Number of either fifty or one hundred copies, as he may be directed, of all documents printed by order of either House of Congress, or of any Department or Bureau of the Government. SEC. 3798. Of the documents named in this section there shall be copies of certain printed and bound, in addition to the usual number for Congress, the documents to be following numbers of copies, namely: printed and bound. Accounts with Departments for printing. Copies of statutes for printing. Printing of laws and resolutions. First. Of the documents accompanying the annual reports of the Executive Departments, one thousand copies for the use of the members of the Senate, and two thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives. [See § 75.]* Second. Of the President's message, the annual reports of the Executive Departments, and the abridgment of accompanying documents, unless otherwise ordered by either House, ten thousand copies for the use of the members of the Senate, and twenty-five thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives.t SEC. 3802. Whenever Congress makes an appropriation for any Department or public office, to be expended "for printing and binding to be executed under the direction of the Congressional Printer," the Congressional Printer shall cause an account to be opened with such Department or public office, on which he shall charge for all printing and binding ordered by the head thereof, at prices established in pursuance of law; and it shall not be lawful for him to cause to be executed any printing or binding the value of which exceeds the amount appropriated for such purpose. [See § 3661, APPROPRIATIONS.] SEC. 3893. The Secretary of State shall furnish the Congressional Printer with a correct copy of every act and joint resolution as soon as possible after its approval by the President of the United States, or after it shall have become a law in accordance with the Constitution without such approval; and also of every treaty between the United States and any foreign government after it shall have been duly ratified and proclaimed by the President, and of every postal convention made between the Postmaster-General, by and with the advice and consent of the President, on the part of the United States, and equivalent officers of foreign governments on the part of their respective countries. SEC. 3805. The Congressional Printer on receiving from the Secretary of State a copy of any act or joint resolution, or treaty, shall immediately cause an accurate printed copy thereof to be executed and sent in duplicate to the Secretary of State, for revision. On the return of one of the revised duplicates, he shall at once have the marked corrections made, and cause to be printed, and sent to the Secretary of State, any number of copies which he may order, not exceeding five hundred, and to be printed separately, and sent to the two Houses of Congress, the usual number. Number printed SEC. 3808. The Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be published, for distribution. at the close of every session of Congress, and as soon as practicable, eleven thousand copies of the acts and resolutions passed by Congress, the amendments to the Constitution adopted, and all public treaties and postal conventions made and ratified since the then last publication of the laws. [Now published by the Secretary of State. See page 250.] SEC. 3809. If any person desiring extra copies of any document printed at the Government Printing Office by authority of law shall, previous to its being put to press, notify the Congressional Printer of the number of copies wanted, and shall pay to him, in advance, the estimated cost thereof, and ten per centum thereon, the Congressional Printer may, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing, furnish the same. Extra copies of any document how sold. docu Printed ments, when be delivered. to. SEC. 3810. The annual reports of the Executive Departments and the accompanying documents shall be delivered by the printer to the proper officers of each House of Congress at the first meeting thereof; and the President's message, the reports of the Executive Departments, and the abridgment of accompanying documents, shall be so delivered on or before the third Wednesday in December next after the meeting of Congress, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable. [Sec. 196, p. 71.] SEC. 3813. The Congressional Printer shall deliver to the Secretary be delivered at of the Interior, at the room in the Interior Department set apart for that Interior Depart Documents to ment. * Paragraph 75 directs the Joint Committee on Public Printing to appoint a competent person to edit such portion of the documents accompanying the annual reports of the Departments as they may deem suitable for popular distribution and prepare an alphabetical index thereto. See act of June 23, 1874, post, as to the number of annual reports to be printed. purpose, all books and documents directed by law to be printed for the use of the Government, except such as are directed to be printed for the particular use of Congress, or of either House thereof, or of the President, or of any of the Departments. SEC. 3815. The Congressional Printer shall render to the Secretary of Quarterly a cthe Treasury, quarterly, a full account of all purchases made by him, count. and of all printing and binding done in the Government Printing-Office for each House of Congress and for each of the executive and judicial departments. Report to Con SEC. 3321. The Congressional Printer shall, on the first day of each session, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, report to Congress gress. the exact condition, and the amount and cost of the public printing, binding, lithographing, and