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[CITE: 10USC4842]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
             CHAPTER 453--ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
 
Sec. 4842. Settlement of accounts of line officers

    The Comptroller General shall settle the account of a line officer 
of the Army for pay due the officer even if the officer cannot account 
for property entrusted to the officer or cannot make a monthly report or 
return, when the Comptroller General is satisfied that the inability to 
account for property or make a report or return was the result of the 
officer having been a prisoner, or of an accident or casualty of war.

(Added Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 2(b)(10)(B), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1057.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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4842..................................  31:44 (1st sentence).                Ju
ne 10, 1921, ch. 18, Sec.  304
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1st par. 1st sentence), 42 Stat.
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4.
                                        31:95.                               R.
S. Sec.  278.
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    The words ``Comptroller General'' are substituted for ``General 
Accounting Office'' for consistency. The words ``audit and'' are omitted 
as surplus. The words ``for their services as such'' and ``by the 
affidavit of the officer or otherwise'' are omitted as surplus. The 
words ``to account for property or make a report or return'' are added 
for clarity. The words ``in the hands of the enemy'' are omitted as 
surplus.
