attorneys or counsel. June 22, 1870, c. 164. erly in the De prosecute claims cases, as if made out, certified, and transmitted in each case respectively.' Employment of 43. No head of a Department shall employ attorneys or counsel at the expense of the United States; but when in 150, s. 17, v. 16, p. need of counsel or advice shall call upon the Department Sec. 189, R. S. of Justice, the officers of which shall attend to the same.2 Persons form- 44. It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after partments not to the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and in them. seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the 256, s. 5, v. 17, p Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for Sec. 190, R. S. prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee, 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 employee. June 1, 1872, c. 202. Purchases from contingent funds. Aug. 26, 1842, c. CONTINGENT FUNDS. 45. No part of the contingent fund appropriated to any Department, Bureau, or office shall be applied to the pur202, s. 19, v. 5, p. chase of any articles except such as the head of the DepartSec. 3683, R. S. ment shall deem necessary and proper to carry on the business of the Department, Bureau, or office, and shall, by written order, direct to be procured." 527. Law books, books of refer ence, etc. Mar. 15, 1898, 8. 5, v. 30. June 29, 1898, v. 30. 46. Hereafter law books, books of reference, and periodi cals for use of any Executive Department, or other Government establishment not under an Executive Department, at the seat of Government, shall not be purchased or paid for from any appropriation made for contingent expenses or for any specific or general purpose, unless such purchase is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided for in the law granting the appropriation. Sec. 3, act of March 15, 1898. Exception. The prohibition of the purchase of "law books, books of reference, and periodicals for use of any Executive Department, or other Government establishment not under an Executive Department, at the seat of Government,” as set forth in section three of "An Act making appropriations 1 See the title "The Court of Claims" in the chapter entitled THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. *See Chapter VII and par. 41 ante. 3 Section 3683, Revised Statutes, requires that the written order therein mentioned shall be given by the head of the Department before the articles to be paid for from the contingent fund are procured, and a subsequent approval is not sufficient. II Dig. Compt. Dec. 1. This section applies only to cases where an appropriation is made in a lump sum for "coutingent, incidental, or miscellaneous expenses," or under similar words, and where Congress has specifically designated appropriations for enumerated items as being for contingent, incidental, or miscellaneous expenses." Ibid. 42. When an item is properly payable from an appropriation for contingent expenses, the discretion of the officer charged with the duty of expending said fund is not subject to review by the accounting officers upon any question as to the necessity or advisability of his expenditures. Ibid, 80. for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes," shall not apply to the provision "for contingent expenses of the military information division, Adjutant-General's Office, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars," as duly set forth in the Act "making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, and in the Act "making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Act of June 29, 1898. for newspapers. Aug. 26, 1842,c. 202, s. 16, v. 5, p. Sec. 192, R. S. The amount expended in any one year for newspapers, Expenditure for any Department, except the Department of State, including all the Bureaus and offices connected therewith, 526 shall not exceed one hundred dollars. And all newspapers purchased with the public money for the use of either of the Departments must be preserved as files for such Department. The limitation in section one hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes of one hundred dollars 30. as the amount to be expended in any one year for newspapers for any Department shall not apply to the purchase of newspapers for military use by the military information division of the Adjutant-General's Office from the appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal years herein named. Act of June 29, 1898. June 29, 1898, v. Annual report of expenditure or contingent Aug. 26, 1842, c. funds. 202, s. 20, v. 5, p. 9527. 47. 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 Sec. 193, R. S. 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 fiscal years named in the Act of June 29, 1898, are those ending on June 30, 1898 and 1899, respectively. Annual mates. Mar. 3, 1875, v. 18, p. 370. 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. ANNUAL REPORTS, ESTIMATES. esti- 48. That it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Sec. 3, act of Executive Departments, and of other officers authorized or required to make estimates, to furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the first day of October of each year, their annual estimates for the public service, to be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under his direction; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit, as a part of the appendix to the Book of Estimates, such extracts from the annual reports of the several heads of Departments and Bureaus as relate to estimates for appropriations and the necessities therefor. Sec. 3, act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. L., 370.) Statement of condition of busi mitted. 