§ 6724. (Act March 3, 1903, c. 1006.) Estimates for Department of Commerce and Labor.

That the Secretary of Commerce [and Labor] shall submit to Congress for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and annually thereafter, estimates in detail for all personal services and for all general and miscellaneous expenses for the Department of Commerce [and Labor]. (32 Stat. 1082.)

This was a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above.

The words "and Labor," inclosed in brackets in this section, were superseded by the change of the name Department of Commerce and Labor to that of Department of Commerce, by the act creating the Department of Labor, Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 1, ante, § 932.

Estimates of the expenses of the Department of Labor were required by Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, § 1, post, § 6729.

The Department of Commerce and Labor was established by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, ante, §§ 853-861, 867.

The Secretary of Commerce was required to submit detailed estimates for salaries and contingent expenses of the Steamboat Inspection Service, by Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 8, post, § 8223.

The requisites of estimates of appropriations for the Fish Commission were prescribed by Act Aug. 5, 1892, c. 380, § 1, post, § 6727.

Estimates to cover the cost of establishment and maintenance of fish batcheries in Alaska, and the salaries and traveling expenses of officials and other expenditures necessary to carry out the provisions of Act June 26, 1906, c. 3547, for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska, were required by section 12 of that act, ante, § 3641.

Estimates for compensation of shipping commissioners and clerks of shipping commissioners for services under Act June 19, 1886, c. 421, § 1, post, § 8138, were required by Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 7, post, § 8141.

The General Superintendent of the Life Saving Service was required to prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for the support of the service, by Act June 18, 1878, c. 265, § 7, post, § 8461. § 6725. (Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1.) Estimates for LightHouse Establishment; detailed statements of number and compensation of persons employed during preceding year. Hereafter there shall be submitted in the annual Book of Estimates, under each item of appropriation under the head of "Light-House Establishment," notes showing the number of persons employed and the rate of compensation paid to each from each of said appropriations during the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year for which estimates are submitted. (32 Stat. 433.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above.

A further requirement of statements, following each estimate, showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned therein, and the expenditures under each object for the preceding year was made by Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 1, post, § 6727.

§ 6726. (Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 1.) Estimates for LightHouse Establishment; detailed statements of amounts required and of expenditures for preceding year.

Hereafter there shall be submitted, following each estimate for support of the Light-House Establishment, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in each of said estimates, together with a statement of the expenditures under

each of such objects for the fiscal year terminated next preceding the period of submitting said estimates. (36 Stat. 755.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above.

A somewhat similar provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the preceding year, Act March 4, 1909, c. 299, § 1, 35 Stat. 973, was superseded by this act.

§ 6727. (Act Aug. 5, 1892, c. 380, § 1.) Estimates for officers, clerks, etc., for Fish Commission.

The Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries shall embrace in the estimates of appropriations for the Fish Commission for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and each year thereafter estimates for all officers, clerks, and other employees whose services are permanent and continuous in their character and deemed to be necessary for an efficient and economical execution of the appropriations for the Fish Commission. (27 Stat. 362.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, cited above.

§ 6728. (Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1.) Estimates for Census Office.

Estimates in detail for the expenses of the permanent Census Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four and annually thereafter shall be submitted in the regular Book of Estimates. (32 Stat. 456.)

This was a further provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above.

A permanent census office was established by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, ante, 88 907-914.

§ 6729. (Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, § 1.) Estimates by Secretary of Labor for expenses of Department of Labor.

The Secretary of Labor shall submit to Congress, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and annually thereafter, estimates in detail for all personal services and for all general and miscellaneous expenses for the Department of Labor. (38 Stat. 2.)

This was a provision annexed to the appropriation for the Department of Labor for the period from the creation of the Department to the end of the fiscal year 1914, in the act making appropriations for the first session of the Sixty-Third Congress, cited above.

The Department of Labor was created by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 1, ante, § 932.

Detailed estimates for appropriations for the division of information in the Bureau of Immigration were required by Act March 4, 1907, c. 2918, § 1, post, § 6730.

A statement of the amount required for each object of expenditure, and of expenditures for each object for the preceding fiscal year, for expenses of regulating immigration were required by Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 1, post, § 6731.

§ 6730. (Act March 4, 1907, c. 2918, § 1.) Estimates for Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization; Division of Information. For additional assistants, clerical and otherwise, necessary to estab lish and maintain a division of information in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Department of [Commerce and] Labor, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty thousand dollars, which (3009)

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shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration: Provided, That detailed estimates shall be submitted in the manner required by law for appropriations required to meet this object during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine and thereafter. (34 Stat. 1329.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, cited above.

The Division of Information, mentioned in this provision, was authorized by Act Feb. 20, 1907, c. 1134, § 40, ante, § 960.

The words "Commerce and," inclosed in brackets in this section, were superseded by the transfer to the Department of Labor from the Department of Commerce and Labor of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, by the act creating the 'Department of Labor, Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, §§ 1, 3, 8, ante, §§ 932, 934, 940.

