22 U.S.C. § 4225 — Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties

The President is authorized, whenever the necessity for that offices with a view to effecting economies in accounting procedure is apparent, to prescribe certain fiscal districts or areas and to establish within each that district as a part of the Department of State service, a district accounting and disbursing office to exercise control over the accounts and returns of all diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district in that manner as the President may direct. To each that office may be assigned the administrative accounting responsibility for receipts and expenditures of the diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district. Each district office must be in charge of an accountable officer, to whom all fees, and other official monies, received by any diplomatic, consular, or Foreign Service officer may be accounted for, under that rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State, all that fees and monies, or the residue of it after the payment of salaries, allowances, and current expenses of the diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district, to be paid by the district accounting and disbursing officer into the Treasury of the United States. that district accounting and disbursing officers accountable for public monies may entrust monies to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as his agent, and the officer to whom the monies are entrusted, as well as the officer who entrusts the monies to him, must be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States. All diplomatic, consular or Foreign Service officers on duty within the area covered by that district offices may be required to render accounts of their disbursements to the officer in charge of that district office to be included in his accounts. Provided further , That the Secretary of State is authorized to appoint that district accounting and disbursing officers and their assistants in that manner as clerks in diplomatic missions and consular offices are appointed. Section 3522 of title 31 , and any other existing statutes, in so far as they conflict with this section are hereby amended.