time, without charge therefor, such ammunition, explosives, and other ammunition components as may prove to be or shall become surplus or unsuitable for the purposes of the War Department and as shall be suitable for use in the proper activities of other executive departments. (Acts July 11, 1919, c. 8, § 1, subchapter IV.)

§ 212b. Transfer of material or equipment to Government Printing Office. -This section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities: Provided further, That any officer of the Government having machinery, material, equipment or supplies for printing, binding, and blank book work, including lithography, photolithography, and other processes of reproduction, which are no longer required or authorized for his service, shall submit a detailed report of the same to the Public Printer, and the Public Printer is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, to requisition such articles of the character herein described as are serviceable in the Government Printing Office, and the same shall be promptly delivered to that office. (Acts July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 3.)

§ 212c. Transfer of war records. That except as otherwise provided by law the President is authorized to transfer to the custody and care of such of the departments or independent establishments as he may determine the files and records of the agencies created for the period of the war upon the discontinuance of such activities. (Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 4.)

§ 2124. Transfer of motor vehicles.-The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer any unused and surplus motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment of any kind, the payment for same to be made as provided herein, to any branch of the Government service having appropriations available for the purchase of said vehicles and equipment: Provided, That in case of the transfers herein authorized a reasonable price not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage, shall be determined upon and an equivalent amount of each appropriation available for said purchase shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt, and the appropriation in each case reduced accordingly: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of each official of the Government having such purchases in charge to procure the same from any such unused or surplus stock if possible: Provided further, That hereafter no transfer of motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment, unless specifically authorized by law, shall be made free of charge to any branch of the Government service. (Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 5.)

§ 212e. Purchase or service by one department or bureau for another.— Whenever any Government bureau department procures, by purchase or manufacture, stores or materials of any kind, or performs any service for another bureau or department, the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or materials are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisitions of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct expenditure: Provided, That funds so placed with the procuring bureau shall remain available for a period of two years for the purposes for which the allocation was made unless sooner expended. (Act May 21, 1920, c. 194, § 7.)

§ 212f. Appropriations for salaries available in case of disability, only where same is temporary. The appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, §3.)

§ 212g. Railroad transportation home furnished to employes discharged from service of government.-The heads of the several executive departments and other governmental establishments in the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to furnish to such civilian employes, receiving compensation, exclusive of the additional 120, at the rate of not more than $1,400 per annum or less than $100 per annum, under their respective jurisdiction as have come to the District of Columbia since

April 6, 1917, whose services are no longer required and whose employment has been or may be terminated by the Government without delinquency or misconduct on their part, or who may resign from their positions, during the period from November 11, 1918, to March 31, 1919, inclusive, their actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodations from the District of Columbia to the place from which they accepted employment or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance, as the employee may elect. Such transportation must be applied for within ten days after the termination of service and shall be used within five days after issuance unless an extension of time on account of illness be granted by the proper authority. As to the employees whose services have been terminated during the period between November 11, 1918, and the date of the passage of this Act, inclusive, the time within which transportation shall be applied for shall be twenty days from the date of the passage of this Act. Any person who shall sell, exchange, or transfer such transportation for the use of another shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. The expenses authorized by this Act shall be paid from the following appropriations for the fiscal year 1920, which hereby are made available therefor immediately upon approval of this Act: For the War Department, from "Temporary employees." For the Navy Department, from "Temporary emplyoees."

For all other executive departments and independent establishments, from the appropriations for the support of the services in which such persons are employed. Any employee who would be entitled to transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation under this Act and who has left the District cf Columbia prior to the passage of this Act, but not before December 10, 1918, upon application and presentation within sixty days after the passage of this Act of proper proof shall have refunded the cost of actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation, from the District of Columbia to the place from which employment was accepted, or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance to which the employee may have gone. The provisions made for the transportation of employees shall not apply to those who enter such service after January 7, 1919: Provided, That payment to any employee for leave of absence not earned in proportion to the term of employment shall be deducted from the refund authorized in this section and the provision made in this Act for the transportation of employees shall not be supplemented in any manner by the various services in which they are employed. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 4.)

TITLE VI.

THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

§ 233. Assistant Secretary.-Hereafter, in addition to such other duties as may be assigned him by the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, under the direction of the Secretary of War, shall be charged with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs. The Assistant Secretary of War shall receive a salary of $10,000 per annum. There shall be detailed to the office of the Assistant Secretary of War from the branches engaged in procurement such number of officers and civilian employees as may be authorized by regulations approved by the Secretary of War. The offices of Second Assistant Secretary of War and Third Assistant Secretary of War are hereby abolished.

