ELECTIONS. Act of August 23, 1912, Ch. 349, 138. Publicity of Political Contributions - Verification of Statements — An Act Amending paragraph ten of section eight of an Act entitled "An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected," approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by section two of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected' and extending the same to candidates for nomination and election to the offices of Representative and Senator in the Congress of the United States and limiting the amount of campaign expenses," approved August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven. [Act of August 23, 1912, ch. 349.] [Publicity of political contributions verification of statements — requirements modified.] That paragraph ten of section eight of an Act entitled "An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected," approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by section two of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected' and extending the same to candidates for nomination and election to the offices of Representative and Senator in the Congress of the United States and limiting the amount of campaign expenses," approved August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "Every statement herein required shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of the candidate, taken before an officer authorized to administer oaths; and the depositing of any such statement in a regular post office, directed to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or to the Secretary of the Senate, as the case may be, duly stamped and registered, within the time required herein, shall be deemed a sufficient filing of any such statement under any of the provisions of this Act." [37 Stat. L. 360.] For the Act of Aug. 19, 1911, see 1912 Supp. Fed. Stat. Annot. 71. The Act of June 25, 1910, is given in 1912 Supp. Fed. Stat. Annot. 69. EMPLOYEES. See LABOR. ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS AND REPORTS. Act of August 24, 1912, Ch. 355, 139. Sec. 6. Estimates for Lump Sum Appropriations-Statements Required Statement of Expenditures Contemplated - Expenditures of Preceding Year, 139. 7. Regular Appropriations Restricted to Fiscal Year - Exceptions, 139. Act of August 26, 1912, Ch. 408, 140. Sec. 7. Lump Sum Appropriations - Restriction on Salaries Paid from, 140. Act of May 1, 1913, Ch. 1, 140. Sec. 3. Rented Buildings, District of Columbia - Statement to Include Details of Floor Space, etc., 140. Act of June 23, 1913, Ch. 3, 141. Sec. 3. Estimates of Appropriations — Official to be Designated to Supervise and Prepare, for Each Department, etc., 141. CROSS-REFERENCES. Cotton Reports, see AGRICULTURE. Employees in Agricultural Department, see AGRICULTURE. Form of Regular Annual Estimates, see EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Permanent Appropriation for Collecting Customs Revenue, see CUSTOMS DUTIES. Printing Records, see PUBLIC PRINTING. And see generally EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. SEC. 6. [Estimates for lump sum appropriations -statements required statement of expenditures contemplated expenditures of preceding year.] Hereafter there shall be submitted, in the annual Book of Estimates, following every estimate for a general or lump sum appropriation which exceeds $250,000 in amount, a statement showing in parallel columns: First, the number of persons, if any, intended to be employed and the rates of compensation to each, and the amounts contemplated to be expended for each of any other objects or classes of expenditures specified or contemplated in the estimate; and Second, the number of persons, if any, employed and the rates of compensation paid each, and the amounts expended for each other object or class of expenditures out of the appropriation corresponding to the estimate so submitted, during the completed fiscal year next preceding the period for which the estimate is submitted. [37 Stat. L. 487.] SEC. 7. [Regular appropriations restricted to fiscal year — exceptions.] No specific or indefinite appropriation made hereafter in any regular annual ap propriation Act shall be construed to be permanent or available continuously without reference to a fiscal year unless it belongs to one of the following five classes: "Rivers and harbors," "lighthouses," "fortifications," "public buildings," and "pay of the Navy and Marine Corps," last specifically named in and excepted from the operation of the provisions of the so-called "covering-in Act" approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, or unless it is made in terms expressly providing that it shall continue available beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act in which it is contained makes provision. [37 Stat. L. 487.] The above secs. 6 and 7 are from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 355. For the provision from the Act of June 20, 1874, above referred to, see 2 Fed. Stat. Annot. 