This is a section of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1886, cited above.

The vouchers and accounts referred to, to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, are required by act March 3, 1881, c. 129, s. 2, set forth above.

ACT JULY 31, 1894, c. 174, s. 7. (28 Stat. 162.)

Settlement of accounts of the Department of Agriculture.

Fifth. The Auditor for the State and other Departments shall receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the offices of the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, and the Secretary of Agriculture, and of all bureaus and offices under their direction; all accounts relating to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Departments of State, Justice, and Agriculture; ** He shall certify the balances arising thereon to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, and send forthwith a copy of each certificate, according to the character of the account, to the * chief officer of the Executive Department * *

concerned.

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Act July 31, 1894, c. 174, s. 7, 28 Stat. 207. These are provisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above.

ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.)

Order and arrangement of estimates for Department of Agriculture.

That hereafter the estimates of appropriations for the Department of Agriculture shall be prepared and submitted each year according to the order and arrangement of the Act for the year preceding; and any changes in such order or arrangement desired by the Secretary of Agriculture may be submitted by note in the

estimates.

Detailed estimates of clerks in the Department of Agriculture.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, in the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and annually thereafter, immediately following estimates of each of the respective offices, bureaus and divisions of the Department of Agriculture a statement showing in detail the number of clerks who were employed in the District of Columbia upon regular and continuous work for thirty days or more during the previous fiscal year in or under such offices, bureaus or divisions under authority of and paid from general appropriations, indicating in the case of every such employment the rate of compensation received and the appropriation from which paid.

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

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above.

Provisions relating to estimates for the executive departments in general are set forth post, under "Estimates and Reports."

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

Repeal of provisions requiring classified and detailed estimates and reports of receipts and expenditures by Forest Service, and of expenditures by Department of Agriculture.

That the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year end

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ing June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight," requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress classified and detailed reports of receipts and classified and detailed estimates and reports of expenditures by the Forest Service, and classified and detailed estimates and reports of every subject of expenditure by the Agricultural Department; statements showing all appointments, promotions, or other changes made in the salaries paid from lump funds, are hereby repealed.

Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1264.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above.

The provisions repealed by this act are contained in act March 4. 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1270, 1280, 1282.

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

Detailed estimates for officers, clerks, and employees of the Department of Agriculture.

The Secretary of Agriculture for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and annually thereafter, shall transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury for submission to Congress in the Book of Estimates detailed estimates for all executive officers, clerks, and employees below the grade of clerk, indicating the salary or compensation of each, necessary to be employed by the various bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Department of Agriculture.

Act May 26, 1910, c. 256, 36 Stat. 440.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above.

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

Requirement of detailed estimates for officers, clerks, and employees of the Department of Agriculture not to apply to employees in meat-inspection service or enforcement of insecticide act.

Hereafter so much of the Act of May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page four hundred and sixteen), as requires the Secretary of Agriculture to transmit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, for submission to Congress, detailed estimates for executive officers, clerks, and other employees in the various bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Department of Agriculture shall not apply to such employees in the meat-inspection service or employees engaged in the enforcement of the insecticide Act of nineteen hundred and ten.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 301.

The provision of act May 26, 1910, c. 256, mentioned above, is set forth above.

By a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth on p. 67, post, under "Bureau of Animal Industry," the Secretary of Agriculture is required to submit in his annual estimates a detailed statement of persons employed in meat inspection, their compensation and expenses, and place of employment.

ACT MARCH 28, 1896, c. 73. An act to regulate the issue and recording of the commissions of officers in several of the departments. (29 Stat. 75.)

Commissions of officers under the Secretary of Agriculture.

That hereafter the commissions of all officers under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall be

made out and recorded in the respective Departments under which they are to serve, and the Department seal affixed thereto, any laws to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the said seal shall not be affixed to any such commission before the same shall have been signed by the President of the United States.

Act March 28, 1896, c. 73, 29 Stat. 75.

ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1405. (33 Stat. 861.)

Laborers in the Department of Agriculture placed in classified service.

All classified laborers whose positions are transferred from the lump funds to the statutory rolls are hereby placed in the classified service without further examination in the grades and at the rates of compensation herein provided.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, 33 Stat. 883.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1906, cited above.

The laborers so transferred are made eligible for promotion without further examination by a provision of act June 30, 1906, c. 3913, set forth below.

ACT JUNE 30, 1906, c. 3913. (34 Stat. 669.)

Laborers in the Department of Agriculture transferred to classified service eligible for promotion.

