 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1954 - 60 pages
...Comptroller General's letter — that balances certified by the General Accounting Office upon the settlement of public accounts shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government. It seems that authorizing the head of an executive department to apply is quite a different thing than... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1954 - 48 pages
...section also provides that balances certified by the General Accounting Office upon the settlement of public accounts shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government. The courts have held in numberous decisions that the effect of these provisions in section 304 of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1954 - 58 pages
...section also provides that balances certified by the General Accounting Office upon the settlement of public accounts shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government. The courts have held in numerous decisions that the effect of these provisions in section 304 of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1959 - 236 pages
...the said account by the Comptroller General of the United States, whose decision upon such revision shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government" and such section goes on to provide that "Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the General Accounting... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 392 pages
...exercised without direction from any other officer. The balances certified by the Comptroller general shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government. The revision by the Comptroller General of settlements made by the six auditors shall be discontinued,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1959 - 386 pages
...exercised without direction from any other officer. The balances certified by the Comptroller general shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government. The revision by the Comptroller General of settlements made by the six auditors shall be discontinued,... | |
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The balances which may from time to time be certified by the auditors to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, or to the Postmaster General, upon the settlements of public accounts, shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government... 
