PRINTING AND BINDING.

994. Illustrations, etc., restricted.-Hereafter no part of the appropriations made for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes the same, nor in any document or report of any executive department or other Government establishment until the head of the executive department or Government establishment shall certify in a letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business.-Sec. 1, act of Mar. 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1213).

995. Printing of books restricted.-Hereafter no book or document not having to do with the ordinary business transactions of the executive departments shall be printed on the requisition of any executive department or unless the same shall have been expressly authorized by Congress.-Sec. 1, act of Mar. 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1249).

996. Filing devices, etc., to he charged to allotment for printing and binding. The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, on the requisition of the head of any executive department or other Government establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in duplicating processes; also complete patented devices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, and to charge such supplies to the allotment for printing and binding of the department or Government establishment requiring the same.-Act of June 28, 1902 (32 Stat., 481).

997. Annual estimates to be submitted.-Hereafter there shall be submitted in the regular annual estimates to Congress under and as a part of the expenses for "Printing and binding," estimates for all printing and binding required by each of the executive departments, their bureaus and offices, and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, for each fiscal year; and after the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven no appropriations other than those made specifically and solely for printing and binding shall be used for such purposes in any executive department or other Government establishment in the District of Columbia: Provided, That nothing in this section shall apply to stamped envelopes, or envelopes and articles of stationery other than letterheads and noteheads, printed in the course of manufacture-Sec. 2, act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 762).

998. Public documents; to be printed in two or more editions.-The number of copies of any public document or report now authorized to be printed or which may hereafter be authorized to be printed for any of the executive departments, or bureaus or branches thereof, or independent offices of the Government may be supplied in two or more editions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by the official head of such department or independent office, but in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies now authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized.-Joint Res., Mar. 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 826).

999. By contract or in open market, in time of war.--In time of actual hostilities the Secretary of War may procure from commercial or other printing establishments, by contract or open market purchase, such printing and binding as may be required for the use of the Army and also for the National Guard of

the several States and Territories and of the District of Columbia or other miljtary forces while in the military service of the United States or about to be called into said service, payment for such printing and binding to be made from available appropriations.—Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 75).

1000. Appropriations to be charged under Public Resolution 13.-Hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports emanating from the executive departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriations or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the executive departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government, the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work involved in the actual preparation for printing, apart from the creation of manuscript, shall be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the printing and binding of the department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such documents or reports originate; the balance of cost shall be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, and to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the executive department, bureau, or independent office of the Government, in proportion to the number delivered to each; the cost of any copies of such documents or reports distributed otherwise than through Congress, or the executive departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, if such there be, shall be charged as heretofore. Act. of Mar. 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 825).

1001. Same; estimate to be furnished annually by Public Printer.-On or before the first day of December in each fiscal year each executive department, bureau, or independent office of the Government to which an appropriation or allotment of appropriation for printing and binding is made, shall obtain from the Public Printer an estimate of the probable cost of all publications of such department, bureau, or independent office now required by law to be printed, and so much thereof as would, under the terms of this resolution, be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such publications originate, shall thereupon be set aside to be applied only to the printing and binding of such documents and reports, and shall not be available for any other purpose until all of such allotment of cost on account of such document and reports shall have been fully paid.—Ibid.

1002. Printing restriction.-No part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster's Department shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where is is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.-Annual appropriation act.

1003. Annual reports; printing of restricted.—Appropriations herein and hereafter made for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanying documents unless the copy therefor is furnished to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of

November of each year; complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November of each year, respectively; and all of said annual reports and accompanying documents shall be printed, made public, and available for distribution not later than within the first five days after the assembling of each regular session of Congress.-Sec. 3, act of July 1, 1916 (39 Stat., 336).

PUBLIC LANDS.

ACQUISITION of.

1004. Purchases to be authorized by law.-No land shall be purchased on account of the United States, except under a law authorizing such purchase.— Sec. 3736, R. S.

1005. Assent of States to purchases.-The President of the United States is authorized to procure the assent of the legislature of any State within which any purchase of land has been made for the erection of forts, magazines, dockyards, arsenals, and other needful buildings without such consent having been obtained.-Sec. 1838, R. S.

1006. Acquisition by condemnation.—In every case in which the Secretary of the Treasury or any other officer of the Government has been, or hereafter shall be, authorized to procure real estate for the erection of a public building or for other public uses he shall be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire the same for the United States by condemnation, under judicial process, whenever in his opinion it is necessary or advantageous to the Government to do so, and the United States circuit or district courts of the district wherein such real estate is located shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for such condemnation, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States, upon every application of the Secretary of the Treasury, under this act, or such other officer, to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.— Sec. 1, act of Aug. 1 1888 (25 Stat., 357).

