cents in lieu of all other expenses for each mile actually traveled, distance to be computed by the most direct through route. [28 Stat. L. 412.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301. pay [Employees to be classified established no extra pay no duplicate pay rolls.] That the Board of Managers shall classify all the officers and employees of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and establish a rate of pay and allowance for each class, and the rate so established shall not be increased by fees, perquisites, allowances, or advantages under any pretense whatever; and no employee shall be borne on more than one pay roll or voucher. [28 Stat. L. 412.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301. [Annual inspection under Secretary of War-report.] That hereafter, once in each fiscal year, the Secretary of War shall cause a thorough inspection to be made of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, its records, disbursements, management, discipline, and condition, such inspection to be made by an officer of the Inspector-General's Department, who shall report thereon in writing, and said report shall be transmitted to Congress at the first session thereafter. [28 Stat. L. 412.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301. [Expenses to be in book of estimates-number, salaries, and allowances of officers.] That hereafter the statement of expenses of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall each year be submitted in the annual book of estimates and shall be made to show the amount of salary or compensation paid to each of the officers and employees of said Board, and there shall also be submitted therewith a statement showing the number of officers appointed at each of the Branch Homes under Section four thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes, the amount of salary or compensation paid to each, and the amount of allowance to each, if any, for contingent or other expenses. [27 Stat. L. 384.] * * This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 5, 1892, ch. 380. * * * [Disbursements to be accounted for-shipping supplies — posthumous fund bond of general treasurer.] National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. That all amounts disbursed from the appropriation of a Branch Home shall be disbursed and accounted for monthly to the general treasurer by the treasurer of that Branch, except such expenditures for services, stationery, tableware, clothing and bedding as may be required by the Board of Managers to be legally made by the general treasurer, and all such stationery, tableware, clothing and bedding as may be required for each Branch Home shall be shipped directly from the place of purchase or manufacture to such Branch Home; and all disbursements shall be made in conformity with Sections thirtysix hundred and seventy-eight and thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine, Revised Statutes: Provided further, That the balance of the posthumous fund, including the amount invested in bonds pertaining to that fund, that may be in the hands of the treasurer of any Branch of the Home on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall be transferred to the appropriation for "current expenses, eighteen hundred and ninety-five," of that Branch Home, and thereafter all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members shall be credited to the appropriation for "current expenses" of the fiscal year during which such amounts were received, and all repayments of such amounts shall be made from and charged to the like appropriation for the fiscal year in which such repayments shall be made. The general treasurer shall give good and sufficient bond to the United States in a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars, as the Secretary of War may direct, and to be approved by him, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which he may receive, and the treasurers of the several Branch Homes shall give good and sufficient bonds to the general treasurer in such sums as he may require, and to be approved by him, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which they may receive. [28 Stat. L. 411, 412.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301. R. S. secs. 3678, 3679, above mentioned, provide that appropriations shall be applied to the objects for which made, and that no sum in excess of the appropriation shall be expended or contract made involving payment in excess of the appropriation. These sections are given under the title ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REPORTS, vol. 2, pp. 897, 898. Purchase and shipping of supplies. - See also provision from the Act of July 1, 1898, ch. 546, given infra, p. 270. [Expenditures to be reported to Congress to be audited at Treasury — persons connected with liquor traffic disqualified to hold positions.] And hereafter the detailed statement of the expenses of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be reported direct to Congress in the annual report of the Board of Managers. But all of the expenditures of the said Home, including the expenses of the Board of Managers, shall be made subject to the general laws governing the disbursement of public moneys, so far as the same can be made applicable thereto, and shall be audited by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That no person shall be eligible to or hold any position or employment in the government or management of any home who is interested in or connected with, directly or indirectly, any brewery, dram-shop, or distillery in the State where such home is located. [24 Stat. L. 539.] X This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1887, ch. 362. Detailed statement of expenses of homes to be submitted to secretary of war and by him to Congress. See provision from Act of March 3, 1885, ch. 360, under title ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REPORTS, vol. 2, p. 926. Disposal of balances of appropriations for homes. See provision from Act of Oct. 2, 1888, ch. 1069, under title ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REPORTS, vol. 2, p. 915. Appropriations for homes available until expended. — See provision from Act of June 6. 1900, ch. 785, under title ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REPORTS, vol. 2, p. 914. [Receipts for sales, how accounted for.] That all sums received from sales of subsistence stores or other property of the National Home for Disabled Volun teer Soldiers shall be taken up by the disbursing officer under the proper current appropriation and be available for disbursement on account of that appropriation. [28 Stat. L. 412.