The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-15
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Sec. q. That no claim for either arms, uniform,
accoutrements, or subsistence, shall be paid out
Of any appropriation made by this General As
sembiy, unless the same shall have been submit
ted 70 said Commissioners, and examined and
allowed BY them under the provisions OF this
Act
Sec. 8. Claims and accounts sccruing before
the passage Of this Act, shall be presented with
in three months from the taking effect of this
Law, and all other claims and accounts for any
of the above articles are required to be present
ed within three months from the accruing of
the same, or they will be considered as donated
to the State and not thereafter to be allowed
by said Board, under any pretense whatever.
Sec. 4. That before the members OF said Board
shall enter upon their duties, they shall take
and subscribe an oath which shall be filed with
the Secretar, of State, that they will discharge
their duties as members of said Board Of Com
mis- sioncrs honestly and faithfully and to the
best of their abilities.
Sec. 8. That in order to protect the interests
Of the State that no account shall be allowed
l unless the same shall be proved before said Com
| missioners in the manner and form that accounts
arc established in Courts of Justice in this
State, and recognizing the same rules OF evil
dence that there govern and control causes.
Sec g. That said Commissioners shall receive
no other or further pay than three dollars per
day, and the same mileage as members Of the
General Assembly, during the time they are ac-
tually engaged in auditing accounts. But they
may have the privilege Of meeting at any place
in the State where troops have been quartered
for the convenience Of the people in that vicini.
", having accounts against the State, giving no
tice of their time of meeting.
Sec T. Whenever the Commissioners shall
allow any claim under the provisions of this
Act, they shall endorse on the back thereof that
the same was examined and allowed by them,
and sign their names thereto, with the time and
place of such allowance which claim, so ex.
amined and allowed, when presented to the
Auditor of the State Of Iowa, will entitle the
holder thereof to warrant on the War and De
tense Fund, aud no other, for the amountof such
claim, provided, however, that the Auditor OF
State may draw warrant on the State Treasurer
for such sum as paymasters or other disbursins
officers under the laws of this session may es
timate as necessary for payment of soldiers and
Others during said month"; but such warrant
shall not be drawn until said paymaster or dis
bursting officer shall make oath to the estimate
file bond to the satisfaction OF the Auditor
and said estimate is approved by the Governor
Upon payment of money to said soldiers and
others, the said paymaster or disbursins Officer
shall file the vouchers with the Auditor
Sec. 8. In case of any vacancy occurring in
said Board by death resignation or otherwise the
Governor of this State shall fill such vacancy.
Sec. 3. The Auditor Of State shall keep a
file in his Office of all the claims SO allowed by
the Commissioners under the provision OF this
| Act.
Sec, 10. That when the said Board shall have
heard all the claims before them, they shall then
give notice in such newspapers of the State as
they desire, that, on certain day named, they
will adjourn, after which all their proceedings
shall be turned over to the Auditor of the State
of Iowa.
Sec. H. That said Board shall keep an accu'
rate copy, in book kept for that purpose, of all
accounts presented TO them, a memorandum OF
the evidence in said case and the reasons for
the admission Of rejection of the same, which
said books shall be turned over to said Auditor
at the close of their term.
Sec. IL. The Paymaster General and all other
Paymasters, or other disbursing officers of this
State under any Of the Acts passed at this ses
sion, shall make al! payments provided tor under
any and all of TIE laws passed at this session, in
coin Of the United States, and any person vio'
lating the provisions OF this section, shall be I'M
mediately removed from Office by tine Governor,
and shall be disqualified from holding any Office
in this State for the term Of five years after said
removal from Office.
Sec Is. This Act being deemed by the Gen.
eral Assembly of Iowa of immediate Importance
shall be in force from and after its publication
in the Iowa State Register, Iowa State journal
and the Commonwealth or any two of said
newspapers, any law of this State to the con.
trary notwithstanding.
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