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office, and will certainly save the Secretary and Acting Secretaries 

 many thousands of signatures in the course of a year. In adopting 

 this system, the work of preparing the papers relating to appointments, 

 transfers, promotions, etc., in the Bureau of Animal Industry and the 

 Weather Bureau, which have heretofore been prepared in those 

 bureaus, has been transferred to this office, thus centralizing all mat- 

 ters relating to appointments in the OfRce of the Appointment Clerk. 

 Another important change recommended by the committee and 

 approved by you authorized the payment of all salaries on lump 

 funds ' ' from any lump fund of a bureau to which the salary is prop- 

 erly chargeable," instead of from specific lump-fund appropriations. 

 In order to effectually carry out this recommendation of the com- 

 mittee, a special order was issued by you, under date of August 1, 

 1911, as follows: 



Special Order. August I, 1911. 



To the Chiefs of Bureaus, Offices, and Divisions: 



Referring to the report of the Committee on Efficiency and Economy, approved 

 June 21, 1911 (Appointments, Bee. 8, p. 14), in which recommendation is made that 

 all appointments, except those to statutory positions be made to read "payable from 

 the lump appropriation (of the particular bureau) to which the salary is properly 

 chargeable," it is hereby ordered that all appointments which have heretofore been 

 payable from specific lump-fund appropriations be hereafter payable from any lump- 

 fund appropriation of the bureau, office, or division to which the salary is properly 

 chargeable, and that all future recommendations for appointment, payable from lump- 

 fund appropriations, be prepared accordingly. All per diem appointments will here- 

 after be made for days actually employed. 



James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



The official register, which has heretofore been compiled in the 

 various bureaus, offices, and divisions, is now prepared entirely in the 

 Office of the Appointment Clerk. 



I desire to record my appreciation of the hearty and efficient 

 cooperation on the part of the working force of this office, which has 

 been of inestimable value in carrying out the important changes 

 enumerated above. 



