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Public Law 47–439
to authorize the auditing of certain unpaid claims against the Indian Bureau by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Approved August 7, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the auditing of certain unpaid claims against the Indian Bureau by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to examine and audit all the unpaid claims heretofore filed in the departments for serv- FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. BESS. I. Ch. 439-441. 1882. ices rendered and supplies furnished under directions of the Indian Bureau
ined and audited; report in certain cases to be made to Congress.
or any of its agents; and in cases where said services and supplies are found to have actually been applied to the benefit of the Indians to report to Congress the balances equitably due on said accounts respectively, notwithstanding no sufficient appropriation existed.
Approved, August 7, 1882.