310 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



desired by the head of any Executive Department may be submitted 

 by note in the estimates. The committees of Congress in reporting 

 general appropriation bills shall, as far as may be practicable, follow 

 the general order and arrangement of the respective appropriation 

 Acts for the year preceding. 



Hereafter the heads of the several Executive Departments and all 

 other officers authorized or required to make estimates for the public 

 service shall include in their annual estimates furnished the Secretary 

 of the Treasury for inclusion in the Book of Estimates all estimates 

 of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year for which 

 they are prepared and submitted, and special or additional estimates 

 for that fiscal year shall only be submitted to carry out laws subse- 

 quently enacted, or when deemed imperatively necessary for the 

 public service by the Department in which they shall originate, in 

 which case such special or additional estimate shall be accompanied 

 by a full statement of its imperative necessity and reasons for its 

 omission in the annual estimates. 



Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, s. 4, 34 Stat. 448. 



Tlii.s section is a part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above. 



ACT MARCE 4, 1909, c. 297. (35 Stat. 845.) 



Estimates not conforming to requirements to be rearranged. 



Sec. 4. When estimates hereafter transmitted to the Treasury for 

 eubmission to Congress do not in form and arrangement comply 

 with the provisions of section four of the legislative, executive, and 



i'udicial appropriation Act, approved June twenty-second, nineteen 

 lundred and six, they shall, under direction of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, be rearranged so as to comply with said requirements of 

 law. 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 297, s. 4, 35 Stat. 907. 



Act June 22. 1906, c. 3514, s. 4, referred to in this section, is set forth 

 above. 



This section is a part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1910, cited above, 



ACT ATIGXTST 23, 1912, c. 350. (37 Stat. 360.) 



Estimates to be prepared and submitted only in form and at time required. 



Sec. 9. That until otherwise provided by law, the regular annual 

 estimates of appropriations for expenses of the Government of the 

 United States shall be prepared and submitted to Congress, by those 

 charged with the duty of such preparation and submission, onlv in 

 the form and at the time now required by law, and in no other form 

 and at no other time. 



Act August 23, 1912, c. 350, s. 9, 37 Stat. 415. 



This section is a part of the legislative, executive, aftd judicial appro- 

 prialion act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3662. 

 Estimates of salaries. 



Sec. 3()02. 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 of executive distribution. 



