ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT. 19 



made out and recorded in the respective Departments under which 

 they are to serve, and the Department seal affixed thereto, any hiws 

 to the contrary notwithstanding:: Provided^ That the said seal shall 

 rot be affixed to any such commission before the same shall have been 

 signed by the President of the United States. 



Act March 28, 1806, c. 73. 29 Stat. 75. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1409. (33 Stat. 861.) 



laborers in the Department of Agriculture placed in classified service. 



All classified laborers whose positions are transferred from the 

 lump funds to the statutory rolls are hereby placed in the classified 

 service without further examination in the grades and at the rates 

 of compensation herein provided. 



Act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, 33 Stat. 883. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fi.scal 

 j-ear 1906, cited above. 



The laborers so transferred are made eligible for promotion without 

 further examination by a provision of act June 30, 1906, c. 391'J, set 

 forth below. 



ACT JUNE 30, 1906, c. 3913. (34 Stat. 669.) 



Laborers in the Department of Agriculture transferred to classified service 

 eligible for promotion. 



* * * That all classified laborers whose positions were trans- 

 ferred from the lump funds to the statutory rolls by the Act making 

 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture approved ISIarch 

 third, nineteen hundred and five, and who were by the last clause of 

 that Act placed in the classified service without further examination 

 in the grades and at the rates of compensation provided in said Act, 

 are hereby made eligible for promotion without further examination. 



Act June 30, 1906, c. 3913, 34 Stat. 695. 



This is a proviso, annexed to provisions of the agricultural appropria- 

 tion act for the fiscal year 1907, which provisions are repeated and made 

 permanent by a prorA-ision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth below. 



The last clause of act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, mentioned in this pro- 

 vision, as having placed in the classified service the laborers in question, 

 is set forth above. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 



Appointments, promotions, and changes paid out of lump funds; details of 

 employees from office of Secretary. 



And hereafter the Secretan' of Agriculture is hereby authorized 

 to make such appointments, promotions, and changes in salaries, to 

 be paid out of the lump funds of the several bureaus, divisions, and 

 offices of the Department as may be for the best interests of the 

 service : * * * And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to pay the salary of each employee from the roll 

 of the bureau, independent division, or office in which the employee 

 is working, and no other: Provided^ however^ That details may be 

 made from or to the office of the Secretary when necessary and the 

 services of the person whom it is proposed to detail are not required 

 in that office; * * * 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907. 34 Stat.. 1280. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the nscal 

 year 1908 cited above. Provisions in the same words, except the word 

 '"hereafter," following the word "And" at the beginning of the para- 



