required to certify and transmit one statement of the same, and such statement shall be held to apply to all such cases, as if made out, certified, and transmitted in each case respectively.

Act June 25, 1868, c. 71, § 6, 15 Stat. 76.

The heads of the several Executive Departments were required to cause to be rendered to the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries all necessary and practicable aid in the prosecution of his investigations and inquiries, by R. S. § 4397, post, § 905.

§ 271. (R. S. § 189.) Employment of attorneys or counsel.

No head of a Department shall employ attorneys or counsel at the expense of the United States; but when in need of counsel or advice, shall call upon the Department of Justice, the officers of which shall attend to the same.

Act June 22, 1870, c. 150, § 17, 16 Stat. 164.

The duties of the officers of the Department of Justice to render legal services to heads of Departments were prescribed by R. S. § 361, post, § 536.

§ 272. (R. S. § 190.) Persons formerly in the Departments not to prosecute claims in them.

It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employé in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employé, nor in any manner, nor by any means, to aid in the prosecution of any such claim, within two years next after he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employé.

Act June 1, 1872, c. 256, § 5, 17 Stat. 202.

(R. S. § 191. Repealed.)

This section made the balances stated and certified by the officers of the Treasury Department conclusive on the executive branch of the Government. Different provisions on the same subject form part of section 8 of the Dockery Act of July 31, 1894, c. 174, post, § 425, by which this section was repealed.

§ 273. (R. S. § 192, as amended, Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 7.) Expenditures for newspapers.

The amount expended in any one year for newspapers, for any Department, except the Department of State, including all the Bureaus and offices connected therewith, shall not exceed one hundred dollars.

Act Aug. 26, 1842, c. 202, § 16, 5 Stat. 526. Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 7, 34 Stat. 449.

This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, contained a further provision, "And all newspapers purchased with the public money for the use of either of the Departments must be preserved as files for such Department." which was repealed by Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 7, cited above.

Expenditures for newspapers, etc., by executive officers, other than heads of Departments, were restricted by R. S. § 1779, post, § 3263.

§ 274. (Act June 7, 1897, c. 3, § 1.) Expenditures for transportation of remains of deceased employés.

Hereafter the heads of Departments shall not authorize any expenditure in connection with transportation of remains of deceased. (97)

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employees, except when otherwise specifically provided by law. (30 Stat. 86.)

This was a proviso to an appropriation for such expenditures in the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year 1898, cited above.

§ 275. (R. S. § 193.) Annual reports of expenditure of contingent funds.

The head of each Department shall make an annual report to Congress, giving a detailed statement of the manner in which the contingent fund for his Department, and for the Bureaus and offices. therein, has been expended, giving the names of every person to whom any portion thereof has been paid; and if for anything furnished, the quantity and price; and if for any service rendered, the nature of such service, and the time employed, and the particular occasion or cause, in brief, that rendered such service necessary; and the amount of all former appropriations in each case on hand, either in the Treasury or in the hands of any disbursing officer or agent. And he shall require of the disbursing officers, acting under his direction and authority, the return of precise and analytical statements and receipts for all the moneys which may have been from time to time during the next preceding year expended by them, and shall communicate the results of such returns and the sums total, annually, to Congress.

Act Aug. 26, 1842, c. 202, § 20, 5 Stat. 527.

The Attorney General was required to report, in detail, the items, amounts, and causes of expenditure of the contingent expenses of the Department of Justice, by Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 1, post, § 560.

A general requirement of distinct accounts of the application of public moneys according to the appropriation thereof was contained in R. S. § 3623, post, 6618.

Estimates for compensation of officers are to be founded on express provisions of law, and not upon authority of executive distribution, by R. S. § 3662, post, 6678.

Moneys appropriated for contingent, etc., expenses are not to be expended for official or clerical compensation, by R. S. § 3682, post, 6783. Restrictions on expenditures from the contingent fund appropriated to any department, bureau, or office were contained in R. S. § 3683, post, § 6784. Law books, books of reference, and periodicals for the use of any department or other establishment at the seat of Government are not to be purchased from appropriations for contingent expenses, etc., unless specifically provided for in the law granting the appropriation, by Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 3, post, § 6786.

Advertisements for proposals for supplies were required by R. S. §§ 3709, 3710, and subsequent provisions, post, §§ 6832-6837.

