Army ContractsSchool Press, 1912 - 84 pages |
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Page 11 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 8 - No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 34 - Government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such contracts, to be reduced to writing and signed by the contracting parties, with their names at the end thereof; a copy of which shall be filed by the officer making and signing the contract in the Returns Office...
Page 12 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Interior to furnish every officer appointed by them with authority to make contracts on behalf of the Government with a printed...
Page 13 - Accounts," for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight: Provided further, That hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for all branches of the naval service may be made in open market in the manner common among business men.
Page 80 - Disbursing officers, or the head of any executive department, or other establishment not under any of the executive departments, may apply for and the Comptroller...
Page 58 - When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing...
Page 13 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment. except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 81 - War and all bureaus and offices under his direction, all accounts relating to the military establishment, armories and arsenals, national cemeteries, fortifications, public buildings and grounds under the Chief of Engineers,* rivers and harbors, the Military Academy, and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of War...
Page 46 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned.