There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most... The National Almanac and Annual Record - Page 2661864Full view - About this book
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1872 - 596 pages
...ge'neral designs and duties" imposed by the act of Congress establishing it, which are, "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people' new and valuable seeds and plants." No language... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1909 - 732 pages
...government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." The appropriation... | |
| Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense ef that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people now and valuable seeds and... | |
| Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse...on subjects connected with agriculture in the most goneral and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people... | |
| De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1874 - 290 pages
...The Department of Agriculture was established by act of Congress dated May 15, 1862, " to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." The chief executive... | |
| United States - Naval law - 1875 - 388 pages
...523. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint a chief clerk», Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse...agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive senseof that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds... | |
| 1875 - 640 pages
...denominated a National Sanitary Bureau, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with the preservation of the Public Health, and to aid in the establishment and management of efficient... | |
| Jerome Bonaparte Washington - United States - 1876 - 970 pages
...Department of Agriculture is under the direction of a commissioner, whose general duties are to obtain and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to procure, propagate, and distribute new and valuable seeds and plants. He employs botanists,... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 718 pages
...the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall 1>e to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States nsefnl information on subjects connected with agricaliaw, in the most general and comprehensive sense... | |
| Webster Elmes - Executive departments - 1879 - 692 pages
...designated as Commissioner of Agriculture. The design of such department, as expressed in the act, is to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. 1379. Although... | |
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