as to the condition of business in his Department or other Government establishment, showing whether any part of the same is in arrears, and, if so, in what divisions of the respective bureaus and offices of his Department or other Government establishment such arrears exist, the extent thereof, and the reasons therefor, and also a statement of the number and compensation of employees appropriated for in one bureau or office who have been detailed to another bureau or office for a period exceeding one year. (28 Stat. 808.)

This section was part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above.

§ 6681. (R. S. § 3663, as amended by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1.) Requisites of estimates for appropriations for public works. Whenever any estimate submitted to Congress by the head of a Department asks an appropriation for any new specific expenditure, such as the erection of a public building, or the construction of any public work, requiring a plan before the building or work can be properly completed, such estimate shall be accompanied by full plans and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole work. All subsequent estimates for any such work shall state the original estimated cost, the aggregate amount theretofore appropriated for the same, and the amount actually expended thereupon, as well as the amount asked for the current year for which such estimate is made. And if the amount asked is in excess of the original estimate, the full reasons for the excess, and the extent of the anticipated excess, shall be also stated.

Act June 17, 1844, c. 105, § 2, 5 Stat. 693. Act March 3, 1855, c. 175, § 8, 10 Stat. 670. Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 249.

This section was amended by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, cited above, by inserting, after the words "such estimate shall be accompanied by full," in place of the word "plan," the word "plans," as set forth here.

Statements in the annual estimates of buildings rented by the Executive Departments were required by a provision of Act March 3, 1883, c. 128, § 1, post, 6682.

An annual report in the Book of Estimates of the expenditure of the appropriation for repairs, etc., of public buildings was required by a provision of Act Aug. 30, 1890, c. 837, § 1, post, § 6696.

A statement in the annual Book of Estimates of the buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the Government was required by a provision of Act July 16, 1892, c. 196, § 1, post, § 6683.

Further restrictions on contracts and expenditures for public buildings and sites therefor, requiring previous appropriations, and plans, estimates, etc., were imposed by R. S. § 3733, post, § 6886, and R. S. § 3734, amended by Act June 25, 1910, c. 383, § 33, post, § 6905.

Restrictions on contracts for the rent of buildings for the Government until an appropriation is made therefor were imposed by provisions of Act March 3, 1877, c. 106, and Act Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 1, post, §§ 6930, 6931.

No act authorizing the purchase of a site and erection of a public building thereon is to be construed to appropriate money unless it makes such appropriation in express language, by a provision of Act Aug. 7, 1882, c. 433, § 1, post, 6906.

Detailed estimates of appropriations for expenses of the administrative work of carrying into effect the provisions of public building acts, so far as they relate to public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, were required by Act May 30, 1908, c. 228, § 6, post, § 6795.

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§ 6682. (Act March 3, 1883, c. 128, § 1.) of buildings rented, etc.

Statements in estimates

It shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments to submit to Congress each year, in the annual estimates of appropriations, a statement of the number of buildings rented by their respective departments, the purposes for which rented, and the annual rental of each. (22 Stat. 552.)

This was a provision following an appropriation for rent of buildings for use of the War Department, in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1884, cited above.

§ 6683. (Act July 16, 1892, c. 196, § 1.) Statements in estimates of buildings rented within District of Columbia.

Hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress each year, in the annual Book of Estimates of Appropriations, a statement of the buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, the purposes for which rented, and the annual rental of each. (27 Stat. 199.)

This was a provision following an appropriation for rent of buildings in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1893, cited above.

Additional details in the estimates required by this section were required by Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, § 3, post, § 6684.

§ 6684. (Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, § 3.) Rental of buildings; details of statements.

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. 3.)

This section was part of the act making appropriations for the expenses of the first session of the Sixty-Third Congress, cited above.

