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the treasury or property of the United States beyond his salary or 

 compensation allowed by law ; * * * 



Act June 20, 1S74, c. 328, b. 3, IS Stiit. 109. 



This is a section of the legislative, executive, iind jiidiciiil jippropria- 

 tiou act for the fiscal year 1875, citetl ;ibove. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1875, c. 133. (18 Stat. 452.) 

 Actual traveling expenses only to be allowed. 



* * * That hereafter only actual travelling-expenses shall be 

 allowed to any person holding employment or appointment under the 

 United States, * * * and all allowances for mileages and trans- 

 portation in excess of the amount actually paid, except as above ex- 

 cepted, are hereby declared illegal ; and no credit shall be allowed to 

 any of the disbursing-officers of the United States for payment or 

 allowances in violation of this provision. 



Act March 3, 1875, c. 133, s. 1. 18 Stat. 452. 



This is a proviso annexed to the Army appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1876, cited above. A like provision, without the word " hereafter," 

 was contained in the similar act for the preceding fiscal year. 



Officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture may receive 

 a i)er diem allowance in lieu of subsistence and certain traveling expenses, 

 by a provision of act August 10, 1912, c. 284, set forth on p. 21, ante. 



The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase from appro- 

 priations for traveling expenses for employees of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, mileage and mileage books, by a provision of act March 4, 1907, 

 c. 2907, set forth on p. 21, ante. 



ACT JUNE 26, 1912, c. 182. (37 Stat. 139.) 



Eestriction on expenditures for membership fees or dues of officers or employees 

 of United States in societies or associations, and for expenses of attendance 

 at meetings or conventions thereof. 



Sec. 8. Xo mone}' appropriated by this or any other Act shall be 

 expended for membership fees or dues of any officer or employee of 

 the United States or of the District of Columbia in any society or 

 association or for expenses of attendance of any person at any meet- 

 ing or convention of members of any society or association, unless 

 such fees, due.'^, or expenses are authorized to be paid by specific 

 appropriations for .such purposes or are provided for in express terms 

 in some general appropriation. 



Act June 26, 1912, c. 182, s. 8, 37 Stat. 184. 



This section is a part of the District of Columbia appropriation act for 

 the fiscal year 1913, cited above. 



ACT AUGUST 24, 1912, c. 355. (37 Stat. 417.) 



Expenses of attendance Government officers and employees during the fiscal 

 year 1913 authorized; restriction. 



Sec. 10. That section eight of the District of Columbia appropria- 

 tion Act, approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, 

 shall not take effect or be operative during the fiscal year nineteen 

 hundred and thirteen except to the extent that it prohibits the pay- 

 ment of membership fees or dues in societies or associations: Pw- 

 vided, That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen 

 expenses of attendance of officers or employees of the Government 

 at any meeting or convention of members of any society or associa- 

 tion shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of 

 the heads of executive departments or other Government establish- 

 ments or the Government of the District of Columbia ; and a detailed 



