356 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



other like chief officers in any Department, by, through, or under 

 whom stores, supplies, and other public property are received for 

 distribiiti<jn, or whose duty it is to receive or examine returns of 

 such property, shall certify to the proper accounting officer of the 

 Treasury Department, for debiting on the proper account, any 

 charge against any officer or agent intrusted with public property, 

 arising from any loss, accruing by his fault, to the Government as to 

 the property so intrusted to him. 



Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 1. 2S Stat. 47. 



Contents and efifect of certificate. 



Sec. 2. That said certificate shall set forth the condition of such 

 officer's or agent's property returns, that it includes all charges made 

 up to its date and not previously certified, that he has had a rea- 

 sonable opportunity to be heard and has not been relieved of respon- 

 sibility; the effect of such certificate, when received, shall be the 

 same as if the facts therein set forth had been ascertained by the 

 accounting officers of the Treasury Department in accounting. 



Act March 29. 1894, c. 49, s. 2, 28 Stat. 47. 



Manner of making returns or of ascertaining liability not affected. 



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Sec. 3. That the manner of making property returns to or in any 

 administrative bureau or department, or of ascertaining liability for 

 property, under existing laws and repilations, shall not be affected 

 by this Act, except as provided in section one ; but in all cases arising 

 as to such property so intrusted the officer or agent shall have an 

 opportunity^ to relieve himself from liability. 



Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 3, 28 Stat. 47. 



Regulations by heads of departments. 



Sec. 4. That the heads of the several Departments are hereby em- 

 powered to make and enforce regulations to carry out the provisions 

 of this Act. 



Act March 29, 1894. c. 49. s. 4, 28 Stat. 47. 



Repeal. 



Sec. 5. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the pro- 

 visions of this Act are hereby repealed. 



Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 5, 28 Stat. 47. 



ACT AUGUST 24, 1912, c. 355. (37 Stat. 417.) 



Use of furniture, although not corresponding to regulation plan. 



And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public 

 buildings and in ])iiil(lings rented by the United States shall be used, 

 so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regu- 

 lation plan for furniture or not. 



Act Angu.st 24. 1912. c. Hn.^. s. 1. .37 Stat. 43.".. 



This Is M yirovlsion of tlio ,';'iiu1ry civil approitri.ition net for the fisciil 

 yciir IDl.'i. foJlowinK :m ;ipi>r»>I>ri:'ti<in fi>r furnilurc and ro]>!>ii"s of fame, 

 carpels, and tras and clcctric-llKlit lixtnrcs in JMiildiniis under control of 

 tlio Tronsury Dcpjutnicnt. Similar provisions were contained in the 

 Blmilar appropriation acts for the flscal years 1901 and thereafter. 