1007. Same; Procedure.-The practice, pleadings, forms, and modes of proceeding in causes arising under the provisions of this act shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, forms, and proceedings existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding.-Sec. 2, ibid.

1008. Same; immediate purchase at reasonable price; acceptance of donations; limitation of expenditures.-Hereafter the Secretary of War may cause proceedings to be instituted, in the name of the United States, in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings, for the acquirement, by condemnation, of any land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses, such proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted: Provided, That when the owner of such land, or rights pertaining thereto, shall fix a price for the same, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, shall be reasonable, he may purchase the same at such price without further delay: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized

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to accept on behalf of the United States donations of lands, or rights pertaining thereto, required for the above-mentioned purposes: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize an expenditure, or to involve the Government in any contract or contracts for the future payment of money, in excess of the sums appropriated therefor.-Sec. 1, act of Aug. 18, 1890 (26 Stat., 316).

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1009. Jurisdiction over purchased land.—The Congress shall have power * to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.-Art. I, sec. 8, Constitution of the United States.

1010. Release of interest.—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. 3752, R. S.

1011. Title. No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purpose of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy yard, customhouse, lighthouse, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given. The district attorneys of the United States, upon the application of the Attorney General, shall furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property lying within their respective districts. And the Secretaries of the depatrments, upon the application of the Attorney General, shall procure any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of the Government, and the expense of procuring it shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the departments respectively.-Sec. 355, R. S.

1012. Leases; lands in Hawaii.-The Secretary of War is authorized to acquire leases in such lands in Hawaii as have been set aside for purposes of a military post.-Act of June 28, 1902 (32 Stat., 464).

EASEMENTS.

1013. Extension of State, county, and territorial roads across military reservations.-The Secretary of War shall have authority, in his discretion, to permit the extension of State, county, and territorial roads across military reservations; to permit the landing of ferries, the erection of bridges thereon; and permit cattle, sheep, or other stock animals to be driven across such reservation, whenever in his judgment the same can be done without injury to the reservation or inconvenience to the military forces stationed thereon.-Sec. 6, Act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat., 104).

DISPOSITION-REVOCABLE LEASES.

1014. Power to dispose of vested in Congress.-The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the

territory or other property belonging to the United States.-Art. IV, sec. 3, par. 2, Constitution of the United States.

1015. Disposition of useless military reservations.—Whenever, in the opinion of the President of the United States, the lands or any portion of them, included within the limits of any military reservation heretofore or hereafter declared, have become or shall become useless for military purposes, he shall cause the same, or so much thereof as he shall designate, to be placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as hereinafter provided, and shall cause to be filed with the Secretary of the Interior a notice thereof.-Sec. 1, act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat., 103).

1016. Grants to municipal corporations of abandoned military reservations.— The President is hereby authorized by proclamation to withhold from sale and grant for public use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated all or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place. Sec. 1, act of Mar. 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 593).

1017. Secretary of War authorized to lease certain public property; mineral, etc., lands excepted.-Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War, when in his discretion it will be for the public good, to lease, for a period not exceeding five years and revocable at any time, such property of the United States under his control as may not for the time be required for public use and for the leasing of which there is no authority under existing law, and such leases shall be reported annually to Congress: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be held to apply to mineral or phosphate lands.-Act of July 28, 1892 (27 Stat., 321).

1018. American National Red Cross, buildings for storage purposes, etc.— Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War to grant permission, by revocable license, to the American National Red Cross to erect and maintain on any military reservations within the jurisdiction of the United States buildings suitable for the storage of supplies, or to occupy for that purpose buildings erected by the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, such supplies to be available for the aid of the civilian population in case of serious national disaster.--Sec. 10, act of June 3, 1916 (39 stat., 173).

MILITARY RESERVATIONS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

1019. Transfer of property, etc., to Philippine Government.-All the property and rights which may have been acquired in the Philippine Islands by the United States under the treaty of peace with Spain, signed December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, except such land or other property as has been or shall be designated by the President of the United States for military and other reservations of the Government of the United States, and all lands which may have been subsequently acquired by the government of the Philippine Islands by purchase under the provisions of sections sixty-three and sixtyfour of the act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, except such as may have heretofore been sold and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of said act of Congress, are hereby placed under the control of the government of said islands to be administered or disposed of for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof, and the Philippine Legislature shall have power to legislate with respect to all such matters as it may deem advisable;