Solicitor of Senate, and shall assist the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in the performance of their duties. Each of them is entitled to a salary of five thousand dollars a year.* SEC. 349. There shall be in the Department of Justice a Solicitor of Treasury, &c., in the Treasury, an Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury, a Solicitor of Internal Department of Justice. Revenue, a Naval Solicitor, and an Examiner of Claims for the Department of State, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall be entitled to the following salaries: The Solicitor of the Treasury to four thousand dollars a year, the Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury to three thousand dollars a year, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue to five thousand dollars a year, the Naval Solicitor to three thousand five hundred dollars a year, and the Examiner of Claims for the Department of State four thousand dollars a year. What officers under control of Attorney-Ge ne ral. Duties of At SEC. 350. The officers named in the preceding section shall exercise their functions under the supervision and control of the head of the Department of Justice. SEC. 354. The Attorney-General shall give his advice and opinion upon torney-General. questions [of] law, whenever required by the President. Opinion of At- SEC. 356. The head of any Executive Department may require the torney-General opinion of the Attorney-General on any questions of law arising in the upon questions of administration of his Department. law. Legal advice to SEC. 357. Whenever a question of law arises in the administration of Departments of the Department of War or the Department of the Navy, the cognizance War and Navy. of which is not given by statute to some other officer from whom the head of the Department may require advice, it shall be sent to the Attorney-General, to be by him referred to the proper officer in his Department, or otherwise disposed of as he may deem proper. Reference of subordinates. SEC. 358. Any question of law submitted to the Attorney-General for questions by At- his opinion, except questions involving a construction of the Constitution torney-General to of the United States, may be by him referred to such of his subordinates as he may deem appropriate, and he may require the written opinion thereon of the officer to whom the same may be referred. If the opinion given by such officer is approved by the Attorney-General, such approval indorsed thereon shall give the opinion the same force and effect as belong to the opinions of the Attorney-General. Conduct and ar SEC. 359. Except when the Attorney-General in particular cases othergument of cases: wise directs, the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General shall conduct and argue suits and writs of error and appeals in the Supreme Court and suits in the Court of Claims in which the United States is interested, and the Attorney-General may, whenever he deems it for the interest of the United States, either in person conduct and argue any case in any court of the United States in which the United States is interested, or may direct the Solicitor-General or any officer of the Department of Justice to do so. Performance of SEC. 360. The Attorney-General may require any solicitor or officer of duty by officers the Department of Justice to perform any duty required of the Departof Department of ment or any officer thereof. Justice. Officers of the SEC. 361. The officers of the Department of Justice, under the direction Department to of the Attorney-General, shall give all opinions and render all services perform all legal requiring the skill of persons learned in the law necessary to enable the services required President and heads of Departments, and the heads of Bureaus and other for other Depart- officers in the Departments, to discharge their respective duties; and ments. shall, on behalf of the United States, procure the proper evidence for, and conduct, prosecute, or defend all suits and proceedings in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Claims, in which the United States, or any officer thereof, as such officer, is a party or may be interested; and no fees shall be allowed or paid to any other attorney or counselor at law for any service herein required of the officers of the Department of Justice, except in the cases provided by section three hundred and sixtythree. [See § 189, ATTORNEYS.] Superinten. SEC. 362. The Attorney-General shall exercise general superintendence dence of district and direction over the attorneys and marshals of all the districts in the attorneys and United States and the Territories as to the manner of discharging their marshals. respective duties; and the several district attorneys and marshals are Four thousand five hundred dollars. Appropriation act, June 20, 1874. proceedings, and of the state and condition of their respective offices, in such time and manner as the Attorney-General may direct. district attor SEC. 363. The Attorney-General shall, whenever in his opinion the Retaining public interest requires it, employ and retain, in the name of the United counsel to aid States, such attorneys and counselors at law as he may think necessary neys. to assist the district attorneys in the discharge of their duties, and shall stipulate