Chapter LXX. to facilitate the Settlement of the Accounts of the Treasurer of the United States, and to secure certain Amounts to the People of the United States, or to Persons to whom they are due, and who are entitled to receive the same
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CHAP. LXX.— An Act to facilitate the Settlement of the Accounts of the Treasurer of the United States, and to secure certain Amounts to the People of the United States, or to Persons to whom they are due, and who are entitled to receive the same.May 2, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedDrafts or checks standing to the credit of any disbursing officer and dated prior to July 1, 1863, and outstanding July 1, 1866, to be deposited &c. and called “outstanding liabilities.
” States of America in Congress assembled,* That all amounts of moneys that are represented by certificates, drafts, or checks, issued by the Treasurer of the United States, or by any disbursing officer of any department of the government of the United States, upon the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer, or designated depositary of the United States, or upon any national bank designated as a depositary of the United States, and which shall be represented on the books of either such offices as standing to the credit of any disbursing officer, and bearing date prior to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and which were issued to facilitate the payment of warrants, or for any other purpose in liquidation of a debt due from the United States, which may remain outstanding on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be deposited by the Treasurer of the United States, to be covered into the treasury by warrant, and to be carried to the credit of the parties in whose favor such certificates, drafts or checks were respectively issued, or to the persons who are entitled to receive pay therefor, and into an appropriation account to be denominated “outstanding liabilities.
” Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the certificate of the RegisterCertificate of register stating amount of draft &c. attached to any warrant to be sufficient voucher &c. of the Treasury, stating that the amount of any draft issued by the Treasurer of the United States, to facilitate the payment of a warrant directed to him for payment, and which may have so remained outstanding and unpaid for three years or more as aforesaid, and which shall have been thus deposited and covered into the treasury, shall be, and the same is hereby authorized to be, when attached to any such warrant, a sufficient voucher in satisfaction of any such warrant or part of any warrant, the42THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 70, 71. 1866. same as if the drafts correctly indorsed and fully satisfied were attached to such warrant or part of warrant. And all such moneys mentioned inAppropriation for the redemption of outstanding certificates &c. this and in the preceding section shall remain as a permanent appropriation for the redemption and payment of all such outstanding and unpaid certificates, drafts and checks as aforesaid. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the payee, or the bona fidePayee of drafts &c. to have payment upon presentation. holder of any such draft or check, the amount of which has been so deposited and covered into the treasury, shall, on presenting the same to the proper officer of the treasury, be entitled to have it paid by the settlement of an account and the issuing of a warrant in his favor, according to the practice in other cases of authorized and liquidated claims against the United States.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That at the termination of every fiscalThis act to apply to all such certificates &c. outstanding for three years. and to accounts of disbursing officers. year after this act shall begin to operate, the provisions thereof shall apply to all similar certificates, drafts, and checks, which shall then have for three years or more remained outstanding, unsatisfied and unpaid, and to all disbursing officers’ accounts that shall have so remained unchanged, as in the next section provided for.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the amounts, except such asAccounts of disbursing officers unchanged for three years to be covered into the treasury, and credited. are provided for in the first section of this act, of the accounts of every kind of disbursing officer of the Government of the United States, which shall have remained unchanged, or which shall not have been increased by any new deposit thereto, nor decreased by drafts drawn thereon, for the space of three years, shall in like manner be covered into the treasury, to the proper appropriation to which they may belong, and the amounts thereof shall, on the certificate of the Treasurer of the United States that such amount has been deposited in the treasury, be credited by the proper accounting officer of the treasury on the books of the Treasury Department, to the officer in whose name it had stood on the books of any agency of the treasury, if it shall be made to appear that he is entitled to such credit.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That for the purpose of giving forceThe treasurer assistant treasurers &c. to report to the Secretary annually the condition of such accounts. and effect to the full intent and meaning of this act, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer, and of all assistant treasurers, and of all designated depositaries of the United States, and of the cashiers of all national banks designated as such depositories, to report, to the Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of business on the thirtieth day of June next, and in like manner at the close of business on every thirtieth day of June thereafter, the condition of every such account so standing, as in the preceding section specified, on the books of their respective offices, stating the name of eachReport to state what. depositor, respectively, with his official designation, the total amount so remaining on deposit to his credit, and the dates, respectively, of the last credit and the last debit made to each of such accounts, respectively.
And it shall be the duty of every and each disbursing officer in any andDisbursing officers to report annually all checks issued, &c. every department of the Government of the United States to make a like return of all checks issued by such officer, and which may then have been outstanding and unpaid for three years and more, stating fully in such report the name of the payee, for what purpose given, the office on which drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, and the date, number, and amount for which it was drawn, and, when known, the residence of the payee.
Approved, May 2, 1866.