orders not in the annual estimates of appropriations: Provided, That nothing in this Departmental section shall be construed as applying to orders, instructions, directions, cluded. notices, or circulars of information, printed for and issued by any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or to the distribution of public documents by Senators or Members of the House of Representatives or to the folding rooms and documents rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives. Payments not to be made in Sec. 97. No advance of public money shall be made in any case whatever. And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any advance. service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the R. S., § 3648. United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service-nor to exceed value of articles, rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment, etc. It shall, however, be lawful, under the special direction of the President, to make such advances to the disbursing officers of the Govern-be made to disAdvances may ment as may be necessary to the faithful and prompt discharge of bursing officers, their respective duties, and to the fulfillment of the public engage ments. * * * (See sec. 139.) * when. Sec. 98. The appropriations made for the officers, Incapacitated clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service. employees. NOTE.-The above clause is taken from the appropriation act for Note. the fiscal year 1913, and merely refers thereto. A similar clause was included in previous appropriation acts. (See sec. 22, as to civil pension roll, etc.) Extra pensation. com. as acting officer forbidden. R. S., § 1764. Sec. 99. No allowance or compensation shall be made to any officer or clerk, by reason of the discharge of duties which belong to any other officer or clerk in the same or any other department; and no allowance or compensation shall be made for any extra services for extra serv whatever, which any officer or clerk may be required to perform, forbidden, unless expressly authorized by law. ices unless. 2. An officer performing the duties of another office, during a va--for performing duties during vacancy, as authorized by sections one hundred and seventy-seven, one cancy forbidden. hundred and seventy-eight, and one hundred and seventy-nine R. S., § 182. (Revised Statutes, see sec. 4), is not by reason thereof entitled to any other compensation than that attached to his proper office. NOTE. These statutes overlap each other, but are both quoted for Note. reference. See sec. 141, as to similar provisions applicable to the departmental and postal service alike. The two sets of statutes practically cover the same subject. See sec. 159, as to holding two offices. V.-POST-ROUTE AND PARCEL-POST MAPS. Sec. 100. The Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints. NOTE. The provision relating to the sale of post-route and ruraldelivery maps has been repeated in appropriation acts for several years past, the last one being referred to in the margin. -application for. 2. Application for the purchase of post-route and ruraldelivery maps and payment therefor shall be made to the disbursing clerk, who shall draw an order on the Superintendent Division of Supplies for them. -prepared department. by 3. Post-route and rural-delivery maps shall be prepared by and printed under the supervision of the Superintendent Division of Supplies of the Post Office Departprint not permis-ment. The maps shall not bear the name or any imprint of the contractor doing the printing. -contractor's sible on. -issued to postal service. -issued to post masters. --when sold to be on order disbursing clerk. -accounts of sales. Parcel-post maps and guides, sale of. 4. The Superintendent Division of Supplies shall issue all maps to the officers of the service regularly entitled thereto upon their request and to all other persons, except purchasers, only upon the order of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. 5. Postmasters shall make requests on their respective division superintendents of the Railway Mail Service for special diagram maps for preparation of clerks for examination. Requests for maps required by post offices in the dispatch of mails shall be made on the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Supplies. 6. The Superintendent Division of Supplies shall issue all post-route and rural-delivery maps sold through the disbursing clerk on the written order of the latter. 7. The Superintendent Division of Supplies at the end of each month shall make a statement in duplicate of all orders received from the disbursing clerk, one copy to be forwarded to the latter and one to the Auditor for the Post Office Department. See sec. 67, as to contract for printing post-route maps. Sec. 101. Application for the purchase of parcel-post maps and guides, and payment therefor, should be made to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Finance, who shall draw an order on the Superintendent Division of Supplies for them. The Superintendent DiviAccount of sion of Supplies at the end of each month shall make a statement in duplicate of all orders received from the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Finance, one copy to be forwarded to the Auditor for the Post Office Department and the other to be transmitted to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Finance. sales. CHAPTER 7. REVENUES OF THE POSTAL SERVICE. I. SOURCES OF REVENUE. to be deposited in -except. Sec. 102. Revenues from all sources, except so much Revenues of the receipts at post offices as may be needed to pay Treasury. the authorized expenditures thereof, shall be deposited in the Treasury or designated national banks for the use of the Post Office Department. (Balances from foreign countries. (g) Miscellaneous. (h) Unpaid money orders more than one year old. (i) Excess of profit accruingf rom postal-savings deposits or investment of postal-savings funds. 1910, June 25, § 9; 36 Stat., 816. Money order Money-order funds are not part of the postal revenues. (See sec. 1226, as to money-order funds; sec. 187, as to expenditures by post- funds not part of masters out of receipts of office; sec. 357, as to key-deposit funds.) postal revenues. Miscellaneous receipts. R. S., & 4050. -from dead letters. stolen from mails recov -fines and penal and material. Sec. 103. Unclaimed money in dead letters for which no owner can be found; all money taken from the mail by robbery, theft, or otherwise, which may come into the hands of any agent or employee of the United States, or any other person whatever; all fines and penal--money ties imposed for any violation of the postal laws, except such part as ered. may by law belong to the informer or party prosecuting for the same; ties. and all money derived from the sale of waste paper or other public prop--waste paper erty of the Post Office Department shall be deposited in the Treasury under the direction of the Postmaster General, as part of the postal revenue. And the Postmaster General shall cause to be placed