such expenses actually incurred in excess of $5 per day; nor shall any allowance or reimbursement for subsistence be paid to any officer or employee in any branch of the public service of the United States in the District of Columbia unless absent from his designated post of duty outside of the District of Columbia, and then only for the period of time actually engaged in the discharge of official duties. Act of Apr. 6, 1914 (38 Stat. 318).

98a. Report to Congress plans for improvement of harbors, etc., to facilitate operation of fleets for their defense.-The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized and directed to report to Congress at the earliest practicable date:

First. Specific plans for improvement of the harbors and canals and connecting channels which, in their judgment, will best provide adequate facilities for operations of the fleet for defense of the harbors on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States.

Second. The feasible extensions requisite to make existing approved projects for improvement of the aforementioned harbors, canals, and channels available for the purposes stated in the foregoing paragraph.

Third. The cost of each such several improvements calculated upon the basis of completion thereof under contract within five years. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 618).

99a. Rented buildings, District of Columbia, statement to include details of floor space, etc.-Hereafter the statement of buildings rented within the District of Columbia for use of the Government, required by the act of July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, page one hundred and ninety-nine), shall indicate as to each building rented the area thereof in square feet of available floor space for Government uses, the rate paid per square foot for such floor space, the assessed valuation of each building, and what proportion, if any, of the rental paid includes heat, light, elevator, or other service. Sec. 3, act of May 1, 1913 (38 Stat. 3.)

99b. Executive departments authorized to lease storage accommodations. The heads of the several executive departments are authorized to enter into contracts for the lease, for periods of not exceeding six years, of modern fireproof storage accommodations within the District of Columbia for their respective departments, at rates per square foot of available floor space not exceeding 25 cents, payable from appropriations that Congress may from time to time make for

'The act referred to, act of July 16, 1892 (27 Stat. 199), provides that "Hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be p.epared and submitted to Congress each year, in the annual Book of Estimates of Appropriations, a statement of the buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, the purposes for which rented, and the annual rental of each."

rent of buildings for their respective departments. Act of Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 718).

100a. Statement of proceeds of sales, etc., to be separate from Book of Estimates.-Hereafter the statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other public property of any kind shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof as a separate communication and shall not hereafter be included in the annual Book of Estimates. Sec. 6, Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 773).

(See section 3672, Revised Statutes, as amended by act of February 27, 1877 (19 Stat. 249), or paragraph 100, ante.)

104a. Annual reports of American National Red Cross.-The said American National Red Cross shall, on the first day of January of each year, make and transmit to the Secretary of War a report of its proceedings for the preceding year, including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expenditures of whatever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the War Department, and a copy of said report shall be transmitted to Congress by the War Department. Sec. 6, act of Jan. 5, 1905 (33 Stat. 602).

104b. Same-Period covered by change from calendar to fiscal year. The said American National Red Cross shall as soon as practicable after the first day of July of each year make and transmit to the Secretary of War a report of its proceedings for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth next preceding, including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expenditures of whatever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the War Department, and a copy of said report shall be transmitted to Congress by the War Department. Act of Feb. 27, 1917 (39 Stat. 946), amending sec. 6, Act of Jan. 5, 1905 (33 Stat. 602).

106a. Annual reports, date for furnishing to printer, etc.-Appropriations herein and hereafter made for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanying documents unless the copy therefor is furnished to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each. year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year; complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November of each year, respectively; and all of said annual reports and accompanying documents shall be printed, made public, and available for distribution not later than within the first five days after the assembling of each regular session of Congress. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution, the Commissioner of Patents, or the Comptroller of the Currency. Sec. 3, act of July 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 336).

109a. Designation of custodian of property in White House; bond. Hereafter the steward, housekeeper, or such other employee of the Executive Mansion as the President may designate, shall, under the direction of the President, have the charge and custody of and be responsible for the plate, furniture, and public property therein, and shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, give bond for the faithful discharge thereof, said bond to be in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and be approved by the Secretary of War. Sec. 9, Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 773).

109b. Same-Annual inventory of required; approval and filing of, etc.-Hereafter a complete inventory, in proper books, shall be made annually in the month of June, under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, of all the public property in and belonging to the Executive Mansion, showing when purchased, its cost, condition, and final disposition. This inventory shall be submitted to the President for his approval, and shall then be kept for reference in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, which shall furnish a copy thereof to the steward, housekeeper, or other employee responsible for the property. Id., 774.

