Chapter CCC. to provide for Inventories and Accounts of the Property of the United States in the public Buildings and Grounds belonging to the United States in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. CCC.— An Act to provide for Inventories and Accounts of the Property of the United States in the public Buildings and Grounds belonging to the United States in the District of Columbia.July 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be the duty of theInventories of the property of the United States in the rooms occupied by the several departments to be taken and kept. Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, and the Adjutant-General, and the commissioner of agriculture, each severally as soon as practicable to make a full and complete inventory of all of the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by each of them, and under their charge.
And hereafter to keep in proper books such inventories and accounts, adding thereto an account of such property as may be procured subsequently to the taking of the same; and also an account of the sale or disposal of any of such property. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the architect of the CapitolArchitect of Capitol to make a certain inventory. extension shall make out an inventory, and keep a like account thereof, as provided in section one of this act, of all property in and about the Capitol, and Botanical Garden, and the President’s house and grounds.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be the duty of theAnnual report thereof to Congress. officers hereinbefore required to make and keep such inventories and accounts, to make out an annual report thereof on the first day of December to Congress: *Provided,* That this law shall not apply to theCertain items not to be included. books, pamphlets, papers, and documents in the library of Congress, nor to the supplies of stationery and fuel in the several public offices and buildings, which shall be accounted for as now provided for by law.
Approved, July 15, 1870.