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.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1006, 32 Stat. 1082.

This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

The Department of Commerce and Labor is established by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, set forth ante, under Title XII A. "The Department of Commerce and Labor."

Sec. 3678.

Application of moneys appropriated.

No part of the appropriations for the Ordnance Department are to be used in payment of freight on ordnance, etc., issued by said department, by a provision of Act March 2, 1901, c 803, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1148, repeated in subsequent Army appropriation acts.

Certain books and periodicals needed by the scientific divisions of the Geological Survey may be paid for out of appropriations for said survey, by a provision of Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1, set forth below. Appropriations for supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers are to be expended only for supplies purchased by the Department of Justice for distribution, by a provision of Act March 3, 1893, c. 424, § 1. Comp. St. 1901, p 210, repeated in Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1, 32 Stat. 476.

ACT JUNE 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1.

Books, etc., for Geological Survey; purchase from appropriations for survey.

* * That the purchase of professional and scientific books and periodicals needed for statistical purposes hereafter by the scientific divisions of the United States Geological Survey is hereby authorized to be made and paid for out of appropriations made for the said Survey.

Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1, 32 Stat. 455.

This is a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the purchase of books, etc., in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

ACT JULY 1, 1902, c. 1351.

No act to be construed to make an appropriation unless it specifically declares an appropriation to be made.

Hereafter no Act of Congress shall be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States unless such Act shall, in specific terms, declare an appropriation to be made for the purpose or purposes specified in the Act.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1351, 32 Stat. 560.

This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, cited above.

The style and title of acts making appropriations are prescribed by Rev. St. § 11, Comp. St. 1901, p. 5.

Sec. 3680.

Restrictions on use of appropriations for contingent expenses of Congress.

Further restrictions on the use of appropriations for contingent expenses of either House of Congress. for payment for personal services, are contained in a provision of Act Feb. 14, 1902, c. 17, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 14, 1902, c. 17.

Restrictions on use of appropriations for contingent expenses of Congress, for payment of personal services.

* * That hereafter appropriations made for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives or the Senate shall not be used for the payment of personal services except upon the express and specific authorization of the House or Senate in whose behalf such services are rendered. Nor shall such appropriations be used for any expenses not intimately and directly connected with the routine legislative business of either House of Congress, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall apply the provisions of this paragraph in the settlement of the accounts of expenditures from said appropriations incurred for services or materials subsequent to the approval of this Act.

Act Feb. 14, 1902, c. 17, 32 Stat. 26.

This is a proviso annexed to an appropriation for miscellaneous items, in the urgent deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, cited above.

Previous provisions restricting the use of such appropriations are con tained in Rev. St. § 3680, Comp. St. 1901, p. 2455.

No payments are to be made from the contingent fund of either house of Congress unless sanctioned by the committee designated for that purpose, by Rev. St. § 76, Comp. St. 1901, p. 43.

Sec. 3682.

Restrictions on contingent, etc., appropriations.

This section is not to apply to the expenditure of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the military information division, AdjutantGeneral's Office, in the Army appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, 32 Stat. 928, so far as it relates to the offices of the military attaches abroad and to the branch office at Manila of the military information division, by a proviso annexed to that appropriation.

Sec. 3687.

Collecting revenue from customs.

Appropriations to defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, additional to the permanent appropriation for that purpose made by this section, are made in the deficiency appropriation acts for each year. The appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, is contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1006, 32 Stat. 1036.

Sec. 3691.

Disposal of unexpended balances of appropriations for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Appropriations for the construction of buildings at any of the branches of the Home are to continue available until expended, by a provision of Act June, 1900, c. 785, § 1, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 3342.

TITLE XLII.

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Sec. 3694.

Application of coin paid for duties.

Duties and taxes collected in the Philippine Archipelago, and duties and taxes collected in the United States upon articles coming from the Philippine Archipelago and upon foreign vessels coming therefrom, are to be held as a separate fund for the government and benefit of the Philippine Islands, by Act March 8, 1902, c. 140, § 4, ante, under Title XXXIII, "Duties upon Imports."

