United States Code Annotated, Volume 31West Publishing Company, 1927 - Law |
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17 Stat 241 of Title 42 Stat 64 Stat Accounting Office Act Aug Act Feb Act July Act June Act March action affirmed agen agencies amended amount appropriation act Army assay office assignment attorney Atty bank bonds bullion Bureau certificates certiorari cies and employees cited to text Code coinage Comptroller Congress contract corporation court creditors Cross-References debtor debts due Departments and Government deposit derived from Act disbursing officers duties entitled Executive Departments F.Supp Federal fiscal fund gold coin Historical Note insolvent issued judgment July 31 June 19 June 25 June 30 L.Ed legal tender liability Liberty Bond lien ment Navy Note This section note under section Notes of Decisions Officers and Employees paid payment priority provisions public moneys Reorg repealed S.Ct Secretary settlement silver Statutes was derived surety taxes thereof tion U. S. ex rel United States notes
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Page 105 - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof.
Page 75 - Whenever any person indebted to the United States is insolvent, or whenever the estate of any deceased debtor, in the hands of the executors or administrators, is insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied...
Page 197 - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 350 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page 72 - Every executor, administrator, or assignee, or other person, who pays, in whole or in part, any debt due by the person or estate from whom or for which he acts...
Page 77 - Any such assignment or reassignment shall cover all amounts payable under this contract and not already paid, and shall not be made to more than one party, except that any such assignment or reassignment may be made to one party as agent or trustee for two or more parties participating in such financing.
Page 270 - And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the United 'States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.
Page 105 - ... make or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statements or representations, or make or use or cause to be made or used any false bill, receipt...
Page 322 - No executive department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 21 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.