It provides: That when the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall ascertain the amount of any money or moneys deposited for the survey of lands for which repayment is authorized by this statute. the Secretary of the Interior shall at once certify such amounts to the Secretary of the Treasury. who is hereby authorized and directed to make repayment of all amounts so certified out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. and issue his warrant in settlement thereof. There has been a tendency to get away from our financial policy and budgetary system. and attempts are repeatedly made to authorize direct payments without the authorization of Congress or appropriations by Congress for such payments. We had an instance of that the other day in a small bill on the Consent Calendar from the Committee on Immigration. authorizing the payment of a clerk out of fees receiveda direct payment. It has been the customand I concede that at times it is cumbersomethat all moneys are covered into the Treasury and only paid out through direct appropriations by Congress. In the long run that has been found the best system.
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