the Statutes at Large, according as the matter is taken from one or the other. The number of the section of the Revised Statutes or the Statutes at Large from which matter is taken has been preserved at the beginning of each section or portion thereof. The date and chapter of each act in the Statutes at Large from which matter has been taken are given as a note at the close of the corresponding section or portion thereof. In the case of acts relating particularly to the Department of Agriculture, and legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts, sundry civil appropriation acts, and deficiency appropriation acts, from which matter has been extracted, the titular designation of the act is also given, together with the date and chapter, in the note at the close of the section or portion thereof. Where entire acts relating particularly to the Department of Agriculture are included, the full title of the act is given at the beginning, together with the date, chapter, volume, and page of the Statutes at Large. No attempt has been made to give full explanatory matter in the notes at the close of each section, paragraph, or provision. For cross-reference, the index, which has been made very complete for the purpose, should be consulted. Owing to the miscellaneous character of the matter included in this compilation, its classification has been difficult. The classification under a few general titles, though more or less arbitrary, has been deemed best adapted to the purpose of the work. In general, the effort has been to place the various acts, sections, and provisions under those headings where they logically have seemed to fall, and to place in juxtaposition related matter without regard to its source or time of enactment. CONTENTS. Provisions applicable to the entire Department. Establishment of the Department, duties of the Secretary and other execu- Page. 5 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT, DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY AND OTHER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SEC. 520. There shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Agriculture Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties established. 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 general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. [R. S.] of Agriculture ment. That the Department of Agriculture, shall be an Execu- Department tive Department, under the supervision and control of to be an Execu a Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be appointed by tive Depart the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and section one hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such Department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to said Department. [25 Stat. L. 659.] Agricultural appropriation act of February 9, 1889, ch. 122. Title 4, R. S., referred to in this section, contains "provisions applicable to all the Executive Departments." SEC. 158. The provisions of this Title shall apply to the following Executive Departments: Executive Departments. First. The Department of State. Second. The Department of War. Third. The Department of the Treasury. Fourth. The Department of Justice. Fifth. The Post-Office Department. Sixth. The Department of the Navy. Seventh. The Department of the Interior. [R. S.] SEC. 159. The word " Department " when used alone in Word this Title, and Titles five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and partment." 7 "De Commissioner eleven, means one of the Executive Departments enumer- The "Titles" refer to the classification in the U. S. Revised Authority of The authority granted to the Commissioner of Agriof Agriculture culture by the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred vested in Sec- and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal In retary. Duties of Commissioner dustry, and by the provisions of the appropriation act for the Agricultural Department, approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, relating to said Bureau, is hereby vested in the Secretary of Agriculture; and the said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to perform all the duties named in said acts and all other, acts of Congress in force on February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be performed by the Commissioner of Agriculture. [26 Stat. L. 288.] Agricultural appropriation act of July 14, 1890, ch. 707. SEC. 526. The Commissioner af Agriculture shall proof Agriculture. cure 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. [R. S.] Annual and special reports of sioner of Agriculture. SEC. 528. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall anCommis nually 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. [R. S.] Annual re port of expenditures in partment Agriculture. Custody SEC. 529. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall, on De- or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, of make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys expended by him or under his direction. R. S.] property, rec of SEC. 525. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall have ords, etc., of charge, in the building and premises appropriated to the Department of Department, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, Agriculture. and other property appertaining to it, or hereafter acquired for use in its business. R. S.] |