Volume 13
Public Law 38–XXXII
to provide for Acting Assistant Treasurers or Depositaries of the United States in certain Cases.
Approved February 13, 1865
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for Acting Assistant Treasurers or Depositaries of the United States in certain Cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in case of the sickness or
Acting assistant treasurers and depositaries of the United States.
unavoidable absence of any assistant treasurer or depositary of the United States from his office, he may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties required by law of such assistant treasurer or depositary: Provided, That the official bond given
Bond.
by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases: And provided further, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be subject to all
Acting oflicers subject to penalties.
the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct in like cases, of the assistant treasurer or depositary respectively for whom be shall act.
Approved, .