a written authority for such publication from the head of, such Department; and no bill for any such advertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with such bill, a copy of such written authority. July 15, 1870, s. 2, v. 16, p. 308. See note 1. District of Co July 13, 1876, ch. 246, v.19, p.102. In no case of advertisement for contracts for the public July 31, 1876. service shall the same be published in any newspaper pub- Restriction on lished and printed in the District of Columbia unless the advertising in the supplies or labor covered by such advertisement are to be lumbia. furnished or performed in said District of Columbia. Hereafter all advertisements, notices, proposals for con- June 20, 1878. tracts, and all forms of advertising required by law for the Prices to be several Departments of the Government may be paid for paid. at a price not to exceed the commercial rates charged to ch. 359, v. 20, p. private individuals, with the usual discounts; such rates 216-306. to be ascertained from sworn statements to be furnished 159-160. by the proprietors or publishers of the newspapers propos ing so to advertise. * But the heads of the several Departments may secure lower terms at special rates whenever the public interest requires it. * * June 20, 1878, 19 A. G. op. p. Columbia. All advertising required by existing laws to be done in Jan. 21, 1881. the District of Columbia by any of the Departments of Advertisements the Government shall be given to one daily and one weekly in the District of newspaper of each of the two principal political parties, and to one daily and one weekly neutral newspaper: Provided, That the rates of compensation for such service shall in no case exceed the regular commercial rate of the newspapers selected; nor shall any advertisement be paid for unless published in accordance with section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes. SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith Jan. 21, 1881, ch. 25, v. 21, p.317. are hereby repealed. SEC. 3709. All purchases and contracts for supplies or Title 43. services, in any of the Departments of the Government, Advertisements except for personal services, shall be made by advertising for proposals. a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the 10, v. 12, p. 220. same, when the public exigencies do not require the imme- See note 2. diate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service. Mar. 2, 1861, s. hemp, etc. 5, p. 617. SEC. 3718. * In the case of provisions, clothing, Advertisements hemp, and other materials, the Secretary of the Navy shall for clothing, advertise, once a week, for at least four weeks, in one or Mar. 3, 1843, v. more of the principal papers published in the place where "See Jan. 21, such articles are to be furnished, for sealed proposals for 1881. furnishing the same. In the case of transportation of such articles, he shall advertise for a period of not less than five days. * * * * That section thirty-seven hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: Naval supplies. Note 1.-The provisions of section 3828, forbidding the publication of advertisements for any Executive Department of the Government, or for any bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, except "under written authority from the head of the Department," extend to offices connected as aforesaid, no matter where located. (Op., XVI, 616, Phillips, Dec. 16, 1878.) Note 2.-As to advertisements, etc., on contracts for the naval service, see 1893, Mar. 3, ch. 212, par. 6, note (5), ante, p. 131, and 1894, Jan. 27, ch. 22, and notes, ante, p. 169. May 25, 1896. 29 Stat. L., 136. Supp. R. S., vol. 2, p. 474. R. S., § 3719. Certified check may be accepted proposals, etc. "Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his as security for discretion, accept, in lieu of the written guaranty required to accompany a proposal for naval supplies, and in lieu of the bond required for the faithful performance of a contract for furnishing such supplies, a certified check, payable to the order of the Secretary of the Navy, for the full amount of such proposal or contract, the check to be held by the Secretary of the Navy until the requirements of the proposal or contract shall be complied with and as a guaranty for compliance with the same." APPROPRIATIONS—ESTIMATES. Title 10. SEC. 430. All estimates for specific, generál, and continEstimates for gent expenses of the Department, and of the several Bureaus, shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Navy 5, v. 12. p. 511. by the chiefs of the respective Bureaus. expenses. July 5, 1862, s. See sec. 366, same title. Title 41. mates. 14, v. 5, p. 525. sec. 3672, same title. SEC. 3660. The heads of Departments, in communicating Mannerofcom estimates of expenditures and appropriations to Congress, municating esti- or to any of the committees thereof, shall specify, as nearly Aug. 26, 1842, s. as may be convenient, the sources from which such estiSce Mar. 3, 1875, mates are derived, and the calculations upon which they are founded, and shall discriminate between such estimates as are conjectural in their character and such as are framed upon actual information and applications from disbursing officers. They shall also give references to any law or treaty by which the proposed expenditures are, respectively, authorized, specifying the date of each, and the volume and page of the Statutes at Large, or of the Revised Statutes, as the case may be, and the section of the act in which the authority is to be found. Feb. 23, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 331. And hereafter the estimates for pay of the Navy shall be submitted in the book of estimates in detailed classifications and paragraphs, after the manner above set in Book of Estiforth. Classification mates. R. S., secs. 429, 3660, 3666. 1875, Mar. 3, ch. 29, 8. 3. p. 72. 2, v. 17, p. 82. SEC. 3661. The head of each of the Executive Depart- Estimate: for printing and ments, and every other public officer who is authorized to binding. have printing and binding done at the Congressional Print-, May 8, 1872, 8. ing-Office for the use of his Department or public office, shall include in his annual estimate for appropriations for the next fiscal year such sum or sums as may to him seem necessary "for printing and binding, to be executed under the direction of the Congressional Printer." Estimates for salaries. SEC. 3662. All estimates for the compensation of officers authorized by law to be employed shall be founded upon the express provisions of law, and not upon the authority 8, v. 10, p. 670. of executive distribution. estimates for June 17, 1844, s. s.8, p. 670; Feb. 27, See sec. 3734, SEC. 3663. Whenever any estimate submitted to Con- Requisites for gress by the head of a Department asks an appropriation appropriation for for any new specific expenditure, such as the erection of a public works. public building, or the construction of any public work, 2, v.5, p. 693; Mar. requiring a plan before the building or work can be prop. 3, 1855. 