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301. [Supervision of accounts by secretary of war.] National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: * * * That the accounts relating to the expenditure of said sums, as also all receipts by said Home from whatever source, shall, in addition to the supervision now provided for, be reported to and supervised by the Secretary of War. [26 Stat. L. 984.] * * * This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1891, ch. 542. The following provision from the Act of March 3, 1893, ch. 210, also provides for the supervision of accounts by the secretary of war. * [Supervision of accounts by Secretary of War.] War Department. Office of the Inspector-General: the Secretary of War shall hereafter exercise the same supervision over all receipts and disbursements on account of the volunteer soldiers' homes as he is required by law to apply to the accounts of disbursing officers of the Army: [27 Stat. L. 653.] This is from the Deficiencies Appropriation Act of March 3, 1893, ch. 210. [Accounts, how audited.] That the accounts relating to the expenditure of all public moneys appropriated for the support and maintenance of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be audited by the Board of Managers of said Home in the same manner as is provided for the accounts of the various Departments of the United States Government, and thereupon immediately transmitted directly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department for final audit and settlement. [31 Stat. L. 1178.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1901, ch. 853. SEC. 2. [Depositories of funds to give bonds.] That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to require from the president and cashier of all banks used as depositories by the treasurer of the Home a deposit of bonds sufficient in amount to fully secure all moneys pertaining to said Home left on deposit with any such bank. [24 Stat. L. 129.] The above section 2 is from the Act of July 9, 1886, ch. 756, to reimburse the National Home for losses, etc. [Purchases to be made after advertisement; expenditures for new buildings; estimates to be in detail.] Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Current expenses, including repairs: * * * That all purchases of supplies exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars at any one time shall be made upon public tender after due advertisement, and that the expenditure for new buildings shall be expressly authorized in writing: Provided, That the estimates hereafter submitted for the support of the National Home shall be made in detail, specifying the several items of expenditure, and separating the cost of food and other supplies in the form usually adopted for the Army, and that this specification be made for each soldiers' home separately. X * [20 Stat. L. 390.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1879, ch. 182. [Purchase and distribution of supplies.] Hereafter all supplies for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be purchased, shipped, and distributed as may be directed by the Board of Managers. [30 Stat. L. 640.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 1, 1898, ch. 546. [Medical supplies.] That hereafter upon proper application therefor, the Medical Department of the Army is authorized to sell medical and hospital supplies at its contract prices to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; * * [29 Stat. L. 445.] * This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 11, 1896, ch. 420. [Jurisdiction over sites ceded to States.] That the jurisdiction over the places purchased and used for the location of the Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under and by the authority of an Act of Congress approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority of an Act of Congress, approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the county of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, and upon which said Branch Home is located, is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this Act: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to impair the powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and on said places. * [31 Stat. L. 1175.] * * This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1901, ch. 853. The Act of March 21, 1866, above referred to, is embodied in R. S. secs. 4825-4837. The Act of July 5, 1884 (erroneously referred to above as that of July 5, 1888), authorizes a branch home which was located at Leavenworth, Kan. State jurisdiction. Federal officers who are discharging their duties in a state and who are engaged in superintending the internal government and management of a federal institution, under the lawful direction of its board of managers and with the ap- See * * * [Leadstones at Central Branch.] For maintaining and improving national cemeteries. And the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may charge the regulation stone to be used in the Central Branch at a cost not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents additional for each one. [21 Stat. L. 33.] This is from the Army Appropriation Act of June 23, 1879, ch. 35. An act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States. [Act of Aug. 27, 1888, ch. 914, 25 Stat. L. 450.] [SEC. 1.] [Aid to State or Territorial homes.] That all States or Territories which have established, or which shall hereafter establish, State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States who served in the war of the rebellion, or in any previous war, who are disabled by age, disease, or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, provided such disability was not incurred in service against the United States, shall be paid for every such disabled soldier or sailor who may be admitted and cared for in such home at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum. The number of such persons for whose care any State or Territory shall receive the said payment under this act shall be ascertained by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under such regulations as it may prescribe, but the said State or Territorial homes shall be exclusively under the control of the respective State or Territorial authorities, and the Board of Managers shall not have nor assume any management or control of said State or Territorial homes. The Board of Managers of the National Home shall, however, have power to have the said State or Territorial homes inspected at such times as it may consider necessary, and shall report the result of such inspections to Congress in its annual report. [25 Stat. L. 450.] SEC. 2. [Makes a temporary appropriation.] An act to authorize the furnishing of obsolete serviceable cannon to Soldiers Homes. [Act of Feb. 8, 1889, ch. 116, 25 Stat. L. 657.] [Homes may be furnished with obsolete cannon.] That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, to deliver to any of the "National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers" already established or hereafter established and to any of the State Homes for soldiers and sailors or either now or hereafter duly established and maintained under State authority, such obsolete serviceable cannon, bronze or iron, suitable for firing salutes, as may be on hand undisposed of, not exceeding two to any one Home. [25 Stat. L. 657.1 See the later provision from the Act of May 26, 1900, ch. 586, given below. |