Speaker of the House of Representatives of each subsequent Congress shall, before the termination of the last session of each Congress, appoint, from the Representatives-elect, a temporary committee on accounts of three members with similar powers and for the same purposes. On page 30, the following: That the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress, at its next regular session, in the annual estimates, detailed estimates for all officers and employés, indicating the salary or compensation of each, necessary to be employed in the office of the Supervising Architect during the fiscal year 1897. On page 31, the following: The chief clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the 'Treasury shall have power in the name of the Comptroller of the Treasury to sign such letters and papers as the Comptroller may direct. On page 33, the following: The law clerks in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury and in the offices of the Auditors of the Treasury shall perform such clerical duties as the heads of their respective offices may require of them. On page 35, the following: That hereafter in case of the absence or sickness of any Deputy Auditor of the Treasury Department the Secretary of the Treasury may, by an appointment under his hand and official seal, delegate to any officer, not below the grade of a fourth-class clerk, in the office of said Auditor the authority to perform the duties of Deputy Auditor until such absence or sickness shall cease. On page 43, the following: And hereafter the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service is hereby authorized to cause the detail of two hospital attendants from the port of New York for duty in the laboratory of the Bureau, and who shall each receive the pay equivalent to the compensation of a first-class hospital attendant. On page 86, concerning the appropriation for per diem and traveling expenses of special examiners of the Pension Office, the following: And the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein. On page 88, in connection with the appropriations for producing the Official Gazette and copies of the weekly issues of patents, etc., for the Patent Office the following: Said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, or within uch a reasonable distance therefrom as the Secretary of the Interior may consider to be not disadvantageous to the Department; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to make contracts therefor upon competitive bids, after proper notice by publication: Provided, That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, it shall be deemed to be best for the interests of the Government. On page 104, in connection with the appropriation for preparation and publication of post-route maps, the following: And the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, cause the contract for printing post-route maps to be let for a term of four years. On page 110, the following: The duties of crier of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia shall hereafter be performed by the United States marshal or one of his deputies. On page 117, as section 7 of the bill, the following: SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department or other Government establishment in the city of Washington to submit to the first regular session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and annually thereafter, in the Annual Book of Estimates, a statement as to the condition of business in his Department or other Government establishment, showing whether any part of the same is in arrears, and if so, in what divisions of the respective bureaus and offices of his Department or other Government establishment such arrears exist, the extent thereof, and the reasons therefor; and also a statement of the number and compensation of employees appropriated for in one bureau or office who have been detailed to another bureau or office for a period exceeding one year. Under authority of the House the bills H. R. 8490, 8658, 8704, 8716, 8491, and 8754 are embraced in the accompanying bill as sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, respectively, as follows: SEC. 3. The engrossing and recording of patents for public lands may be done by means of typewriters or other machines, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the President. The duplication of reports and returns of registers and receivers to the General Land Office shall be prevented by such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may make. Sections four hundred and forty-eight and four hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes are repealed. Appropriations heretofore made for the salaries of the offices hereby abolished shall be available during the remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the pay of three chiefs of division, with such duties as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may assign to them. The duties imposed on the principal clerk of private land claims by section four hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes shall hereafter be performed by the Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. Section twenty-four hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes is repealed. SEC. 4. The second proviso of section twelve of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninetyfour, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That should there be a delay by the administrative Departments beyond the aforesaid twenty or sixty days in transmitting accounts, an order of the President, or, in the event of the absence from the seat of Government or sickness of the President, an order of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the particular case, shall be necessary to authorize the advance of money requested." SEC. 5. Hereafter the copy of the oath of office of subordinate officers of the customs required to be transmitted to the Commissioner of Customs by section eleven of the "Act to amend existing customs and internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. Hereafter all bonds of the Treasurer of the United States, collectors of internal revenue, collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and other officers of the customs, either as such officers or as disbursing officers of the Treasury, bonds of the Secretary of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and all such bonds now on file in the office of the Comp troller of the Treasury, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury and filed as he may direct; and the duties now required by law of the Comptroller of the Treasury in regard to such bonds, as the successor of the Commissioner of Customs and First Comptroller of the Treasury, shall hereafter be performed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Hereafter every officer required by law to take and approve official bonds shall cause the same to be examined 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 thereof and approve or fix said amount at least once in two years and as much oftener as he may deem it necessary. Hereafter every officer whose duty it is to take and 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 deem 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 fouryear 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 principal and sureties on official bonds shall continue and cover the period of service ensuing until the appointment and qualification of the successor of the principal: And provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal or modify section 3836 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. SEC. 6. Section thirty-seven hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes is amended, to take effect on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to read as follows: "SEC. 3711. It shall not be lawful for any officer or person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States in the District of Columbia to purchase anthracite or bituminous coal or wood for the public service except on condition that the same shall, before delivery, be inspected and weighed or measured by some competent person to be appointed by the head of the Department or chief of the branch of the service for which the purchase is made, from among the persons authorized to be employed in such Department or branch of the service. The person so appointed shall ascertain that each ton of coal weighed by him shall consist of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, and that each cord of wood to be so measured shall be of the standard measure of one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet. Each load or parcel of wood or coal weighed and measured by him shall be accompanied by his certificate of the number of tons or pounds of coal and the number of cords or parts of cords of wood in each load or parcel.” SEC. 8. Section two of the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, for the relief of settlers upon the public lands, is repealed. Contests and rights already initiated shall not be affected by this repeal. SEC. 9. Section one hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States is repealed. The following statement shows in detail, by Departments and bureaus or offices and by number of specific salaries, the appropriations for 1895, the estimates submitted for 1896, and the amounts recommended in the accompanying bill: |