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614 614 § 707. Use of public buildings for offices by instructors Whenever practicable, instructors of the National Guard shall use State armories or other public buildings for offices. § 708. Property and fiscal officers (a) The governor of each State and Territory, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, and the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, shall appoint, designate or detail, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force, a qualified commissioned officer of the National Guard of that jurisdiction who is also a commissioned officer of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States, as the cass may be, to be the property and fiscal officer of that jurisdiction. If the officer is not on active duty, the President may order him to active duty, with his consent, to serve as a property and fiscal officer. (b) Each property and fiscal officer shall— (1) before entering upon the duties of that acsignmsnt, give a good and sufficient oond to the United States, ir an amount to be determined by the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force, for the faithful performance of his dutiss and for the safekeeping and proper disposition of Federal property intrusted to his care; (2) receipt and account for all funds and property of the United States in the possession of the National Guard for which he is property and fiscal officer; and (3) make returns and reports concerning those funds and that property, as require^ by the Secretary concerned. (c) Wlien he ceases to hold that assignment, a property and fiscal officer resumes his status as an officer of the National Guard. (d) The Secretary concerned shall have an inspection of the accounts and records of each property and fiscal officer pertaining to his department made by an Inspector General of his department at least once during each year. (e) The Secretaries shall prescribe a maximum grade, commensurate with the functions and responsibilities of the office, but not above colonel, for the property and fiscal officer of the United States for the National Guard of each State or Territory, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia. (f) The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force shall prescribe joint regulations necessary to carry out sub::ections (a)-(e). (g) A property and fiscal officer may intrust money to an officer of the National Guard to make disbursements as his agent. Both the officer to whom money is intrusted, and the property and disbursing officer intrusting the money to him, are pecuniarily responsible for that money to the United States. The agent officer is subject, for misconduct as an agent, to the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law in like cases for the property and fiscal officer for whom he is acting. § 709. Caretakers and clerks (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, funds allotted by him for the Army National Guard may be spent for the compensation of competent persons to care for material.

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