Chapter 79. making an appropriation to supply the deficiency occasioned by the defalcation in the office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms
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CHAP. 79.— An Act making an appropriation to supply the deficiency occasioned by the defalcation in the office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms.April 11, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,House of Representatives.Deficiency appropriation in office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms of. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of supplying the deficiency in the appropriation heretofore Vol. 25, p. 706.Pay and mileage of members, etc.made for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the pay and mileage of delegates and members of the House of Representatives, occasioned by the recent defalcation in the office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, said sum to be Immediately available.*Proviso*.Bond.immediately available and that the same be paid to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House upon the requisitions of the Speaker: *Provided*, That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House shall first give bond to the United States, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Speaker of the House, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, with condition for the faithful keeping, application, and disbursement of all moneys that shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, or by virtue of his office, said bond to be filed with the First Comptroller of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. Sergeant-at-Arms to take possession of assets, etc. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, after making and filing bond as aforesaid, shall take into his posession all the money and other assets lately in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and now on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States by order of the House, and out of the same, together with the sum hereby appropriated, he Disbursement.Salaries unpaid.shall pay the delegates and members of the House of Representatives the amount due them, respectively, on account of salaries for the period ending December fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and now remaining unpaid, as shown by the books of the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Sec. 3. Refund of private deposits. That the said Sergeant-at-Arms, out of the money now on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States as aforesaid, and which was drawn from the National Metropolitan Bank on the seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the avails of the deposits of private funds made by the members of the House with the late Sergeant-at-Arms, refund to each, the amount of such private deposits. Approved, April 11, 1890.