§ 6685. (R. S. § 3664.) What additional explanations are required. Whenever the head of a Department, being about to submit to Congress the annual estimates of expenditures required for the coming year, finds that the usual items of such estimates vary materially in amount from the appropriation ordinarily asked for the object named, and especially from the appropriation granted for the same. objects for the preceding year, and whenever new items not theretofore usual are introduced into such estimates for any year, he shall accompany the estimates by minute and full explanations of all such variations and new items, showing the reasons and grounds upon which the amounts are required, and the different items added. Act June 17, 1844, c. 105, § 2, 5 Stat. 693. Act Marcn 3, 1855, c. 175, § 8, 10 Stat. 670.

§ 6686. (R. S. § 3665.) Amount of outstanding appropriations to

be designated.

The head of each Department, in submitting to Congress his estimates of expenditures required in his Department during the year then approaching, shall designate not only the amount required to be appropriated for the next fiscal year, but also the amount of the outstanding appropriation, if there be any, which will probably be required for each particular item of expenditure.

Act June 2, 1858, c. 82, § 2, 11 Stat. 308.

The Secretary of the Treasury was required to annex to the annual estimates a statement of the appropriations for the service of the year, made by former acts, by R. S. § 3670, post, § 6738.

The estimates for expenses of the Government, except those for sundry civil expenses, are to be prepared according to the order and arrangement of the appropriation acts for the year preceding, by Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 4, ante, § 6672.

The Secretary of State was required to report a detailed statement of expenditures under the appropriation for expenses in connection with foreign trade relations and for maintenance of a Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department, and the requisites of estimates for further appropriations were prescribed, by provisions of Act Aug. 5, 1909, c. 7, ante, § 293.

§ 6687. (Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 4.) Permanent appropriation for expenses of national loan, etc., repealed; estimates of expenses for refunding national debt.

The act entitled "An act limiting the appropriation of certain moneys for the preparation, issue, and reissue of certain securities of the United States, and for other purposes," approved May twentythird, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and all other acts and parts of acts making permanent appropriations for the expenses of the national loan, except the second section of the act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt," are hereby repealed, this repeal to take place on the first day of July next; and hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually submit to Congress detailed estimates of appropriations required for said expenses. (18 Stat. 109.) These provisions were part of section 4 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1875, cited above.

The further provisions of the section omitted here, made appropriations for said fiscal year.

The provision of Act May 23, 1872, mentioned in this section, was incorpoated into a part of R. S. § 3689, post, § 6799, under the heading "Expenses of National Loan," which was therefore repealed by virtue of R. S. § 5601, post, 1058S

The provision of Act July 14, 1870, mentioned in this section, was incorporated into R. S. § 3689, post, § 6799, under the heading "Refunding the National Debt."

The Secretary of the Treasury was required each year to prepare and submit in his annual report to Congress estimates of the public revenue and the public revenues for the fiscal year current, and also for the fiscal year next ensuing, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government for the preceding fiscal year, by a provision of Act Feb. 26, 1907, c. 1635, § 1, ante, § 389.

The Secretary of the Treasury was required to report in the annual estimates the number of persons employed, other than workmen and adjusters, and the compensation paid to each, at each mint and assay office, out of appro

priations for wages of workmen, adjusters, etc., by a provision of Act Feb. 3, 1905, c. 297, § 1, post, § 6690.

The Secretary of the Treasury was required to submit, in the regular Book of Estimates, detailed estimates of the expenses of maintaining the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, by a provision of Act March 3, 1905, c. 1484, § 1, post, § 6694.

The Secretary of the Treasury was directed to submit to Congress annually detailed estimates of appropriations for expenses, both in the Office of the Supervising Architect and in the field, of the administrative work of carrying into effect the provisions of public-building acts, so far as they relate to public buildings under control of the Treasury Department; and he was required to submit annually in the Book of Estimates a statement showing the names of all persons whose salaries or compensation are paid from said appropriations, their duties, and the rate of compensation and the amount paid to each of them, by Act May 30, 1908, c. 228, § 6, post, § 6795.

