PART ONE. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. NOTE. Applicable more or less generally to various officials and employees. Personal attention to official duties... Rules for official correspondence.... Telegrams and long-distance telephone messages. Oaths to expense accounts against the United States.. Stationery and miscellaneous supplies. Records of Government property... Sales of Government property not in litigation. Leave of a sence from duty.... Judges' stenographers and messengers.. Taking jury to view lands-Expenses of.. Extradition of fugitives from the United States in foreign jurisdiction.. Page. 13 13 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BE GIVEN TO OFFICIAL DUTIES. 18 1. That every clerk of the district court of the United States, United States marshal, or United States district attorney shall reside permanently in the district where his official duties are to be performed, and shall give his personal attention thereto; and in case any such officer shall remove from his district, or shall fail to give personal attention to the duties of his office excepting in case of sickness, such office shall be deemed vacant: Provided, That in the Southern District of New York said officers may reside within 20 miles of their districts. (See Act of June 20, 1874, 18 Stat. L., 109.) RULES FOR OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT. 2. Address the head of a department or bureau (in letters and telegrams) by title, not by name, thus: "The Attorney General." Do not use the word "acting" in addressing any official. 3. Confine each communication to one subject or case; and whenever a case is the subject of a communication, state both the title in full and the nature. 4. In replying to a communication from the Department of Justice, mention its date, and quote the initials and file number, in the upper left-hand corner of the first page. |