Chapter XXXVI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the prompt Settlement of public Accounts,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventeen.*March 30, 1868.1817, ch. 46
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CHAP. XXXVI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the prompt Settlement of public Accounts,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventeen.*March 30, 1868.1817, ch. 46.Vol. iii. p. 366. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Heads of departments not to modify balances certified to them by, &c. That the act of March three, eighteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts,” shall not be construed to authorize the heads of departments to change or modify the balances that may be certified to them by the commissioner of customs or the comptroller of the treasury, but that such balances, when stated by the auditor and properly certified by the comptroller as provided by that act, shall be taken and considered as final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the government, and be subject to revision only by Congress or the proper courts:
Proviso.*Provided,* That the head of the proper department, before signing a warrant for any balance certified to him by a comptroller, may submit to such comptroller any facts in his judgment affecting the correctness of such balance, but the decision of the comptroller thereon shall be final and conclusive as hereinbefore provided. Approved, March 30, 1868.