasury, if it appears that he is entitled to such credit. 



REV. ST. SEC. 310. 



Beports by disbursing officers of checks outstanding for three years. 



Sec. 310. The Treasurer, each assistant treasurer, and each desig- 

 nated depositary of the United States, and the cashier of each of 

 the national banks designated as such depositaries, shall, at the close 

 of business on every thirtieth day of June, report to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury the condition of every account standing, as in the 

 preceding section specified, on the books of their respective offices, 

 stating the name of each depositor, with his official designation, the 

 total amount remaining on deposit to his credit, and the dates, respec- 

 tively, of the last credit and the debit made to each account. And 

 each disbursing officer shall make a like return of all checks issued 

 by him, and whic^ may then have been outstanding and unpaid for 

 three years and more, stating fully in such report the name of the 

 payee, for what purpose each check was given, the office on wdiich 

 drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, the date, number, 

 and amount for which it was drawn, and, when known, the residence 

 of the payee. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3648. 



Advances of public moneys prohibited. 



Sec. 3648. Xo advance of public money shall be made in any case 

 whatever. And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any 

 service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of 

 the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service 

 rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment. It 

 ^hall, however, be lawful, under the special direction of the^ Presi- 

 dent, to make such advances to the disbursing officers of the Govern- 

 ment as mav be necessary to the faithful and prompt discharge of 

 their respective duties, and to the fulfillment of the public -engage- 

 ments. * * * 



Advances from approprintioiis for the Depjjrtment of Agrioultnrp to 

 such cliiefs of Held parties, ntiricnltiiral explorers, and others as shall 

 have given bonds, are authorized by n provision of act June 3, 1002, 

 c. 985, set forth on p. 20, ante. 



