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 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Ssss. II. C11. 174. 1894. 209 and such further duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 11. Every requisition for an advance of money, before being M-1¤i¤i¤i·>n¤ formacted on by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be sent to the proper "°°°“‘ - Auditor for action thereon as required by section twelve of this Act. All warrants, when authorized by law and signed by the Secretary W¤·r¤¤¢¤. of the Treasury, shall be countersigned by the Comptroller of the Treasury, and all warrants for the payment of money shall be accompanied either by the Auditor’s certiiicate, mentioned in section seven of this Act, or by the requisition for advance of money, which certificate or requisition shall specify the particular appropriation to which the same xmiam to state sp should be charged, instead of being specied on the warrant, as now ’"P"“*°’* provided by section thirty-six hundred and seventy-five of the Revised 1i.s.,.se.asvs,p.·m. Statutes; and shall also go with the warrant to the Treasurer, who shall return the certificate or requisition to the proper Auditor, with the date and amount of the drait issued indorsed thereon. Requisi- tions for the payment of money on all audited accounts, or for covering money into the Treasury, shall not hereafter be required. And requisitions for advances of money shall not be countersigued by the Comptroller of the Treasury. Section two hundred and sixty-nine and so much of section three °,f°§‘,;f,“uj‘,§edR°¤°”’· hundred and five of the Revised Statutes as requires the Register of iis., sm aio, p. 44, the Treasury to record warrants is repealed. §}’_’§,'}}§,‘f,;°f’,f’°· 3°5· P- Sec. 12. All monthlyaccounts shall be mailed or otherwise sent to the Tmnsmisnion or proper officer at Washington within ten days alter the end of the month `:.?m," "°‘• ’°‘ to which they relate, and quarterly and other accounts within twenty days after the period to which they relate, and shall be transmitted to and received by the Auditors within twenty days of their actual receipt at the proper office in Washington in the case of monthly, and sixty days in the case of quarterly and other accounts. Should there be any Auditor py amp delinquency in this regard at the time of the receipt by the Auditor of H§K,',;,f§§,*;',f‘§§§f" °“ a requisition for an advance of money, he shall disapprove the requisition, which he may also do for other reasons arising out of the condition of the oEicer’s accounts for whom the advance is requested; but the Secretary of the Treasury may overrule the Audito1·’s decision as to the sufficiency of these latter reasons: Provided, That the Secretary Prom". of the Treasury shall prescribe suitable rules and regulations, and may ,,,,’§“,.Q.°;;,§,f,°.,i,§§,,§§;j make orders in particular cases, relaxing the requirement of mailing or otherwise sending accounts, as aforesaid, within ten or twenty days, or waiving delinquency, in such cases only in which there is, or is likely to be, a manitest physical diiliculty in complying with the same, it being the purpose of this provision to require the prompt rendition of ramps mmm n- accounts without regard to the mere convenience of the oillcers, and to *1******- forbid the advance of money to those delinquent in rendering them: Provided further, That should there be a delay by the administrative misc in submit Departments breyond the aforesaid twenty or sixty days in transmitting ylgm 1******** *°· accounts, an o er of the President in the particular case shall be nec- 1··»••.p.sw. msary to authorize the advance of money requested: And provided further, That this section shall not apply to accounts of the postal rms msmm not revenue and expenditures thereirom, which shall be rendered as now ‘“°°‘°‘· required by law. he Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the iirst Monday of January meggggxwn ¤¢¤·· in each year, make reportto Congress of such officers as are then delin- s°£m¤m¤. quent in the rendering of their accounts or in the payment of balances found due from them for the last preceding nscal year. Sections two n s..•¤. na, rn. hundred and fifty and two. hundred and seventy-two of the Revised ”·“· “·"¤’°"°‘· Statutes are repealed. " Section thirty-six hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes ns..•¤•.s•¤,p.m, is amended by striking therefrom the following words: “The Secretary §,,,,,,,,_, of the Treasury may, if in his opinion the circumstances of the case ¤·¤¤¤r.v¤i>••\•¤- justiiy and require it, extend the time hereinbefore prescribed for·the rendition of accounts! sur-von xxvm—-14