United States has expressly consented to be sued; and the amount of any such final judgment shall be paid out of any specific appropriation applicable to the case, if any such there be; and when no such appropriation exists, said judgment shall be paid in the same manner (except with respect to interest) as judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in cases under its general jurisdiction. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 19, 45 Stat. 1420; 40 U. S. C., sec. 379.)

1870s. Appeal.-Any party aggrieved by any final judgment in a proceeding under this Act may appeal therefrom to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and upon such appeal said court shall have power to review said judgment and affirm, reverse, or modify the same as on appeals in other actions at law. No such appeal, nor any bond or undertaking given therein, shall operate to prevent or delay the vesting of title to said lands in the United States, but upon the filing of a declaration of taking or (if no declaration of taking is filed) upon payment to the party entitled or deposit in the registry of the court, of the amount awarded by any judgment, title shall vest in the United States, saving to all parties their right to just compensation. In the event that the compensation finally awarded and adjudged for such lands shall exceed the amount awarded and adjudged by the judgment appealed from, said court shall enter judgment for the deficiency with interest as hereinbefore provided. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 20, 45 Stat. 1420; June 7, 1934, 48 Stat. 926; 40 U. S. C., sec. 380.)

1870t. Payment of compensation into court.-Payment into the registry of the court for the use of all parties entitled of the sum of money adjudged to be just compensation for the lands to be condemned and taken, or for any parcel thereof, or any interest therein, shall constitute payment of such compensation. Upon such payment, the petitioner shall be entitled to an order declaring that the title to the lands in respect of which such compensation is so paid is vested in the United States of America. The money so paid into the registry of the court shall be deemed to be vested in the persons owning or interested in said lands, according to their respective estates and interests, and said money shall take the place and stand in lieu of the lands condemned. The court, upon the application of the petitioner or of any party in interest, shall have power to determine and direct who is entitled to receive payment of the money so paid into the registry, and may, in its discretion, order a reference to the auditor of the court or a special master to ascertain the facts on which such determination and direction are to be made. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 21, 45 Stat. 1420; 40 U. S. C., sec. 381.)

1870u. Delivery of possession.-In cases in which possession shall not have been awarded pursuant to a declaration of taking, when the adjudged compensation shall have been paid into the registry as directed in the judgment of the court and a certified copy of such judgment, with a certificate of the clerk of the court showing such payment, has been served upon the person in possession of said lands, such person shall upon demand, deliver possession thereof to the petitioner. In case possession is not delivered when so demanded, the petitioner may apply to the court without notice (unless the court shall require notice to be given) for a writ of assistance, and the court, upon proof of the service of the copy of the final order

or judgment and certificate of the clerk showing payment as aforesaid, shall thereupon cause such writ to be issued, which shall be executed in the same manner as when issued in other cases for the delivery of possession of real property. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 22, 45 Stat. 1421; 40 U. S. C., sec. 382.)

1870v. Amendments. In all proceedings under this Act the court shall have power at any stage of the proceeding to allow amendments in form or substance in any petition, citation, summons, process, answer, declaration of taking, order, verdict, or other proceeding, including amendment in the description of the lands sought to be condemned, whenever such amendment will not impair the substantial rights of any party in interest. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 23, 45 Stat. 1421; 40 U. S. C., sec. 383.)

1870w. General provisions. In all proceedings under this Act, where the mode or manner of conducting the proceeding is not expressly provided for by law, the court shall have power to make all necessary orders and give all necessary directions to carry into effect the object and intent of this Act and of the several Acts of Congress heretofore or hereafter enacted conferring authority to acquire lands for the use of the United States. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 24, 45 Stat. 1421; 40 U. S. C., sec. 384.)

