| Henry Clay Harmon - Bounties, Military - 1867 - 420 pages
...annum. SEC. 3. And be it furtlinr enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his department all information...and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value... | |
| Wisconsin - 1868 - 320 pages
...annum. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to acquire and preserve in his department all information...and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...new and valuable seeds and plants. The chief officer Is a Commissioner of Agriculture, whose duty is to acquire and preserve In his department all information...collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate meand ; to collect new and valuable seeds and plants ; со test, by cultivation, the value of such... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1869 - 838 pages
...by a tenure similar to that of other civil officers appointed by the President. The Commissioner is to acquire and preserve in his department all information...and by any other appropriate means within his power ; to collect as he may be able new seeds and plants ; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of... | |
| David Nelson Camp - Almanacs, American - 1869 - 844 pages
...tenure similar to that of other civil officers appointed by the President. • The Commissioner is to acquire and preserve in his department all information concerning agriculture which he can' obtain by ffleans of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, (accurate records... | |
| Frederick Charles Brightly - Law - 1869 - 680 pages
...annum. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to acquire and preserve in Ibid. } 3. his department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means Duties of comof books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate misaioner.... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 788 pages
...organic act creating the Department of Agriculture makes it the duty of the Commissioner to acquire" all information concerning agriculture which he can...correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, by the collection of statistic,?, and by any other appropriate means in his power ;" and also requires... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1870 - 896 pages
...organic act crea ting the Department of Agriculture makes it the duty of the Commissioner to acquire "all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, •:r:il by practical and scientific experiments, by the collection of statistics, and by any other... | |
| Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1871 - 490 pages
...Commissioner of Agriculture." His compensation is . three thousand dollars per annum, and his duty " to acquire and preserve in his department all information...correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power ; to collect,... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1871 - 454 pages
...commissioner to acquire and preserve in his office all information he can obtain concerning agriculture by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, the collection of statistics, and other appropriate means ; to collect new and valuable seeds and plants... | |
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