In the event that the list of outstanding checks required by § 612 of this title should be incomplete, or in case of any error therein by reason of which there should not be sufficient funds, remaining with the depositary to pay all outstanding checks of any such disbursing officer, all such checks not paid for want of funds in the hands of the depositary, shall be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, whose duty it shall be to state an account in favor of the owner of such check, and issue a settlement warrant in his favor for payment of the amount thereof, which shall be charged to the account of the disbursing officer by whom such check was drawn.
History —Political Code, 1902, § 193.