inclusion in the Book of Estimates all estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year for which they are prepared and submitted, and special or additional estimates for that fiscal year shall only be submitted to carry out laws subsequently enacted, or when deemed imperatively necessary for the public service by the Department in which they shall originate, in which case such special or additional estimate shall be accompanied by a full statement of its imperative necessity and reasons for its omission in the annual estimates. [34 Stat. L. 448.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Act of June 22, 1906, ch. 3514. As to estimates not complying with this section see sec. 4 of the Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 297, infra, p. 127. SEC. 9. [Appropriations and contracts—restriction on payments.] No Act of Congress hereafter passed shall be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States, or to authorize the execution of a contract involving the payment of money in excess of appropriations made by law, unless such Act shall in specific terms declare an appropriation to be made or that a contract may be executed. [34 Stat. L. 764.] This is from Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, June 30, 1906, ch. 3914. * * * [SEC. 1.] [Government Printing Office - estimates of all clerks, etc., to be submitted restriction on services.] The Public Printer shall submit for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and annually thereafter, estimates for all clerks and other employees additional to the foregoing who may be required in the executive or administrative offices of the Government Printing Office; and no funds other than those appropriated in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine shall be used during said fiscal year for services in the Government Printing Office of the character specified in said estimates and appropriated for in said appropriation Act. [34 Stat. L. 943.] This and the following paragraph are from Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635. * * * [Skilled draftsmen, etc., in Signal' Office -annual estimates of persons employed.] The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, the duties, and the amount paid to each. [34 Stat. L. 964.] See note to preceding paragraph. * * [SEC. 1.] [Agricultural department — additional statements of receipts and expenditures required.] * That hereafter on or before the first day of January of each year the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to Con gress, in addition to the estimates now required by law, classified and detailed estimates of every subject of expenditure intended for the Agricultural Department for the next fiscal year, and detailed reports of all expenditures under any appropriation for such service during the preceding fiscal year. [34 Stat. Ľ. 1282.] This is from Agricultural Department Appropriation Act, March 4, 1907, ch. 2907. * * The estimates [Navy-estimates for support of — requirements.] for the support of the Navy shall hereafter show, under the head of Pay of the Navy, the sums allowed for pay of officers belonging to the line, to the several departments of the staff, and to the retired list; the estimates to show under each head the amount allowed for pay proper, for increases due to longevity and foreign service, and for pay at sea rates to officers employed on shore; together with the total number of warrant and petty officers and seamen of the several grades and designations, including as to each class the amount allowed for pay proper and for longevity or service increases. The estimates shall include a list giving the rates of pay for all petty officers and other enlisted men of the Navy. [35 Stat. L, 129.] This is from the Naval Appropriation Act of May 13, 1908, ch. 166. [SEC. 1.] [Secretary of Navy to submit detailed estimates of employees employment forbidden unless specially provided for.] That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress detailed estimates for all such classified civil-service employees that may be required to be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and annually thereafter, and no such classified civil-service employees shall be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, or in any subsequent fiscal year, and paid from such lump appropriations except under specific authorization granted by law from year to year based upon estimates as herein required. [35 Stat. L. 505.] This is from the Deficiencies Appropriation Act of May 30, 1908, ch. 227. * * * [SEC. 1.] [Revenue and expenditures in postal service statement to be submitted with annual report.] That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall each year prepare and submit in his annual report to Congress estimates of the revenue and expenditures in the postal service for the fiscal year current, and also for the fiscal year next ensuing at the time said report is submitted, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures for the preceding completed fiscal year. [35 Stat. L. 418.] This is from the Postal Service Appropriation Act of May 27, 1908, ch. 206. Previous appropriation acts (see 34 Stat. L. 1217) have contained the same provision except for the word "hereafter." SEC. 4. [Estimates not conforming to law to be rearranged.] When estimates hereafter transmitted to the Treasury for submission to Congress do not in form and arrangement comply with the provisions of section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved June twentysecond, nineteen hundred and six, they shall, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be rearranged so as to comply with said requirements of law. [35 Stat. L. 907.