Chapter 439. to authorize the auditing of certain unpaid claims against the Indian Bureau by the accounting officers of the Treasury
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CHAP. 439.— An Act to authorize the auditing of certain unpaid claims against the Indian Bureau by the accounting officers of the Treasury.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Claims under Indian Bureau led, to be exam- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to examine and audit all the unpaid claims heretofore filed in the departments for serv- 346 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
BESS. I. Ch. 439-441. 1882. ices rendered and supplies furnished under directions of the Indian Bureauined and audited; report in certain cases to be made to Congress. or any of its agents; and in cases where said services and supplies are found to have actually been applied to the benefit of the Indians to report to Congress the balances equitably due on said accounts respectively, notwithstanding no sufficient appropriation existed. Approved, August 7, 1882.