8.8. v. 10, erly completed, such estimate shall be accompanied by full 1877, v. 19. p. 249. plans and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole work. Contracts and All subsequent estimates for any such work shall state the Supplies, Divioriginal 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. sion I. Mar. 2, 1895. Supp. R. S. Statement of condition of busi ness to be submitted in estimates. It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Depart ment or other Government establishment in the city of Washington to submit to the first regular session of the 1892-95, p. 419. 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 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. tions are re Ibid. SEC. 3664. Whenever the head of a Department, being what addiabout to submit to Congress the annual estimates of expend- tional explanaitures required for the coming year, finds that the usual quired. items of such estimates vary materially in amount from the See Mar. 3, appropriation ordinarily asked for the object named, and 1875. especially from the appropriation granted for the same objects for the preceding year, and whenever new items Amount of outstanding appro June 2, 1858, s. 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. SEC. 3665. The head of each Department, in submitting priations to be to Congress his estimates of expenditures required in his designated. Department during the year then approaching, shall desig 2, v. 11, p. 308. nate not only the amount required to be appropriated for See sec. 42 the next fiscal year, but also the amount of the outstanding ment. Reports appropriation, if there be any, which will probably be Secretary of the required for each particular item of expenditure. Navy Depart to be made by the Navy. penditure to be Items of ex- SEC. 3666. The estimates for expenditures required by specified in esti. the Department of the Navy for the following purposes mates and ac-shall be given in detail, and the expenditures made under June 22, 1860, appropriations therefor shall be accounted for so as to show the disbursements of each Bureau under each respective appropriation: counts. s. 1, v. 12, p. 81. See sec. 430 First. Freight and transportation. Fourth. Books, maps, models, and drawings. Fifth. Purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery. Sixth. Repairs of and attending to steam-engine in navyyards. Seventh. Purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams. Eighth. Carts, timber-wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen's tools. Ninth. Postage of public letters. Tenth. Fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shorestations. Eleventh. Pay of watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation. Twelfth. Transportation to, and labor attending the delivery of provisions and stores on foreign stations. Thirteenth. Wharfage, dockage, and rent. Fourteenth. Traveling expenses of officers and others under orders. Fifteenth. Funeral expenses. Sixteenth. Store and office rent, fuel, commissions, and pay of clerks to navy-agents and store-keepers. Seventeenth. Flags, awnings, and packing-boxes. Twentieth. Per diem pay to persons attending courtsmartial, courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law. Twenth-first. Pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress. Twenty-second. Bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels of the United States Navy in foreign ports. Hereafter the estimates for pay of the Navy shall be submitted in the book of estimates in detailed classifications and paragraphs, after the manner above set forth. Feb. 23, 1881. Estimates for pay of the Navy. Feb. 23, 1881, v. 21, p. 331. See note 1. Title 41. SEC. 3667. The Secretary of the Navy shall annually submit to Congress estimates of the claims and demands Estimates for Navy pension chargeable upon and payable out of the naval pension fund. fund. submitted to July 11, 1870, v. 16, p. 222. SEC. 3669. All annual estimates for the public service Estimates to be shall be submitted to Congress through the Secretary of Congress. the Treasury, and shall be included in the book of estimates, Sept. 2, 1789, s. prepared under his direction. 2, v. 1, p. 65; Mar. 10, 1800, v. 2, p. 79; Jan. 7, 1846, res., v. 9, p. 108; Aug. 4, 1854, s. 15, v. 10, p. 573; May 18, 1865, s. 4, v. 14, p. 49. What statements shall accompany estiMay 1, 1820, s. SEC. 3670. 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 mates. service of the year, which may have been made by former 8, v. 3, p. 568. acts. Statement of proceeds of sales of Estimates, SEC. 3672. A detailed statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other old material. public property of any kind, except materials, stores, or May 8, 1872, s. 5, v. 17, p.83; Feb. supplies sold to officers and soldiers of the Army, or to 27, 1877, v. 19, p. exploring or surveying expeditions authorized by law, shall 249. be included in the appendix to the book of estimates. That it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Mar. 3, 1875. Executive Departments, and of other officers authorized or required to make estimates, to furnish to the Secretary of when to be furthe Treasury, on or before the first day of October of each Extracts from year, their annual estimates for the public service, to be reports to be inincluded in the book of estimates prepared by law under dix to estimates. his direction; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall 3, v. 18, p. 340. 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. APPROPRIATIONS. nished. cluded in appen Mar. 3, 1875, s. Title 41. SEC. 3673. All moneys appropriated for the use of the War and Navy Departments shall be drawn from the Treas- Drafts for War ury, by warrants of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon and Navy De the requisitions of the Secretaries of those Departments, partments. respectively, countersigned by the Second Comptroller of 3, v.3.p.689: Mar. the Treasury, and registered by the proper Auditor. May 7, 1822, s. 3, 1817, ss. 5, 9, v. 3, p. 367. See note 2. See ss. 273, 277, under Accounts. Note 1.-Paragraph I. Pay of active list; II. Pay of retired list; III. Pay of petty officers and seamen; IV. Pay of clerks, secretaries, mileage, etc., giving clas sification and number in each case, when possible. Note 2.-The different subdivisions ordinarily employed in an appropriation act, viz, legislative, executive, judicial, are intended to classify the appropriations and not to designate the Department to which they belong. (C. C., XI, 152; 91 U. S. R., 317.) Appropriations: Permanent, those for an indefinite period; indefinite, those in which no amount is named. Unexpended balances may be applied to expenses prop |