16 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAKTMENT OF AGKICULTUEE. 



REV. ST. SEC. 528. 



Annual and special reports of Commissioner [Secretary]. 



Sec. 528. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall annually make a 

 general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, 

 in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming parts 

 of or accompanying his report, which shall also contain an account 

 of all moneys received and expended by him. He shall also make 

 special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by 

 the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the 

 subject in his charge requires it. 



See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of 

 Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 529. 



Annual report of expenditures. 



Sec. 529. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall, on or before the 

 fifteenth day of December in each year, make a report in detail to 

 Congress of all moneys expended by him or under his direction. 



See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of 

 Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1881, c. 129. (21 Stat. 381.) 



Time and manner of accounts and reports of Commissioner [Secretary] of 

 Agriculture. 



Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby directed 

 and required to account and report to the proper accounting officers 

 of the Treasury in the same manner and at the same times as the 

 heads of executive departments of the government are now required 

 by law to account and report. 



Act March 3, 18S1, c. 129, s. 2, 21 Stat. 385. 



This is a section of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1882, cited above. A provision in the same words is contained in 

 the similar appropriation act for the preceding fiscal year. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture is required, in addition to the 

 vouchers and accounts for sums appropriated for the Department of 

 Agriculture to be furni.shed to the Treasury, to present to Congress annual 

 detailed statements of the expenditures of appropriations for the depart- 

 ment, by a provision of act March 3, 1885, c. 338, s. 2, set forth below. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1885, c. 338. (23 Stat. 353.) 



Additional compensation to officers or employees; detailed statement to Con- 

 gress of expenditures of Department of Agriculture. 



Sec. 2. That no part of the money herein or hereafter appropri- 

 ated for the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to any person, 

 as additional salary or compensation, receiving at the same time other 

 compensation as an officer or employee of the Government; and in 

 addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appro- 

 priated for the said Department to be furnished to the accounting 

 officers of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, at 

 the commencement of each regular session, present to Congress a 

 detailed statement of the expenditure of all appropriations for said 

 Department for the last preceding fiscal year. 



Act March 3, 1885, c. 338, s. 2, 23 Stat. 35G. 



