22 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAETMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 301. (35 Stat. 1039.) 



Assignments of pay by employees of the Department of Agriculture. 



And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to permit 

 employees of the Department of Agriculture to make assignments of 

 their pay, under such regulations as he may prescribe, during such 

 time as they may be in the employ of the said department. 



Powers and duties of watchmen of Department of Agriculture. 



And hereafter all duly and lawfully constituted and appointed 

 watchmen of the Department of Agriculture stationed in and upon 

 the buildings and premises of said department in the city of Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia, shall have and perform the same powers 

 and duties, while on duty in and about said premises, as the Metro- 

 politan police of the District of Columbia. 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 301. 35 Stat. 1057. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1910, cited above. 



ACT MAY 23, 1908, c. 192. (35 Stat. 251.) 



leaves of absence to employees of the Department of Agriculture outside of 

 Washington. 



Leave of absence: The employees of the Department of Agi'icul- 

 ture, outside of the city of AVashington, may hereafter, in the discre- 

 tion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leave of absence not 

 to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional 

 and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended, in 

 the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen 

 days additional in any one year. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 267. 



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

 year 1909, cited above. This provision supei'sedes .similar provisions 

 relating to the employees of the Weather Bureau, the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, the Bureau of Plant Industry, the Forest Service, the Bureau 

 of Chemlstrj', and the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto 

 Rico, in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal year 1908, and 

 previous fiscal years. 



Provisions of act March 3, 1893, c. 211, and act July 7, 1898, c. 571, re- 

 lating to leave of absence of clerks and employees in the executive depart- 

 ments in general, are set forth on pp. 292, 293, post, under "Officers. 

 Clerks, and Employees." 



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



Sale of prints and lantern slides from photographic negatives of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



And hereafter tlic Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to 

 furnish, upon application, prints and lantern slides from negatives 

 in the possession of the department and to charge for the same a price 

 to cover the cost of preparation, such price to be determined and es- 

 tablij-liod by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the money received 

 from ^iK-h sales to be deposited in the Treasur}^ of the United States. 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281. 



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

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

 "hereafter," was contained in the similar act for the preceding fiscal 

 year. 



A provision of the same act, for the disposition of photographic prints, 

 lantern slides, etc., forest maps, and condemne<l property or material of 

 the Forest Service, is set forth on p. 172, post, under " Forest Service." 



