Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§131 Advances to disbursing officers
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES › § 131
Summary
Superintendents, Indian agents, and payment officers cannot get advance money for future payments until they settle last year’s accounts and return government balances when the Secretary orders.
Full Legal Text
Title 25, §131
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No superintendent of Indian affairs, or Indian agent, or other disbursing officer in such service, shall have advanced to him, on Indian or public account, any money to be disbursed in future, until such superintendent, agent, or officer in such service has settled his accounts of the preceding year, and has satisfactorily shown that all balances in favor of the Government, which may appear to be in his hands, are ready to be paid over on the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2092 derived from act June 27, 1846, ch. 34, § 1, 9 Stat. 20.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Indian AgentsThe services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set out under section 64 of this title. Superintendent of Indian AffairsNo appropriation for any superintendent of Indian affairs has been made since act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 101, § 1, 19 Stat. 271.
Executive Documents
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, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Transfer of disbursement functions of all Government agencies with certain exceptions to the Fiscal Service, Treasury Department, see note set out under section 53 of this title.
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Citation
25 U.S.C. § 131
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73