United States ment. person, either by himself or another, in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party, or directly or indirectly interested, before any Department, court-martial, Bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever. Every person offending against this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned not more than two years, and fined not more than ten thousand dollars, and shall, moreover, by conviction therefor, be rendered forever thereafter incapable of holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the United States. [R. S.] Officer of the SEC. 5501. Every officer of the United States, and every accepting person acting for or on behalf of the United States, in bribe punish-any official capacity under or by virtue of the authority of any department or office of the Government thereof; and every officer or person acting for or on behalf of either House of Congress, or of any committee of either House, or of both Houses thereof, who asks, accepts, or receives any money, or any contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value, with intent to have his decision or action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may, at any time, be pending, or which may be by law brought before him in his official capacity, or in his place of trust or profit, influenced thereby, shall be punished as prescribed in the preceding section [R. S. sec. 5500]. [R. S.] Officer of the United States fied for of The punishment “prescribed in the preceding section,” is “a fine not more than three times the amount asked, accepted, or received," and "imprisonment not more than three years." * * * SEC. 5502. Every member, officer, or person, convicted accepting under the provisions of the preceding [secbribe disquall- tion], who holds any place of profit or trust, shall forfeit his office or place; and shall thereafter be forever disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. [R. S.] fice. of contribu Prohibition SEC. 1784. No officer, clerk, or employé in the United tions, presents, States Government employ shall at any time solicit contrietc., to supe-butions from other officers, clerks, or employés in the riors. Government service for a gift or present to those in a superior official position; nor shall any such officials or clerical superiors receive any gift or present offered or presented to them as a contribution from persons in Government employ receiving a less salary than themselves; nor shall any officer or clerk make any donation as a gift or present to any official superior. Every person who violates this section shall be summarily discharged from the Government employ. [R. S.] sation to per SEC. 3. The appropriations herein made for the officers, No compenclerks, and persons employed in the public service shall manently incanot be available for the compensation of any persons in- sons. capacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service, and the heads of Departments shall cause this provision to be enforced. [34 Stat. L. 993.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of Feb- The establishment of a civil pension roll or an honorable service roll, or the exemption of any of the officers, clerks, and persons in the public service from the existing laws respecting employment in such service, is hereby prohibited: [30 Stat. L. 890.] * * * Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of Feb- * * Civil pension roll prohibited. recording That no recording clocks used for recording Purchase of time of clerks or other employees shall be purchased for clocks forbid use in any of the Executive Departments at Washington, den except as District of Columbia, except from moneys specifically appropriated appropriated therefor. [30 Stat. L. 655.] Deficiency appropriation act of July 7, 1898, ch. 571. specifically therefor. Use of recording clocks No money appropriated by this Act shall be used for ex- Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of Feb- Hours labor in SEC. 7. * Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments, in the inter- partments. est of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees, of whatever grade or class, in their respective Departments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or Executive order: Provided, That the heads of the Departments may, by special order, stating the reason, further extend the hours of any clerk or employee in their Departments, respectively; but in case of an extension it shall be without additional compensation: [30 Stat. L. 316.] * ** * of De Annual and sick leave of ployees. SEC. 7. * * Provided, further, That the head of any Department may grant thirty days' annual leave clerks and emwith pay in any one year to each clerk or employee: And provided further. That where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is aflicted with a contagious disease and requires the care and attendance of such employee, or where his or her presence in the Sick leave not a bar to Department would jeopardize the health of fellow-clerks, and in exceptional and meritorious cases, where a clerk or employee is personally ill, and where to limit the annual leave to thirty days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may be extended, in the discretion of the head of the Department, with pay, not exceeding thirty days in any one case or in any one calendar year. This section shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk or employee is borne upon the rolls of the Department in excess of the time herein provided for or granted that he or she shall be entitled to pay during the period of such excessive absence, but that the pay shall stop upon the expiration of the granted leave. [30 Stat. L. 316.] * * Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 15, 1898, ch. 68. amending sec. 5 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 3, 1893, ch. 211, 27 Stat. L. 715. Nothing contained in section seven of the Act making annual leave. appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be construed to prevent the head of any Executive Department from granting thirty days' annual leave with pay in any one year to a clerk or employee, notwithstanding such clerk or employee may have had during such year not exceeding thirty days' leave with pay on account of sickness as provided in said section seven. [30 Stat. L. 653.] Annual leave exclusive Sundays holidays. of Deficiency appropriation act of July 7, 1898, ch. 571. That the thirty days' annual leave and of absence with pay in any one year to clerks and employees in the several Executive Departments authorized by existing law shall be exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays. [30 Stat. L. 890.] Leave without pay. Legal holi .days in the Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of February 24, 1899, ch. 187. * SEC. 4. * * all absence from the departments on the part of said clerks or other employees, in excess of such leave of absence as may be granted by the heads thereof, which shall not exceed thirty days in any one year, except in case of sickness, shall be without pay. [22 Stat. L. 563.] Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of SEC. 993. The following days, namely: The first day of District of Co- January, commonly called New-Year's day; the fourth day of July; the twenty-fifth day of December, commonly called Christmas day; the twenty-second day of Febru lumbia. ary; that day upon which the President of the United Section 993 of the Revised Statutes of the United States re- Labor Day to a public That the first Monday of September in each year, being be the day celebrated and known as Labor's Holiday, is holiday. hereby made a legal public holiday, to all intents and purposes, in the same manner as Christmas, the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, and the fourth day of July are now made by law public holidays. [28 Stat. L. 96.] Act of June 28, 1894, ch. 118. days in Dis That whenever any day set apart as a legal holiday Legal holiwithin the District of Columbia shall fall on the first day trict of Columof the week, commonly called Sunday, then and in such bia falling on event the day next succeeding shall be a holiday within the District of Columbia, * Act of December 20, 1881, ch. 2. * [22 Stat. L. 1.] Sunday. Per diem Decoration Day That all per diem employees of the Government, on employees duty at Washington or elsewhere in the United States, lowed pay for shall be allowed the day of each year, which is cele- and Fourth of brated as "Memorial" or "Decoration Day" and the July. fourth of July of each year, as holiday, and shall receive the same pay as on other days. [24 Stat. L. 644.] Resolution of February 23, 1887, No. 6. lowed pay for holi That the employees of the Navy Yard, Government Per diem Printing Office, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and employees a all other per diem employees of the Government on duty certain days. at Washington, or elsewhere in the United States, shall be allowed the following holidays, to wit: The first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the fourth day of July, the twenty-fifth day of December, and such days as may be designated by the President as days for national thanksgiving, and shall receive the same pay as on other days. [23 Stat. L. 516.] Resolution of January 6, 1885, No. 5. in salaries paid And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby Changes authorized to make such appointments, promotions, and res from lump changes in salaries, to be paid out of the lump funds of funds in Dethe several bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Depart- Agriculture. partment of Maximum salary of scien tor in Depart ment as may be for the best interests of the service: * * [34 Stat. L. 1280.] * Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2907. Similar provisions were enacted in the acts of June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. L. 695; March 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. L. 883. ***Provided, That the maximum salary of any tific investiga- classified scientific investigator in the city of Washington, ment of Agri- or other employee engaged in scientific work, shall not culture. exceed three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. [34 Stat. L. 1280.] Salaries to be paid only from etc., in which working; de * Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2907. The same provision occurs in the acts of June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. L. 695; March 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. L. 883. * And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby roll of bureau, authorized and directed to pay the salary of each ememployee is ployee from the roll of the bureau, independent division, tails from and or office in which the employee is working, and no other: to office of Provided, however, That details may be made from or to Secretary of Agriculture. the office of the Secretary when necessary and the services of the person whom it is proposed to detail are not required in that office; and he is further authorized and diAnnual state- rected to submit to Congress each year a statement coverchanges in sal- ing all appointments, promotions, or other changes made funds in De- in the salaries paid from lump funds, giving in each case partment of the title, salary, and amount of such change or changes, together with reasons therefor. [34 Stat. L. 1280.] ment of aries from lump3 Agriculture. Clerks and employees to years in one Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2907. The same provision occurs in the acts of June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. L. 695; March 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. L. 883. SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful hereafter for any clerk or serve three other employee in the classified service in any of the ExDepartment be- ecutive Departments to be transferred from one Departfore transfer to ment to another Department until such clerk or other employee shall have served for a term of three years in the Department from which he desires to be transferred. [34 Stat. L. 449.] another. from outside stricted. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of June 22, 1906, ch. 3514. Details of SEC. 6. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to detail civil civil employees to Departments officers, clerks, or other subordinate employees who are District of Co-authorized or employed under or paid from approprialumbia re-tions made for the military or naval establishments, or any other branch of the public service outside of the Dis trict of Columbia, except those officers and employees whose details are now specially provided by law, for duty in any bureau, office, or other division of any Executive Department in the District of Columbia, except tem |