with such assistant attorneys and counsel the amount of compensation, and shall have supervision of their conduct and proceedings. SEC. 364. Whenever the head of a Department or Bureau gives the Attorney-General due notice that the interests of the United States require the service of counsel upon the examination of witnesses touching any claim, or upon the legal investigation of any claim, pending in such Department or Bureau, the Attorney-General shall provide for such service. [See § 187, CLAIMS.] Attendance of counsel. Counsel fees restricted, SEC. 365. No compensation shall hereafter be allowed to any person, besides the respective district attorneys and assistant district attorneys for services as an attorney or counselor to the United States, or to any branch or Department of the Government thereof, except in cases specially authorized by law, and then only on the certificate of the AttorneyGeneral that such services were actually rendered, and that the same could not be performed by the Attorney-General, or Solicitor-General, or the officers of the Department of Justice, or by the district attorneys. SEC. 366. Every attorney or counselor who is specially retained, under Appointment the authority of the Department of Justice, to assist in the trial of any cial attorneys or and oath of specase in which the Government is interested, shall receive a commission counsel. from the head of such Department, as a special assistant to the Attorney. General, or to some one of the district attorneys, as the nature of the appointment may require; and shall take the oath required by law to be taken by the district attorneys, and shall be subject to all the liabilities imposed upon them by law. Interest of Uni SEC. 367. The Solicitor-General, or any officer of the Department of ted States in Justice, may be sent by the Attorney-General to any State or District pending suits. in the United States to attend to the interests of the United States' in any who may attend suit pending in any of the courts of the United States, or in the courts to. of any State, or to attend to any other interest of the United States. SEC. 370. Whenever the Solicitor-General, or any officer of the De- Traveling expartment of Justice, is sent by the Attorney-General to any State, penses of officers of the DepartDistrict, or Territory, to attend to any interest of the United States, ment. the person so sent shall receive, in addition to his salary, his actual and necessary expenses while absent from the seat of Government; the account thereof to be verified by affidavit. SEC. 383. The Attorney-General shall from time to time cause to be edited, and printed at the Government Printing-Office, an edition of one thousand copies of such of the opinions of the law-officers herein authorized to be given as he may deem valuable for preservation in volumes, which shall be, as to size, quality of paper, printing, and binding, of uniform style and appearance, as nearly as practicable, with volume eight of such opinions, published, by Robert Farnham, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Each volume shall contain proper head-notes, a complete and full index, and such foot-notes as the Attorney-General may approve. Such volumes shall be distributed in such manner as the Attorney-General may from time to time prescribe. Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses. SEC. 8. That in any action now pending, or which may be brought against any person for or on account of anything done by him while an officer of either House of Congress in the discharge of his official duty, in executing any order of such House, the district attorney for the district within which the action is brought, on being thereto requested by the officer sued, shall enter an appearance in behalf of such officer; and all provisions of the eighth section of the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to protect the revenue, and for other purposes," and also all provisions of the sections of former acts therein referred to, so far as the same relate to the removal of suits, the withholding of executions, and the paying of judgments against revenue or other officers of the United States, shall become applicable to such action and to all proceedings and matters whatsoever connected therewith, and the defense of such action shall thenceforth be conducted under the supervision and direction of the Attorney-General. Approved, March 3, 1875. Publication of opinions. March 3, 1875. Actions against officers of Congress. Provisions ap plicable of 1866. p. C. 298, s. 8, v. 14, 328. Sec. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY. See also DEPARTMENTS-EXECUTIVE. 415. Establishment of the Department of the Navy. 416. Clerks and employés. 417. Procurement of naval stores and equipment of vessels. 418. Custody of the books and records. 419. Establishment of Bureaus. 420. Custody of books and records of Bureaus. nance. 423. Chief of Bureau of Construction and Repair. Title 10. Establishment Sec. 424. Chief of Bureau of Steam Engineering. 1375. Assistant to Bureau. 1436. Chiefs of Bureaus, staff-officers exempt from 'sea-duty. 1471. Title of chiefs of Bureaus. 1472. Relative rank of chief of Bureau of lower 1473. Retired chiefs of Bureaus. SEC. 415. There shall be at the seat of Government an Executive Department, to be known as the Department of the Navy, and a Secreof the Depart- tary of the Navy, who shall be the head thereof.