Chapter 71. Amending sections two hundred and forty-six and two hundred and forty-seven, Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 71.— An Act Amending sections two hundred and forty-six and two hundred and forty-seven, Revised Statutes. March 2, 1910.[[H. R. 18586](/us/bill/61/hr/18586).][[Public, No. 71](/us/pl/61/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two hundredTreasury warrants.Secretary may delegate Assistant Secretaries, or a clerk, to sign.[R. S., sec. 246, p. 41](/us/bill/rs/s246/p41), amended. and forty-six of the Revised Statutes be so amended as to read as follows:
“The Secretary of the Treasury may, by an appointment under his hand and official seal, delegate authority to the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury to sign in his stead, and he may in like manner delegate such authority to a clerk in his office to sign in his name, all warrants for the payment of money into the Public Treasury and all warrants for the disbursement from the Public Treasury of money certified by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to be due upon accounts duly audited and. settled by them; also all accountable warrants placing money in the Treasury to the credit of disbursing and other fiscal officers, and all appropriations, repay, and transfer warrants.
The warrants so signed by either of the AssistantEffect. Secretaries of the Treasury or by the designated clerk shall be in all cases of the same validity as if they had been signed by the Secretary of the Treasury himself.” Sec. 2. That section two hundred and forty-seven of the Revised[R. S., sec. 247, p. 41](/us/rs/s247/p41), repealed. Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, March 2, 1910.