20 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



graph, were contained in the similar appropriation act for the two 

 preceding fiscal years. 



A proviso, here omitted, following the first provision of this para- 

 graph, and relating to the maximum salary that may be paid any classi- 

 fied scientific investigator or employee in the city of Washington, is 

 superseded by a provision of act May 23, 1910, c. 255, set forth below. 



A further clause of the last proviso of this provision, requiring an 

 annual statement to Congress of all appointments, promotions, or 

 changes in salaries paid from lump funds, etc., is repealed by a provision 

 of act March 4, 1911, c. 238, set forth on p. 17, ante. 



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



Maximum salary of scientific investigators or employees. 



That hereafter the maximum salary of any scientific investigator in 

 the city of Washington, or other employee engaged in scientific work, 

 paid from the general appropriation, shall not exceed four thousand 

 dollars per annum. 



Act May 26, 1910, c. 256, 36 Stat. 440. 



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

 year 1911, cited above. Similar provisions were contained as provisos 

 annexed to provisions relating to appointments, promotions, and changes 

 paid out of lump funds, in the agricultural appropriation acts for the 

 fiscal years 1906, 1907, and 1908. The word "hereafter" was added at 

 the beginning of the provisions to which the said provisos were annexed, 

 in the acts for the fiscal years 1907 and 1908; instead of the words " four 

 thousand dollars " in the provision as above set forth, the words " three 

 thousand " appear in the provisions of the acts for 1906 and 1907, and 

 " three thousand five hundred " in the provision of the act for 1908 ; and 

 the words "paid from the general appropriation," in the provisions as 

 above set forth, do not appear in such previous provisions. 



By the provisions of Rev. St., sec. 2687, set forth on p. 288. post, under 

 "Officers, Clerks, and Employees," oflicers, agents, and employees of the 

 United States serving for less than one year, shall not be allowed a 

 greater than a pro rata of their maximum compensation for the time 

 which they actually serve. 



ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.) 



Advances of money to chiefs of field parties, agricultural explorers, special 

 agents, etc., upon bonds g^ven. 



* * * That advances of public money from the appropriations 

 for the Department of Agriculture shall be made by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture only to such chiefs of field parties, agricultural explorers, 

 special agents, and others as shall have given bonds in such sums as 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct. 



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. 



ACT MARCH 1, 1899, c. 325. (30 Stat. 947.) 



Purchases or services for the Department of Agriculture. 



That hereafter section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Kevised 

 Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to applv to anv 

 purchase or service rendered in the Department of Agriculture when 

 the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of fifty 

 dollars. 



Act March 1, 1899. c. 325, 30 Stat. 957. . 



This i.s a i)rovision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1900. cited above. 