to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, for the service of the Post Office Department, the net proceeds of the money-order business; and -proceeds from money-order busthe receipts of the Post Office Department derived from this source iness. during each quarter shall be entered by the Auditor for the Post Office Department in the accounts of such department, under the head of-account there"revenue from money-order business." See sec. 232, as to collection of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and payment of half to informer; sec. 112, as to money stolen from the mails; sec. 90, as to deposit of proceeds of sales of waste material in Post Office Department as part postal revenues; sec. 362, as to sale of waste paper and twine by postmasters. of. transportation Sec. 104. Receipts from the transportation of mails for Receipts from foreign countries arising under the Postal Union Con- foreign mall. vention and other postal conventions, and balances due the United States from foreign countries which are paid by remittances to the Post Office Department, upon periodical for. -how accounted adjustments, shall be deposited in the Treasury as "foreign-mail transit service." Money to be paid to depositaries. II.-DISPOSITION OF REVENUES-DEPOSITARIES. Sec. 105. All postmasters and other persons employed in the postal service who collect or receive moneys of any description connected with the business or operations of the postal service shall, as often as provided by law or as as directed by directed by the Postmaster General, pay over all such moneys, not otherwise legally expended, to their designated depositaries. Postmaster Gen eral. Depositarles for postal funds. Remittance of surplus funds post offices. See sec. 368, as to deposits of postal funds by postmasters; secs. 111 to 118, as to treatment of deposits by depositaries; sec. 1241, as to remittances of money-order funds; sec. 1247, as to depositaries for money-order funds; sec. 113, as to receipts or certificates of deposit. Sec. 106. The Treasurer and assistant treasurers of the United States, such Government depositaries as may be specially designated by the Postmaster General, and postmasters at such post offices as may be specially designated by the Postmaster General, are depositaries for postal funds. See also secs. 1246 to 1251, as to depositaries for money-order funds. Sec. 107. Postmasters at depository offices will remit from depository surplus postal funds to the Treasurer or such assistant treasurer of the United States or Government depositary as may be designated by the Postmaster General. Payment of Sec. 108. The postal revenues and all debts due the Post Office postal revenues into the Treas- Department shall, when collected, be paid into the Treasury of the R. S., § 407. United States under the direction of the Postmaster General, and the 1804, Jan. 22. ch. Treasurer, assistant treasurer, or designated depositary receiving such See 1896, May payment shall give the depositor a duplicate receipt therefor, to be 23, ch. 252, §5; 29 retained by him in his office as a voucher, and shall forward the original Duplicate re- to the Auditor for the Post Office Department, to be placed to the ceipts for deposcredit of the depositor in audit of his accounts. ury. 17; 28 Stat., 28. Stat., 179. its. Note. Method of col NOTE.-The postal revenues are generally collected in depository lecting revenue. post offices under the provisions of sec. 105, and by such depositaries are remitted to the Treasurer, or an assistant treasurer, or Government depository (sec. 107), as provided above. Only one certificate of deposit is issued in case of deposits of money-order funds (see sec. 1219). (See sec. 1241, as to deposit of money-order funds.) Sec. 109. The Postmaster General may transfer money belonging to the postal service between the Treasurer, assistant treasurers, and designated depositaries, at his discretion, and as the safety of the public money and the convenience of the service may require. NOTE. Whenever the postal revenues are insufficient to meet the current expenses, the Postmaster General makes a requisition uvon the Treasury, pursuant to the appropriations provided to meet such deficiencies, and the amount is placed to the credit of the Post Office Department. All expenditures for the postal service not settled directly by postmasters are made by warrants drawn by the Postmaster General and countersigned by the Auditor for the Post Office Department, which are paid by the Treasurer or Government depositaries. (See sec. 136.) de Bringing posits into Sec. 110. All deposits on account of the postal service shall be brought into the Treasury by warrants of the Postmaster General, Treasury. countersigned by the Auditor for the Post Office Department; and no credit shall be allowed for any deposit until such warrant has been issued. R. S., § 408. -warrants for. NOTE. The revenues of the postal service are used to meet the Note. expenditures, but all such revenues, whether disbursed directly by postmasters (see sec. 140) or deposited with the Treasurer and disbursed upon warrants (see sec. 136), are brought into the Treasury by warrant of the Postmaster General, and all expenditures are charged against the proper appropriations. (See sec. 134, as to appropriations for services.) III.-TREATMENT OF DEPOSITS BY DEPOSITARIES. -treatment of. -account of. -care of. Sec. 111. Postmasters at depository post offices shall Deposits. keep accurate accounts of all remittances received; and the same rules in regard to the care of such funds shall be observed as in the case of the regular funds of the office. (See sec. 361.) as regular re 2. All deposits shall be treated in the same manner as to be used same the regular receipts of the depository post office, and ceipts. when such receipts are not sufficient to meet the authorized expenditures of the office so much of the deposits as may be necessary will be utilized for this purpose. Distinctions between postal and money-order NOTE. The regulations concerning depositories for postal funds Note. apply to depositories for money-order funds, except where the regulation applies specifically to postal funds, and as provided in secs. 1246 to 1251, relating to money-order depositories; the distinctions must funds. be carefully observed. See sec. 107, as to remittances of surplus funds by depository offices; sec. 378, as to entry of deposits in postal account; sec. 203, as to reports of deposits to Auditor. of Keeping accounts by de Sec. 112. Every depositary shall keep his account of the money paid to or deposited with him belonging to the Post Office Department positaries. separate and distinct from the account kept by him of other public R. S., § 3642. moneys so paid or deposited. NOTE. This, of course, applies only to the Treasurer, assistant treas- Note. urers, and Government depositories. Postal funds. Sec. 113. Depositaries and postmasters at depository -account of deoffices for postal funds shall enter in the proper account posits. every deposit received (see sec. 378) and make out two cer |