* ment of the Navy. Procurement of SEC. 416. There shall be in the Department of the Navy: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year, so long as there is no Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and at a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars a year when there is an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. One disbursing clerk. One superintendent of the Navy Department building, at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year. In the Bureau of Yards and Docks: One civil engineer, at a salary of three thousand dollars a year. One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. One draughtsman, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Construction and Repair: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. One draughtsman, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Steam Engineering: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. One draughtsman, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. One assistant draughtsman, at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Navigation: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Ordnance: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. One draughtsman, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. In the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: One chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year. [See §§ 169, 173, 174, 176, under DEPARTMENTS.] SEC. 417. The Secretary of the Navy shall execute such orders as he naval stores and shall receive from the President relative to the procurement of naval equipment of stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and vessels. employment of vessels of war, as well as all other matters connected with the naval establishment. [See Title CONTRACTS. Also §§ 36603667, 3669, APPROPRIATIONS.] + * Salary eight thousand dollars a year.. books and rec. ords. SEC. 418. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the custody and charge, Custody of the of all the books, records, and other property now remaining in and appertaining to the Department of the Navy, or hereafter acquired by it. SEC. 419. The business of the Department of the Navy shall be distributed in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall judge to be expedient and proper among the following Bureaus: First. A Bureau of Yards and Docks. Second. A Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. Third. A Bureau of Navigation. Fourth. A Bureau of Ordnance. Establishment of Bureaus. Fifth. A Bureau of Construction and Repair. Sixth. A Bureau of Steam Engineering. books andrecords of Bureaus. Seventh. A Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. Eighth. A Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. SEC. 420. The several Bureaus shall retain the charge and custody, Custody or of the books of records and accounts pertaining to their respective duties; and all of the duties of the Bureaus shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and their orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such. reaus. SEC. 421. The chiefs of the several Bureaus in the Department of the Appointment Navy shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and of chiefs of Buconsent of the Senate, from the classes of officers mentioned in the next five sections respectively, or from officers having the relative rank of captain in the staff corps of the Navy, on the active list, and shall hold their offices for the term of four years. ment and Re SEC. 422. The chiefs of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of the Bu- Yards and reau of Equipment and Recruiting, of the Bureau of Navigation, and Docks, Equip. of the Bureau of Ordnance, shall be appointed from the list of officers cruiting, Naviof the Navy, not below the grade of commander. gation, and Ord nance. SEC. 423. The chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair shall Construction be appointed from the list of officers of the Navy, not below the grade and Repair. of commander, and shall be a skillful naval constructor. SEC. 424. The chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering shall be Steam Engi appointed from the chief engineers of the Navy, and shall be a skillful neering. engineer. SEC. 425. The chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing shall be appointed from the list of paymasters of the Navy of not less than ten years' standing. SEC. 426. The chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery shall be appointed from the list of the surgeons of the Navy. Provisions and Clothing. Medicine and Surgery. SEC. 429. The Secretary of the Navy shall make annual reports to Reports to ConCongress upon the following subjects: [See §§ 195, 196, DEPART-ress by Secre tary of the Navy. MENTS.] First. A statement of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year for the Department of the Navy, showing the amount appropriated under each specific head of appropriation, the amount expended under each head, and the balance which, on the thirtieth day of June preceding such report, remained unexpended. Such report shall be accompanied by estimates of the probable demands which may remain on