engraving; the amount and cost of all paper purchased for the same; a detailed statement of proposals made and contracts entered into for the purchase of paper and other materials, and for lithographing and engraving; of all payments made, during the preceding year, under his direction; of the amount of work ordered and done, with a general classification thereof, for each Department, and a detailed statement of each account with the Departments or public officers; a detailed statement of the number of hands employed in the establishment, and the time each has been employed; and such further information, touching all matters connected with the printing-office, as may be in his possession. [From legislative appropriation act.] and Provided, That so much of the act entitled "An act providing for Election the election of a Congressional Printer," approved February twenty-title of public second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as provides for the election printer. of such officer by the Senate, and provides that such officer shall be deemed an officer of the Senate, shall cease and determine and become of no effect from and after the date of the first vacancy occurring in said office; that the title of said officer shall hereafter be Public Printer, and he shall be deemed an officer of the United States, and said office shall be filled by appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Approved June 20, 1874. [From sundry civil appropriation act.] Number of an Provided, That hereafter the Congressional Printer shall print, upon the order of the heads of the Executive Departments, respectively, only nual reports to such limited number of the annual reports of such Departments and be printed. necessary accompanying reports of subordinates as may be deemed necessary for the use of Congress: Provided, however, That no expensive Maps and illusmaps or illustrations shall be printed without the special order of Con- trations. gress. Sec Approved June 23, 1874. 3748. Uniforms and equipments. PUBLIC PROPERTY. See also LOST VESSELS. 3749. Solicitor of Treasury may rent or sell unproductive lands or property. 3750. To have charge of property transferred to the United States. Sec. 3751. To release land in certain cases. 3753. Releasing property from attachment. SEC. 3748. The clothes, arms, military outfits, and accouterments furnished by the United States to any soldier shall not be sold, bartered, exchanged, pledged, loaned, or given away; and no person not a soldier, or duly authorized officer of the United States, who has possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accouterments, so furnished, and which have been the subjects of any such sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, shall have any right, title or interest therein; but the same may be seized and taken wherever found by any officer of the United States, civil or military, and shall thereupon be delivered to any quartermaster, or other officer authorized to receive the same. The possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accouterments by any person not a soldier or officer of the United States shall be presumptive evidence of such a sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift. Title 44. Uniforms and equipments. Solicitor of SEC. 3749. The Solicitor of the Treasury is authorized, with the ap, Treasury may proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to rent, for a period not exceeding productive lands three years, or to sell, at public sale, any unproductive lands, or other or property. property of the United States acquired under judicial process or other rent or sell un To have charge ferred to the United States. wise in the collection of debts, after advertising the time, place, and conditions of such sale for three months preceding the same in some newspaper published in the vicinity thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as may, in his judgment, be most advantageous to the public interest. [See § 3740, CONTRACTS.] SEC. 3750. The Solicitor of the Treasury shall have charge of all lands of property trans- and other property which have been or may be assigned, set off, or conveyed to the United States in payment of debts, and of all trusts created for the use of the United States in payment of debts due them; and of the sale and disposal of lands assigned or set off to the United States in payment of debts, or vested in them by mortgage or other security for the payment of debts: Provided, That this section shall not apply to real estate which has been or shall be assigned, set off, or conveyed to the United States, in payment of debts arising under the internal-revenue laws, nor to trusts created for the use of the United States, in payment of such debts due them. To release cases. SEC. 3751. In cases where real estate has become the property of the lands in certain United States by conveyance, extent, or otherwise, in payment of a debt, and such debt is afterward fully paid in money, and the same has been received by the United States, the Solicitor of the Treasury may release by deed or otherwise convey the same real estate to the debtor from whom it is taken, if he is living, or, if such debtor is dead, to his heirs or devisees, or such person as they may appoint: Provided, That this section shall not apply to real estate so acquired by the United States in payment of any debt arising under the internal-revenue laws. Power to obtain releases. Releasing prop ment. SEC. 3752. Whenever any lands have been or shall be conveyed to individuals or officers, for the use or benefit of the United States, the President is authorized to obtain from such person a release of his interest to the United States. SEC. 3753. Whenever any