United States v. Cook
Supreme Court of the United States
On certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio; the case being thus: The 16th section of the act of August 6th, 1846,* enacts: “ That all officers and other persons charged . . . with the safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public moneys . . . are hereby required to keep an accurate entry of each sum received, and of each payment or transfer; and that if any one of said officers ... shall convert to his…
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On certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio; the case being thus: The 16th section of the act of August 6th, 1846,* enacts: “ That all officers and other persons charged . . . with the safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public moneys . . . are hereby required to keep an accurate entry of each sum received, and of each payment or transfer; and that if any one of said officers ... shall convert to his own use . . . any portion of the public moneys intrusted to him for safe-keeping, disbursement, or transfer, . . . every…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Officers and other persons charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public moneys, are required by an act of Congress to keep an accurate entry of each sum received, and of each payment or transfer; and the sixteenth section of the same act provides that if any one of the said officers shall convert to his own use, iu auy way whatever, any portion of the public moneys, intrusted to him for safe-keeping, disbursement, or transfer, or for a.ny other purpose, every such act shall be deemed and adjudged to be embezzlement of so much of the public moneys as shall be thus…
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