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 297. Section 4 of the Act of June 22, 1906, above referred to, is given supra, p. 125. * [SEC. 1.] [Regulating immigration — detailed estimates required.] * Hereafter there shall be submitted, following the estimates under the foregoing appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in said estimates. [35 Stat. L. 982.] This and sec. 7 following are from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 299. "The foregoing appropriation" above mentioned is given on pp. 981, 982, of 35 Statutes at Large, and covers a variety of subjects. SEC. 7. [Annual estimates-statement to President if estimated revenue is exceeded recommendations of reductions, or new taxes, etc.] Immediately upon the receipt of the regular annual estimates of appropriations needed for the various branches of the Government it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to estimate as nearly as may be the revenues of the Government for the ensuing fiscal year, and if the estimates for appropriations, including the estimated amount necessary to meet all continuing and permanent appropriations, shall exceed the estimated revenues the Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit the estimates to Congress as heretofore required by law and at once transmit a detailed statement of all of said estimates to the President, to the end that he may, in giving Congress information of the state of the Union and in recommending to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary, advise the Congress how in his judgment the estimated appropriations could with least injury to the public service be reduced so as to bring the appropriations within the estimated revenues, or, if such reduction be not in his judgment practicable without undue injury to the public service, that he may recommend to Congress such loans or new taxes as may be necessary to cover the deficiency. [35 Stat. L. 1027.] EVIDENCE. See WITNESSES. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Act of June 22, 1906, Ch. 3514, 129. Sec. 5. Employees to Serve Three Years in One Department before Transfer to Another, 129. 6. Details of Civil Employees to Departments from Outside of District Restricted, 129. 7. Preservation of Newspapers Repealed-R. S. Sec. 192, p. 30, Amended, Sec. 4. Travel Expenses of Department Employees at Washington to Be Annually Reported, etc., 129. Act of March 4, 1909, Ch. 297, 130. Detail of Employees to Office of President, 130. CROSS-REFERENCES. Salaries of Heads of Departments, see CONGRESS. Annual Estimates, Book of, see ESTIMATEs, approprIATIONS, AND REPORTS. Agriculture, see that title. State Department, see that title. SEC. 5. [Employees to serve three years in one department before transfer to another.] It shall not be lawful hereafter for any clerk or other employee in the classified service in any of the Executive Departments to be transferred from one Department to another Department until such clerk or other employee shall have served for a term of three years in the Department from which he desires to be transferred. [34 Stat. L. 449.] This and the two following sections are from Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, June 22, 1906, ch. 3514. SEC. 6. [Details of civil employees to departments from outside of district restricted.] Hereafter it shall be unlawful to detail civil officers, clerks, or other subordinate employees who are authorized or employed under or paid from appropriations made for the military or naval establishments, or any other branch of the public service outside of the District of Columbia, except those officers and employees whose details are now specially provided by law, for duty in any bureau, office, or other division of any Executive Department in the District of Columbia, except temporary details for duty connected with their respective offices. [34 Stat. L. 449.] SEC. 7. [Preservation of newspapers repealed R. S. sec. 192, p. 30, amended.] So much of section one hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States as requires newspapers purchased for the use of the Executive Departments to be preserved for the permanent files of such Departments be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [34 Stat. L. 449.] SEC. 4. [Travel expenses of department employees at Washington to be annually reported, etc.] It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department and other Government establishment at Washington to submit to F. S. A. Supp.-9 129 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. L. 244.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of May 22, 1908, ch. 186. [Detail of employees to office of President.] That employees of the Executive Departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary. [35 Stat. L. 860.]. EXPRESS COMPANIES. See INTERSTATE COMMERCE; SLEEPING CAR COMPANIES. EXTORTION. See PENAL LAWS. |