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B-115388 1 (1976-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddwz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / ) THE COMPTROLLERtIIENLIFAL WECSSION 0 F .orT HF.U N IT rzSTWATESzri L ~WAf3HINGTON E3,0C. 2 05 40E FILE: -115381 MATTER OF: DIGFBT: 83 DATE: October 12, 1976 Relief for Treasurer for overpayment of checks Record indicates that credit in the amount of $27l,865,97 may be allowed in the account .of the Treasurer of the United States pursuant to 31 US.C. § 156 for certain uncollectible itqms (Receivables on Over- payments of Checks Symbol Account 17-862). However, sipce such checks'were patti in due course without negligence, no authority exists for writing off $271,865,97 un- collectible receivables by.charging appro- priation Salaries and Expense, Bureau of Government Financial Operations. This decision is in response to a request by the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, Department'of the Treasury, that credit be granted to Mrs. Francine I. Neff, Treasurer of the United States, for certain uncollectible items (Receivables on Overpayments of Checks, Symbfl Account 17-862) in the-amount of $271,865.97, pursuant to 31 U.S.C, § 156 (1970), which provides: Whenever any check, draft, or warrant, drawn upon the Treasurer of the United States or upon the Treasurer of the United States through any.Federal Reserve bank, or quy public debt obligation of the United StateqI, including any obligation of any type whatever, the payment of which is guaranteed by, or assumed by; the United States,'heretofore has been or hereafter may be paid in due course and without negligence by or on behalf of the Treasurer of the United Staten, the Treasurer shall not be liable for any such payment, and the Comptroller General of the United States , V is authokized and directed to allow credit in the Treasurnr's account for such paymen: Pro- vided, That nothing contained in this section I L Lfl C) 0 I . U- --.I 0 I * L 6. j - ---- i

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