Chapter 710. For the relief of the clerks of circuit and district courts of the United States
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CHAP. 710.— An Act For the relief of the clerks of circuit and district courts of the United States. February 19, 1903.[[Public, No. 105](/us/pl/34/105).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the accounting officersUnited States courts.Payment of balances due clerks of. of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen and restate the emolument accounts of the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-one to nineteen hundred, inclusive, where a balance against said clerks has been created contrary to the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated July twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and one, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States cited therein, and to settle the same in accordance with said decisions; and upon satisfactoryProofs. proof, which shall be made under oath, of any balance due any of said clerks, to certify and pay such balance to them out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 19, 1903.