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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 1 — Bureau of Indian Affairs

§ 8. Accounts for claims and disbursements

Statutory text

All accounts and vouchers for claims and disbursements connected with Indian affairs shall be transmitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him passed to the Government Accountability Office for settlement.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. R.S. § 464

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 8

    R.S. § 464

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 464

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 464 derived from act July 9, 1832, ch. 174, § 3, 4 Stat. 564.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“Government Accountability Office” substituted in text for “General Accounting Office” pursuant to section 8(b) of Pub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section 702 of Title 31, Money and Finance, which redesignated the General Accounting Office and any references thereto as the Government Accountability Office. Previously, “General Accounting Office” substituted in text for “proper accounting officer of the Department of the Treasury” pursuant to act , which transferred all powers and duties of the Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other employees of the Treasury to the General Accounting Office. See section 701 et seq. of Title 31.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1921–2004 · 3 acts
  1. R.S. § 464
  2. 1921June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24
  3. 2004Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.
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(R.S. § 464; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.)

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