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[CITE: 43USC1459]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                 CHAPTER 31--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
Sec. 1459. Expenditures of department

    The Secretary of the Interior shall sign all requisitions for the 
advance or payment of money, out of the Treasury, upon estimates or 
accounts for expenditures upon business assigned by law to his 
department; subject, however, to adjustment and control by the General 
Accounting Office.

(R.S. Sec. 444; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 
24.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 444 derived from act Mar. 3, 1849, ch. 108, Sec. 2, 9 
Stat. 395.
    Section was formerly classified to section 487 of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

                          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 
under section 1451 of this title.
    ``General Accounting Office'' substituted in text for ``proper 
accounting officers of Department of the Treasury'' pursuant to act June 
10, 1921, which transferred all powers and duties of Comptroller, six 
auditors, and certain other employees of the Treasury to General 
Accounting Office. See section 701 et seq. of Title 31, Money and 
Finance.
