Title 4. Certified SEC. 191. The balances which may from time to time be stated by the Auditor and certified to the heads of Departments by the Commissioner of Customs, or the Comptrollers of the Treasury, upon the settlement of ances. public accounts, shall not be subject to be changed or modified by the heads of Departments, but shall be conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government, and be subject to revision only by Congress or the proper courts. The head of the proper Department, before signing a warrant for any balance certified to him by a Comptroller, may, however, submit to such Comptroller any facts in his judgment affecting the correctness of such balance, but the decision of the Comptroller thereon shall be final and conclusive, as hereinbefore provided. bal SEC. 236. All claims and demands whatever by the United States or Title 7, Chap. I. against them, and all accounts whatever in which the United States are Public accounts concerned, either as debtors or as creditors, shall be settled and adjusted to be settled in in the Department of the Treasury. the Department SEC. 237. The fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States in all of the Treasury. matters of accounts, receipts, expenditures, estimates, and appropriations, except accounts of the Secretary of the Senate for compensation and traveling expenses of Senators, shall commence on the first day of Commencement of the fiscal year. July in each year; and all accounts of receipts and expenditures required by law to be published annually shall be prepared and published for the fiscal year as thus established. The fiscal year for the adjustment of the accounts of the Secretary of the Senate for compensation and traveling expenses of Senators shall extend to and include the third day of July. SEC. 250. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all accounts of Title 7, Chap. 2. the expenditure of public money to be settled within each fiscal year, Settlement of except where the distance of the places where such expenditure occurs accounts within may be such as to make further time necessary; and in respect to fiscal year. expenditures at such places, the Secretary of the Treasury, with the assent of the President, shall establish fixed periods at which a settlement shall be required. SEC. 260. The Secretary of the Treasury shall lay before Congress at the commencement of each regular session, accompanying his annual statement of the public expenditure, the reports which may be made to him by the Auditors charged with the examination of the accounts of the Department of War and the Department of the Navy, respectively, showing the application of the money appropriated for those Departments for the preceding year. Reports upon appropriations for Departments of War and Navy. Title 7, Chap. 3. Duties of the Second Comptroller. Power of Sec SEC. 273. It shall be the duty of the Second Comptroller: First. To examine all accounts settled by the Second, Thi Fourth Auditors, and certify the balances arising thereon to the tary of the Department in which the expenditure has been incur Second. To countersign all warrants drawn by the Secretaries and of the Navy, which shall be warranted by law, [See § 36 PROPRIATIONS.] Third. To report to the Secretaries of War and of the Navy t cial forms to be issued in the different offices for disbursing the money in those Departments, and the manner and form of keepi stating the accounts of the persons employed therein. Fourth. To superintend the preservation of the public accoun ject to his revision. SEC. 274. The Second Comptroller may prescribe rules to gove ond Comptroller payment of arrears of pay due to any petty officer, seaman, or to regulate pay-person not an officer, on board any vessel in the employ of the ment of arrears States, which has been sunk or destroyed, in case of the death of petty officer, seaman, or person, to the person designated by 1 receive the same. of pay. Signing bounty certificates, &c. Title 7, Chap. 4. SEC. 275. The Second Comptroller may detail one clerk to sign, place of the Comptroller, all certificates and papers issued und provisions of law relating to bounties; but the Comptroller sh responsible for the official acts of such clerk. Fifth. The Fourth Auditor shall receive and examine all ac accruing in the Navy Department or relative thereto, and all ac relating to Navy pensions; and, after examination of such accou shall certify the balances, and shall transmit such accounts, wi vouchers and certificate, to the Second Comptroller for his de thereon. Manner of keep- Navy. vanced relative to those Departments; shall receive from the S Comptroller the accounts which shall have been finally adjusted shall preserve such accounts, with their vouchers and certificates record all requisitions drawn by the Secretaries of those Depart the examination of the accounts of which has been assigned to They shall annually, on the first Monday in November, severally to the Secretary of the Treasury the application of the money a priated for the Department of War and the Department of the and they shall make such reports on the business assigned to the the Secretaries of those Departments may deem necessary and red Auditors may SEC. 297. The several Auditors are empowered to administer oa administer oaths. witnesses in any case in which they may deem it necessary for th examination of the accounts with which they shall be charged. Title 19. rears. SEC. 1766. No money shall be paid to any person for his compens who is in arrears to the United States, until he has accounted for Officers in ar-paid into the Treasury all sums for which he may be liable. I cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld in purs of this section, the accounting officers of the Treasury, if requir do so by the party, his agent or attorney, shall report forthwith t Solicitor of the Treasury the balance due; and the Solicitor shall w sixty days thereafter, order suit to be commenced against such quent and his sureties. Sec. ADMIRALS. See LINE OFFICERS. ADVANCES AND LOANS OF PUBLIC MONEY. Sec. 3648. Advances of public moneys prohibited. 1389. Loans by paymasters. 