SEC. 10. That no recommendation of any person who shall apply Recommendation by members for office or place under the provisions of this act which may be given of Congress. by any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, except as to the character or residence of the applicant, shall be received or considered by any person concerned in making any examination or appointment under this act. sessments and SEC. 11. That no Senator, or Representative, or Territorial Delegate Political asof the Congress, or Senator, Representative, or Delegate elect, or any contributions. officer or employee of either of said Houses, and no executive, judicial, military, or naval officer of the United States, and no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution, for any political purpose whatever, from any officer, clerk, or employee of the United States, or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or from any person receiving any salary or compensation from moneys derived from the Treasury of the United States. SEC. 12. That no person shall, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee of the United States mentioned in this act, or in any navy-yard, fort, or arsenal, solicit in any manner whatever, or receive, any contribution of money or any other thing of value for any political purpose whatever. SEC. 13. No officer or employee of the United States mentioned in this act shall discharge, or promote, or degrade, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any political purpose. SEC. 14. That no officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Territorial Delegate, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political object whatever. Change of rank or compensation. SEC. 15. That any person who shall be guilty of violating any pro- Penalty. vision of the four foregoing sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or by such fine and imprisonment both, in the discretion of the court. Approved, January 16, 1883. REVISED STATUTES AND STATUTES AT LARGE President's SEC. 1753, R. S. The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United authority to prescribe regulaStates as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the tions concerning appointment. fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter; and for this purpose he may employ suitable persons to conduct such inquiries, and may prescribe their duties, and establish regulations for the conduct of persons who may receive appointments in the civil service. War veteran SEC. 1754, R. S. Persons honorably discharged from the military or preference in appointments to naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness civil offices. incurred in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices. Preference in Act of Aug. 15, 1876, sec. 3. * * * Provided, That in making any reduction of force in any of the Executive Departments, the head of such department shall retain those persons who may be equally qualified who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors. (19 Stat. L., 169.) reduction force. of Employment of labor in navy yards. tributions and SEC. 1544, R. S. Laborers shall be employed in the several navy-yards by the proper officers in charge with reference to skill and efficiency, and without regard to other considerations. Political con- SEC. 1546, R. S. No officer or employee of the Government shall discrimination. require or request any workingman in any navy-yard to contribute or pay any money for political purposes, nor shall any workingman be removed or discharged for political opinion; and any officer or employee of the Government who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be dismissed from the service of the United States. Act of Aug. 15, 1876, sec. 6. That all executive officers or employees of the United States not appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, are prohibited from requesting, giving to, or receiving from any other officer or employee of the Government any money or property or other thing of value for political purposes; and any such officer or employee who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be at once discharged from the service of the United States; and he shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. (19 Stat. L., 169.) Penalty. Soliciting contributions or receiving gifts. Bribery. SEC. 1784, R. S. No officer, clerk, or employee in the United States Government employ shall at any time solicit contributions from other officers, clerks, or employees in the Government service for a gift or present to those in a superior official position; nor shall any such officials or clerical superiors receive any gift or present offered or presented to them as a contribution from persons in Government employ receiving a less salary than themselves; nor shall any officer or clerk make any donation as a gift or present to any official superior. Every person who violates this section shall be summarily discharged from the Government employ. SEC. 1781, R. S. Every member of Congress or any officer or agent of the Government who, directly or indirectly, takes, receives, or agrees to receive, any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatever from any person for procuring or aiding to procure, any contract, office, or place from the Government, or any Department thereof, or from any officer of the United States, for any person whatever, or for giving any such contract, office, or place to any person whomsoever, and every person who, directly or indirectly, offers or agrees to give, or gives, or bestows any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatever, for the procuring, or aiding to pro cure, any such contract, office, or place; and every member of Con- SEC. 5418, R. S. Every person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or Forging, etc., bid, public reccounterfeits any bid, proposal, guarantee, official bond, public record, ord, etc. affidavit, or other writing, for the purpose of defrauding the United States, or utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited bid, proposal, guarantee, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, for such purpose, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited, or transmits to or presents at the office of any officer of the United States any such false, forged, ́altered, or counterfeited bid, proposal, guarantee, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited, for such purpose, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period not more than ten years, or be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. [See sec. 5479.] SEC. 5479, R. S. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid, or assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, any bond, bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or shall utter or publish as true, or cause to be uttered or published as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited bond, bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, for the purpose of defrauding the United States, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or shall transmit to, or present at, or cause (to) (or) procure to be transmitted to, or presented at, the office of any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited bond, bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited, for the purpose of defrauding the United States, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than ten years, or by both such punishments. [See sec. 5418.] SEC. 5440, R. S. If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars, and to imprisonment not more than two years. Counterfeiting bid, bond, etc. All parties to a conspiracy equally guilty. Legal resi- Act of July 11, 1890. dence-certificate of proper officer. No employment permitted except * * * That hereafter every application for examination before the Civil Service Commission for appointment in the departmental service in the District of Columbia shall be accompanied by a certificate of an officer, with his official seal attached, of the county and State of which the applicant claims to be a citizen, that such applicant was, at the time of making such application, an actual and bona fide resident of said county, and had been such resident for a period of not less than six months next preceding; But this provision shall not apply to persons who may be in the service and seek promotion or appointment in other branches of the Government. * * (26 Stat. L., 235; Sup. R. S., vol. 1, 2d ed., p. 772, par. 1.) * * * * Act of Aug. 5, 1882, sec. 4. That no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, upon specific ap- copyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, propriation. or other employee shall be employed in any of the Executive Departments or subordinate bureaus or offices thereof at the seat of Government, except only at such rates and in such numbers, respectively, as may be specifically appropriated for by Congress for such clerical and other personal services for each fiscal year; and no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall hereafter be employed at the seat of Government in any Executive Department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the appropriation, and then only for services actually rendered in connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which payment is made, and at the rate of Details from compensation usual and proper for such services; * all details outside for duty within District of civil officers, clerks, or other subordinate employees from places of Columbia. outside of the District of Columbia for duty within the District of Columbia, except temporary details for duty connected with their Lapsed sala- respective offices, be, and are hereby, prohibited; and thereafter all moneys accruing from lapsed salaries, or from unused appropriations for salaries, shall be covered into the Treasury. (22 Stat. L., 255; Sup. R. S., vol. 1, 2d ed., p. 374, sec. 4.) Prohibition of Act of May 1, 1884. * Hereafter no Department or officer voluntary service except in emerof the United States shall accept voluntary service for the Government gencies. or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. (23 Stat. L., 17; Sup. R. S., vol. 1, 2d ed., p. 427.) rles. * * * * Act of Mar. 15, 1898, sec. 7. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees, of whatever Hours of labor grade or class, in their respective Departments, not less than seven In the Executive hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days declared public Departments. holidays by law or Executive order: Provided, That the heads of the Departments may, by special order, stating the reason, further extend the hours of any clerk or employee in their Departments, respectively; but in case of an extension it shall be without additional compensaLeaves of ab- tion: Provided further, That the head of any Department may grant thirty days' annual leave with pay in any one year to each clerk or employee: And provided further, That where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is afflicted with a contagious sence. disease and requires the care and attendance of such employee, or where his or her presence in the Department would jeopardize the health of fellow-clerks, and in exceptional and meritorious cases, where a clerk or employee is personally ill, and where to limit the annual leave to thirty days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may be extended, in the discretion of the head of the Department, with pay, not exceeding thirty days in any one case or in any one calendar year. This section shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk or employee is borne upon the rolls of the Department in excess of the time herein provided for or granted that he or she shall be entitled to pay during the period of such excessive absence, but that the pay shall stop upon the expiration of the granted leave. (30 Stat. L., 316; Sup. R. S., vol. 2 [No. 8], pp. 736, 737, sec. 7.) Act of Feb. 24, 1899, sec. 4. * * * Provided, That the thirty days' annual leave of absence with pay in any one year to clerks and employees in the several Executive Departments authorized by existing law shall be exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays. (30 Stat. L., 890; Sup. R. S., vol. 2 [No. 8], pp. 946, 947, sec. 4.) * Act of July 11, 1890, sec. 2. * * That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments of the Government to report to Congress each year in the annual estimates the number of employees in each bureau and office and the salaries of each who are below a fair standard of efficiency. (26 Stat. L., 268; Sup. R. S., vol. 1, 2d ed., p. 773, sec. 2.) Annual reports to Congress. Act of Mar. 15, 1898, sec. 7. * * * Hereafter it shall be the duty Monthly reof the head of each Executive Department to require monthly reports Departments. ports to heads of to be made to him as to the condition of the public business in the several bureaus or offices of his Department at Washington; and in each case where such reports disclose that the public business is in arrears, the head of the Department in which such arrears exist shall require, as provided herein, an extension of the hours of service to such clerks or employees as may be necessary to bring up such arrears of public business. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Depart- Quarterly rement, or other Government establishment at the seat of government, Pt. ports to the Presnot under an Executive Department, to make at the expiration of each quarter of the fiscal year a written report to the President as to the condition of the public business in his Executive Department or Government establishment, and whether any branch thereof is in arrears. offices forbidden (30 Stat. L., 317; Sup. R. S., vol. 2 [No. 8], p. 737, sec. 7.) Act of July 31, 1894, sec. 2. * * * No person who holds an office Holding of two the salary or annual compensation attached to which amounts to the where salary of sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be appointed to or hold either is $2,500. any other office to which compensation is attached unless specially heretofore or hereafter specially authorized thereto by law; but this shall not apply to retired officers of the Army or Navy whenever they may be elected to public office or whenever the President shall appoint them to office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (28 Stat. L., 205; Sup. R. S., vol. 2 [No. 4], p. 212, sec. 2.) [See, at pp. 126-128, Fourteenth Report, Executive order forbidding holding of State or municipal offices by persons holding Federal civil offices.] |