property owned or held by the United erty from attach- States, or in which the United States have or claim an interest, shall in any judicial proceeding under the laws of any State, district, or Territory, be seized, arrested, attached, or held for the security or satisfaction of any claim made against such property, the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may direct the Solicitor of the Treasury to cause a stipulation to be entered into by the proper district attorney for the discharge of such property from such seizure, arrest, attachment, or proceeding, to the effect that upon such discharge, the person asserting the claim against such property shall become entitled to all the benefits of this and the following section. Nothing herein contained shall, however, be considered as recognizing or conceding any right to enforce by seizure, arrest, attachment, or any judicial process, any claim against any property of the United States, or against any property held, owned, or employed by the United States, or by any Department thereof, for any public use, or as waiving any objection to any proceeding instituted to enforce any such claim. Payment. SEC. 3754. In all cases where a stipulation is entered into under the preceding section, and, in consequence thereof, the property is discharged, and final judgment is afterward given in the court of last resort to which the Secretary of the Treasury may deem proper to cause such proceedings to be carried, affirming the claim for the security or satisfaction of which such proceedings have been instituted, and the right of the person asserting the same to enforce it against such property by means of such proceedings, notwithstanding the claims of the United States thereto, such final judgment shall be deemed, to all intents and purposes, a full and final determination of the rights of such person, and shall entitle such person, as against the United States, to such rights as he would have had in case possession of such property had not been changed. Whenever such claim is for the payment of money, and the same is by such judgment found to be due, the presentation of a duly authenticated copy of the record of such judgment and proceedings shall be sufficient evidence to the proper accounting officers for the allowance thereof; and the same shall thereupon be allowed and paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The amount so to be allowed and paid shall not, however, exceed the value of the interest of the United States in the property in question. SEC. 4792. The quarantines and other restraints established by the Title 58. health-laws of any State, respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound State healthto, any port or district thereof, shall be duly observed by the officers of laws to be obthe customs revenue of the United States, by the masters and crews of served by United the several revenue-cutters, and by the military officers commanding in States officers, &c. any fort or station upon the sea-coast; and all such officers of the United States shall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines and health-laws, according to their respective powers and within their respective precincts, and as they shall be directed, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury. But nothing in this Title shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage or impost without the consent of Congress. SEC. 4793. Whenever, by the health-laws of any State, or by the reg- Discharge of ulations made pursuant thereto, any vessel arriving within a collection- cargo of vessel in district of such State is prohibited from coming to the port of entry or delivery by law established for such district, and such health-laws require or permit the cargo of the vessel to be unladen at some other place within or near to such district, the collector, after due report to him of the whole of such cargo, may grant his warrant or permit for the unlading and discharge thereof, under the care of the surveyor, or of one or more inspectors, at some other place where such health-laws permit, and upon the conditions and restrictions which shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or which such collector may, for the time, deem expedient for the security of the public revenue. quarantine. houses. SEC. 4794. There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of Erection of the President, suitable warehouses, with wharves and inclosures, where quarantine waremerchandise may be unladen and deposited, from any vessel which shall be subject to a quarantine, or other restraint, pursuant to the healthlaws of any State, at such convenient places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health-laws may require. SEC. 4795. Whenever the cargo of a vessel is unladen at some other Deposit of place than the port of entry or delivery under the foregoing provisions, good's in wareall the articles of such cargo shall be deposited, at the risk of the parties houses. concerned therein, in such public or other warehouses or inclosures as the collector shall designate, there to remain under the joint custody of such collector and of the owner, or master, or other person having charge of such vessel, until the same are entirely unladen or discharged, and until the articles so deposited may be safely removed without contravening such health-laws. And when such removal is allowed, the collector having charge of such articles may grant permits to the respective owners or consignees, their factors or agents, to receive all merchandise which has been entered, and the duties accruing upon which have been paid, upon the payment by them of a reasonable rate of storage; which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury for all public warehouses and inclosures. SEC. 4796. