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[CITE: 25USC131]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
    CHAPTER 4--PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES
 
Sec. 131. Advances to disbursing officers

    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.

(R.S. Sec. 2092.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2092 derived from act June 27, 1846, ch. 34, Sec. 1, 9 
Stat. 20.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
    Transfer of disbursement functions of all Government agencies with 
certain exceptions to the Fiscal Service, Treasury Department, see note 
set out under section 53 of this title.


                              Indian Agents

    The services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set 
out under section 64 of this title.


                    Superintendent of Indian Affairs

    No appropriation for any superintendent of Indian affairs has been 
made since act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 101, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 271.
