Annual Report of the General Accounting OfficeThe Office, 1937 - Finance, Public |
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... prior to countersignature of warrants covering such receipts into the Treasury where they may be available for expenditure or appropriation , and ( b ) The establishment of adequate accounting control over accountable ( disbursing and ...
... prior to countersignature of warrants covering such receipts into the Treasury where they may be available for expenditure or appropriation , and ( b ) The establishment of adequate accounting control over accountable ( disbursing and ...
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... prior visit a change had been effected with the assistance of the Treasury Department whereby all funds of the corporation were to be handled as " special deposits . " 8. On August 6 , 1936 , the following letter was addressed to the ...
... prior visit a change had been effected with the assistance of the Treasury Department whereby all funds of the corporation were to be handled as " special deposits . " 8. On August 6 , 1936 , the following letter was addressed to the ...
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... Prior committees sent to audit the Panama Canal accounts on the Isthmus have noted with amazement the apparent juggling of capital assets of business operations , as between the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad . This practice has ...
... Prior committees sent to audit the Panama Canal accounts on the Isthmus have noted with amazement the apparent juggling of capital assets of business operations , as between the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad . This practice has ...
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... prior to the word " transportation " in line seven of the second paragraph of the section be stricken out . And that after the word " completed " in the eighth line of the same paragraph a colon be inserted for the period and the ...
... prior to the word " transportation " in line seven of the second paragraph of the section be stricken out . And that after the word " completed " in the eighth line of the same paragraph a colon be inserted for the period and the ...
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... prior to payment rather than after payment has been made . Considerable economy would thus be effected , and the transactions would be handled in an efficient manner according to sound accounting principles . Similar improvements and ...
... prior to payment rather than after payment has been made . Considerable economy would thus be effected , and the transactions would be handled in an efficient manner according to sound accounting principles . Similar improvements and ...
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49 Stat 57 Stat Accounting Office Act of June adjustment advances to disbursing agencies Agriculture amended Amounts returned appropriations for prior Appropriations transferred approved audit authorized Balance from appropriations Balances available Board Bureau certificates checks collections Commission Comptroller Congress contracts Corporation Department or establishment departments and establishments deposit disallowed disbursing officers District of Columbia Division employees examination expenditures expenses Farm Credit Administration Federal filed fiscal year 1939 Government hand July hand June 30 Indian involved June 28 Loan ment Miscellaneous money orders operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad pay rolls payments personnel postmasters preaudited prescribed procedure Progress Administration receipts received regulations request returned to surplus Revised Statutes SCHEDULE Secretary settlement statement surplus fund Tennessee Valley Authority thereof tion Total advances Total deductions Total funds available transactions transportation Treasury Department U. S. Maritime Commission Unadvanced balance vouchers warrants
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Page 76 - All departments and establishments shall furnish to the Comptroller General such information regarding the powers, duties, activities, organization, financial transactions, and methods of business of their respective offices as he may from time to time require of them; and the Comptroller General, or any of his assistants or employees, when duly authorized by him, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records...
Page 64 - The Board shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State...
Page 218 - Government, to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter made and to make advance progress and other payments, thereon, without regard to the provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts whenever he deems such action would facilitate the prosecution of the war...
Page 58 - Any executive department or independent establishment of the Government, or any bureau or office thereof, if funds are available therefor and if it is determined by the head of such executive department, establishment, bureau, or office, to be in the interest of the Government to do so, may place orders with any other such department, establishment, bureau, or office for materials, supplies, equipment, work, or services, of any kind that such requisitioned Federal...
Page 301 - State to make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended.
Page 66 - Labor for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary of Labor, the amount so certified.
Page 17 - The board of directors of the Corporation shall determine and prescribe the manner in which its obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and paid.
Page 174 - When any such property or the use thereof is so requisitioned, the owner thereof shall be paid just compensation for the property taken or for the use of such property, but in no case shall the value of the property taken or used be deemed enhanced by the causes necessitating the taking or use.
Page 58 - Hospital in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment...
Page 11 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are. respectively made, and for no others.