Inspection of fuel purchased in the District of Columbia was provided for by R. S. §§ 3711-3713, as amended by Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 6, post, §§ 6838-6840.

Contracts for stationery or other supplies for the Executive Departments are not to be for a longer term than one year, by R. S. § 3735, post, § 6888. Restrictions on renting buildings for the purposes of the Government in the District of Columbia imposed by Act March 3, 1877, c. 106, and Act Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 1, post, §§ 6930, 6931.

A statement of the buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government was required to be submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress each year in the Book of Estimates, by a provision of Act July 16, 1892, c. 196, § 1, post, § 6683.

Heads of Executive Departments were authorized to enter into contracts for the lease, for not exceeding six years, of modern fireproof storage accom

modations within the District of Columbia for their respective Departments, by a provision of Act March 2, 1913, c. 93, post, § 6932.

Printing and binding for the Departments at the Government Printing Of fice were provided for by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 93, post, § 7172, and restrictions on printing reports, etc., of the Departments were imposed in section 73, pars. 1-28 of that act, post, §§ 70537076.

The Public Printer was authorized to furnish certain supplies to the Departments by provisions of Act June 28. 1902, c. 1301, § 1, post, § 6997. Restrictions on the use of appropriations made for printing and binding, and on the printing of books and documents for the Executive Departments, contained in Acts March 3, 1905, c. 1483, § 1, and c. 1484, § 1, are set forth post, §§ 7175, 7176.

The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service was required to transmit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury for transmission to Congress a full and complete report of the transactions of the Service, including a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 9, post, § 9148.

Restrictions on payments from appropriations of expenses of horses, carriages, etc., for personal use of officers, or for purchasing, maintaining, driving, or operating carriages or vehicles for the personal or official use of any officer or employé of any of the Executive Departments or other Government establishments at Washington, D. C., contained in Act March 18, 1904, c. 716, § 1, and Act Feb. 3, 1905, c. 297, § 1, are set forth post, §§ 3237, 3238. § 276. (Act March 3, 1877, c. 102, § 1.) Reports of expenditure for contingent expenses of sub-treasuries, and in government departments and bureaus.

Hereafter a detailed statement of the expenditure for the preceding fiscal year of all sums appropriated for contingent expenses of the Independent Treasury, or in any department or bureau of the Government shall be presented to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. (19 Stat. 306.)

This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year, 1878, cited above, following an appropriation for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, under the heading, "Independent Treasury."

277. (Act May 22, 1908, c. 186, § 4.) Reports of traveling expenses of officers and employés at Washington.

It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department and Other Government establishment at Washington to submit to Congress at the beginning of each regular session a statement showing in detail what officers or employees (other than special agents, inspectors, or employees, who in the discharge of their regular duties are required to constantly travel) of such Executive Department or other Government establishment have traveled on official business from Washington to Points outside of the District of Columbia during the preceding fiscal year, giving in each case the full title of the official or employee, the destination or destinations of such travel, the business or work on acCount of which the same was made, and the total expense to the United States charged in each case. (35 Stat. 244.)

This was the last section of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1909, cited above.

(R. S. § 194. Repealed.)

This section required an annual report by the head of each Department as to the clerks, etc., employed in the Department. Statements as to such mat

ters in the annual Book of Estimates were required by other provisions of the act repealing this section, Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 7, post, § 6680. Reports by heads of departments in the annual estimates as to inefficient employés were also required by Act July 11, 1890, c. 667, § 2, post, § 6679. § 278. (R. S. § 195.) Time of making annual reports.

Except where a different time is expressly prescribed by law, the various annual reports required to be submitted to Congress by the heads of Departments shall be made at the commencement of each regular session, and shall embrace the transactions of the preceding year. See all acts requiring reports.

The reports required to be made by each head of a Department are prescribed by provisions under the titles of the several Departments.

Provisions relating to annual estimates to be furnished by heads of Departments for appropriations, their requisites, contents, etc., the time for furnishing them, and the preparation of the Book of Estimates, are contained in Title XLI, "Appropriations."

§ 279. (R. S. § 196.) Department reports, when to be furnished to printer.

