360 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



partment, * * * cause the plans, drawings, designs, specifica- 

 tions, and estimates to be prepared in the office of the Supervising 

 Architect, for any building or building-s for governmental purposes 

 which the head of any other executive department * * * niay be 

 authorized to have constructed: Provided^ That the proper ap- 

 propriations for the support and maintenance of the office of the 

 Supervising Architect be reimbui*sed for the cost of such work. 



Act .Tune 25. 1910. c. 3S3, s. 35, 3G Stat. 699. 



ACT JUNE 23, 1874, c. 476. (18 Stat. 275.) 

 Selection of sites for public buildings. 



Sec. 2. That in the selection of a site for any public building not 

 yet commenced, reference shall be had to the interest and convenience 

 of the public, as well as to the best interests of the Government ; and 

 the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power, and it shall be his 

 duty, to set aside any selection which in his opinion has not been 

 made solely with reference thereto. No expenditure shall be made 

 upon any building, a site for which has been selected, and work 

 upon which has not been commenced, until such of the persons who 

 acted as commissioners in .selecting such site shall make and file with 

 the Secretary of the Treasury an oath or affirmation that he is not 

 at the time of making the affidavit, and was not at the date of mak- 

 ing the selection of such site, directly or indirectly interested in the 

 property selected for the same, and a similar affidavit shall be made 

 and filed by each and every person hereafter appointed as such com- 

 missioner, before any site .shall be finally adopted. In either case a 

 failure on the part ^)f any commissi(;ner to make and file such an 

 affidavit shall render the selection void. 



Act .Tnne 23. 1874, c. 476. s. 2. 18 Stat. 276. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1889, c. 411. (25 Stat. 939.) 



Plans not to be approved until selection of site; expenditures not to exceed 

 appropriations. 



That hereafter no plan shall be approved by the Secretary of the 

 Treasurj'^ for any public building authorized by Congi-ess to be 

 erected, until after the site therefor shall have been finally selected; 

 and he shall not authorize or approve of any plan for any such build- 

 ing which shall involve a greater expenditure in the completion of 

 such building, including heating apparatus, elevatoi*s, and approaches 

 thereto, than the amount tliat shall remain of the sum specified in 

 the law authorizing the erection of such building excluding cost of 

 site. 



Act Mnn-li 2, 1SS9, c. 411, s. 1. 25 Sf:if. 0-11. 



ACT MAY 30. 1908. c. 228. (35 Stat. 520.) 



Contracts for public buildings authorized within limit of cost fixed, although 

 appropriations are in part only. 



Sec. 34. That hereafter in all cases where appropriations are made 

 in part only for carrying into effect the provisions of legislation 

 authorizing the actpiisition of lands for sites or for the enlargement 

 of sites for public buildings, or for the erection or remodeling, exten- 

 sion, alteration, and repairs of public buildings, the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, unless otherwise specifically directed, be, and he is hereby, 



