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Primary and secondary responsibility.
1. The head of any agency of the government is immediately and primarily responsible for all government funds and property pertaining to his agency.
2. Persons entrusted with the possession or custody of the funds or property under the agency head shall be immediately responsible to him, without prejudice to the liability of either party to the government.
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