Public Law 37–CXCIX

That from and after the passage of this act any officer or agent of the United States who shall receive public money which he is not authorized to retain as salary, pay or emolument, shall render his accounts monthly, instead of quarterly, as heretofore; and such accounts, with the vouchers necessary to the correct and

Accounts, &c., to be forwarded in ten days.

prompt settlement thereof, shall be rendered direct to the proper accounting officer of the treasury, and be mailed or otherwise forwarded to its proper address within ten days after the expiration of each successive month. And in case of the non-receipt at the treasury of any accounts within a

Proceedings if acccounts are not received in season.

reasonable and proper time thereafter, the officer whose accounts are in default shall be required to furnish satisfactory evidence of having complied with the provisions of this act; and for any default on his part, the delinquent officer shall be deemed a defaulter, and be subject to all the penalties prescribed by the sixteenth section of the act of August sixth,

1846, ch. 90, § 16.

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eighteen hundred and forty-six, “to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue;” Provided, That the Secretary of the

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Treasury may, if in his opinion the circumstances of the case justify and THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 199, 200. 1862.

Time may be extended.

Other returns may be required.

require it, extend the time hereinbefore prescribed for the rendition of accounts: and provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to restrain the heads of any of the departments from requiring such other returns or reports from the officer or agent, subject to the control of such heads of departments, as the public interests may require.