1870x. Provisions for saving pending proceedings.-The repeal, express or implied, of any existing law or the alteration or amendment thereof by virtue of anything in this Act contained shall not affect (1) any act done or any right, including the right to appeal, accruing or accrued under the law so repealed, altered, or amended, or (2) any suit or proceeding pending in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, or the Supreme Court of the United States upon writ of error, appeal, certificate, writ of certiorari, or upon application for writ of error, appeal, certificate, or writ of certiorari, at the time of the taking effect of this Act; but all suits and proceedings shall be proceeded with and disposed of in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed, save and except only that in any condemnation suit or proceeding for the condemnation of land for the use of the United States pending in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in which commissioners of appraisement shall not have been appointed by the court at the time of the taking effect of this Act, the trial of said condemnation suit or proceeding shall proceed and be conducted from that point forward in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and all evidence as to the value of the property to be condemned and taken shall be given before the court and jury as in this Act prescribed and the matter shall be proceeded with and disposed of in the same manner and with like effect as if the proceeding had been originally begun and the petition filed and all prior proceedings had under and pursuant to the provisions of this Act and after the taking effect of the same. (Mar. 1, 1929, sec. 25, 45 Stat. 1421; June 7, 1934, 48 Stat. 926; 40 U. S. C., sec. 385.)

1870y. Proceedings on behalf of the District of Columbia not affected by this Act. This Act shall not affect any suit or proceeding begun, now pending, or hereafter to be instituted under chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, by or on behalf of the Com

missioners of the District of Columbia for the condemnation of land for sites of schoolhouses, fire or police stations, or for a right of way for sewers, or for any other municipal use; but as to all such suits and proceedings, and the right of said commissioners to institute the same, said chapter shall be and remain in full force and effect as if this Act had not been made. (Mar. 1, 1929, 45 Stat. 1422; 40 U. S. C., sec. 386.)

PUBLIC CONTRACTS

1871. Returns office; transfer to General Accounting Office.-That the returns office, together with its activities, personnel, contracts, bids, offers, proposals, advertisements, books, records, documents, furniture, office equipment, and papers and property of whatsoever character, is hereby transferred from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office; and all powers and duties whatsoever in connection therewith now vested in or required to be performed by or under the Secretary of the Interior are transferred to, vested in, and required to be performed by or under the Comptroller General of the United States. (Feb. 4, 1929, sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1147; 41 U. S. C., sec. 4a.)

1872. Advertisements for proposals for supplies or services; exceptions. All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles or performance of the service. When immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency, the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, between individuals. (R. S., sec. 3709; June 25, 1910, sec. 23, 36 Stat. 861; 41 U. S. C., sec. 5.)

1873. Same; exceptions.-That hereafter section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States [41 U. S. C., sec. 5] shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered in the Department of Agriculture when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of fifty dollars. (Mar. 1, 1899, 30 Stat. 957; 41 U. S. C., sec. 6.)

1874. Advertisements and contracts for executive departments, etc., in Washington; general supply committee; bonds of contractors; purchase or drawing of supplies.-That hereafter all supplies of fuel, ice, stationery, and other miscellaneous supplies for the executive departments and other government establishments in Washington, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article, shall be advertised and contracted for by the Secretary of the Treasury, instead of by the several departments and establishments, upon such days as he may designate. There shall be a general supply committee 13 in lieu of the board provided for in section thirty-seven hun

18 The function of determination of policies and methods of procurement, warehousing, and distribution of property, facilities, structures, improvements, machinery, equipment. stores, and supplies exercised by any agency is transferred to a Procurement Division in the Treasury Department, at the head of which shall be a Director of Procurement.

The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department is transferred to the Procurement Division, except that the buildings of the Treasury Department shall be

dred and nine of the Revised Statutes as amended, composed of of ficers, one from each such department, designated by the head thereof, the duties of which committee shall be to make, under the direction of the said Secretary, an annual schedule of required miscellaneous supplies, to standardize such supplies, eliminating all unnecessary grades and varieties, and to aid said Secretary in soliciting bids based upon formulas and specifications drawn up by such experts in the service of the Government as the committee may see fit to call upon, who shall render whatever assistance they may require. The committee shall aid said Secretary in securing the proper fulfillment of the contracts for such supplies, for which purpose the said Secretary shall prescribe, and all departments comply with, rules providing for such examination and tests of the articles received as may be necessary for such purpose; in making additions to the said schedule; in opening and considering the bids, and shall perform such other similar duties as he may assign to them: Provided, That the articles. intended to be purchased in this manner are those in common use by or suitable to the ordinary needs of two or more such departments or establishments; but the said Secretary shall have discretion to amend the annual common supply schedule from time to time as to any articles that, in his judgment, can as well be thus purchased. In all cases only one bond for the proper performance of each contract shall be required, notwithstanding that supplies for more than one department or government establishment are included in such contract. Every purchase or drawing of such supplies from the contractor shall be immediately reported to said committee. No disbursing officer shall be a member of such committee. No department or establishment shall purchase or draw supplies from the common schedule through more than one office or bureau, except in case of detached bureaus or offices having field or outlying service, which may purchase directly from the contractor with the permission of the head of their department: And provided further, That telephone service, electric light, and power service purchased or contracted for from companies or individuals shall be so obtained by him. (June 17, 1910, sec. 4, 36 Stat. 531; 41 U. S. C., sec. 7.)

