Chapter 261.
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CHAP. 261.— AN ACT For the relief of registers and former registers of the United States land offices. March 4, 1911. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund, Public lands.out of Refund to registers of fees for cancellation notices.any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Vol. 27. p. 270.to registers1352and former registers of United States land offices money earned by them for issuing notices of the cancellation of entries subsequent to July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which money, under the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, they were erroneously required to deposit in the United States Treasury, contrary to the provisions of the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: *Provided,**Provisos.*That such refund shall be made only of money depositee subsequent to the approvalAccounts.of the Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and shall be made upon accounts stated and certified by the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further,* That said refund shall be made of only such fees which have not entered hito the compensation paid to such registers out of the appropriation for salaries and commissions of registersLimitation.and receivers for any fiscal year.
Sec.2.That hereafter Accounting hereafter.all money or fees received or collected by registers of United States land offices for issuing notices of cancellation of entries shall be reported and accounted for by such registers in the same manner as other fees or moneys received or collected. Approved, March 4, 1911.