Manual of the United States Reclamation Service: Accounting

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Page 189 - 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 who, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of...
Page 189 - 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 199 - Treasurer or any assistant treasurer, or any authorized depositary, or for any purpose not prescribed by law transfers or applies any portion of the public money intrusted to him, is, in every such act, deemed guilty of an embezzlement of the money so deposited, converted...
Page 189 - ... 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, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry, in any matter within the Jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States...
Page 233 - An Act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes...
Page 199 - SEC. 5488. Every disbursing officer of the United States who deposits any public money intrusted to him in any place or in any manner, except as authorized by law, or converts to his own use in any way whatever, or loans with or without interest, or for any purpose not prescribed by law withdraws from the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer, or any authorized depositary, or...
Page 202 - SEC. 306. At the termination of each fiscal year all amounts of moneys that are represented by certificates, drafts, or checks issued by the Treasurer, or by any disbursing officer of any department of the Government, upon the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, or designated depositary of the United States, or upon any national bank designated as a depositary...
Page 199 - ... assistant treasurer of the United States. In places, however, where there is no Treasurer or assistant treasurer, the Secretary of the Treasury may, when he deems it essential to the public interest, specially authorize in writing the deposit of such public money in any other public depository, or, in writing, authorize the same to be kept in any other manner, and under such rules and regulations as he may deem most safe and effectual to facilitate the payments to public creditors.
Page 234 - States sending such telegrams should indorse thereon the words "official business," and should report to the Postmaster-General any failure to transmit them in such priority and any charge made in excess of the rates above prescribed. Each company will be allowed to charge for messages received from another line at the same rate as if received from the Government direct at the point of transfer for transmission...
Page 203 - ... the last debit made to each account. And each disbursing officer shall make a like return of all checks issued by him, and which may then have been outstanding and unpaid for three years and more, stating fully in such report the name of the payee, for what purpose each check was given, the office on which drawn, the number of the voucher received therefor, the date, number, and amount for which it was drawn, and, when known, the residence of the payee.

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