Authorizing Accounting Officers of Treasury to Adjust Certain Accounts of Diplomatic and Consular Officers: Hearings... on H.R. 158341921 - 39 pages |
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16 francs accounting officers accounts of diplomatic allow credit American money auditor authentic quotations authority BEGG bill CARR certificate CHAIRMAN charge clerk Comptroller Congress consul consular accounts consular officer consular regulations current exchange current rate depreciated as compared depreciated currency diplomatic and consular diplomatic or consular disbursements dollar ELSTON February 25 Federal Reserve Board fixed foreign coins foreign countries foreign currency foreign money furnished showing gold Hongkong HUDDLESTON Judge Warwick language law and regulations law of France legislation matter money current money of account officer is located paper money paragraph 541 payment pounds sterling proclaimed question rate of exchange relative value representative responsible banker ROGERS salary satisfactory evidence Secretary sells a draft settlement of accounts showing the relative situation standard coinage standard currency standard money statute STEWART sular Suppose tion Treasury Department United States currency United States money value of foreign
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Page 8 - 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 8 - 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 quarterly by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury immediately after the psasage of this act and thereafter quarterly on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 30 - States in and about such countries until six months after the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, and to prescribe the terms and conditions of such deposits.
Page 8 - Act and thereafter quarterly on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year. And the values so proclaimed shall be followed in estimating the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the United States during the quarter for which the value is proclaimed, and the date of the consular certification of any invoice shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered the date of exportation...
Page 22 - That the Secretary of the Treasury may order the reliquidation of any entry at a different value, whenever satisfactory evidence shall be produced to him showing that the value in United States currency of the foreign money specified in the invoice was, at the date of certification, at least ten per centum more or less than the value proclaimed during the quarter in which the consular certification occurred.
Page 30 - That the secretary of the treasury may. during the war and for two years after its termination, make arrangements in or with foreign countries to stabilize the foreign exchanges and to obtain foreign currencies and credits in such currencies, and he may use any such credits and foreign currencies for the purpose of stabilizing or rectifying the foreign exchanges, and he may designate depositaries in foreign countries with which may 'be deposited as he may determine all or any part of the avails of...
Page 24 - In all cases when the disbursements are actually made in foreign currency the vouchers themselves should be taken and rendered to the Treasury in the same currency in which the disbursements are made, and when the value quoted in the Secretary of the Treasury's quarterly proclamation of value of foreign coins is not used in the reduction of the payments to the currency of the United States...
Page 10 - A detailed statement regarding the development of central clearance indexes •was prepared for the hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations on the Independent Offices Appropriations Bill for 1941, and appears elsewhere in this record. Since the time that statement was prepared, however, there have been further developments in the field, as agreements have...
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