The Bureau of Naturalization and Immigration was divided into two bureaus to be known as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization by the act creating the 'Department of Labor, Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3, ante, § 934.

§ 6731. (Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, § 1.) Estimates for expenses of regulating immigration; detailed statements of amounts required and of expenditures for preceding year.

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, together with a statement of the expenditures under each of such objects for the fiscal year terminated next preceding the period of submitting said estimates. (36 Stat. 764.) This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above.

A somewhat similar provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the preceding year, Act March 4, 1909, c. 299, § 1, 35 Stat. 982, was superseded by this act.

§ 6732. (R. S. § 3669.) Estimates to be submitted to Congress. All annual estimates for the public service shall be submitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be included in the book of estimates prepared under his direction.

Act Sept. 2, 1789, c. 12, § 2, 1 Stat. 65. Act May 10, 1800, c. 58, 2 Stat. 79, 80. Res. Jan. 7, 1846, No. 2, 9 Stat. 108. Act Aug. 4, 1854, c. 242, § 15, 10 Stat. 573. Act May 18, 1866, c. 85, § 4, 14 Stat. 49.

The Secretary of the Treasury, besides transmitting the estimates to Congress, as required by this section, was required, if such estimates exceeded the estimated revenues, to transmit a statement of the estimates to the President, so that he might make recommendations thereon to Congress, by Act March 4, 1909, c. 299, § 7, post, § 6737.

§ 6733. (Act July 7, 1884, c. 334, § 1.) Estimates of appropriations and deficiencies; transmission through Secretary of the Treasury; preparation, etc.

Hereafter all estimates of appropriations and estimates of deficiencies in appropriations intended for the consideration and seeking the action of any of the committees of Congress shall be transmitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury, and in no other manner; and the said Secretary shall first cause the same to be properly classified, compiled, indexed, and printed, under the supervision

of the chief of the division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations of his Department. (23 Stat. 254.)

This was a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1884, cited above.

§ 6734. (Act March 3, 1901, c. 830, § 5.) Time for furnishing estimates to Secretary of the Treasury.

Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments, and of other officers authorized or required to make estimates, to furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the fifteenth 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 in case of failure to furnish estimates as herein required it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be prepared in the Treasury Department, on or before the first day of November of each year, estimates for such appropriations as in his judgment shall be requisite in every such case, which estimates shall be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under his direction for the consideration of Congress. (31 Stat. 1009.)

This section was part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1902, cited above.

This section superseded the previous provision requiring the estimates to be furnished October 1st of each year, contained in Act March 3, 1875, c. 129, § 3, 18 Stat. 370.

The head of each executive department or other Government establishment was required to designate an official to supervise the classification and compilation of all estimates, by Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 3, post, § 6736.

§ 6735. (Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 9.) Annual estimates to be prepared and submitted only as required by law.

That until otherwise provided by law, the regular annual estimates of appropriations for expenses of the Government of the United States shall be prepared and submitted to Congress, by those charged with the duty of such preparation and submission, only in the form and at the time now required by law, and in no other form and at no other time. (37 Stat. 415.)

This section was part of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

§ 6736. (Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 3.) Official of each Department, etc., to be designated to supervise preparation of estimates. Hereafter the head of each executive department and other Government establishment shall, on or before July first in every fiscal year, designate from among the officials employed therein one person whose duty it shall be to supervise the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations, including supplemental and deficiency estimates to be submitted by such department or establishment. In the performance of their duties persons so designated shall have due regard for the requirements of all laws respecting the preparation of estimates, including the manner and time of their submission through the Treasury Department to Congress; they shall also, as nearly as may be practicable, eliminate from all such estimates unnecessary

words and make uniform the language commonly used in expressing purposes or conditions of appropriations. (38 Stat. 75.)

This section was part of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above.

§ 6737. (Act March 4, 1909, c. 299, § 7.) Statement of estimates, if exceeding estimated revenues, to be transmitted to the President, that he may make recommendations to Congress thereon. 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. 1027.)

This section was part of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1910, cited above.

§ 6738. (R. S. § 3670.) What statements shall accompany esti

mates.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall annex to the annual estimates of the appropriations required for the public service, a statement of the appropriations for the service of the year, which may have been made by former acts.

Act May 1, 1820, c. 52, § 8, 3 Stat. 568.

Statements of appropriations made at each session of Congress were required to be prepared and published by provisions of R. S. § 64, Act Oct. 19, 1888, c. 1210, § 1, and Act July 19, 1897, c. 9, § 1, ante, §§ 88-90.

Such extracts from the reports of heads of Departments and Bureaus as relate to estimates for appropriations, were to be submitted as an appendix to the Book of Estimates, by a provision of Act March 3, 1875, c. 129, § 3, post, 6739.

Statements showing the expenditures contemplated and the expenditures of the preceding year were required to follow all estimates for lump sum appropriations, by Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 355, § 6, post, § 6740.

§ 6739. (Act March 3, 1875, c. 129, § 3.) Extracts from reports to be included in Book of Estimates.

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. (18 Stat. 370.) This section was part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1876, cited above.