318 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



manent or available continuously without reference to a fiscal year 

 unless it belongs to one of the following five classes : " Rivers and har- 

 bors," " lighthouses," " fortifications," " public buildings," and " pay 

 of the Navy and Marine Corps," last specifically named in and ex- 

 cepted from the operation of the provisions of the so-called " cover- 

 ing-in Act " approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

 four, or unless it is made in terms expressly providing that it shall 

 continue available beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation 

 Act in which it is contained makes provision. 



Act August 24, 1912, c. 355, s. 7, 37 Stat. 487. 

 This section is a portion of the sundry civil appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1913, cited above. 



ACT MAY 28, 1896, c. 252. (29 Stat. 140.) 



Footing of paragraphs to determine amount appropriated. j 



That hereafter the total amount appropriated in the various para- | 

 graphs of an appropriation Act shall be determined by the correct j 

 footing up of tiie specific sums or rates appropriated in each para- 

 graph contained therein unless otherwise expressly provided. 



Act May 28, 1896, c. 252, s. 1, 29 Stat. 148. 



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

 priation act for tiie fiscal year 1897, cited above. i 



REV. ST. SEC. 3681. 



Expenses of commissions and inquiries. ' 



Sec. 3681. No accounting or disbursing officer of the Government 

 .=hall allow or pay any account or charge whatever, growing out of, I 

 or in any way connected with, any commission or inquiry, * * ♦ " 

 until special appropriations shall have been made by law to pay such 

 accounts and charges. * * * 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 299. (35 Stat. 945.) 



Use of moneys or appropriations for compensation or expenses of any commis- 

 sion, etc., forbidden, unless authorized by law; details from executive de- 

 partments in connection with such commissions, etc., forbidden. 



Sec. 0. That hereafter no part of the public moneys, or of any 

 appropriation heretofore or hereafter made by Congress, shall be 

 used for the payment of compensation or expenses of any commission, 

 council, board, or other similar body, or any members thereof, or for 

 expenses in connection with any work or the results of any work 

 or action of any commi.ssion, council, board, or other similar body, 

 unless the creation of the same shall be or shall have been authorized 

 by law ; nor shall there be employed by detail, hereafter or heretofore 

 made, or otherwise personal services from any executive department 

 or other government establishment in connection with any such 

 commission, council, board, or other similar body. 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 209, s. 9, 35 Stat. 1027. 



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

 year 1010, cited above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3682. 



Restrictions on contingent, etc., appropriations. 



Skc. ;i(;s-J. No moneys appropriated for contingent, incidental, or 

 miscellaneous purjioses sliall l)e expended or paid for official or cler- 

 ical compensation. 



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