each appropriation. Second. A statement of all offers for contracts for supplies and services made during the preceding year, by classes, indicating such as have been accepted. Third. A statement showing the amounts expended during the preceding fiscal year for wages of mechanics and laborers employed in building, repairing, or equipping vessels of the Navy, or in receiving and securing stores and materials for those purposes, and for the purchase of material and stores for the same purpose; and showing the cost or estimated value of the stores on hand, under this appropriation, in the navy-yards, at the commencement of the next preceding fiscal year; and the cost or estimated value of articles received and expended during the year; and the cost or estimated value of the articles belonging to this appropriation which may be on hand in the navy-yards at the close of the next preceding fiscal year. Fourth. A statement of all acts done by him in making sale of any vessel or materials of the Navy; specifying all vessels and materials sold, the parties buying the same, and the amount realized therefrom, together with such other facts as may be necessary to a full understanding of his acts. [See § 1780, CONTINGENT FUND.] Title 15, Chap. I. Assistant to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Title 15, Chap. 2, SEC. 1375. A surgeon, assistant surgeon, or passed assistant surgeon may be detailed as assistant to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. SEC. 1436. Any staff officer of the Navy who has performed the duty Staff officers of a chief of a Bureau of the Navy Department for a full term shall therewho have been after be exempt from sea duty, except in time of war. chiefs of Bureaus. Title 15, Chap. 4. Titles of chiefs of Bureaus. Chief of Bu SEC. 1471. The chiefs of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Steam Engineering, and Construction and Repair shall have the relative rank of commodore while holding said position, and shall have, respectively, the title of Surgeon-General, PaymasterGeneral, Engineer-in-Chief, and Chief Constructor. SEC. 1472. When the office of chief of Bureau is filled by a line officer reau, when below below the rank of commodore, said officer shall have the relative rank rank of commo- of commodore during the time he holds said office. dore. Retired from SEC. 1473. Officers who have been or who shall be retired from the position of chief positions of chiefs of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, of Provisions and Clothing, of Steam Engineering, or of Construction and Repair, by reason of age or length of service, shall have the relative rank of commodore. of Bureau. Title 15, Chap. 8. SEC. 1565. The pay of chiefs of Bureau in the Navy Department shall be the highest pay of the grade to which they belong, but not below Pay of chiefs of that of commodore. Bureau. Sec. DEPARTMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. 388. Establishment of the Post-Office Department. 389. Assistant Postmasters-General. 390. Assistant Attorney-General for Post-Office Department. Title 9. Sec. 396. Duties of Postmaster-General. 398. Postal arrangements with foreign countries. 399. Publication of postal conventions. SEC. 388. There shall be at the seat of Government an Executive Establishment Department to be known as the Post-Office Department, and a Postof the Post-Office master-General, who shall be the head thereof, and who shall be apDepartment. pointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who may be removed in the same manner; and the term of the Postmaster-General shall be for and during the term of the President by whom he is appointed, and for one month thereafter, unless sooner removed.* Assistant Postmasters-General. Assistant At SEC. 389. There shall be in the Post-Office Department three Assistant Postmasters-General, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who may be removed in the same manner, and who shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year each.t [See § 177, VACANCIES.] SEC. 390. There shall be employed in the Post-Office Department one torney-General Assistant Attorney-General, who shall be appointed by the PostmasterGeneral, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year. SEC. 396. It shall be the duty of the Postmaster-General: First. To establish and discontinue post-offices. for Post-Office Department. Duties of Postmaster-General. Second. To instruct all persons in the postal service with reference to their duties. Third. To decide on the forms of all official papers. Fourth. To prescribe the manner of keeping and stating accounts. Fifth. To enforce the prompt rendition of returns relative to accounts. Sixth. To control, according to law, and subject to the settlement of the Sixth Auditor, all expenses incident to the service of the Department. Seventh. To superintend the disposal of the moneys of the Depart ment. Eighth. To direct the manner in which balances shall be paid over; issue warrants to cover money into the Treasury; and to pay out the same. Ninth. To superintend generally the business of the Department, and execute all laws relative to the postal service. [See §§ 3660–3665, 3668, 3669, APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES.] *Salary eight thousand dollars. Now three thousand five hundred dollars. |