(See sections 1832-1834, Revised Statutes.)

112a. Printing and binding for Executive Departments, etc.-All printing, binding,1 and blank books for the Senate or House of Representatives and for the Executive and Judicial Departments shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except in cases otherwise provided by law. Sec. 87, Act. of Jan. 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 622).

112b. Printing and binding for Army and National Guard may be procured by contract or in open market during hostilities.-Section eighty-seven of the printing and binding Act, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (volume twenty-eight, Revised Statutes,2 page six hundred and twenty-two), and section two of the act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (volume thirty-four, Revised Statutes, page seven hundred and sixty-two), are hereby amended as follows:

"That in time of actual hostilities the Secretary of War may procure from commercial or other printing establishments, by contract or open market purchase, such printing and binding as may be required for the use of the Army and also for the National Guard of the several States and Territories and of the District of Columbia or other military forces while in the military service of the United States or about to be called into said service, payment for such print

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ing and binding to be made from available appropriations." 1 Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 74), amending sec. 87, act of Jan. 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 622).

(For section 87 of the printing and binding act, see the preceding paragraph; and for section 2, act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 762), see paragraph 94, ante.

112c. Appropriation for printing and binding publications for instruction of land forces. In addition to any other appropriation available for this purpose, there is hereby appropriated $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to be expended in printing and binding publications and manuals necessary for the organization and instruction of the land forces of the United States or such other necessary printing as the Secretary of War may prescribe. Act of June 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 126).

112d. Same-Contracts may be entered into with private concerns for. The printing and binding herein authorized may be executed under contract with private concerns if, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, the public interest requires, notwithstanding the provisions of law requiring such printing and binding to be done in the Government Printing Office. Id.

114a. Joint Committee on Printing, continuance of, vacancies in, and powers of during recess.-Hereafter the members of the Joint Committee on Printing who are reelected to the succeeding Congress shall continue as members of said committee until their successors are chosen: Provided, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, on the last day of a Congress, appoint Members of their respective Houses who have been elected to the succeeding Congress to fill any vacancies which may then be about to occur on said committee, and such appointees and the members of said committee who shall have been reelected shall continue until their successors are chosen. The Joint Committee on Printing shall, when Congress is not in session, exercise all the powers and duties devolving upon said committee as provided by law, the same as when Congress is in session. Sec. 6, act of Mar. 3, 1917 (39 Stat. 1121).

'Held, that the provision in the Army appropriation act approved May 12, 1917, amending section 87 of the public printing act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 622), and section 2 of the act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 762), operates to remove, in time of war, the restriction against the procurement of printing from commercial concerns contained in the act of 1895 and the restriction contained in the act of 1906 against the use of any appropriations for printing other than those made specifically and solely for printing and binding, so that in time of war the War Department may procure from commercial or other printing establishments necessary printing for the military forces and pay therefor from "available appropriations."

Held further, that the said amendment of May 12, 1917, does not make available the War Department's allotment at the Government Printing Office for the procurement of printing by the department under contracts with commercial printing establishments. (War Dept. Bul. 34, June 8, 1917.)

122a. Price of gas for public buildings limited to 70 cents.-Hereafter no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for the payment to the Washington Gas Light Company or the Georgetown Gas Light Company for any gas furnished by said companies for use in any of the public buildings of the United States or the District of Columbia at a rate in excess of 70 cents per one thousand cubic feet. Sec. 6, Act of Sept. 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 716).

125a. Public library depositaries to receive publications, etc., new designations authorized.-Libraries heretofore designated by law as depositaries to receive books and other Government publications shall hereafter, during their existence, continue such receipt; and new designations may be made when libraries heretofore chosen shall cease to exist or other designations shall hereafter be authorized by law. Sec 5, act of June 23, 1913 (38 Stat. 75).

131a. Forging, etc., certificate of discharge.-Whoever shall forge, counterfeit, or falsely alter any certificate of discharge from the military or naval service of the United States, or shall in any manner aid or assist in forging, counterfeiting, or falsely altering any such certificate, or shall use, unlawfully have in his possession, exhibit, or cause to be used or exhibited, any such forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered certificate, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. Act of Mar. 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1182).