913. SEC. 7. [Lump sum appropriations restriction on salaries paid from.] That no part of any money contained herein or hereafter appropriated in lump sum shall be available for the payment of personal services at a rate of compensation in excess of that paid for the same or similar services during the preceding fiscal year; nor shall any person employed at a specific salary be hereafter transferred and hereafter paid from a lump-sum appropriation a rate of compensation greater than such specific salary, and the heads of departments shall cause this provision to be enforced: Provided, That this section shall not apply to mechanics, artisans, their helpers and assistants, laborers, or any other employees whose duties are of similar character and required in carrying on the various manufacturing or constructing operations of the Government. Stat. L. 790.] The above sec. 7 is from the Deficiencies Appropriation Act of Aug. 26, 1912, ch. 408. It was amended to read as here given by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of March 4, 1913, ch. 142. Originally this section was as follows: "SEC. 7. No part of any money contained herein or hereafter appropriated in lump sum shall be available for the payment of personal services at a rate of compensation in [37 excess of that paid for the same or similar services during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve; nor shall any person employed at a specific salary be hereafter transferred and hereafter paid from a lump-sum appropriation a rate of compensation greater than such specific salary, and the heads of departments shall cause this provision to be enforced." [37 Stat. L. 626.] SEC. 3. [Rented buildings, District of Columbia statement to include details of floor space, etc.] Hereafter the statement of buildings rented within the District of Columbia for use of the Government, required by the Act of July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, page one hundred and ninety-nine), shall indicate as to each building rented the area thereof in square feet of available floor space for Government uses, the rate paid per square foot for such floor space, the assessed valuation of each building, and what proportion, if any, of the rental paid includes heat, light, elevator, or other service. [38 Stat. L. 3.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of May 1, 1913, ch. 1. For the provision from Act of July 16, 1892, above referred to, see 2 Fed. Stat. Annot. 922. SEC. 3. [Estimates of appropriations official to be designated to supervise and prepare, for each department, etc.] That hereafter the head of each. executive department and other Government establishment shall, on or before July first in every fiscal year, designate from among the officials employed therein one person whose duty it shall be to supervise the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations, including supplemental and deficiency estimates to be submitted by such department or establishment. In the performance of their duties persons so designated shall have due regard for the requirements of all laws respecting the preparation of estimates, including the manner and time of their submission through the Treasury Department to Congress; they shall also, as nearly as may be practicable, eliminate from all such estimates unnecessary words and make uniform the language commonly used in expressing purposes or conditions of appropriations. [38 Stat. L. 75.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 23, 1913, ch. 3. EVIDENCE. Act of February 26, 1913, Ch. 79, 141. United States Courts - Admitted Handwriting Allowed as Evidence, 141. Act of March 3, 1913, Ch. 114, 142. United States Courts - Depositions in Anti-trust Cases to be Taken in Public, 142. CROSS-REFERENCE. Copies of Records of Interior Department, see INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. An Act Relating to proof of signatures and handwriting. [Act of February 26, 1913, ch. 79.] [United States courts admitted handwriting allowed as evidence.] That in any proceeding before a court or judicial officer of the United States where the genuineness of the handwriting of any person may be involved, any admitted or proved handwriting of such person shall be competent evidence as a basis for comparison by witnesses, or by the jury, court, or officer conducting such proceeding, to prove or disprove such genuineness. [37 Stat. L. 683.] This law changes the common-law rule in regard to the comparison of writings where the genuineness of the handwriting of any person may be involved. The rule of the common law would not permit a comparison An Act Providing for publicity in taking evidence under Act of July second, eighteen hundred and ninety. [Act of March 3, 1913, ch. 114.] [United States courts - depositions in anti-trust cases to be taken in public.] That in the taking of depositions of witnesses for use in any suit in equity brought by the United States under the Act entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and in the hearings before any examiner or special master appointed to take testimony therein, the proceedings shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court; and no order excluding the public from attendance on any such proceedings shall be valid or enforceable. [37 Stat. L. 731.] For the Act of July 2, 1890, see 7 Fed. Stat. Annot. 336. EXCISE TAX. See INTERNAL REVENUE. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Act of August 23, 1912, Ch. 350, 142. Sec. 6. Contingent Funds, etc. -Apportionment of Amount to Be Expended by Each Office or Burcau- No Change Except on Written Order Purchases Limited to Contingent Funds, 142. 7. Telephone Service No Expenditures for, in Private Residences, etc., 143. - 8. Distribution of Publications - All Work Connected with, to Be Done 9. Annual Estimates to be Made as Now Required by Law, 144. CROSS-REFERENCES. Department of Labor Created, see LABOR. Estimates and Appropriations, see ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REPORTS. See also CIVIL SERVICE. SEC. 6. [Contingent funds, etc. - - apportionment of amount to be expended by each office or bureau- no change except on written order purchases lim |