Under the direction of the Secretary of War chiefs of branches of the Army charged with the procurement of supplies for the Army shall report direct to the Assistant Secretary of War regarding all matters of procurement. He shall cause to be manufactured or produced at the Government arsenals or Government-owned factories of the United States all such supplies or articles needed by the War Department as said arsenals

or Government-owned factories are capable of manufacturing or producing upon an economical basis. And all appropriations for manufacture of matériel pertaining to approved projects, which are placed with arsenals or Government-owned factories or other ordnance establishments shall remain available for such purposes until the close of the next ensuing fiscal year. (Acts March 5, 1890, c. 26, 26 Stat. 17; April 6, 1918, c. 46, 40 Stat. 515; June 3, 1916, c. 134, § 5a, as added by Act June 4, 1920, c. 227, § 5.) § 234a. Employees in office of Chief of Engineers.-The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for "Engineer equipment of troops," "Engineer operations in the field," and other military appropriations to be paid from such appropriations: Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $150,000. The Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons who are employed, their duties, and amount paid to each. (Act June 5, 1920, c. 240.)

§ 237. Detail of employees for other duties.-It shall not hereafter be lawful to detail clerks or other civilian employees authorized for the Office of the General Staff for duty, temporary or otherwise, in any office or bureau of the War Department at Washington, District of Columbia, or to detail clerks or other employees from the War Department for serivce in the Office of the General Staff.

No clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department. (Acts June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 1, 34 Stat. 418; Aug. 29, 1916, c. 418, § 1, Stat 526; July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845; July 11, 1919, c. 8, § 1; June 5, 1920, c. 240.)

§ 237a. Temporary employees. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each: Provided further, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than twenty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each: Provided further, That detailed estimates shall be submitted by the War Department in the annual Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1921 for necessary services of the character provided for in this paragraph. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 1.)

§ 251. Damages to private property by military operations.

Note.-Act July 11, 1919, c. 8, § 1, provides "for payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided. That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, $40,000."

§ 259. Employees of Bureau of Insular Affairs.-The officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall be one Chief of the Bureau with the rank of brigadier general, and two officers below the grade of brigadier general: Provided, That during the tenure of office of the present Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs he shall have the rank of major general. (Acts June 25, 1906, c. 3528, 34 Stat. 456; June 3, 1916. c. 134, § 14, 39 Stat. 176; June 4, 1920, c. 227, § 14.)

Note. The act first cited provides that the Chief of the Bureau shall be appointed by the President for the term of four years, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

§ 260a. Transfer of explosives to Interior Department. The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer, without charge, to the Secretary of the Interior for use of the Interior Department, explosives and explosive material for which the War Department has no further use. (Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 1.)

§ 260b. Loan of tents to army organizations.-Hereafter no loan of tents shall be made except to the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Confederate Veterans, the United Spanish War Veterans, and to recognized organizations of veterans of the late World War by whatever name they may be known. (Res. No. 6, July 26, 1919, c. 28.)

§ 260c. Sale of war materials to States or foreign governments.-The Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to sell to any State or foreign Government with which the United States is at peace at the time of the passage of this Act, upon such terms as he may deem expedient, any matériel, supplies, or equipment pertaining to the Military Establishment, except foodstuffs, as, or may be hereafter be found to be surplus, which are not needed for military purposes and for which there is no adequate domestic market. (Act June 5, 1920, c. 240.)

§ 260d. Draftsmen and other special services for department. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $53,280, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.

The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $400,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.

The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. (Act May 29, 1920, c. 214, § 1.)

See § 237a.

TITLE VII.

THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.

CHAPTER 1.

THE DEPARTMENT.

§ 279. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Note.-Act May 29, 1920, c. 214, § 1, provides that "no other fund_appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on

the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session."

§ 279a. Funds for specific services in bureau not to be used except in emergency. No other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, §1.)

§ 286. Enforcement of laws relating to department.-The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriations for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed at any one time hereunder: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law. (Acts July 1, 1916, c. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 276; July 1, 1918, c. 113, § 1, 40 Stat.)

§ 310a.

CHAPTER 3.

THE COMPTROLLER.

Clerk for countersigning warrants.-The Comptroller of the Treasury is authorized to designate such person or persons in his office as may be required from time to time to countersign in his name such classes of warrants as he may direct. (Act May 29, 1920, c. 214, § 1.)

§ 310b. Chief of examining division, The comptroller may designate a national-bank examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office. (Acts March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 1; May 29, 1920, c. 214, § 1.)

CHAPTER 4.

THE AUDITORS.

§ 320. Examination of accounts by Auditors.

Note.-Act Feb. 25, 1919, c. 39, § 1, provides "The available balance of the appropriation of $700,000 for the audit of accounts abroad, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, may be expended either abroad or in the District of Columbia for the purposes named in the Act, except that no per diem in lieu of subsistence shall be allowed in the District of Columbia."

TITLE VIII.

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

§ 418. Counsel to aid district attorneys.

Note. Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 1. provides "for assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and including not to exceed $30,000 for clerical help for such assistants, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), in all, $300,000, to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia.'

§ 421. Special counsel.

Note.-Act April 24, 1920, c. 161, § 1, provides "for compensation of a special assistant to the Attorney General to assist in the defense of cases against the United States arising out of the tranportation of the mails, and in other cases and matters affecting the postal revenues, $6,000."