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LAWS APPLICABLE Tu DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the Treasun to tlie Auditor of the Treasury, whose duty it is to 

 settle accounts thereunder, and the Auditor shall examine the books 

 of his Office, and certify to the Secretary whether such balances will 

 be required in the settlement of any accounts pendin": in his office: 

 and if it appears that such balances will not be required for this 

 purpose, then the Secretary may include such balances in his surplus- 

 fund warrant, whether the head of the proper Department shall have 

 certified that it may be carried into the general Treasury- or not. 



ACT JUNE 20. 1874, c. 328. (18 Stat. 85.) 



Unexpended balances of appropriations to be carried to surplus fund; exceptions. 



Sec. 6. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-four, and of each year thereafter, the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall cause all unexpended balances of appropriations 

 which shall have remained u)ion the books of the Treasury for two 

 fiscal years to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the 

 Treasury: Provided., That this provision shall not apply to perma- 

 nent specific appropriations, appropriations for * * * public 

 l)uildinirs. '' * '•' l)ut the apj)ropriations named in this proviso 

 shall continue available until otherwise ordered by Congress, * * * 



Act .Tune 20. 1874. c. 32S, s. 5. 18 Stat. 110. 



Tlii.s se<'tion is p.irt of the lejrislative, executive, and judicial ap- 

 propriation net for tlie fiscal year 1875. cited above. 



The final i)ortion of this section omitted here is temporary or is re- 

 l>e!iled by net .Tune 14, 1878, c. 101, s. 4. set forth below. 



ACT JUNE 14. 1878, c. 191. (20 Stat. 115.) 



Aeports of balances needing to be appropriated abolished; examination of 

 claims under appropriations exhausted or carried to surplus fund. 



Sec. 4. That so much of section five of the act approved June 

 twentieth, eighteen hundred and .seventy-four, as directs the Secre- 

 tarv of the Treasury at the beginning of each session to report to 

 C'OUgress with his annual estimates any balances of appropriations 

 f(U- s[)ecific objects affected by said section that may need to be re- 

 appropriated, be. and herebv is. repealed. And it shall be the duty 

 of the .^evei'al accounting onicers of the Treasury to continue to re- 

 ceive, examine, and consider the justice and validity of all claims 

 under api)ro|)riations the balances of which have been exhausted or 

 carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of said section that 

 may be i^rought before Iheiii within a period of five years. * * * 

 Provided, That nothing in this act .shall be construed to authorize 

 the re-examination and jiayjuent of any claim or account which has 

 been once examined and rejected, unless reopened in accordance with 

 existing law. 



Act .Tune 14, 187**, c. 101. s. 4, 20 StiU. 130. 



This .s<H'tl(>n is II part of the deficiency appropriation act for the flscal 

 yenr 1878. fited almve. 



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



Balances of appropriations remaining- unexpended on July 1. 1904, to be carried 

 to surplus fund. 



Skc. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all unexpended 

 balances of npjiropriat ions which remained on the books of the 

 Treasury on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and four, except 



