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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 15, 1870 · Chapter CCCII

Chapter CCCII. to provide for the Reports of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, and for other Purposes

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CHAP. CCCII.— An Act to provide for the Reports of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, and for other Purposes.July 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives to report to Congress their receipts and expenditures in detail, &c. secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States severally to report to Congress on the first day of each regular session, and at the expiration of their terms of service, a full and complete statement of all their receipts and expenditures as such officers, showing in detail the items of expense, and classifying them under the proper appropriations, showing the aggregate thereof, and exhibiting in a clear and concise manner the exact condition of all public moneys by them received, paid out, and in their possession as such officers.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be the duty of theThey and the sergeant-at-arms, postmasters, and doorkeeper to make full account of the property of the United States in their possession. officers hereinbefore named, and of the sergeant-at-arms, postmasters of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, to make out a full and complete account of all the property belonging to the United States in their possession, at such dates and at the expiration of their terms of service, as provided in section one of this act.
Approved, July 15, 1870.
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