the respective bureaus into which the divisions named have been reorganized:

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Act June 3, 1902, c. 985, 32 Stat. 303.

This is a proviso annexed to the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above.

The Weather Service is transferred from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture by act October 1, 1890, c. 1266, set forth on p. 33, post, under "Weather Bureau."

The execution of all laws affecting public lands reserved as forest reserves, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, etc., entering, etc., or patenting of any such lands, is placed under the Secretary of Agriculture by act February 1, 1905, c. 288, s. 1, set forth on p. 86, post, under "Forest Service."

Appropriations in agricultural appropriation acts for fiscal years previous to 1906, made under “Division of Entomology" and under “Division of Biological Survey," were thereafter made under "Bureau of Entomology" and "Bureau of Biological Survey," and appropriations in the similar acts for fiscal years previous to 1903, made under "Division of Statistics," were thereafter made under "Bureau of Statistics." Appropriations made under "Bureau of Forestry," in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1902 to and including 1905, were thereafter made under "Forest Service."

ACT MAY 26, 1910, c. 256. (36 Stat. 416.)

Legal work of the Department of Agriculture under the Solicitor.

* * * hereafter the legal work of the Department of Agriculture shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the solicitor; * *

Act May 26, 1910, c. 256, 36 Stat. 416.

This is a provision accompanying an appropriation for salary of the Solicitor in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above.

ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.)

Details of law clerks.

* * * That hereafter the law clerks may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for service in or out of Washington;

Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1236.

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This is a proviso annexed to appropriations for law clerks in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above. A proviso in the same words, except the word "hereafter," was contained in the similar act for the preceding fiscal year.

REV. ST. SEC. 523.

Appointment of chief clerk and other officers and employees.

SEC. 523. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint a chief clerk, with a salary of two thousand dollars a year, who in all cases during the necessary absence of the Commissioner, or when the office of Commissioner shall become vacant, shall perform the duties of Commissioner, and he shall appoint such other employés as Congress may from time to time provide, with salaries corresponding to the salaries of similar officers in other Departments of the Government; and he shall, as Congress may from time to time provide, employ others persons, for such time as their services may be needed, including chemists, botanists, entomologists, and other persons skilled in the natural sciences pertaining to agriculture.

Rev. St. sec. 522, here omitted as superseded, provides: "There shall be in the Department of Agriculture: One chief clerk, at a salary of $2,000 a year." Appropriations for a chief clerk at this compensation were made in the agricultural appropriation acts to and including the fiscal year 1884. The salary of the chief clerk appropriated in the similar acts for the fiscal years 1885 and thereafter to and including 1908 was $2,500. In the acts for the fiscal years 1909 to 1912, inclusive, the appropriation for the salary of the chief clerk is $2,500 and $500 additional as custodian of buildings, and the appropriation in the act for the fiscal year 1913, set forth on p. 30, post, for the salary of the chief clerk, is $3,000 and $500 additional as custodian of buildings.

The provision of this section that, in case of absence or vacancy in the office of the Commissioner, the chief clerk shall perform the duties of the office, is superseded by the change of the department into an executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture, with an Assistant Secretary, by act February 9, 1889, c. 122, set forth on p. 9, ante, and the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 177, set forth on p. 275, post, that in case of death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the head of a department, the duties of the office may be performed temporarily by the assistant.

Rev. St. sec. 524, requiring that the chief clerk shall give a bond before entering upon his duties, is superseded by the change of the Department of Agriculture into an executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture, with an Assistant Secretary, by act February 9, 1889, c. 122, set forth on p. 9, ante.

ACT APRIL 23, 1904, c. 1486. (33 Stat. 276.)

Chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture superintendent of buildings. chief clerk, who shall be superintendent of the Department buildings,

Act April 23, 1904, c. 1486, 33 Stat. 276.

This is a provision, accompanying an appropriation for the salary of the chief clerk, in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1905, cited above. Previous provisions in the same words accompany similar appropriations in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1883 and thereafter. The provision was discontinued in the act for the fiscal year 1906, but in the acts for the fiscal years 1909 and thereafter the provision" and five hundred dollars additional as custodian of buildings," accompanies the appropriations otherwise made for the salary of the chief clerk.

ACT AUGUST 8, 1894, c. 238, (28 Stat. 264.)

Official seal of the Department of Agriculture.

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to procure a proper seal, with such suitable inscriptions and devices as he may approve, to be known as the official seal of the Department of Agriculture, and to be kept and used to verify official documents, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

Act August 8, 1894, c. 238, 28 Stat. 272.

This is a paragraph of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above.

REV. ST. SEC. 525.

Custody of property, records, etc., of department.

SEC. 525. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall have charge, in the building and premises appropriated to the Department, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property appertaining to it, or hereafter acquired for use in its business.

The designation of the Commissioner is changed to Secretary of Agriculture by act February 1, 1889, c. 122, set forth on p. 9, ante.

REV. ST. SEC. 526.

Duties of the Commissioner [Secretary].

