Chapter CXXIII. to provide for the Settlement of Accounts of certain Public Officers
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CHAP. CXXIII.— An Act to provide for the Settlement of Accounts of certain Public Officers.June 15, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedMoneys received by any United States officer for the refugees or freedmen to be charged to him and accounted for. States of America in Congress assembled,* That all moneys raised in the United States for the support of refugees or freedmen, and received by any officer of the United States army, shall be charged against such officer on the books of the Treasury Department and accounted for by him in like manner as if such moneys had been drawn from the treasury of the United States, and if any part thereof shall have been expended for the use of refugees or freedmen, the same shall be passed to the credit of the officer, if, upon examination of his accounts, it shall appear to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department that the amount expended was properly disbursed for such refugees or freedmen, and on the adjustment of the accounts of the officer, if any balance shall remain in the hands of such officer the same shall be paid into the treasury of the United States, for a fund for the relief of refugees and freedmen.
And any officer having such balance in his hands, who, after being dulyOfficers having a balance in their hands and neglecting or refusing to pay it over, &c., how treated. required, shall refuse or neglect to pay over the same, or who shall, after due notice, fail to settle his account, shall be proceeded against in the same manner as is provided for by existing laws in the case of disbursing officers who neglect or refuse to account for moneys drawn from the treasury of the United States.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That where accounts are renderedAccounts for expenditures for refugees, &c., to be paid from what fund, and how. for expenditures for refugees or freedmen under the approval and sanction of the proper officers, and which shall have been proper and necessary, but cannot be settled for want of specific appropriations, the66THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 123, 124, 126, 127. 1866. same may be paid out of the fund for the relief of refugees and freedmen, on the approval of the commissioner of the bureau of refugees and freedmen.
Approved, June 15, 1866.