ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT. 13 



Rev. St. sec. 522, here omitted as superseded, provides: "There shall 

 he in the Department of Agriculture: One chief cleric, at a salary of 

 $2,000 a year." Appropriations for a chief clerk at this compensation 

 were made in the agricultural appropriation acts to and including the 

 fiscal year 1S84. The salary of the chief clerk appropriated in the similar 

 acts for the fis»cal years 1SS5 and thereafter to and including 190S was 

 $2.iJ00. In the acts for the fiscal years 1909 to 1912, inclusive, the appro- 

 priation for the salary of the chief clerk is $2,500 and $500 additional 

 as custodian of buildings, and the appropriation in the act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, set forth on p. 30, post, for the salary of the chief clerk, Is 

 $3,000 and $500 additional as custodian of buildings. 



The provision of this section that, in case of absence or vacancy in 

 the office of the Commissioner, the chief clerk shall perform the duties 

 of the otfice, is superseded by the change of the department into an 

 executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture, with an Assistant 

 Secretary, by act February 9, 1SS9, c. 122, set forth on p. 9, ante, and 

 the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 177, set forth on p. 275, post, that in case 

 of death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the head of a department, 

 the duties of the office may be performed temporarily by the assistant. 



Rev. St. sec. 524, requiring that the chief clerk shall give a bond before 

 entering upon his duties, is superseded by the change of the Department 

 of Agriculture into an executive department under a Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, with an Assistant Secretary, by act February 9, 1889, c. 122, set 

 forth on p. 9, ante. 



ACT APRIL 23, 1904, c. 1486. (33 Stat. 276.) 



Chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture superintendent of buildings. 



* * * chief clerk, who shall be superintendent of the Depart- 

 ment buildings, * * * 



Act April 23, 1904, c. 1486, 33 Stat. 276. 



This is a px'ovision, accompanying an appropriation for the salary 

 of the chief clerk, in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1905, cited above. Previous provisions in the same words accompany 

 similar appropriations in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal 

 years 1883 and thereafter. The provision was discontinued in the act for 

 the fiscal year 1906, but in the acts for the fiscal years 1909 and thereafter 

 the provision " and five hundred dollars additional as custodian of build- 

 ings," accompanies the appropriations otherwise made for the salary of 

 the chief clerk. 



ACT ATTGITST 8, 1894, c. 238. (28 Stat. 264.) 

 Official seal of the Department of Agriculture. 



The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to 



procure a proper seal, with such suitable inscriptions and devices as 



he may approve, to be known as the official seal of the Department of 



Agriculture, and to be kept and used to verify official documents, 



■ under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. 



Act August 8. 1894, c. 238, 28 Stat. 272. 



This is a paragraph of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1895, cited above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 525. 



Custody of property, records, etc., of department. 



Sec. 525. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall have charge, in 

 the building and premises appropriated to the Department, of the 

 library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property appertaining 

 to it, or hereafter acquired for use in its business. 



The designation of the Commissioner is changed to Secretary of Agri- 

 culture by act February 1, 1889, c. 122, set forth on p. 9, ante. 



