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ACT JULY 11, 1890, c. 667. (26 Stat. 228.) 



Reports in estimates of number and salaries of inefficient employees. 



* * * That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the 

 several executive Departments of the Government to report to con- 

 gress each year in the annual estimates the number of employees in 

 each bureau and office and the salaries of each who are below a fair 

 standard of efficiency. 



Act July 11, 1S90, c. 667, s. 2, 26 Stat. 268. 



This is a proviso of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropria- 

 tion act for the fiscal year 1891, cited above. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1895, c. 177. (28 Stat. 764.) 



Statements in estimates of condition of business in departments. 



Sec. T. It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Depart- 

 ment or other Government establishment in the city of Washington 

 to submit to the first regular session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and 

 annually thereafter, in the Annual Book of Estimates, a statement as 

 to the condition of business in his Department or other Government 

 establishment, showing whether any part of the same is in arrears, 

 and. if so, in what divisions of the respective bureaus and offices of 

 his Department or other Government establishment such arrears ex- 

 ist, the extent thereof, and the reasons therefor, and also a statement 

 of the number and compensation of employees appropriated for in 

 one bureau or office who have been detailed to another bureau or of- 

 fice for a period exceeding one year. 



Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, s. 7, 28 Stat. 808. 



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

 priation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. 



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



Statements in estimates of number and compensation of employees under lump- 

 sum appropriations. 



Sec. 6. Hereafter there shall be submitted, in the annual Book of 

 Estimates, following every estimate for a general or lump sum appro- 

 priation which exceeds $250,000 in amount, a statement showing in 

 parallel columns: 



First, the number of persons, if any, intended to be employed and 

 the rates of compensation to each, and the amounts contemplated to 

 be expended for each of any other objects or cla.sses of expenditures 

 specified or contemplated in the estimate; and 



Second, the number of persons, if any, employed and the rates of 

 compensation paid each, and the amounts expended for each other 

 object or class of expenditures out of the appropriation corresponding 

 to the estimate so submitted, during the completed fiscal year next 

 preceding the period for which the estimate is submitted. < 



Act August 24, 1912, c. 355. s. 6, 37 Stat. 487. 



This section is a part of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 3663. 



Requisites for estimates for appropriations for public works. 



Sec. 3GC)3. "Wlienever any estimate submitted to Congress by the 

 head of a Department asks an appropriation for any new specific 



