(b) He shall make such investigations and reports as shall be ordered by either House of Congress or by any committee of either House having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures. The Comptroller General shall also, at the request of any such committee, direct assistants from his office to furnish the committee such aid and information as it may request. (c) The Comptroller General shall specially report to Congress every expenditure or contract made by any department or establishment in any year in violation of law. (d) He shall submit to Congress reports upon the adequacy and effectiveness of the administrative examination of accounts and claims in the respective departments and establishments and upon the adequacy and effectiveness of departmental inspection of the offices and accounts of fiscal officers. (e) He shall furnish such information relating to expenditures and accounting to the Bureau of the Budget as it may request from time to time. SEC. 313. All departments and establishments shall furnish to the Comptroller General such information regarding the powers, duties, activities, organization, financial transactions, and methods of business of their respective offices as he may from time to time require of them; and the Comptroller General, or any of his assistants or employees, when duly authorized by him, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records of any such department or establishment. The authority contained in this section shall not be applicable to expenditures made under the provisions of section 291 of the Revised Statutes. SEC. 314. The Civil Service Commission shall establish an eligible register for accountants for the General Accounting Office, and the examinations of applicants for entrance upon such register shall be based upon questions approved by the Comptroller General. SEC. 315. (a) All appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, for the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury and the six auditors, are transferred to and made available for the General Accounting Office, except as otherwise provided herein. (b) During such fiscal years the Comptroller General, within the limit of the total appropriations available for the General Accounting Office, may make such changes in the number and compensation of officers and employees appointed by him or transferred to the General Accounting Office under this Act as may be necessary. (c) There shall also be transferred to the General Accounting Office such portions of the appropriations for rent and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including allotments for printing and binding, made for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, as are equal to the amounts expended from similar appropriations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, by the Treasury Department for the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury and the six auditors. (d) During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, the appropriations and portions of appropriations referred to in this section shall be available for salaries and expenses of the General Accounting Office, including payment for rent in the District of Columbia, traveling expenses, the purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, and for all necessary miscellaneous and contingent expenses. SEC. 316. The General Accounting Office and the Bureau of Accounts shall not be construed to be a bureau or office created since January 1, 1916, so as to deprive employees therein of the additional compensation allowed civilian employees under the provisions of section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, if otherwise entitled thereto. SEC. 317. The provision of law prohibiting the transfer of employees of executive departments and independent establishments until after service of three years shall not apply during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, to the transfer of employees to the General Accounting Office. SEC. 318. This Act shall take effect upon its approval by the President, Provided, That sections 301 to 317, inclusive, relating to the General Accounting Office and the Bureau of Accounts, shall take effect July 1, 1921. Approved, June 10, 1921. Abbreviations, use in this volume.. INDEX. Accidents, compensation for. See Compensation. Accountants, employment of. See various appropriation acts. Prohibition of employment of experts.. Accounting, Auditor for War Department. Checks more than 3 years old.. Consolidation of Canal, Railroad, and Government New auditing system.... Semiannual examination by auditors from Treasury Department.. Action, Survival of rights in Compensation Act of 1908.. Accounts, Panama Canal, Auditing of.. Acting for, or instead of, Prohibition as to extra payment.. See also Panama Canal Act and various appropriation acts. Jurisdiction of courts.. Aids to navigation, Lighthouses at Bona Island and Cape Mala.. Air craft, Authority of President in wartime.. Alaska, Canal equipment for use on railroad.. Alcoholic liquors, Prohibition. Alien Property Custodian. Aliens, Deportation of undesirables. Immigration Act of 1917.. Page. 11 99 35 129 109 234 119 96 110 57 122 237 84 117, 120 195 98 214 177 217 149 War time restrictions on departure from or entry into United States... See various Sundry Civil and Deficiency Acts in Contents. See also "Sea- Army, additional pay for foreign service. Annual appropriation acts. See Table of Contents. Authority for payment to retired officers and enlisted men.. Compensation of Lieut.-Col. Black and Lieutenant Brooke Disrespectful language about. Engineers of, authority to employ. Estimates for barracks and quarters.. See also Annual appropriation acts. Exception in favor of officers with Panama Canal.. Members of Officers' Reserve Corps absent from duty. Limitation of Canal Zone tour of duty.. National Guard...... Officer to act as Governor in time of war... One member of Isthmian Canal Commission to be officer of.. Attorney versed in Spanish law, employment of..... Attorney General, authority to bring suit re vessels illegally using Canal. Auditing, checks more than 3 years old. Blacksmiths, employment of. See various appropriation acts. See also various war-time acts, 1917 and 1918, in Contents. Bidder, lowest responsible, manufacturers for Canal work.. Blockades, rules of treaty of 1901. Board, pay roll deductions on account of employees'. Bond, surety, Government will not pay premium for employee.. Premium must not cost more than 35 per centum of cost in 1908. Bonding companies, investigation of premiums........ Page. Bonds, Panama Canal, authorized. Circulation privilege to banks.. Expenditures to be made from proceeds.. Issue of 3 per cent, in 1909. Payment of Panama Railroad.. Privilege of issuing currency upon withdrawn.. Bonus, employes and wages, 1920.. Reward for special work. Salaries and wages... Salary.. Books, law, appropriations for. See various Sundry Civil acts. Brakemen, employment of. See various appropriation acts. Breach of Peace, authority to regulate.. Brito, terminus of Canal route.... Brooke, Mark, extra compensation. Buckholdt, J. A., relief of. 33 36 38 55 43 63 220 129 207 196 18, 25 131 31 38 130 Business operations, appropriations to cover claims for losses.. 116 82 131 C. Cables, submarine, landing and operation.. Cable service, appropriations for. See various appropriation acts. Civil Engineers, employment of. See various appropriation acts. See also various appropriation acts. Coaling stations, Panama to sell or lease... Coast and Geodetic Survey, Atlantic entrance of Canal. Entrance to Canal... Entrance to Canal, Hydrographic Surveys.. Hydrographic Survey, Canal entrances Coastwise ships, amendment of provision excepting from tolls.. |