Chapter CXIV. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the better Organization of the Treasury, and far the Collection, Safe-keeping, transfer, and Disbursement of the Public Revenue.” March 3, 1857.1846, ch. 90. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in C
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Chap. CXIV.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the better Organization of the Treasury, and far the Collection, Safe-keeping, transfer, and Disbursement of the Public Revenue.” March 3, 1857.1846, ch. 90. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Vol. ix. p. 59. That the act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby so amended that each and every disbursing officer or agent of the UnitedDisbursing officers required to deposit their moneys.
States, having any money of the United States entrusted to him for disbursement, shall be and he is hereby required to deposit the same with the Treasurer of the United States, or with some one of the assistant treasurersHow drawn out. or public depositaries, and draw for the same only in favor of the persons to whom payment is to be made in pursuance of law and instructions; except when payments are to be made in sums under twenty dollars, in which cases such disbursing agent may check in his own name, stating that it is to pay small claims.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, and public depositaries shall safely keep allCustody of such deposits. moneys deposited by any disbursing officer or disbursing agent of the United States, as well as any moneys deposited by any receiver, collector, or other person which shall be the moneys of or due or owing to the United States, and for a failure so to do shall be held guilty of the crimePenalty. of embezzlement of said moneys, and subject to the punishment provided for embezzlement in the act to which this is an amendment.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of eachAll persons having public moneys required to deposit the same. and every person who shall have moneys of the United States in his hands or possession to pay the same to the treasurer, the assistant treasurer, or public depositary of the United States, and take his receipt for the same, in duplicate, and forward one of them forthwith to the Secretary of the Treasury, and for a failure to make such deposit, when required by the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other department, or the accounting officers of the treasury, the person so failing shall be held guilty of the crime of embezzlement, and subject to the punishment forPenalty. that offence provided in the act to which this is an amendment.
Approved, March 3, 1857.