ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT. 23 



Disposition of accumulations of department files and obsolete or worthless docu- 

 ments or publications. 



And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell as 

 waste waste paper, or otherwise to dispose of the accumulation of 

 Department files which do not constitute permanent records, and all 

 other documents and publications which have become obsolete or 

 worthless. 



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



This is a further provision of the agricultural appropriation act for 

 the fiscal year 1908, cited above. 



Provisions, applicable to all the departments, for the disposition of 

 accumulations of useless papers, contained in act February 16, 1889 c 

 171. are set forth on p. 376, post. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Purchase from appropriation for " Contingent expenses. Department of Agricul- 

 ture," of stationery, supplies, furniture, etc., for bureaus, divisions, and 

 offices. 



* * * That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may pur- 

 chase stationery, supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous materials from 

 this appropriation ["Contingent expenses, Department of Agricul- 

 ture,"] and transfer the same at actual cost to the various bureaus, 

 divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture in the city of 

 Washington, reimbursement therefor to be made to this appropria- 

 tion b}^ said bureaus, divisions, and offices from their lump-fund 

 appropriations by transfer settlements through the Treasury De- 

 partment: Provided further. That the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 hereafter exchange typewriters and computing, addressing, and 

 duplicating machines purchased from any lump-fund appropriation 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



These are provisos annexed to the appropriation for " Contingent ex- 

 penses, Department of Agriculture," in the agricultural appropriation act 

 for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. 



ACT AUGUST 5, 1909, c. 6. (36 Stat. 11.) 



Plants, etc., imported by the Department of Agriculture, exempt from duty. 



That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except 

 as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, the articles mentioned 

 in the following paragraphs shall, when imported into the United 

 States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands 

 and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), be exempt from duty : 

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652. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane, and seeds, imported by 

 the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden. 



Act August 5, 1909, c. 6, s. 1, 36 Stat. 71, 78. 



This is a provision of "An act to provide revenue, equalize duties and 

 encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," 

 cited above. 



ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73. (28 Stat. 601.) 



Extra copies of Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture; subject matter; 

 number of copies; illustrations. 



Sec. 73. Extra copies of documents and reports shall be printed 

 promptly when the same shall be readv for publication, and shall be 

 bound in paper or cloth as directed by the Joint Committee on Print- 



