§88 False vouchers, accounts, or claims

Summary

Anyone who knowingly gives a U.S. officer a false voucher, account, or claim about Indian Service work or supplies must not get paid or credited for it. False information can be about the amount, the item or service, who supplied it, or the dates. If payment or credit is mistakenly given, the United States can charge the money back and collect it from the person who got the payment or credit. If an account has several vouchers, only the vouchers with false statements are affected. In civil cases about settling accounts, the people dealing with the account are assumed to know the facts shown on the voucher. These rules do not stop other penalties that the law allows. When possible, this rule should be printed on regular voucher forms.