CONTRACTS. 321 



pernmnont specific iipprojirintioiis. * * * ^^^ 1^^ carried to the 

 surplus fund and covered into the Treasury: * * * l^oi- tli(» pur- 

 poses herein (h'chired no api)ropriation made prior to July first, 

 nineteen hundred and four, shall be construed to be a permanent 

 specific api)roprintion unless by its lan<juage it is specifically and in 

 express terms nuide available for use until expended. 



Act March 4, 1900, c. 299. s. 10, 35 Stat. 1027. 



This se<.-tion is a part of the suudi-y civil appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1910. cited above. 



CONTRACTS. 

 EEV. ST. SEC. 3709. 



Advertisement for proposals for supplies and services in departments; accept- 

 ance or rejection of bids. 



Sec. 3709. All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in 

 any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal serv- 

 ices, shall 1)6 made by advertising a sufficient time previously for 

 proposals respecting "the same, Avhen the public exigencies do not 

 require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the 

 service. When immediate delivery or performance is required by the 

 public exigency, the articles or service required may be procured by 

 open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which 

 such articles are usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, 

 between individuals. And the advertisement for such proposals shall 

 be made by all the Executive Departments * * * on the same 

 days and shall each designate two o'clock post meridian of such days 

 for the opening of all such proposals in each Department and other 

 Government establishment in the city of Washington ; and the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury shall designate the day or days in each year 

 for the opening of such proposals and give due notice thereof to the 

 other Departments and Government establishments. Such proposjtls 

 shall be opened in the usual way and schedules thereof duly prepared 

 and, together with the statement of the proposed action of each De- 

 partment and Government establishment thereon, shall be submitted 

 to a board, consisting of one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treas- 

 ury and Interior Departments and one of the Assistant Postmasters- 

 General, who shall be designated by the heads of said Departments 

 and the Postmaster-General respectively, at a meeting to be called 

 by the official of the Treasury I)epartment, who shall be chairman 

 thereof, and said board shall carefully examine and compare all the 

 propo.sals so submitted and recommend the acceptance or rejection of 

 any or all of said proposals. And if any or all of such proposals shall 

 be rejected, advertisements for proposals shall again be invited and 

 proceeded with in the same manner, 



Rov. St. sec. 3700. as ii mended by act January 27, 1804, c. 22, 28 Stat. 33. 



The i)rovisions of this section as aniondetl are so limited that they 

 apply only to advertisements for proposals for fuel. ice. stationery, and 

 other miscellaneous supplies purchased in Washington, by act .\pril 21, 

 1894, c. 61, s. 2, set forth below. 



The provisions of this section are not applicable to any purchase or 

 service in the Department of Agriculture, when the aggregate amount 

 does not exceed the sum of ip.W. by act March 1. 1899. c. 325, s. 1, set forth 

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