[Act June 22, 1906, 34 Stat., 449.]

Transfers of clerks and other employees from one department to another restricted.

SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful hereafter for any clerk or other employee in the classified service in any of the executive departments to be transferred from one department 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.

Details of officers, clerks, and employees in public service outside District of Columbia for duty in departments in District of Columbia restricted. SEC. 6. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to detail civil officers, clerks, or other subordinate employees who are authorized or employed under or paid from appropriations made for the Military or Naval Establishments, or any other branch of the public service outside of the District 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 temporary details for duty connected with their respective offices.

[Act Oct. 6, 1917, 40 Stat., 383.]

Transfer restrictions extended to independent estab

lishments.

SEC. 6. That section five of the act of June twentysecond, nineteen hundred and six, prohibiting the transfer of employees from one executive department to another, shall apply with equal force and effect to the transfer of employees from executive departments

to independent establishments and vice versa and to the transfer of employees from one independent establishment to another: Provided, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section.

[Act Oct. 6, 1917, 40 Stat., 383.]

Increased pay under lump-sum appropriations forbidden to employees tranferred in one year.

SEC. 7. That no civil employee in any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment, shall be employed hereafter and paid from a lump-sum appropriation in any other executive department or other Government establishment at an increased rate of compensation. And no civil employee in any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment and who may be employed in another executive department or other Government establishment, shall be granted an increase in compensation within the period of one year following such reemployment: Provided, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section: Provided further, That this section shall not be construed to repeal section five of the act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, which prohibits the transfer of employees from one department to another.

[Executive Order, Nov. 24, 1917.]

During the continuance of the present war no executive department or other Government establishment in Washington shall hereafter give or offer employment, directly or indirectly, conditionally or unconditionally, to any officer or employee in any part of the executive civil service without first obtaining the written consent of the head of the executive department or other Government establishment in which such person is then employed, together with the statement that such consent is based upon the conclusion after due consideration that the person can render better service for the Government in the place in which his employment is proposed: Provided, That this shall not be construed as applicable to enlistments or appointments in the military or naval forces of the United States.

This order is purely a war emergency measure. In their effort to meet the additional burden of war work some of the executive departments and agencies have obtained clerks from other departments by offers of higher salaries. While it is not desired to place any obstruction in the way of deserved promotion, this practice has gone so far as to threaten disorganization in the clerical forces of some of the departments, with consequent loss of efficiency in the operations of the executive departments as a whole.

[Act Aug. 29, 1890, 26 Stat., 371.]

Oaths of office to be administered without compensation; chief clerks of departments authorized to administer oaths of office.

* * * And no officer, clerk, or employee of any executive department who is also a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths, shall charge or receive any fee or compensation for admin

istering oaths of office to employees of such department required to be taken on appointment or promotion therein.

And the chief clerks of the several executive departments and of the various bureaus and offices thereof in Washington, District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and directed, on application and without compensation therefor, to administer oaths of office to employees required to be taken on their appointment or promotion.

[Act Oct. 22, 1913, 38 Stat., 212.]

Restriction on compensation of publicity experts. No money appropriated by this or any other act shall be used for the compensation of any publicity expert unless specifically appropriated for that purpose.

[Act Mar. 4, 1909, 35 Stat., 1027.]

Use of moneys or appropriations for compensation or expenses of any commission, etc., forbidden, unless authorized by law; details from executive departments in connection with such commissions, etc., forbidden.

SEC. 9. That hereafter no part of the public moneys, or of any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made by Congress, shall be used for the payment of compensation or expenses of any commission, council, board, or other similar body, or any members thereof, or for expenses in connection with any work or the results of any work or action of any commission, council, board, or other similar body, unless the creation of the same shall be or shall have been authorized by law; nor shall there be employed by detail, hereafter or heretofore made, or otherwise personal services from

any executive department or other Government establishment in connection with any such commission, council, board, or other similar body.

[R. S., sec. 166.]

Distribution of clerks.

SEC. 166. Each head of a department may, from time to time, alter the distribution among the various bureaus and offices of his department, of the clerks and other employees allowed by law, except such clerks or employees as may be required by law to be exclusively engaged upon some specific work, as he may find it necessary and proper to do, but all details hereunder shall be made by written order of the head of the department, and in no case be for a period of time exceeding one hundred and twenty days: Provided, That details so made may, on expiration, be renewed from time to time by written order of the head of the department, in each particular case, for periods of not exceeding one hundred and twenty days. All details heretofore made are hereby revoked, but may be renewed as provided herein.

[Act Mar. 3, 1893, 27 Stat., 715.]

Hours of labor and leaves of absence of clerks and other employees in departments.

SEC. 5. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments, in the interest 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, 85163°-19-12