* That all classified laborers whose positions were transferred from the lump funds to the statutory rolls by the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and who were by the last clause of that Act placed in the classified service without further examination in the grades and at the rates of compensation provided in said Act, are hereby made eligible for promotion without further examination.

Act June 30, 1906, c. 3913, 34 Stat. 695.

This is a proviso, annexed to provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1907, which provisions are repeated and made permanent by a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth below. The last clause of act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, mentioned in this provision, as having placed in the classified service the laborers in question, is set forth above.

ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.)

Appointments, promotions, and changes paid out of lump funds; details of employees from office of Secretary.

And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to make such appointments, promotions, and changes in salaries, to be paid out of the lump funds of the several bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department as may be for the best interests of the service: * *And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to pay the salary of each employee from the roll of the bureau, independent division, or office in which the employee is working, and no other: Provided, however, That details may be made from or to the office of the Secretary when necessary and the services of the person whom it is proposed to detail are not required in that office;

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Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat., 1280.

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908, cited above. Provisions in the same words, except the word "hereafter," following the word "And" at the beginning of the para

graph, were contained in the similar appropriation act for the two preceding fiscal years.

A proviso, here omitted, following the first provision of this paragraph, and relating to the maximum salary that may be paid any classified scientific investigator or employee in the city of Washington, is superseded by a provision of act May 23, 1910, c. 255, set forth below.

A further clause of the last proviso of this provision, requiring an annual statement to Congress of all appointments, promotions, or changes in salaries paid from lump funds, etc., is repealed by a provision of act March 4, 1911, c. 238, set forth on p. 17, ante.

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

Maximum salary of scientific investigators or employees.

That hereafter the maximum salary of any scientific investigator in the city of Washington, or other employee engaged in scientific work, paid from the general appropriation, shall not exceed four thousand dollars per annum.

Act May 26, 1910, c. 256, 36 Stat. 440.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, cited above. Similar provisions were contained as provisos annexed to provisions relating to appointments, promotions, and changes paid out of lump funds, in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1906, 1907, and 1908. The word "hereafter" was added at the beginning of the provisions to which the said provisos were annexed. in the acts for the fiscal years 1907 and 1908; instead of the words "four thousand dollars" in the provision as above set forth, the words "three thousand" appear in the provisions of the acts for 1906 and 1907, and "three thousand five hundred" in the provision of the act for 1908; and the words "paid from the general appropriation," in the provisions as above set forth, do not appear in such previous provisions.

By the provisions of Rev. St., sec. 2687, set forth on p. 288, post, under "Officers, Clerks, and Employees," officers, agents, and employees of the United States serving for less than one year, shall not be allowed a greater than a pro rata of their maximum compensation for the time which they actually serve.

ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.)

Advances of money to chiefs of field parties, agricultural explorers, special agents, etc., upon bonds given.

* *That advances of public money from the appropriations for the Department of Agriculture shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture only to such chiefs of field parties, agricultural explorers, special agents, and others as shall have given bonds in such sums as the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct.

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.

ACT MARCH 1, 1899, c. 325. (30 Stat. 947.)

Purchases or services for the Department of Agriculture.

That hereafter section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered in the Department of Agriculture when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of fifty dollars.

Act March 1, 1899, c. 325, 30 Stat. 957.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1900, cited above.

Rev. St. sec. 3709, mentioned in this provision, set forth on p. 321, post, under "Contracts," requires that all purchases and contracts for supplies or services in the departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising for proposals.

ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.)

Purchase of mileage books for employees of the Department of Agriculture. And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase from appropriations made for traveling expenses for employees of the Department of Agriculture, mileage and mileage books, at commercial rates, in the manner in which such mileage or mileage books are usually purchased.

Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908, cited above.

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

Traveling expenses and charges for transportation of effects, etc., of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture transferred from one station to another.

That hereafter officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, may be allowed actual traveling expenses, including charges for the transfer of their effects and personal property used in official work, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1265.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above.

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

Per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence and certain traveling expenses, for officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture.

That hereafter, when officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture are traveling on official business in the United States, they may be allowed necessary railroad and steamboat fares, sleeping berth, and stateroom on steamboats, livery hire and stage fare, and other means of conveyance between points not accessible by railroad, but in lieu of subsistence and all other traveling expenses they may receive a per diem allowance, to be fixed by the Secretary in each case, in addition to their regular salaries, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe.

Reimbursement for street-car fares for officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture.

That hereafter officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture may, when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, receive reimbursement for moneys expended for street-car fares at their official headquarters when expended in the transaction of official

business.

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

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