Chapter 990. To authorize the settlement of the accounts of officers of the Army
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CHAP. 990.— An Act To authorize the settlement of the accounts of officers of the Army. March 2, 1903.[[Public, No. 140](/us/pl/57/140).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the proper accountingArmy. Allowance in accounts of officers for losses, war with Spain. officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the War Department, arising between the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and 956 ninety-eight, from which date war with Spain is declared to have existed, and the eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, the date on which the last organization of the Volunteer Army was mustered out of the service of the United States, to allow such credits for payments and for losses of funds, vouchers, and property as may be recommended under authority of the Secretary of War by the heads of the military bureaus to which such accounts respectively pertain.
Sec. 2. Accounts to be closed. That the accounts of military officers, whether of the line or staff, for Government property charged to them, shall be closed by the proper accounting officers whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it will be for the interest of the United States to do so: *Provisos*. Date of accounts. *Provided*, That such accounts originated subsequent to April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior to the ninth day of Limitation.
July, nineteen hundred and one: *Provided further*, That no settlement shall be made by the officers of the Treasury, under this Act, of the accounts of any officer whose combined responsibility for public money and Government property shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and only of such officers of the Army in whose accounts there is no apparent fraud against the United States: *And provided further*, In effect two years. That this Act shall remain in force for two years from and after its passage, and no longer.
Approved, March 2, 1903.