346 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



Rev. St. sec. .'?G48 is not to apply to subscriptions for publications for 

 the Department of Agriculture, by a provision of act March 4, 1909, 

 c. 301, set forth on p. 236, ante. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3651. 

 Exchange of funds restricted. 



8ec. 3(151. No exchange of funds shall be made by any disbursing 

 officer or agent of the Government, of any grade or denomination 

 whatsoever, or connected with any branch of the public service, other 

 than an exchange for gold, silver, United States notes, and national- 

 bank notes; and every such disbursing officer, when the means for 

 his disbursements are furnished to him in gold, silver, United States 

 notes, or national-bank notes, shall make his payments in the moneys 

 so furnished; or when they are furnished to him in drafts, shall 

 cause those drafts to be presented at their place of payment, and 

 properly paid according to law, and shafl maKe his payments in 

 money so received for the drafts furnished, unless, in either case, 

 he can exchange the means in his hands for gold and silver at par. 

 And it shall be the duty of the head of the proper Department im- 

 mediately to suspend from duty any disbursing officer or agent who 

 violates the provisions of this section, and forthwith to report the 

 name of the officer or agent to the President, with the fact of the 

 violation, and all the circumstances accompanying the same, and 

 within the knowledge of the Secretary, to the end that such officer 

 or agent may be promptly removed from office, or restored to his 

 trust and the performance of his duties, as the President may deem 

 just and proper. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3652. 



Premiums on sales of public moneys to be accounted for. 



Sec. 3652. No officer of the United States shall, either directly or 

 indirectly, sell or dispose of to any person, for a premium, any Treas- 

 ury note, draft, warrant, or other public security, not his private 

 property, or sell or dispose of the avails or procQ^ds of such note, 

 draft, warrant, or security, in his hands for disbursement, without 

 making return of such premium, and accounting therefor by charging 

 the same in his accounts to the credit of the United States; and any 

 officer violating this section shall be forthwith dismissed from office. 



REV. ST. SEC. 3653. 



Expenses of fiscal agents for safe-keeping, transferring, or disbursing public 

 moneys. 



Skc. 3053. The officers, respectively, whose duty it is made by this 

 Title to receive, keep, or disburse the public moneys, as the fiscal 

 agents of the Government, may be allowed any necessary additional 

 expenses for clerks, fire-j)roof chests or vaults, or other necessary 

 expenses of .safe-keeping, transferring, or disbursing the moneys; but 

 all such expenses of every character shall be first expressly author- 

 ized by the Secretary of the Treasury, whose directions upon all 

 the above subjects, by way of regulation and otherwise, so far as 

 authorized by law, shall be strictly followed by all the officers. 



ACT AUGUST 7. 1882, c. 433. (22 Stat. 302.) 



No expenditure for clerical services for safe-keeping, transferring, and disbursing 

 public moneys. 



For conlingt'ut expenses under the requirements of section thirty- 

 six hunilred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United 