The head of each Department, except the Department of Justice, shall furnish to the Congressional Printer copies of the documents usually accompanying his annual report, on or before the first day of November in each year, and a copy of his annual report on or before the third Monday of November in each year.

Act June 25, 1864, c. 155, §§ 1, 3, 13 Stat. 184, 185. Act June 22, 1870, c. 150, 12, 16 Stat. 164.

Provisions for printing and distribution of the reports of the Departments and executive officers were made by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, and subsequent statutes, collected under Title XIV, "Public Printing, Advertisements, and Public Documents," §§ 7053-7143.

Provisions for furnishing public documents printed at the Government Printing Office to the Departments, and for the distribution and exchange thereof, were made by said Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, §§ 90, 92, 95, post, §§ 7169, 7170, 7177.

§ 280. (R. S. § 197, as amended, Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1.) Inventories of property.

The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, the Attorney-General, and Commissioner of Agriculture shall keep, in proper books, a complete inventory of all the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by them, respectively, and under their charge, adding thereto, from time to time, an account of such property as may be procured subsequently to the taking of such inventory, as well as an account of the sale or other disposition of any of such property, except supplies of stationery and fuel in the public offices and books, pamphlets, and papers in the Library of Congress. Act July 15, 1870, c. 300, § 1, 16 Stat. 364. Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 241.

This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was amended, by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, cited above, by the addition, at the end thereof, of the clause excepting supplies of stationery and fuel in public offices, and books, etc., in the Library of Congress.

A similar provision as to the Postmaster General, requiring also an annual report to Congress, was made by R. S. § 397, post, § 586.

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by the Secretary of Agriculture, by provisions of the act creating the Department of Agriculture, Act Feb. 9, 1889, c. 122, post, §§ 789-792, and Act July 14, 1890, c. 707, post, § 819.

The Secretary of Commerce has charge, in the buildings or premises occupied by or appropriated to the Department of Commerce, of the library, far niture, fixtures, records, and other property of the Department, by provisions. of the act to establish the Department, Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 9, post, § 861.

Provisions for accounts of public property in the possession of the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives were made by R. S. § 72, ante, § 105, and for inventories, etc., of public property in and about the Capitol, etc., and the Executive Mansion, by R. S. §§ 1832, 1833, post, §§ 3418, 3419, and Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 9, ante, § 231.

(R. S. § 198. Superseded.)

This section required the head of each Department, in each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, to cause to be filed in the Department of the Interior a list of all officers, agents, clerks, and employés employed in his Department, etc., including statistics required to enable the Secretary of the Interior to prepare the Biennial Register. The time to which the lists should be made up, and the time when they should be filed, were prescribed by Act Dec. 15, 1877, c. 4, § 2, 20 Stat. 13, amended by Act June 16, 1880, c. 235, § 1, 21 Stat. 275. All these provisions, and those of R. S. §§ 510, 511, relating to the preparation and distribution of the Biennial Register, were superseded by more specific provisions for the same purposes, contained in the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, pars. 63-68, post, § 7092.

In such subsequent provisions the Biennial Register was designated as the Official Register.

The Director of the Census was directed to edit, index, and publish the Official Register, and the provisions imposing that duty upon the Secretary of the Interior were repealed, by provisions of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 7, as amended by Act June 7, 1906, c. 3048, post, § 912.

281. (Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1.)

Transfer of miscellaneous

books not required for use of Departments, etc., to Public Library of District of Columbia.

Any books of a miscellaneous character no longer required for the use of such department, bureau, or commission, and not deemed an advisable addition to the Library of Congress, shall, if appropriate to the uses of the Free Public Library of the District of Columbia, be turned over to that library for general use as a part thereof. (32 Stat. 865.)

This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1904, cited above. It followed a provision, set forth ante, § 149, which authorized "the head of any Executive Department or bureau or any commission of the Government" to turn over to the Librarian of Congress any books, etc., in the library of the department, bureau, or commission no longer needed for its use, and to which the words of this provision, "such department, bureau, or commission," refer.

§ 282. (Act Feb. 16, 1889, c. 171.) Disposition of useless papers in the Departments.

Whenever there shall be in any one of the Executive Departments of the Government an accumulation of files of papers, which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of such Department and have no permanent value or historical interest, it shall be the duty of the head of such Department to submit to Congress a report of that fact, accompanied by a concise statement of the condition and character of such papers.