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C00216 1 (1915-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER. ITRECHASE OF DRINKING WATER TOR USE OF GOVERNMENT OFFICES. The propriety of purchasing special drinking water must be determined by the rule of necessity. The water provided for general consumption by the people in any community will be presumed to be suitable for the use of Government offices. The burden is on those making the purchase of showing the necessity therefor. Comptroller Downey to George G. Box, disbursing officer, Department of Labor, July 21, 1915: I am in receipt of your letter, which reads: There are transmitted herewith vouchers which have been sub- mitted to me for payment for drinldng water furnished to different stations in the Immigration Service in favor of the following-named coniplainants in the amounts indicated: Name. Place, Period. Amount. The Purity Spring Water Co .............. Cleveland, Ohio...... Rn.nFeb., and 83.00 Mar., 1915. Chattolance Spring Water Co......................... Baltimore, Md........ ,Marand 9.00 Great Hear Spring Co......................... Buffalo, N. Y......... y.ad 1.00 June, 1015' The Itobt. White Co, (Ltd.).................... Montreal, Canada.. Jn.,eb.,and 7.50 St. Louis Crystal Water & Soda Co............... St. Louis, Mo......... aadApr., 3 1915. flinckley & Schmitt (Inc.)........................... Chicago, Ill.........Jan. 15 to Apr. 7.50 r12, 1915. and two 'vouchers of the Consumners' Ice & Fuel Co., of Laredo, Tfox. for the moniths of M\Aarch and April, 1915, for ice and water. in the sinJ of $7.75 and $6, respectively, and voucher of the Onara Water & Ice Co., in the sum of S1 for distilled wvater and ice fur- nished at 'Niagara Falls, N. Y., during the months of January, Feb- ruaiw. andJ March. 1915. fIn relation to voucher of the Great Bear Spring Co., attention is invited to the copy of letter of inspector in charge at Buffalo and certificate of the Chief Bureau of Bacteriolony. These copies are submnitted instead of the originals for the reason that the latter were forwarded to the Auditor for the State and other Departments with Inv answer to his statement of differences in my September 80, 1915, account. In voew of the doubt in mu mind as to the evidence required to Tallow the payment for drinking water by the Gover irnent your opinion is requested whether or not I and authorized to pay the vouchers as submitted. In a decision of April 21., 1915 (21 Comp. Dec., 39), it was said: In reltin view of the fact that circumstances ma exist in cer- tain localities rendering the purchase of drinking water at Govern- mient expense necessary as a means of safeguarding the health of Government employees there stationed, no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down with respect to the propriety or legality of such charges 31

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