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A82836 1 (1915-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadanb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER. PRORATING OF AMOUNT APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS FOR THE PAYME1NT OF A CLASS OF CLAIMS. Where Congress appropriates a specific amcunt for the payment of a class of claims, not otherwise legal claims against the United States. and the amount thus appropriated is less than the aggregate of said claims. the accounting officers should take no action with respect to the certification for payment, in whole or in part, of any of said claims until Congress shall bave expressly authorized a prorating or made an additional appropriatioa. Comptroller Downey to the Auditor for the Interior Department, July 27, 1915: You submit for my approval, disapproval, or modification your de- cision of the 19th instant making an original construction of a statute as follows: The Secretary of the Interior, in the exercise of the authority cona 1erred upon him by the joint resolution of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 643), has found and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury amounts due to certain claimants aggregating $45,556.96, being $3,556.96 in excess of the sum appropriated and available for the payment of such claims. The claims with the findings of the Secretary of the Interior and other papers have been sent to this office for settlement. The act making the appropriation and vesting the authority e$* ercised is in the following words: 37

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