SEC. 526. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his Office, by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power; he shall collect new and valuable seeds and plants; shall test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests; shall propagate such as may be worthy of propagation; and shall distribute them among agriculturists.

See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture.

ACT AUGUST 2, 1886, c. 840. (24 Stat. 209.)

Commissioner [Secretary] of Agriculture a member of board of appeals from decisions as to substances in imitation of butter.

The Commissioner [of Internal Revenue] may also decide whether any substance made in imitation or semblance of butter, and intended for human consumption, contains ingredients deleterious to the public health; but in case of doubt or contest his decisions in this class of cases may be appealed from to a board hereby constituted for the purpose, and composed of the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Commissioner of Agriculture; and the decisions of this board shall be final in the premises.

Act August 2, 1886, c. 840, s. 14, 24 Stat. 212.

ACT JUNE 6, 1896, c. 337. (29 Stat. 253.)

Secretary of Agriculture a member of board of appeals from decisions as to ingredients of filled cheese.

SEC. 15. That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to have applied scientific tests, and to decide whether any substances used in the manufacture of filled cheese contain ingredients deleterious to health. But in case of doubt or contest his decision in this class of cases may be appealed from to a board hereby constituted for the purpose, and composed of the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, and the decision of this board shall be final in the premises.

Act June 6, 1896, c. 337, s. 15, 29 Stat. 256.

This is a section of "An act defining cheese, and also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of filled cheese,'" cited above.

ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.)

Secretary authorized to investigate cost of food supplies.

And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to continue. investigations on the cost of food supplies at the farm and to the consumer, and to disseminate the results of such investigations in whatever manner he may deem best.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 300.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

A provision authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to make such investigations and disseminate the results was contained in the similar appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, and provisions for the continuance of the work, in the same words as in the provision above set forth, were also contained in the similar act for the fiscal year 1912.

ACT AUGUST 24, 1912, c. 389. (37 Stat. 539.)

Appropriation, to be expended by Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with Postmaster General, for improvement of roads for ascertaining benefits to Rural Delivery Service and transportation of products; report and recommendations to Congress.

* That there is hereby appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with the Postmaster General in improving the conditions of roads to be selected by them over which rural delivery is or may hereafter be established, such improvement to be for the purpose of ascertaining the increase in the territory which could be served by each carrier as a result of such improvement, the possible increase of the number of delivery days in each year, the amount required in excess of local expenditures for the proper maintenance of such roads, and the relative saving to the Government in the operation of the Rural Delivery Service, and to the local inhabitants in the transportation of their products by reason of such improvement and report the results in detail to Congress: Provided, That the State or the local subdivision thereof in which such improvement is made under this provision shall furnish double the amount of money for the improvement of the road or roads so selected. Such improvement shall be made under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture. That the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster General are hereby directed to report to Congress within one year after the ratification of this Act the result of their 'operations under this Act, the number of miles of road improved, the cost of same, and such other information as they may have acquired in connection with the operation of this Act, together with such recommendations as shall seem wise for providing a general plan of national aid for the improvement of postal roads in cooperation with the States and counties, and to bring about as near as possible such cooperation among the various States as will insure uniform and equitable interstate highway regulations, and for providing necessary funds for carrying out such plans of national aid, if it shall be deemed feasible to provide the same or any part thereof otherwise than by appropriation from the Treasury for that purpose.

Act August 24, 1912, c. 389, s. 1, 37 Stat. 551.

These are provisions of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

REV. ST. SEC. 3677.

Control of appropriations of the department.

SEC. 3677. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated to the Department and render accounts thereof.

See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture.

REV. ST. SEC. 528.

Annual and special reports of Commissioner [Secretary].

SEC. 528. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall annually make a general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming parts of or accompanying his report, which shall also contain an account of all moneys received and expended by him. He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.

See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture.

REV. ST. SEC. 529.

Annual report of expenditures.

SEC. 529. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys expended by him or under his direction.

See note under Rev. St. sec. 525, above, as to change of designation of Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture.

Time and manner of accounts and reports of Commissioner [Secretary] of Agriculture.

SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby directed and required to account and report to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury in the same manner and at the same times as the heads of executive departments of the government are now required by law to account and report.

Act March 3, 1881, c. 129, s. 2, 21 Stat. 385.

This is a section of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1882, cited above. A provision in the same words is contained in the similar appropriation act for the preceding fiscal year.

The Commissioner of Agriculture is required, in addition to the vouchers and accounts for sums appropriated for the Department of Agriculture to be furnished to the Treasury, to present to Congress annual detailed statements of the expenditures of appropriations for the department, by a provision of act March 3, 1885, c. 338, s. 2, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1885, c. 338. (23 Stat. 353.)

Additional compensation to officers or employees; detailed statement to Congress of expenditures of Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 2. That no part of the money herein or hereafter appropriated for the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to any person, as additional salary or compensation, receiving at the same time other compensation as an officer or employee of the Government; and in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appropriated for the said Department to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, at the commencement of each regular session, present to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditure of all appropriations for said Department for the last preceding fiscal year.

Act March 3, 1885, c. 338, s. 2, 23 Stat. 356.