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, whenever a conformity to such quarantines and health-laws requires it, and in respect to vessels subject thereto, to prolong the terms limited for the entry of the same, and the report or entry of their cargoes, and to vary or dispense with any other regulations applicable to such reports or entries. No part of the cargo of any vessel shall, however, in any case, be taken out or unladen therefrom, otherwise than is allowed by law, or according to the regulations hereinafter established. Extending time for entry of vessels subject to quarantine. enue officers from SEC. 4797. Whenever, by the prevalence of any contagious or epidemic Removal of rev disease in or near the place by law established as the port of entry port when confor any collection-district, it becomes dangerous or inconvenient for the tagious disease, officers of the revenue employed therein to continue the discharge of &c. their respective offices at such port, the Secretary of the Treasury, or, in his absence, the First Comptroller, may direct the removal of the officers of the revenue from such port to any other more convenient place, within, or as near as may be to, such collection-district. And at Removal of such place such officers may exercise the same powers, and shall be liable to the same duties, according to existing circumstances, as in the port or district established by law. Public notice of any such removal shall be given as soon as may be. [See § 1776.]* SEC. 4798. In case of the prevalence of a contagious or epidemic dispublic offices ease at the seat of Government, the President may permit and direct the from the capital. removal of any or all the public offices to such other place or places as he shall deem most safe and convenient for conducting the public business. [See § 1776.]* Adjournment of courts. SEC. 4799. Whenever, in the opinion of the Chief Justice, or, in case of his death or inability, of the senior associate justice of the Supreme Court, a contagious or epidemic sickness shall render it hazardous to hold the next stated session of the court at the seat of Government, the chief or such associate justice may issue his order to the marshal of the Supreme Court, directing him to adjourn the next session of the court to such other place as such justice deems convenient. The marshal shall thereupon adjourn the court, by making publication thereof in one or more public papers printed at the seat of Government from the time he shall receive such order until the time by law prescribed for commencing the session. The several circuit and district judges shall, respectively, under the same circumstances, have the same power, by the same means, to direct adjournments of the several circuit and district courts to some convenient place within their districts respectively. [See § 1776.]* Removal of pris- SEC. 4800. The judge of any district court, within whose district any contagious or epidemic disease shall at any time prevail, so as, in his opinion, to endanger the lives of persons confined in the prison of such district, in pursuance of any law of the United States, may direct the marshal to cause the persons so confined to be removed to the next adjacent prison where such disease does not prevail, there to be confined until they may safely be removed back to the place of their first confinement. Such removals shall be at the expense of the United States. RANK AND PRECEDENCE. oners. Sec. 1466. Relative rank of Navy and Army officers. 1467. Rank according to date. 1468. Commanding officers of vessels and stations. 1469. Aid or executive officer. 1470. Staff officers, when to communicate directly with commanding officers. 1471. Chiefs of Bureaus. 1472. Chief of Bureau, below rank of commodore. Sec. 1485. Precedence by length of service. 1488. Military command. 1489. Processions, boards, &c. 1491. Warrant officers. 1492. Officers of revenue marine. Title 15, Chap. 4. SEC. 1466. The relative rank between officers of the Navy, whether on Relative rank the active or retired list, and officers of the Army, shall be as follows, of Navy and lineal rank only being considered: Army officers. Rank accord ing to date. Commanding The Vice-Admiral shall rank with the Lieutenant-General. Rear-admirals with major-generals. Commodores with brigadier-generals. Captains with colonels. Commanders with lieutenant-colonels. Lieutenant-commanders with majors. Lieutenants with captains. Masters with first lieutenants. Ensigns with second lieutenants. SEC. 1467. Line officers shall take rank in each grade according to the dates of their commissions. SEC. 1468. Commanding officers of vessels of war and of naval staofficers of ves- tions shall take precedence over all officers placed under their comsels and stations. mand. Aid or executive officer. Title 19. SEC. 1469. The Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, detail a line officer to act as the aid or executive of the commanding officer of a vessel of war or naval station, which officer shall, when not impracticable, be next in rank to said commanding officer. Such aid or executive shall, while executing the orders of the commanding officer on board the vessel or at the station, take precedence over all officers attached to the vessel or station. All orders of such aid or executive shall be regarded as proceeding from the commanding officer, and the aid or executive shall have no independent authority in consequence of such detail. * SEC. 1776. Whenever any public office is removed by reason of sickness which may prevail in the town or city where it is located, a particular account of the cost of such removal shall be laid before Congress. |
