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[CITE: 28USC523]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART II--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
                    CHAPTER 31--THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
 
Sec. 523. Requisitions

    The Attorney General shall sign all requisitions for the advance or 
payment of moneys appropriated for the Department of Justice, out of the 
Treasury, subject to the same control as is exercised on like estimates 
or accounts by the General Accounting Office.

(Added Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 615.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                   Revised Statutes and
      Derivation               U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                       5 U.S.C. 319.              R.S. Sec.  369.
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    The words ``General Accounting Office'' are substituted for ``First 
Auditor or First Comptroller of the Treasury'' on authority of the Act 
of June 10, 1921, ch. 18, Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 24.