1563. Advances to persons on distant stat ons. Title 15, Chap. 1. SEC. 1389. It shall not be lawful for any paymaster, passed assis Loans to officers paymaster, or assistant paymaster to advance or loan, under any by paymasters. tense whatever, to any officer in the naval service, any sum of mo public or private, or any credit, or any article or commodity what ever. SEC. 1563. The President of the United States may direct such ad- Title 15, Chap. 8. vances, as he may deem necessary and proper, to such persons in the Advances to naval service as may be employed on distant stations where the dis- persons on charge of the pay and emoluments to which they are entitled cannot be tant stations. regularly effected. Advances dis of moneys SEC. 3648. No advance of public money shall be made in any case Title 40. whatever. And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the public United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service ren- prohibited. dered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment. It shall, however, be lawful, under the special direction of the President, to make such advances to the disbursing officers of the Government as may be necessary to the faithful and prompt discharge of their respective duties, and to the fulfillment of the public engagements. The President may also direct such advances as he may deem necessary and proper, to persons in the military and naval service employed on distant stations, where the discharge of the pay and emoluments to which they may be entitled cannot be regularly effected. Sec. ADVERTISEMENTS-PUBLIC PRINTING. See also under CONTRACTS and PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Sec. 3825. Rates of pay in all the States for publishing the laws. 3826. Advertisements in Washington, D. C. 3828. No advertisement without authority. Printers' fees. SEC. 853. For publishing any notice, or order, required by law, or the Title 13, Chap. 16. lawful order of any court, Department, Bureau, or other person, in any newspaper, except as mentioned in sections thirty-eight hundred and twenty-three, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-four, and thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five, Title, "PUBLIC PRINTING, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS," forty cents per folio for the first insertion, and twenty cents per folio for each subsequent insertion. The compensation herein provided shall include the furnishing of lawful evidence, under oath, of publication, to be made and furnished by the printer or publisher making such publication. SEC. 854. The term folio, in this chapter, shall mean one hundred words, counting each figure as a word. When there are over fifty and under one hundred words, they shall be counted as one folio; but a less number than fifty words shall not be counted, except when the whole statute, notice, or order contains less than fifty words. Meaning o f folio. Title 45. news SEC. 3823. The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall select in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Clerk of House Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, one or more newspapers, to select not exceeding the number allowed by law, in which such treaties and papers in certain laws of the United States as may be ordered for publication in news- States to publish papers according to law shall be published, and in some one or more of laws, &c. which so selected all such advertisements as may be ordered for publication in said districts by any United States court or judge thereof, or by any officer of such courts, or by any executive officer of the United States, shall be published, the compensation for which, and other terms of publication, shall be fixed by said Clerk at a rate not exceeding two dollars per page for the publication of treaties and laws, and not exceeding one dollar per square of eight lines of space, for the publication of advertisements, the accounts for which shall be adjusted by the proper accounting officers, and paid in the manner now authorized by law in the like cases. [See § 204, Dept. of State.] *The act of February 18, 1875, amending the revised statutes, prohibits the publishing of the laws in newspapers after March 4, 1875. Heads of De- SEC. 3824. The Clerk shall notify each head of the several E partments and Judges to be noti- Departments, and each judge of the United States courts therei fied, and to pub- papers selected by him in accordance with the provisions of the lish only in such ing section, and thereafter it shall be the duty of the several ex newspapers. Rates of pay in all the States for publishing laws. Advertise officers charged therewith to furnish to such selected papers only thentic copy of the publications to be made as aforesaid; and n appropriated shall be paid for any publications or advertisemen after to be made in said districts, nor shall any such publication vertisement be ordered by any Department or public officer ot. than as herein provided. [See § 853, ante.] SEC. 3825. The rates fixed in section thirty-eight hundred and t three, to be paid for the publication of the treaties and laws of the States in the States therein designated, shall also be paid for tl publications in all the States not designated in that section § 79.*] SEC. 3826. All advertisements,t notices, and proposals for contra ments in Wash- all the Executive Departments of the Government, and the laws ington, D. C. by Congress, and executive proclamations and treaties to be pu in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, shall herea advertised by publication in the three daily papers published in t trict of Columbia having the largest circulation, one of which s selected by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and in no The charges for such publications shall not be higher than such paid by individuals for advertising in said papers, and the same cations shall be made in each of the said papers equally as to frequ Provided, That no advertisement to any State, district, or Ter other than the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, shall b lished in the papers designated, unless at the direction first made proper head of a Department: And provided further, That this s shall not be construed to allow a greater compensation for the pu tion of the laws passed by Congress and executive proclamation treaties in the papers of the District of Columbia than is provided for such publications in other papers. No advertise SEC. 3828. No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any Exe ment without au- Department of the Government, or for any Bureau thereof, or fo thority. office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper ever, except in pursuance of a written authority for such public from the head of such Department; and no bill for any such adv ing, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with bill, a copy of such written authority. Sec. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. See DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 4067. Removal of alien enemies. 4068. Time for removal. ALIEN ENEMIES. See also under NATURALIZATION. 4069. Jurisdiction of United States courts over alien enemies. Title 47. Removal alien enemies. of Sec. 4070. Duties of marshals in removing alie mies. SEC. 4067. Whenever there is a declared war between the U States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or p tory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the ritory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, zens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, b males of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be ap hended, restrained, secured, and removed, as alien enemies. The P *Section 79, as amended, reads, "after the 4th day of March, 1875, the publicati the laws in newspapers shall cease.' † Act making appropriations for the Post-Office Department. R. S. s. 3826, p. * * * And so much of section three thousand eight hundred and twenty-s 754, repealed in the Revised Statutes of the United States as refers to the publication of adver part. ments in newspapers be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved March 3, 1 |