Balances of appropriations BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. That all moneys heretofore appropriated for for public the construction of public buildings and now remaining to buildings. the credit of the same on the books of the Treasury Department, or which may hereafter be appropriated for such buildings, shall remain available until the completion of the work for which they are, or may be, appropriated; and upon the final completion of each or any of said buildings, and the payment of all outstanding liabilities therefor, the balance or balances remaining shall be immediately covered into the Treasury. [18 Stat. L. 275.] Restrictions on contracts Act of June 23, 1874, ch. 476. And hereafter no money shall be paid nor contracts and expendi- made for payment for any site for a public building in exstructing pub-cess of the amount specifically appropriated therefor; and lic buildings. no money shall be expended upon any public building on tures for con be purch a sed which work has not yet been actually begun until after No land to SEC. 3736. No land shall be purchased on account of for United the United States, except under a law authorizing such authorized by purchase. [R. S.] States unless law. Restriction on expenses for SEC. 9. No appropriation heretofore or hereafter made electricity. for the construction or equipment of any executive or municipal building in the District of Columbia shall be expended for the production of electricity for light or power, unless, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, such necessary electric current for light and power can not be obtained at less cost. [34 Stat. L. 1371.] Sundry civil appropriation act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2918. United States. * * * Title to land SEC. 355. No public money shall be expended upon any thased by the site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given. The district attorneys of the United States, upon the application of the Attorney-General, shall furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property lying within their respective districts. And the Secretaries of the Departments, upon the application of the Attorney-General, shall procure any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of the Government, and the expense of procuring it shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively. [R. S.] Procuring * * * titles to sites for public That hereafter all legal services connected with the procurement of titles to site for public buildings shall be rendered by United States district attorneys: buildings. Provided further, That hereafter, in the procurement of. sites for such public buildings, it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to require of the grantors in each case to furnish, free of all expenses to the Government, all requisite abstracts, official certifications, and evidences of title that the Attorney-General may deem necessary. [25 Stat. L. 941.] Sundry civil appropriation act of March 2, 1889, ch. 411. and estimates for SEC. 3734. Before any new buildings for the use of the Plans United States are commenced, the plans and full estimates new buildings. therefor shall be prepared and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Postmaster-General, and the Secretary of the Interior; and the cost of each building shall not exceed the amount of such estimate. [R. S.] buildings for in District of And where buildings are rented for public Renting of use in the District of Columbia, the executive depart- Departments ments are authorized, whenever it shall be advantageous Columbia. to the public interest, to rent others in their stead: Provided, That no increase in the number of buildings now in use, nor in the amounts paid for rents, shall result therefrom. * ** [22 Stat. L. 241.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of August 5, 1882, ch. 389. lic buildings in bidden. SEC. 3. That hereafter no building owned, or used for,, Draping pubpublic purposes, by the Government of the United States, mourning forshall be draped in mourning and no part of the public fund shall be used for such purpose. [27 Stat. L. 715.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 3, 1893, ch. 211. ings, etc., for That hereafter no public building, or the approaches Use of buildthereto, other than the Capitol building and the White public ceremoHouse, in the District of Columbia, shall be used or occu nies forbidden. Shutting off water in pub pied in any manner whatever in connection with ceremonies attending the inauguration of the President of the United States, or other public function, except as may hereafter be expressly authorized by law. [32 Stat. L. 152.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of April 28, 1902, ch. 594. all officers in charge of public buildings lic buildings. in the District of Columbia shall cause the flow of water in the buildings under their charge to be shut off from five o'clock post meridian to eight o'clock ante meridian: Provided, That the water in said public buildings is not necessarily in use for public business. [22 Stat. L. 615.] Sundry civil appropriation act of March 3, 1883, ch. 143. Statement of * gas meters in taken, etc. * That the superintendent of meters at the CapDepartment itol shall hereafter take the statement of the meters of the buildings to be several Department buildings in the city of Washington, and render to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department the consumption of gas each month in said buildings respectively. [19 Stat. L. 115.] etc., of Dis Sundry civil appropriation act of July 31, 1876, ch. 246. Police laws, SEC. 15. That the provisions of the several laws and trict of Colum- regulations within the District of Columbia for the probia protecting tection of public or private property and the preservation tended to pub of peace and order be, and the same are hereby, extended property ex lic buildings. Construction of new build culture author contracts. to all public buildings and public grounds belonging to the United States within the District of Columbia. And any person guilty of disorderly and unlawful conduct in or about the same, or who shall willfully injure the buildings or shrubs, or shall pull down, impair, or otherwise injure any fence, wall, or other inclosure, or shall injure any sink, culvert, pipe, hydrant, cistern, lamp, or bridge, or shall remove any stone, gravel, sand, or