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or failing to make any political contribution. Section 121 of the Criminal Code pro- 

 laibits any Federal officer or employee from making any such political contribution 

 to another Federal officer or employee, and section 119 prohibits the solicitation or 

 receipt of any political contribution in any room or building occupied in the discharge 

 of official duties by any officer or employee of the United States, or on other Federal 

 premises, by any person whatsoever, whether in the public service or not. In connec- 

 tion with this latter provision the United States Supreme Court has held that a 

 solicitation by letter or circular addressed and delivered by mail or otherwise to an 

 officer or employee of the United States at the office or building in which he is employed 

 in the discharge of his official duties is a solicitation within the meaning of the law, 

 the solicitation taking place where the letter was received. Section 122 of the Crim- 

 inal Code provides that whoever shall violate any provision of the four sections above 

 mentioned shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three 

 years, or both. 



It is the duty of the Civil Service Commission to see that the civil-service act and 

 rules and the above-mentioned sections of the Criminal Code, which were originally 

 enacted as a part of the civil-service act, are strictly enforced, and it will employ 

 every legitimate and available means to secure the prosecution and punishment of 

 persons who may violate them. The commission requests any person having knowl- 

 edge of any such violation to lay the facts before it that it may at once take action 

 thereon. 



James Wilson, Secretary. 



Department op Agriculture, 



Office op the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, October 15, 1910. 

 Amendment to General Order No. 87. 



Referring to General Order No. 87, October 2, 1905, creating a committee on pet' 

 Bonnel for the department, C. C. Clark, chief clerk of the department, is hereby des- 

 ignated as a member of said committee, vice S. R. Burch, deceased. 



James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Office op the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, October 18, 1910. 

 Spectal Order. 



It is hereby ordered that the committee constituted, designated, and known as the 

 committee on buildings, appointed on April 24, 1908, consisting of Beverly T. Gallo- 

 way, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry; the late Sylvester R. Burch, chief clerk 

 of the department; and A. Zappone, Chief of the Division of Accounts and Disburse- 

 ments, is hereby dissolved, and that in lieu thereof Mr. A. Zappone, Chief of the 

 Division of Accounts and Disbursements; Mr. C. C. Clark, chief clerk of the depart- 

 ment; and Mr. Jasper Wilson, private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, be, 

 and they are, in addition to their regular official duties, hereby appointed and con- 

 stituted a committee to be designated and known as the committee on buildings, 

 Mr. A. Zappone to be chairman of the said committee. 



This committee shall be subject to the orders of the Secretary of Agriculture and 

 shall direct and supervise, in the city of Washington, the construction of new build- 

 ings for the Department of Agriculture, the remodeling of buildings of the depart- 

 ment already erected, the rental of all buildings, and the assignment of office rooms 

 and space. 



The said committee shall also act as a board of awards to consider all bids appertain- 

 ing to the construction of any new buildings or the remodeling of any old buildings 

 belonging to the department. 



James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



Department op Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, November 1, 1910. 

 Special Order. 



In accordance with the provisions of the act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1281), it is 

 hereby ordered that printed matter in the map stock room of the Forest Service, 

 consisting of out-of-date proclamations, which do not constitute permanent recorda, 



