Administrative examinations. court of the United States, and all other accounts relating to the business of the Department of Justice or of the courts of the United States other than consular courts, shall be sent with their vouchers to the Attorney General and examined under his supervision. Judges receiving salaries from the Treasury of the United States shall be paid monthly by the disbursing officer of the Department of Justice, and to him all certificates of nonabsence or of the cause of absence of judges in the Territories shall be sent. Interstate Commerce Commissioners and other officers, now paid as judges are, shall be paid monthly by the proper disbursing officer or officers. SEC. 14. In the case of claims presented to an auditor which have not had an administrative examination, the Auditor shall cause them to be examined by two of his subordinates independently of each other. Annual de- SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury annutailed report of receipts and ex- ally to lay before Congress, on the first day of the regular session thereof, penditures. an accurate, combined statement of the receipts and expenditures during the last preceding fiscal year of all public moneys, including those of the Post Office Department, designating the amount of the receipts whenever practicable by ports, districts, and States, and the expenditures by each separate head of appropriations. Unpaid drafts. Authentication of papers. Accounts 1, 1894. pending Octo SEC. 16. In section three hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes the words "Secretary of the Treasury" are substituted for the words "Register of the Treasury." SEC. 17. The transcripts from the books and proceedings of the Department of the Treasury, provided for in section eight hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes, shall hereafter be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and the copies of contracts and other papers therein provided for shall be certified by the Auditor having the custody of such papers. SEC 18. Section thirty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3743. All contracts to be made, by virtue of any law, and requiring the advance of money, or in any manner connected with the settlement of public accounts, shall be deposited promptly in the offices of the Auditors of the Treasury, according to the nature of the contracts: Provided, That this section shall not apply to the existing laws in regard to the contingent funds of Congress." SEC. 19. Section twenty-six hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes is amended by substituting the words "proper Auditor" for the words "Commissioner of Customs." SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the collectors of customs and other officers of customs to transmit with their accounts to the officers charged with the settlement of their accounts, all such papers, records, or copies thereof relating to their transactions as officers of customs as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. SEC. 21. All accounts stated by the Auditors before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and then pending for settlement in the offices of the First and Second Comptroller, or the Commissioner of Customs, shall be revised by the Comptroller of the Treasury in the manner provided by existing law, and the balances arising thereon shall be certified to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants. ministrative ex SEC. 22. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to make Rules for adappropriate rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this amination. act, and for transferring or preserving books, papers, or other property appertaining to any office or branch of business affected by it. It shall also be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments and of the proper officers of other Government establishments, not within the jurisdiction of any Executive Department, to make appropriate rules and regulations to secure a proper administrative examination of all accounts sent to them, as required by section twelve of this act, before their transmission to the Auditors, and for the execution of other requirements of this act in so far as the same relates to the several departments or establishments. SEC. 23. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the reexamination and payment of any claim or account which has heretofore been disallowed or settled. SEC. 24. The provisions of sections three to twenty-three inclusive of this act shall be in force on and after the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Claims or accounts settled. When to take effect. SEC. 25. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this act are Repeal. repealed. Act approved March 2, 1895, chap. 177, "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes." (28 Stat., 768.) * * SEC. 1. * That the Speaker of the House of Representatives Accounts, House of Repreof the Fifty-third Congress shall, before the expiration of his term of sentatives. service, appoint from among the Representatives-elect to the Fiftyfourth Congress a temporary committee on accounts, of three members, which said committee on accounts shall have the same powers and perform the same duties in reference to payments made from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress as are now authorized by law and the rules of the present House of Representatives; and which said temporary committee on accounts shall begin to exercise its powers immediately upon the termination of this Congress and shall continue to exercise and discharge said duties until after the meeting and organization of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and until the appointment of the regular committee on accounts. And all payments made out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers approved by said temporary committee on accounts shall be deemed, held, and taken, and are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all the departments and auditing officers of the Government. And hereafter the Speaker of the House of Representatives of each subsequent Congress shall, before the termination of the last session of each Congress, appoint, from the Representatives-elect, a temporary committee on accounts of three members, with similar powers and for the same purpose. The chief clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury shall Chief clerk, Comptroller's have power in the name of the Comptroller of the Treasury to sign such office. letters and papers as the Comptroller may direct. The law clerks in the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury and in the offices of the Auditors of the Treasury shall perform such clerical duties as the heads of their respective offices may require of them. Duties of law clerks. Acting Deputy Auditor. Advance money. of Oath of office and bonds to Hereafter, in case of the absence or sickness of any deputy auditor of the Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury may, by an appointment under his hand and official seal, delegate to any officer not below the grade of fourth-class clerk, in the office of the auditor, the authority to perform the duties of Deputy Auditor until such absence or sickness shall cease. SEC. 4. The second proviso of section twelve of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That should there be a delay by the administrative departments beyond the aforesaid twenty or sixty days in transmitting accounts, an order of the President, or, in the event of the absence from the seat of government or sickness of the President, an order of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the particular case, shall be necessary to authorize the advance of money requested." SEC. 5. Hereafter the copy of the oath of office of subordinate officers Secretary of of the customs, required