312 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



expenditure, such as the erection of n i)ublic building, or the con- 

 struction of any public work, requiring a plan before the building or 

 work can Ix' properly conipk'ted. such estimate shall be accom- 

 panied by full plans and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole 

 work. All sui)sequent estinuites for any such work shall state the 

 original estimated cost, the aggregate amount theretofore appropri- 

 ated for the same, and the amount actually expended thereupon, as 

 well as the amount asked for the current year for which such esti- 

 mate is made. Vnd if the amount asked is in excess of the original 

 estimate, the full reas(ms for the excess, and the extent of the 

 anticipated excess, shall be also stated. 



ACT MARCH 3. 1883, c. 128. (22 Stat. 531.) 

 Statements in estimates of buildings rented, etc. 



* * * it shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive 

 departments to submit to Congress each year, in the annual estimates 

 of appropriations, a statement of the number of buildings rented by 

 their respective departments, the'purposes for which rented, and the 

 annual rental of each. 



Act M:in-li :{. IS.S:), c. 128. s. 1. 22 Stat. .")2. 



This is ii provision followiii;^ :;ii jpproprijition for rent of luiildinirs for 

 llu> War I)t>i>;irtinent, in the ioL^ishttive. e.xecutive. and judicial :ippro- 

 priatiou act for tlie tist-al year 1.SS4. cited above. 



ACT JULY 16, 1892. c. 196. (27 Stat. 183.) 



Statement in estimates of buildings rented within District of Columbia. 



That hereafter it shall Ije the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury 

 to cause to be prepared and sul)mitted to Congress each year, in the 

 annual Hook of Estimates of Appropriations, a statement of the 

 buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the 

 (iovernment. (lie ])urposes for which rented, and the anntial rental 

 of each. 



Act July 10. 1S92. Q. 1!)6. .s. 1. 27 Stat. 199. 



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

 jiriatlou act for the liscal year 1893. eite<l above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3664. 



Estimates to be accompanied by explanations of new or unusual items. 



Skc. :)C>()4. \\'lu'never the head of a Department, being about to 

 sul)mit to Congress the aimual estimates of expenditures requiretl 

 for the coming year, finds that the usual items of such estimates 

 vary matei-ially in amount from the ai)propriation ordinarily asked 

 for (he object named, and especially from the appropriation granted 

 for the same objects for the |»receding year, and wlienever new items 

 iKil theretofore usual are introduced into such estimates for any 

 year, he shall acc()m|)any the estimates by minute and full explana- 

 tions of all such xarialions and new items, showing the reasons and 

 groun<ls upon which the amounts are reijuired, and the different 

 items added. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3665. 



Amount of outstanding appropriations to be designated. 



Skc. ^C)!')"). The head of each Department, in submitting to Con- 

 gress his estimates of expenditures required in his Department dur- 



