An Act to provide for the receipt and disbursement of funds, and for continuation of accounts when there is a vacancy in the office of the disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office, and for other purposes.
PL 86-31 (S.902), enacted 05/26/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-3l-MAY 26, 1959 
[73 STAT. 
"Passamaquoddy tidal power survey", $6,600, to remain avail-
able until expended; 
Educational exchange: "International educational exchange activi-
ties", $300,000; 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Office of the Secretary: "Salaries and expenses", $235,100; 
Bureau of the Public Debt: "Administering the public debt", 
$1,332,900; 
Bureau of Narcotics: "Salaries and expenses", $280,550; 
United States Secret Service: 
"Salaries and expenses", $286,400; 
"Salaries and expenses, guard force", $22,500; 
Coast Guard: "Retired pay", $700,000. 
GENERAL PROVISION 
SEC. 201. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere 
in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or pro-
visions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the 
fiscal year 1959, limiting the amounts which may be expended for per-
sonal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or,amounts 
which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations 
available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the 
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extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant 
to law. 
Approved May 20, 1959. 
Public Law 86-31 
May 26, 1959 
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rjijj provide for the receipt and disbursement of funds, and for continuation of 
accounts when there is a vacancy in the office of the disbursing officer for the 
Government Printing Office, and for other puriwses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
ETfbursin of- United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the dis-
ficer, vacancy. 
bursiug clerk of the Government Printing Office is hereby designated 
as the disbursing officer for the Government Printing Office. 
(b) In the case of the death, resignation, or separation from office 
of such disbursing officer, his accounts may be continued, and pay-
ments and collections may be made in his name, by the deputy dis-
bursing officer or officers designated by the Public Printer, for a period 
of time not to extend beyond the last day of the second month following 
the month in which such death, resignation, or separation occurred. 
Such accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled, 
and checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer for the 
Government Printing Office by any such deputy disbursing officer shall 
be honored, in the same manner as if the former disbursing officer 
for the Government Printing Office had continued in office. 
(c) No former disbursing officer for the Government Printing 
Office, his estate, or the surety on his official bond, shall be subject to 
any legal liability or penalty for the official accounts or defaults of 
any deputy disbursing officer acting in the name or in the place of such 
former disbursing officer. 
Each such depuity disbursing officer shall 
be responsible for accounts entrusted to him pursuant to subsection 
(b), and such deputy disbursing officer and the sureties upon his bond 
shall be liable for any default occurring during his service as such 
pursuant to such subsection. 
Approved May 26, 1959.