28, p. 808. v. 49. It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive ness to be sub. Department or other Government establishment in the city Sec. 7, act of of Washington to submit to the first regular session of the Mar. 2, 1895, V. Fifty-fourth Congress, and annually thereafter, in the Annual Book of Estimates, a statement 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 estab lishment 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. Sec. 7, act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 808.) Time of making annual reports. See all acts re 50. Except where a different time is expressly prescribed by law, the various annual reports required to be submitted quiring reports. to Congress by the heads of departments shall be made at Sec. 195, R. S. the commencement of each regular session, and shall embrace the transactions of the preceding year.2 ports, when to Department re- 51. The head of each department, except the Departbe furnished to ment of Justice, shall furnish to the Congressional Printer printer. 1 For statutory provisions respecting the detail of clerks, etc., in the several Executive Departments, see par. 23, ante. See also, in connection with the preparation and submission of annual estimates, paragraphs 166-174, post. See also paragraph 19, ante. 155, ss. 1, 3, v. 13. 22, 1870, c. 150, s. copies of the documents usually accompanying his annual, June 25, 1864, c. report on or before the first day of November in each year, pp. 184, 5: June and a copy of his annual report on or before the third 12, v. 16, p. 164. Monday of November in each year. 52. 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. Sec. 196, R. S. Inventories of property. July 15, 1870. c. 364 Feb. 27,1877, 300, s. 1, v. 16, p. c. 69. v. 19, p. 241. Sec. 197, R. S. Official Regis ter of the United Sec. 73, ibid. 53. To enable the officer charged with the duty of preparing the Official Register of the United States to publish States. the same, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the head of each Executive Department of the Government, and the chief of each and every bureau, office, commission, or institution not embraced in an Executive Department, in connection with which salaries are paid from the Treasury of the United States, shall, on the first day of July in each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, cause to be filed with the Secretary of the Interior a full and complete list of all officers, agents, clerks, and other employees of said Department, bureau, office, commission, or institution connected with the legislative, executive, or judicial service of the Government, or paid from the United States Treasury, including military and naval officers of the United States, cadets, and midshipmen. Said lists shall exhibit the salary, compensation, and emoluments allowed to each of said officers, agents, clerks, and other employees, the State or country in which he was born, the State or Territory and Congressional district and county of which he is a resident and from which he was appointed to office, and where employed. A list of the names, force, and condition of all ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built, shall also be filed with the Secretary of the Interior by the heads of the Departments having supervision of such ships and vessels, for incorporation in the Official Register. Report to Congress, in annual buildings rented, etc. Mar. 3, 1883, v. 22, p. 552. The Secretary of the Interior shall cause the Official Register to be edited, indexed, and published by the chief clerk of the Interior Department, on the first day of December following the first day of July above mentioned. Of the Official Register three thousand copies shall be printed and bound, which shall be distributed as follows: Section 73, act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 601). 54. It shall be the duty of the heads of the several estimates, of 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. Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. L., 552). 55. It shall be the duty of the heads of the several who are below a Executive Departments of the Government to report to Congress each year in the annual estimates the number of 1890, v. 26, p. 268.' employees in each bureau and office and the salaries of each who are below a fair standard of efficiency. Sec. 2, act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 268). Report of number of employees fair standard of efficiency. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Requesting, etc.. contribu of Government poses prohibited. 1876, v. 19, p. 169. 56. That all executive officers or employees of the United tions by officers States not appointed by the President, with the advice for political pur and consent of the Senate, are prohibited from requesting, Sec. 6, Aug. 15, giving to, or receiving from any other officer or employee of the Government, any money or property or other thing of value for political purposes; and any such officer or employee, who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be at once discharged from the service of the United States; and he shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Sec. 6, act of August 15, 1876 (19 Stat. L., 169). Draping public buildings in hibited. 57. That hereafter no building owned or used for public mourning pro- purposes by the Government of the United States shall be Sec. 3, Mar. 3, draped in mourning and no part of the public fund shall be used for such purpose. Sec. 3, act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. L., 715). 1893, v. 27, p. 715. partments for Closing De- 58. That hereafter the Executive Departments of the deceased ex-offi- Government shall not be closed as a mark to the memory cials prohibited. Sec. 4. Mar. 3, of any deceased ex-official of the United States. 1893, v. 27, p. 715. act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. L., 715). Sec. 4, |