Ross' accounts are consistently higher numbers than that of the Army disbursing agents.

He believed that having a disbursing agent in each agency or department was a recipe for financial misappropriation.

"As long as I'm still the disbursing agent, I think this problem is not a problem," he said.

In addition, Steadman Security is paid for its services as dividend disbursing agent and transfer agent.

An Army disbursing agent discovered that a Cherokee named Justis Fields travelled with government funds three times under different aliases.

He was appointed receiver of the United States General Land Office and disbursing agent for the northwestern states as well as variety of other public positions.

The G.A.O. estimated that the Defense Department, one of the few government agencies that acts as its own disbursing agent, could have collected $100 million in 2002 from these delinquents by offsetting payments.

As the law now stood, it was made to operate on the whole band of officers of the government, as well on the other officers as on the disbursing agents for whom it was originally intended.

When Ivins found them in his way, he utilized federal channels to get himself named a "Special Indian Disbursing Agent," serving from 1891 until 1893, and removed the Shivwits from their homeland in northern Arizona to southern Utah.