ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT. 17 



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

 year 18S6, cited above. 



The vouchers and accounts referred to, to be furnislied to the account- 

 ing officers of the Treasury, are required by act March 3, 1881. c. 129. s. 2, 

 set forth above. 



ACT JULY 31. 1894, c. 174, s. 7. (28 Stat. 162.) 

 Settlement of accounts of the Department of Agriculture. 



Fifth. The Auditor for the State and other Departments shall re- 

 ceive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of 

 the offices of the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, and the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and of all bureaus and offices under their 

 direction; all accounts relating to all other business within the juris- 

 diction of the Departments of State, Justice, and Agriculture ; * * * 

 He shall certify the balances arising thereon to the Division of Book- 

 keeping and Warrants, and send forthwith a copy of each certificate, 

 according to the character of the account, to the * * * chief 

 officer of the Executive Department * * * concerned. 



Act July 31. 1894. c. 174. s. 7, 28 Stat. 207. 



These are provisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above. 



ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.) 



Order and arrangement of estimates for Department of Agriculture. 



* * * That hereafter the estimates of appropriations for the 

 Department of Agriculture shall be prepared and submitted each 

 year according to the order and arrangement of the Act for the year 

 preceding; and any changes in such order or arrangement desired 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture may be submitted by note in the 

 estimates. 



Detailed estimates of clerks in the Department of Agriculture. 



It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, in 

 the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, 

 and annually thereafter, immediately following estimates of each of 

 the respective offices, bureaus and divisions of the Department of 

 Agriculture a statement showing in detail the number of clerks who 

 were employed in the District of Columbia upon re^lar and con- 

 tinuous work for thirty days or more during the previous fiscal year 

 in or under such offices, bureaus or divisions under authority of and 

 paid from general appropriations, indicating in the case of every 

 such employment the rate of compensation received and the appro- 

 priation from which paid. 



Act June 3, 1902, c. 985, 32 Stat. 303. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1903, cited above. 



Provisions relating to estimates for the executive departments in gen- 

 eral are set forth post, under " Estimates and Reports." 



ACT MAECH 4, 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.) 



Bepeal of provisions requiring classified and detailed estimates and report! 

 of receipts and expenditures by Forest Service, and of expenditures by 

 Department of Agriculture. 



That the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making appro- 

 priations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year end- 



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