12 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGKICULTUEE. 



the respective bureaus into which the divisions named have been 

 reorganized ; * * * 



Act June 3, 1902, c. 985, 32 Stat. 303. 



This is a proviso annexed to the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1903, cited above. 



The Weather Service is transferred from the War Department to the 

 Department of Agriculture by act October 1, 1890, c. 1266, set forth on 

 p. 33, post, under " Weather Bureau." 



The execution of all laws affecting public lands reserved as forest re- 

 serves, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, etc., entering, etc., 

 or patenting of any such lands, is placed under the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture by act February 1, 1905, c. 288, s. 1, set forth on p. 86, post, under 

 " Forest Service." 



Appropriations in agricultural appropriation acts for fiscal years pre- 

 vious to 1906, made under " Division of Entomology " and under " Divi- 

 sion of Biological Survey," were thereafter made under " Bureau of 

 Entomology " and " Bureau of Biological Survey," and appropriations in 

 the similar acts for fiscal years previous to 1903, made under " Division 

 of Statistics," were thereafter made under " Bureau of Statistics." 



Appropriations made under " Bureau of Forestry," in the agricultural 

 appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1902 to and including 1905, were 

 thereafter made under " Forest Service." 



ACT MAY 26, 1910, c. 256. (36 Stat. 416.) 



Legal work of the Department of Agriculture under the Solicitor. 



* * * hereafter the legal work of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the 

 solicitor; * * * 



Act May 26, 1910, c. 256, 36 Stat. 416. 



This is a provision accompanying an appropriation for salary of the 

 Solicitor in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1911, 

 cited above. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.) 

 Details of law clerks. 



* * * That hereafter the law clerks may be detailed by the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture for service in or out of Washington; * * * 



Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1236. 



This is a proviso annexed to appropriations for law clerks in the 

 agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above. A 

 proviso in the same words, except the word " hereafter," was contained 

 in the similar act for the preceding fiscal year. 



REV. ST. SEC. 523. 



Appointment of chief clerk and other officers and employees. 



Sec. 523. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint a chief 

 clerk, with a salary of two thousand dollars a year, who in all cases 

 during the necessary absence of the Commissioner, or when the office 

 of Connnissioner shall become vacant, shall perform the duties of 

 Commissioner, and he .shall appoint such other employes as Congress 

 may from time to time provide, with salaries corresponding to the 

 salaries of similar officers in other Departments of the Government; 

 and he shall, as Ct>ngress may from time to time provide, employ 

 others persons, for such time as their services may be needed, includ- 

 ing chemists, botanists, entomologists, and other persons skilled in 

 the natural sciences pertaining to agriculture. 



