porary details for duty connected with their respective offices. [34 Stat. L. 449.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of June 22, 1906, ch. 3514. of Departments to That no detail of clerks or other employeesks and from the Executive Departments or other Government employees from establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to civil the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of Commission in duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or den. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. [34 Stat. L. 948.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of February 26, 1907, ch. 1635. * 1908, forbid to office of That employees of the Executive Depart- Employees of ments and other establishments of the executive branch may be detailed of the Government may be detailed from time to time to President. the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary. [34 Stat. L. 947.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of Feb- SEC. 2. That section seventeen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the oath to be taken by any person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit either in the civil, military, or naval service, except the President of the United States, shall be as prescribed in section seventeen hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes. But this repeal shall not affect the oaths prescribed by existing statutes in relation to the performance of duties in special or particular sub-ordinate offices and employments. [23 Stat. L. 22.1 Act of May 13, 1884, ch. 46. SEC. 1757. Whenever any person who is not rendered ineligible to office by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution is elected or appointed to any office of honor or trust under the Government of the United States, and is not able, on account of his participation in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed in the preceding section, he shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe in lieu of that oath the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reserva Official oath prescribed. Form of official oath. Who may administer official oath. No Department officer to oath of office tion or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." [R. S.] * * ** SEC. 1758. The oath of office required by either of the preceding sections may be taken before any officer who is authorized either by the laws of the United States, or by the local municipal law, to administer oaths, in the State, Territory, or District where such oath may be administered. [R. S.] **And no officer, clerk, or employee of any charge fee for executive department who is also a notary public or to employees. other officer authorized to administer oaths, shall charge or receive any fee or compensation for administering oaths of office to employees of such department required to be taken on appointment or promotion therein. [26 Stat. L. 371.] Chief clerks Act of August 29, 1890, ch. 820. And the Chief Clerks of the several Executive Departoaths of office. ments and of the various bureaus and offices thereof in 10 administer Oaths of employees to be Washington, District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and directed, on application and without compensation therefor, to administer oaths of office to employees required to be taken on their appointment or promotion. [26 Stat. L. 371.] Act of August 29, 1890, ch. 820. SEC. 1759. The oath of office taken by any person pur * * ** seventeen delivered to Suant to the requirements of section Department. hundred and fifty-seven, shall be delivered in by him to be preserved among the files of the House of Congress, Department, or court to which the office in respect to which the oath is made may appertain. [R. S.] Officers, etc., investigating ister oaths. SEC. 183. Any officer or clerk of any of the departments frauds, author lawfully detailed to investigate frauds on, or attempts to ized to admin- defraud, the Government, or any irregularity or misconduct of any officer or agent of the United States, * * shall have authority to administer an oath to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such investigation. [R. S.] As amended by the act of March 2, 1901, ch. 809, 31 Stat. Officers ар- Hereafter every officer required by law to take and approving official bonds to ex- prove official bonds shall cause the same to be examined amine them at least once every two years for the purpose of ascertaining the sufficiency of the sureties thereon; and every officer having power to fix the amount of an official bond shall examine it to ascertain the sufficiency of the amount every two years. thereof and approve or fix said amount at least once in two years and as much oftener as he may deem it necessary. [28 Stat. L. 807.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 2, 1895, ch. 177. to be renewed every years. four Hereafter every officer whose duty it is to take and official bonds approve official bonds shall cause all such bonds to be renewed every four years after their dates, but he may require such bonds to be renewed or strengthened oftener if he deems such action necessary. In the discretion of such officer the requirement of a new bond may be waived. for the period of service of a bonded officer after the expiration of a four-year term of service pending the appointment and qualification of his successor: Provided. That the nonperformance of any requirement of this section on the part of any official of the Government shall not be held to affect in any respect the liability of principal or sureties on any bond made or to be made to the United States: Provided, further, That the liability of the prin- Liability of cipal and sureties on all official bonds shall continue and surety contincover the period of service ensuing until the appointment fication of sucand qualification of the successor of the principal: [28 Stat. L. 808.] principal and ues until quali ***cessor. