Chapter 359.
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Chap. 359. vol. 24, p. 595, amended. Suits by United States officials to recover fees for services; filing, etc., of account necessary. Vol. 28, p. 206. and eighty-seven, chapter three hundred and fifty-nine, second session of the Forty-ninth Congress, be amended by adding thereto the following proviso, to wit: *Provided further,* That no suit against the Government of the United States, brought by any officer of the United States to recover fees for services alleged to have been performed for the United States, shall be allowed under this Act unless an account for 650FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 546, 547. 1898. said fees shall have been rendered and finally acted upon according to *Ante,* p. 495. the provisions of the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (chapter one hundred and seventy-four, Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-two), unless the proper accounting officer of the Treasury fails to finally act thereon within six months after the account is received in said office. Approved, July 1, 1898.