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25 U.S.C. § 53 — Disbursing officers; acting clerks
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Any disbursing agent of the Indian Service, with the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, may authorize a clerk employed in his office to act in his place and discharge all the duties devolved upon him by law or regulations during such time as he may be unable to perform the duties of his position because of absence, physical disability, or other disqualifying circumstances: Provided, That such clerk, while acting for his principal, shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for official misconduct of disbursing agents.
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Any disbursing agent of the Indian Service, with the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, may authorize a clerk employed in his office to act in his place and discharge all the duties devolved upon him by law or regulations during such time as he may be unable to perform the duties of his position because of absence, physical disability, or other disqualifying circumstances: Provided, That such clerk, while acting for his principal, shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for official misconduct of disbursing agents.
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**(a)** The Fiscal Service is a service in the Department of the Treasury.
**(b)** The head of the Fiscal Service is the Fiscal Assistant Secretary appointed under [section 301(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section301/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c)** The Fiscal Service has a—
(1) Bureau of Government Financial Operations, having as its head a Commissioner of Government Financial Operations; and
(2) Bureau of the Public Debt, having as its head a Commissioner of the Public Debt.
**(d)** The Secretary of the Treasury may designate another officer or employee of the Department to act as the Fiscal Assistant Secretary when the Fiscal Assistant Secretary is absent or unable to serve or when the office of Fiscal Assistant Secretary is vacant.
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At the discretion of the President all disbursements of moneys, whether for annuities or otherwise, to fulfill treaty stipulations with individual Indians or Indian tribes, shall be made in person by the superintendents of Indian affairs, where superintendencies exist, to all Indians or tribes within the limits of their respective superintendencies, in the presence of the local agents and interpreters, who shall witness the same, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may direct.
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Payments to Indians made from moneys appropriated by Congress in satisfaction of the judgment of any court shall be made under the direction of the officers of the Interior Department charged by law with the supervision of Indian affairs, and all such payments shall be accounted for to the Treasury in conformity with law.
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No superintendent of Indian affairs, or Indian agent, or other disbursing officer in such service, shall have advanced to him, on Indian or public account, any money to be disbursed in future, until such superintendent, agent, or officer in such service has settled his accounts of the preceding year, and has satisfactorily shown that all balances in favor of the Government, which may appear to be in his hands, are ready to be paid over on the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
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Any United States Indian agent, superintendent, or other disbursing agent of the Indian Service may deposit Indian moneys, individual or tribal, coming into his hands as custodian, in such national bank or banks as he may select: Provided, That the bank or banks so selected by him shall first execute to said disbursing agent a bond, with approved surety, in such an amount as will properly safeguard the funds to be deposited. Such bond shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
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Any disbursing or other officer of the United States, or other person, who shall knowingly present, or cause to be presented, any voucher, account, or claim to any officer of the United States, for approval or payment, or for the purpose of securing a credit in any account with the United States, relating to any matter pertaining to the Indian Service, which shall contain any material misrepresentation of fact in regard to the amount due or paid, the name or character of the article furnished or received; or of the service rendered, or to the date of purchase, delivery, or performance of service, or in any other particular, shall not be entitled to payment or credit for any part of said voucher, account, or claim; and if any such credit shall be given or received, or payment made, the United States may recharge the same to the officer or person receiving the credit or payment, and recover the amount from either or from both, in the same manner as other debts due the United States are collected: Provided, That where an account contains more than one voucher the foregoing shall apply only to such vouchers as contain the misrepresentation: And provided further, That the officers and persons by and between whom the business is transacted shall, in all civil actions in settlement of accounts, be presumed to know the facts in relation to the matter set forth in the voucher, account, or claim: And provided further, That the foregoing shall be in addition to the penalties prescribed by law, and in no way affect proceedings under existing law for like offenses. Where practicable this section shall be printed on the blank forms of vouchers provided for general use.
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TITLE 25—INDIANS
§ 53
CODIFICATION
Section is based on proviso of first sentence of sec-
tion 23 of act of June 25, 1910. Remainder of first sen-
tence of section 23 was classified to section 93 of this
title prior to repeal by act Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 851, § 4, 54
Stat. 1112.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Provisions similar to those in this section were con-
tained in act Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 153, 35 Stat. 71, making
appropriations for the Indian Department.
AMENDMENTS
2022—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted ‘‘sec-
tion 4902(c) of title 10’’ for ‘‘section 831(c) of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
(10 U.S.C. 2302 note; Public Law 101–510)’’.
2020—Pub. L. 116–261, § 4, amended section generally.
Prior to amendment, section related to employment of
Indian labor and purchase of products of Indian indus-
try and participation in Mentor-Protege Program.
1994—Pub. L. 103–435 inserted at end ‘‘Participation in
the Mentor-Protege Program established under section
831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note) or receipt of assist-
ance pursuant to any developmental assistance agree-
ment authorized under such program shall not render
Indian labor or Indian industry ineligible to receive
any assistance authorized under this section. For the
purposes of this section—
‘‘(1) no determination of affiliation or control (ei-
ther direct or indirect) may be found between a pro-
tege firm and its mentor firm on the basis that the
mentor firm has agreed to furnish (or has furnished)
to its protege firm pursuant to a mentor-protege
agreement any form of developmental assistance de-
scribed in subsection (f) of section 831 of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10
U.S.C
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