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March panies accepted bonds. on That whenever any recognizance, stipulation, bond, or Security comundertaking conditioned for the faithful performance of as surety any duty, or for doing or refraining from doing anything in such recognizance, stipulation, bond, or undertaking specified, is by the laws of the United States required or permitted to be given with one surety or with two or more sureties, the execution of the same or the guaranteeing of the performance of the condition thereof shall be sufficient when executed or guaranteed solely by a corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States, or of any State having power to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding positions of public or private trust, and to execute and guarantee bonds and undertakings in judicial proceedings: Provided. That such recognizance, stipulation, bond, or undertaking be approved by the head of department, court, judge, officer, board, or body executive, legislative, or judicial required to approve or accept the same. But no officer or person having the approval of any bond shall exact that it shall be furnished by a guarantee company or by any particular guarantee company. [28 Stat. L. 279.] Act of August 13, 1894, ch. 282. Extortion by officer or employee of United States; SEC. 5481. Every officer, clerk, agent, or employee of the United States, and every person representing himself to be or assuming to act as such officer, clerk, agent, or penalty. Persons pretending to act alty. employee, who is guilty of extortion, under color of his office, clerkship, agency, or employment, or under color of his pretended or assumed office, clerkship, agency, or employment, and every person who shall attempt any act which if performed would make him guilty of such extortion, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, except those officers or agents of the United States otherwise differently and specially provided for in the subsequent sections of this chapter. [R. S.] As amended by act of June 28, 1906, ch. 3574, 34 Stat. L. 546. That every person who, with intent to defraud either under author- the United States or any person, falsely assumes or preity of United tends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States, or any Department, or any officer of the Government thereof, and who shall take upon himself to act as such, or who shall in such pretended character demand or obtain from any person or from the United States, or any Department, or any officer of the Government thereof, any money, paper, document, or other valuable thing, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not longer than three years, or both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. [23 Stat. L. 11.] Patents granted to offi States without fee. Act of April 18, 1884, ch. 26. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of cers of United Patents are authorized to grant any officer of the government, except officers and employees of the Patent Office, a patent for any invention of the classes mentioned in section forty eight hundred and eighty six of the Revised Statutes, when such invention is used or to be used in the public service, without the payment of any Use to be free fee: Provided, That the applicant in his application shall state that the invention described therein, if patented, may be used by the government or any of its officers or employees in the prosecution of work for the government, or by any other person in the United States, without the payment to him of any royalty thereon, which stipulation shall be included in the patent. [22 Stat. L. 625.1 to public. Departments of considera Sundry civil appropriation act of March 3, 1883, ch. 143. Requests of SEC. 7. That in every case where the head of any Defor expedition partment of the Government shall request the Commistion of appli sioner of Patents to expedite the consideration of an cation for pat- application for a patent it shall be the duty of such head. of a Department to be represented before the Commissioner in order to prevent the improper issue of a patent. [29 Stat. L. 694.] ent. Act of March 3, 1897, ch. 391. * * * of the United claims; pen SEC. 5498. Every officer of the United States, or person Officers, etc.. holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any States aiding in official function under, or in connection with, any Execu- prosecution of tive Department of the Government of the United States, alty. who acts as an agent or attorney for prosecuting any claim against the United States, or in any manner, or by any means, otherwise than in discharge of his proper official duties, aids or assists in the prosecution or support of any such claim, or receives any gratuity, or any share of or interest in any claim from any claimant against the United States, with intent to aid or assist, or in consideration of having aided or assisted, in the prosecution of such claim, shall pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or suffer imprisonment not more than one year, or both. [R. S.] merly in the not to prose SEC. 190. It shall not be lawful for any person ap- Persons forpointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight Departments hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employé cute claims in in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or them. agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States. which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employé, nor in any manner, nor by any means, to aid in the prosecution of any such claim, within two years next after he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employé. [R. S.] Annual estimates to be ESTIMATES, REPORTS, AND APPROPRIATIONS. SEC. 3669. All annual estimates for the public service shall be submitted to Congress through the Secretary of submitted the Treasury, and shall be included in the book of estimates prepared under his direction. [R. S.] Congress through Secretary of the Treasury. be transmitted through Secretary of the And hereafter all estimates of appropriations Estimates to and estimates of deficiencies in appropriations intended to Congress for the consideration and seeking the action of any of the committees of Congress shall be transmitted to Congress Treasury. through the Secretary of the Treasury, and in no other [23 Stat. L. 254.] manner; * * ** Deficiency appropriation act of July 7, 1884, ch. 334. estimates to be for Book of Esti SEC. 5. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads Departmental of the several Executive Departments, and of other offi- furnished cers authorized or required to make estimates, to furnish mates anto the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the fif-nually. teenth day of October of each year, their annual estimates for the public service, to be included in the Book of Estimates to be prepared by law under his direction, and in case of failure to furnish estimates as herein required it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be prepared in the Treasury Department, on or |