Introductions to United States Marshals, Attorneys, Clerks and Commissioners: Not Applicable to Officials in Alaska, Porto Rico, Or the Philippine Islands, April 1, 1904

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - Courts - 281 pages
 

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Page 142 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any pan or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void...
Page 62 - States, any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent; or whoever, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of...
Page 62 - Any person not in the military or naval forces of the United States, or in the militia called into or actually employed in the service of the United States, who shall make or cause to be made, or present or cause to be presented, for payment or approval, to or by any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States...
Page 18 - States required or permitted to be given with one surety, or with two or more sureties, the execution of the same or the guaranteeing of the performance of the condition thereof shall be sufficient, when executed or guaranteed solely by a corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States, or of any State having power to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding positions of public or private trust, and to execute and guarantee bonds and undertakings in judicial proceedings...
Page 215 - The balances certified by the Comptroller General shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government.
Page 62 - Deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry ; or whoever shall enter into any agreement, combination, or conspiracy to defraud the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, by obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or allowance of any false or fraudulent claim...
Page 37 - Any such draft or check which has been issued for a longer period than three full fiscal years will be paid only by the settlement of an account in...
Page 185 - That no person related to any justice or judge of any court of the United States by affinity or consanguinity, within the degree of first cousin, shall hereafter be appointed by such court or judge to or employed by such court or judge in any office or duty in any court of which such justice or judge may be a member.
Page 82 - For travel, in going only, to serve any process, warrant, attachment, or other writ, including writs of subpoena in civil or criminal cases, six cents a mile, to be computed from the place where the process is returned to the place of service...
Page 70 - Disbursing officers, or the head of any executive department, or other establishment not under any of the executive departments, may apply for and the Comptroller...

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