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TITLE XLIII.

PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

Sec. 3709. [As amended 1894.]

Advertisements for proposals; [exceptions; bids; acceptance or rejection.]

The Indian appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, provide that no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are therein made, exceeding in the aggregate $500 in value at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when the Secretary of the Interior may direct that purchases be made in the open market not to exceed $3,000 in amount at any one purchase, the Secretary to make official record of the exigency and to report the same to Congress at its next session. Said acts also provide that supplies may be purchased, contracts let, and labor employed for the construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigation without advertising; and that, as far as practicable, Indian labor shall be employed and purchase in the open market made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Act May 27, 1902, c. 888, § 2, 32 Stat. 273. Act March 3, 1903, c. 994, § 2, 32 Stat. 1006.

Provisions for the rejection of bids for supplies, etc., for the Indian service, and for the purchase of such supplies in the open market, at a price not to exceed the amount of the lowest bid made, and not to exceed the market price, are contained in said Indian appropriation acts. Act May 27, 1902, c. 888, § 5, 32 Stat. 274. Act March 3, 1903, c. 994, § 5, 32 Stat. 1007.

Sec. 3716.

Advertisements for supplies for Quartermaster's Department..

Provisions for the purchase of stores, etc., for the Signal Corps, for the purchase of horses from mounted line officers, for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies, and the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, are contained in Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, set forth below.

ACT JULY 5, 1884, c. 217.

Purchases of supplies for Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments; transportation of stores for Army by private parties.

Provisions for the purchase of supplies for the Signal Corps and the Ordnance Department are contained in Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, set forth below.

Purchases of horses for cavalry, artillery, etc.

The provision of the Army appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, Act March 2, 1901, c. 803, § 1, set forth in the note to this act in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2492, is repeated in the same language, SUPP. '03-20 (305)

except as to amount appropriated, and the substitution for the clause, "and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War," of the words, "and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War," in the Army appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904. Act June 30, 1902, c. 1328, 32 Stat. 515, and Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, 32 Stat. 937.

The Secretary of War is authorized to permit the purchase, by the Quartermaster's Department, of horses from mounted officers of the line who may be ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States, when the cost of transportation of such horses shall exceed the sum allowed therefor by the Army Regulations, by a further proviso of said Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, set forth below.

ACT MAY 1, 1888, c. 212.

Purchases of technical and scientific supplies for Military Academy.

The provision of this act and of subsequent appropriation acts, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2493, is repeated in the same language in the acts making appropriations for the Military Academy for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904. Act June 28. 1902, c. 1300, 32 Stat. 416, and Act March 3, 1903, c. 995, 32 Stat. 1018.

ACT SEPT. 22, 1888, c. 1027, § 1.

Limit of number of draught and pack animals.

The Army appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, contain appropriations for the purchase of draught and pack animals for transportation of army supplies, coupled with a proviso that the number of draught animals purchased from the appropriation, "added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service." Act June 30, 1902, c. 1328, 32 Stat. 516, 517. Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, 32 Stat. 938.

ACT FEB. 27, 1893, c. 168.

Purchases of medicines and medical supplies.

Further provisions relating to the purchase of medicines and medical supplies are contained in Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 803.

Printing for Quartermaster's Department; purchases of supplies for departments and posts, etc., of Army.

The provision of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2495, is repeated, in the same language, in the Army appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904. Act June 30, 1902, c. 1328, 32 Stat. 514, and Act March 2, 1903, c. 975, 32 Stat. 936.

ACT MARCH 2, 1903, c. 975.

Purchases of stores, etc., for Signal Corps.

** * That hereafter the purchase of signal stores and equipment, or the engagement of services not personal, by the Signal Corps of the Army, may be made by the Signal Corps of the Army in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but