1875. Consolidation and coordination of Government purchases; authorization; duties of General Supply Committee.-That the Secretary of the Treasury, through the General Supply Committee established under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910,

administered by the Treasury Department and the administration of post-office buildings is transferred to the Post Office Department. The General Supply Committee of the Treasury Department is abolished.

In respect of any kind of procurement, warehousing, or distribution for any agency the Procurement Division may, with the approval of the President, (a) undertake the performance of such procurement, warehousing, or distribution itself, or (b) permit such agency to perform such procurement, warehousing, or distribution, or (c) entrust such performance to some other agency, or (d) avail itself in part of any of these resources, according as it may deem desirable in the interest of economy and efficiency. When the Procurement Division has prescribed the manner of procurement, warehousing, or distribution of anything, no agency shall thereafter procure, warehouse, or distribute such thing in any manner other than so prescribed.

The execution of work now performed by the Corps of Engineers of the Army shall remain with said corps, subject to the responsibilities herein vested in the Procurement Division.

The Procurement Division shall also have control of all property, facilities, structures, machinery, equipment, stores, and supplies not necessary to the work of any agency; may have custody thereof or entrust custody to any other agency; and shall furnish the same to agencies as need therefor may arise. (Executive Order No. 6166, sec. 1,

June 10, 1933.)

entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and for other purposes" [41 U. S. C., sec. 7], is hereby authorized and directed to purchase or procure and distribute supplies to meet the consolidated requirements of the executive departments and independent establishments of the Federal Government in Washington, District of Columbia, and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the requirements of the field services of any department or establishment, when request is made by the head thereof, shall be included in such purchase or procurement and distribution of supplies. The supplies to be purchased in this manner shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury from those for which he is authorized under existing law to make term contracts or to include in the general schedule of supplies issued annually by the General Supply Committee. (Feb. 27, 1929, sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1341; 41 U. S. C., sec. 7a.)

1876. Requisition for supplies; reimbursement.-That each executive department and independent establishment shall furnish from time to time, when called on to do so, estimates of its requirements for inclusion in purchases which it is proposed to have made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and there shall be reserved from proper appropriations sufficient amounts in each case to reimburse the general supply fund hereinafter created. The General Supply Committee shall charge the proportionate cost of supplies, including breakage, shrinkage, transportation, cost of handling by the Treasury Department, and inspection, and bill the same to each requisitioning department; and each requisitioning department and independent establishment shall reimburse said general supply fund out of its appropriation upon proper vouchers. (Feb. 27, 1929, sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1342; 41 U. S. C., sec. 7b.)

1877. General supply fund; expenditures; reimbursements; report and audit; payments for supplies procured for field service. That there is hereby authorized to be set aside as a special fund in the Treasury Department, to be known as the general supply fund, such sum as may be appropriated by Congress for the making of payments for supplies to be purchased under the provisions of this Act [41 U. S. C., secs. 7a, 7b], including the cost thereof and transportation charges, and reimbursement therefor upon presentation of proper vouchers shall be made by each requisitioning office, out of any appropriations which may be applicable, by depositing the proper amounts directly to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States for the credit of the general supply fund herein authorized, and duplicate certificates of deposits issued therefor shall be promptly forwarded to the General Supply Committee: Provided, That all such reimbursements shall be placed to the credit of the general supply fund, and the same are hereby reappropriated for the same purpose as the original fund: Provided further, That there shall be included in each annual report of the Treasury Department a statement of the assets and liabilities of the said general supply fund as of June 30, including as assets any supplies purchased therefrom and on hand, for which reimbursement has not been received: Provided further, That the Comptroller General of the United States shall make an annual audit of the general supply fund as of June 30, and there shall be covered into the United