to be transmitted to the Commissioner of CusTreasury. toms by section eleven of the act to amend existing customs and internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes, approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. Manifests vessels. of Hereafter all bonds of the Treasurer of the United States, collectors of internal revenue, collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and other officers of the customs, either as such officers or as disbursing officers of the Treasury, bonds of the Secretary of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives and all such bonds now on file in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury and filed as he may direct; and the duties now required by law of the Comptroller of the Treasury in regard to such bonds as the successor of the Commissioner of Customs and First Comptroller of the Treasury shall hereafter be performed by the Secretary of the Treasury. of SEC. 9. On and after July 1st, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, each master of a vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign port except vessels carrying traffic in bond on transfer ferries shall immediately upon landing and before entering his vessel at the customhouse mail to the Auditor for the Treasury Department, Washington, a true copy of the manifest of his vessel, and shall on entering his vessel make affidavit that he has mailed such copy and that the same is true and correct; and he shall also mail to the said Auditor a true copy of the corrected manifest filed on any post entry of his vessel. Any master who neglects or refuses to mail to the Auditor the required copy of the original or corrected manifest shall be subject to the same fines and penalties. fixed by law for his failure to deliver the manifest of his vessel to the collector: * * * Authentication books and SEC. 10. Section seventeen of the act making appropriations for the proceedings. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes, is amended to read as follows: The transcripts from the books and proceedings of the Department of the Treasury and the copies of the bonds, contracts, and other papers provided for in section eight hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes shall hereafter be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under the seal of the Department. * Private prop erty lost in na Act approved March 2, 1895, chap. 190, "An act to provide for the reimbursement of officers and seamen for property lost or destroyed in the naval service of the United States." (28 Stat., 962.) SEC. 1. * * That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to examine into, val service. ascertain, and determine the value of private property belonging to officers, petty officers, seamen, and others in the naval service of the United States whch has been or may hereafter be lost or destroyed in the naval service by shipwreck or other marine disaster under the following circumstances: Act approved Feb. 26, 1896, chap. 33, "An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for prior years, and for other purposes." (29 Stat., 25.) United SEC. 1. * * * That hereafter all fees for United States attorneys, Fees States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts and special counsel necessarily employed &c. in prosecuting civil suits instituted by the Auditor for the Post Office Department through the Solicitor of the Treasury against sureties on the official bonds of late postmasters, as provided by section two hundred and ninety-two, Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be paid from the appropriations for expenses of the United States courts. Act approved May 28, 1896, chap. 252, "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes." (29 Stat., 179.) SEC. 4. So much of section twelve of the legislative, executive, and, Reports of delinquents. Judicial appropriation act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as requires the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January in each year, to make report to Congress of such officers as are then delinquent in the rendering of their accounts or in the payment of balances found due from them for the last preceding fiscal year, is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the first Monday of January of each year, make report to Congress of such officers and administrative departments and offices of the Government as were, respectively, at any time during the last preceding fiscal year delinquent in rendering or transmitting accounts to the proper offices in Washington and the cause therefor, and in each case indicating whether the delinquency was waived, together with such officers, including postmasters and officers of the Post Office Department, as were found upon final settlement of their accounts to have been indebted to the Government, with the amount of such indebtedness in each case, and who, at the date of making report, had failed to pay the same into the Treasury of the United States." SEC. 13. That whenever in this act an officer is allowed actual Expense accounts, Departexpenses the account thereof shall be made out quarterly, in accord- ment of Justice. ance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney General. When made out the account shall be verified on oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths. 75554-11-7 The expense accounts of the marshals and their office deputies and the accounts of the field deputies shall be paid by the marshals; said accounts and the expense accounts of the district attorneys and their assistants when made out in accordance with this act shall be submitted to and examined by the circuit court or district court of the district, and when approved by the court shall be audited and allowed as now provided by law. Each marshal shall make such returns of the earnings and expenses of his office as shall be required under rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney General: * * * * * Proceeds of sales of old ma terials. Pay to enlisted men. Act approved June 8, 1896, chap.373, "An act making appropriations to * * That from the proceeds of sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other public property of any kind, before being deposited into the Treasury, either as miscellaneous receipts on account of "proceeds of Government property" or to the credit of the appropriation to which such proceeds are by law authorized to be made, there may be paid the expenses of such sales, as approved by the accounting officers of the Treasury, so as to require only the net proceeds of such sales to be deposited into the Treasury, either as miscellaneous receipts or to the credit of such appropriations, as the case may be. Joint Resolution approved June 11, 1896, No. 62, Joint Resolution extending the benefits of sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes to all enlisted persons in the Navy. (29 Stat., 476.) Resolved, &c., That the benefits of honorable discharge as conferred by section fourteen hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, and of three months' pay upon reenlistment after honorable discharge as conferred by section fifteen hundred and seventy-three upon seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, firemen, coal heavers, and boys, be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to all enlisted persons in the Navy. And all accounts of paymasters who have made payments to enlisted men not of the classes named in sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three, Revised Statutes, as if they had been included in the provisions of said sections, shall be allowed and passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury as if they had been included in said sections. Deputy United States marshals, Indian Service. Act approved January 20, 1897, chap. 70, "An act to validate the appoint- * |