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[CITE: 10USC7862]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
             CHAPTER 661--ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
 
Sec. 7862. Accounts of paymasters of lost or captured naval 
        vessels
        
    When settling the account of a paymaster of a lost or captured naval 
vessel, the Comptroller General in settling money accounts, and the 
Secretary of the Navy in settling property accounts, shall credit the 
account of the paymaster for the amount of provisions, clothing, small 
stores, and money for which the paymaster is charged that the 
Comptroller General or Secretary believes was lost inevitably because of 
the loss or capture. The paymaster is then free of liability for the 
provisions, clothing, small stores, and money.

(Added Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 2(b)(12)(B), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1057, 
Sec. 7861; amended Pub. L. 97-295, Sec. 1(51)(C), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 
Stat. 1300; renumbered Sec. 7862, Pub. L. 99-433, title V, 
Sec. 514(b)(1), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1054.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7862 was renumbered section 7863 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1982--Pub. L. 97-295 substituted ``naval'' for ``public'' in section 
catchline.

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7861..................................  31:44 (1st sentence).                Ju
ne 10, 1921, ch. 18, Sec.  304
                                                                              (
1st par. 1st sentence), 42 Stat.
                                                                              2
4.
                                        31:104.                              R.
S. Sec.  284; Feb. 18, 1875, ch.
                                                                              8
0, Sec.  1 (4th complete par. on
                                                                              p
. 317), 18 Stat. 317.
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    The word ``naval'' is substituted for ``belonging to the Navy of the 
United States'' to eliminate unnecessary words. The words ``Secretary of 
the Navy'' are substituted for ``Paymaster General of the Navy'' because 
of section 1 of the Act of March 29, 1894 (ch. 49, 28 Stat. 47), and 
10:5061. The words ``the account of the paymaster'' are substituted for 
``him'' for clarity. The words ``such portion of the'', ``on their 
books'', and ``of a public vessel'' are omitted as surplus. The words 
``free of'' are substituted for ``fully exonerated by such credit from 
all'' to eliminate unnecessary words. The words ``so proved to have been 
captured or lost'' are omitted as surplus.
