Chapter 49. To regulate the making of property returns by officers of the Government
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CHAP. 49.— An Act To regulate the making of property returns by officers of the Government.March 29, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Property returns.Only certificates of loss to be forwarded to Treasury accounting officers. That instead of forwarding to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department returns of public property entrusted to die possession of officers or agents, the Quartermaster-General, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, the Surgeon-general), the Chief of Engineers, the Chief of Ordnance, the Chief Signal Officer, the Paymaster-General of the Navy, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or other like chief officers in any Department, by, through, or under whom stores, supplies, and other public property are received for distribution, or whose duty it is to receive or examine returns of such property, shall certify to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department, for debiting on the proper account, any charge against any officer or agent intrusted with public property, arising from any loss, accruing by his fault, to the Government as to the property so intrusted to him.
Sec. 2. That said certificate shall set forth the condition of suchContents of certificate. officer’s or agent’s property returns, that it includes all charges made up to its date and not previously certified, that he has had a reasonable opportunity to be heard and has not been relieved of responsibility; the effect of such certificate, when received, shall be the same as if the facts therein set forth had been ascertained by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department in accounting.
Sec. 3. That the manner of making property returns to or in anyManner of returns, etc., not affected. administrative bureau or department, or of ascertaining liability for property, under existing laws and regulations, shall not be affected by this Act, except as provided in section one; but in all cases arising as to such property so intrusted the officer or agent shall have an opportunity to relieve himself from liability. Sec. 4. That the heads of the several Departments are herebyRegulations. empowered to make and enforce regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 5. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisionsRepeal. of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 29, 1894.