For the fiscal year 1914 and annually thereafter specific estimates for salaries for all personal services, of the character described, in the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, were required by a provision of Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 357.

The Secretary of the Treasury was required to submit in detail estimates for the expenses of laundering paper money, by Act Aug. 26, 1912, c. 408, post, § 6692.

§ 6688. (Act April 27, 1904, c. 1630, § 1.) Estimates for payment of judgments.

Hereafter estimates for the payment of all judgments against the United States, including judgments in Indian depredation claims and of United States courts shall be transmitted to Congress through the Treasury Department as other estimates of appropriations are required to be transmitted. (33 Stat. 422.)

This was a proviso accompanying an appropriation to pay certain judgments in the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1904, cited above.

§ 6689. (Act Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 5.) Estimates by Secretary of the Treasury for Customs Service.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to include in his next estimates to Congress, and annually thereafter, a statement specifying in detail the number and class of officers and employees of every grade and nature, with the rate of compensation to each, that may in his judgment be necessary to properly conduct. the business of collecting the revenue at each port of entry in the United States, together with an estimate of the amounts required for contingent expenses at each of said ports, and for such additional expenses of the service as cannot be otherwise specifically provided for. (22 Stat. 256.)

This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1883, cited above.

§ 6690. (Act Feb. 3, 1905, c. 297, § 1.) Reports by Secretary of the Treasury of persons employed at mints and assay offices, other than workmen and adjusters, paid out of appropriations for workmen, adjusters, etc.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress each year in the annual estimates the number of persons employed, other than workmen and adjusters, and the compensation paid to each, at each mint

and assay office, out of appropriations made for wages of workmen, adjusters, and other employees. (33 Stat. 657.)

This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1906, cited above.

A provision in the same language was made by the similar appropriation act for the preceding year, Act March 18, 1904, c. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 111.

§ 6691. (Act March 4, 1911, c. 240.) Repeal of permanent indefinite appropriations for parting and refining bullion; disposition of unexpended balance.

All laws and parts of laws, to the extent that they make a permanent indefinite appropriation for the expenses of parting and refining bullion, are repealed to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress, in the regular Book of Estimates, detailed estimates for the expenses of this service.

The unexpended balance, after meeting all obligations, of the permanent indefinite appropriation for parting and refining bullion remaining on the books of the Treasury two years after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt. (36 Stat. 1292.)

These were provisions of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above.

Provisions making permanent indefinite appropriations for expenses of parting and refining bullion, repealed by this act, were made by Act June 19, 1878, c. 329, § 1, and Act July 7, 1898, c. 571, § 1, ante, §§ 6516, 6517, and other similar provisions are referred to in the notes under those acts. Previous similar provisions were contained in Act Aug. 15, 1876, c. 287, § 1, 19 Stat. 157, and Act March 3, 1877, c. 102, § 1, 19 Stat. 306.

§ 6692. (Act Aug. 26, 1912, c. 408.) Estimates for expenses of laundering paper money.

The Secretary of the Treasury may employ such number of expert money assorters, feeders, and other employees, and expend such sums for contingent and miscellaneous items and for the purchase or construction and installation of paper-money laundering machines as may be necessary, in his judgment, to install, maintain, and operate such laundering machines in the Treasury at Washington and at the subtreasuries: ** Provided further, That estimates hereunder shall be submitted in detail for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and annually thereafter. (37 Stat. 595.)

This was a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above. A proviso omitted here made an appropriation for laundering paper money, to continue available during the fiscal year 1913.

§ 6693. (Act March 2, 1889, c. 410, § 1.) Estimates by Secretary of the Treasury for Revenue-Cutter Service.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to submit the estimates for the Revenue-Cutter Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for each year thereafter, in detail, showing separately, the amount required for pay of officers, rations for officers, pay of crews, rations of crews, fuel, repairs and outfits, ship-chandlery, and for traveling and contingent