376 



LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 





for the use of the Executive Departments to be preserved for the 



permanent, files of such Departments be. and the same is hereby, 



repealed. 



Act June 22, 1900, c. 3514, s. 7, 34 Stat. 449. 



This set-tion is a imrt of the legislative, executive, and judicial apprc 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above. «l 



ACT FEBRUARY 16, 1889. c. 171. An act to authorize and provide for the I 

 disposilioii ul" iisch'ss pajiers in the Kxociitive Departments. (2.5 Stat. 072.) 



Accumulation of useless papers in departments; report to Congress; examinatioii { 

 by committee; sale or other disposition. ^ 



That whenever there shall be in any one of the Executive Depart- 

 ments of the Government an arrnmulation of files of papers, whicl 

 are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business 

 of such Department and have no permanent value or historical] 

 interest, it shall be the duty of the head of such Department to sul 

 mit to Coiiij^ress a re])ort of that fact, accompanied by a concise I 

 statement of the condition and character of such papers. And upon 

 the submission of such report, it shall be the duty of the presiding 

 officer of the Senate to appoint two Senators, and of the Speaker or 

 the House of Representatives to api)oint two Representatives, and the 

 Senators and Representatives .so appointed shall constitute a joint [ 

 committee, to which shall be referred such report, with the accom- 

 panyino; statement of the condition and character of such papers,] 

 and such joint committee shall meet and examine such report and 

 statement and the papers therein described, and submit to the Senate 

 and House, respectively, a report of such examination and their 

 recommendation. And if they report that such files of papers, or 

 any jiart thereof, are not needed or useful in the transaction of the 

 current l)usiness of such Department, and have no permanent value 

 or historical interest, then it shall be the duty of such head of the 

 Department to sell as waste paper, or otherwise dispose of such files 

 of papers upon the best obtainable terms after due publication of 

 notice invitin<^ proposals therefor, and receive and pay the proceeda] 

 thereof into the Treasury of the United States, and make rci)oi 

 thereof to Congress. 



. Act February 10. 18»1. c. 171, 2.") S(;it. 072. 



This act is aniende<l and its provisions extendeil bv a i)rovisiou of ac 

 March 2, 1.S95. c. 189, set forth below. 



The Secretary of ApricuUure is authorized to sell or otherwise disjios 

 of the accumulation of files and obsolete or worthless documents audi 

 publications. l>y a provision of act .March 4, 1907. c. 25K>7. set forth on] 

 p. 2:;, (iiilc. 



ACT MARCH 2. 1895, c. 189. (28 Stat. 910.) 

 Accumulation of useless papers in department buildings. 



That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize and provide for the! 

 disposition of useless papers in the Executive DeiKirtments," ap- 

 proved Februaiy sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.* be, 

 and the same is hereby, amended .so as to include in its provisions liny 

 acciimulalidii of liles of papers of a like character therein described 

 now or hereafter in the various public buildings under the control 

 of the .several Executive Departments of the Government. 



.\ct March 2. ISir). e. ISO, 2^ Stat. UXl 

 This Is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1800, dtcil above. 