other property of the United States, or any other part of the public grounds or lots belonging to the United States in the District of Columbia, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than fifty dollars. [27 Stat. L. 325.] Act of July 29, 1892, ch. 320. That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, ing for Depart- authorized and directed to cause a suitable and comment of Agri- modious fireproof building, for the use and accommoized; plans; dation of the Department of Agriculture, including all of its Bureaus and offices now occupying rented quarters in the District of Columbia, to be erected on such portion of the grounds of the Department of Agriculture belonging to the United States as he may deem expedient, immediately in the vicinity of the present building, said building to be constructed in accordance with plans, to be procured, based on accurate estimates, providing for the erection of said building, complete in all of its details, as herein described, and within a total cost of not exceeding the sum herein stipulated, and he is hereby authorized, after procuring such plans, and after due advertisement for proposals, to enter into contracts within the limit of cost hereby fixed and subject to appropriations to be made by Congress, for the erection of said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, and the removal of the present building or buildings of the Department of Agriculture on said grounds. [32 Stat. L. 806.1 construction SEC. 2. That the supervision of the construction of said Supervisor of building shall be placed in charge of an officer of the and pay. Government especially qualified for the duty, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to the approval of the head of the department in which such officer is employed, who shall receive for his additional services an increase of twenty-five per centum of his present salary, such increase to be paid out of the appropriation for the building herein authorized. [32 Stat. L. 806.] cost. SEC. 3. That the limit of cost for the construction of Limit said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, and the cost for removal of the present building or buildings of the Department of Agriculture, is hereby fixed at one million. five hundred thousand dollars, and no contract shall be entered into or expenditure authorized in excess of said amount. [32 Stat. L. 806.] Act of February 9, 1903, entitled "An act for the erection of a building for the use and accommodation of the Department of Agriculture." Appropriations for construction are made in the sundry civil appropriation act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2918, 34 Stat. L. 1364; June 30, 1906, ch. 3914, 34 Stat. L. 758; March 3, 1905, ch. 1483, 33 Stat. L. 1211. of Testing grounds in Po Department of That the Secretary of War is authorized to grant permission to the Department of Agriculture for the tem- tomac Park for porary occupation of such area or areas of Potomac Park, not exceeding a total of seventy-five acres in extent, as may not be needed in any one season for the reclamation or park improvement, the said areas to be used by the Department of Agriculture as testing grounds: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to change the essential character of the lands so used, which lands shall continue to be a public park, as provided in the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: And provided further, That said area or areas shall be vacated by the Department of Agriculture at the close of any season upon the request of the Secretary of War: And provided further, That the entire park shall remain under the charge of the Secretary of War. [30 Stat. L. 1378.] Act of March 3, 1889, ch. 458, entitled "An act relative to the control of wharf property and certain public spaces in the District of Columbia." given Secre lands on Ar Jurisdiction That jurisdiction is hereby transferred and given to tary of Agri- the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office culture of over so much of the Government land in Alexandria lington estate. County, Virginia, known as the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road. and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows, commencing at the point where the Georgetown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the south line of the reservation, jurisdiction over which is retained by the Secretary of War. [31 Stat. L. 135.] Lands to be used for experimental agriculture. take immediate prepare 1 and for use. SEC. 2. That the declared purpose of this Act is to set apart said tract of land as a general experimental farm in its broadest sense, where all that pertains to agriculture in its several and different branches, including animal industry and horticulture, may be fostered and encouraged, and the practice and science of farming in the United States advanced, promoted, and practically illustrated. [31 Stat. L. 136.] Secretary of SEC. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture will take Agriculture to immediate and absolute control of said property described control and to in section one, and by clearing, underdraining, grassing, laying out proper roads and driveways, constructing proper bridges and buildings, and in other ways as his judgment may dictate bring said property as rapidly as possible into the proper condition to answer the purposes for which it is set apart: Provided, That all improvements of or which may at any time be made upon said premises, as herein contemplated, shall be so located, constructed, and maintained as not to interfere with or obstruct the natural waterways or the sewers or other means now established or which may hereafter be provided, constructed, or maintained for the purpose of affording proper drainage and sewerage to the other portions of said estate: And provided further, That this Act shall not impair or interfere with any of the rights heretofore granted by Act of Congress to the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate its electric railroad across the said portion of the estate lying east of said public road. [31 Stat. L. 136.] Secretary of Agriculture cretion. SEC. 4. That in the development, improvement, and given full dis- management of said property full discretion is hereby given the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office to carry into effect the declared purposes of this Act. [31 Stat. L. 136.] |