LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 41 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



ACT MAY 29, 1SS4. c. 60. An at-t for the ostablisbniont of a Rurcau of .Viiiiiial 

 Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means 

 for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneunionia and other con- 

 tagious diseases among domestic animals. (23 Stat. 31.) 



Establishment of the Bureau. 



That the Commissioner of Agriculture shall organize in his Depart- 

 ment a Bureau of Animal Industry, and shall appoint a Chief thereof, 

 who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, and whose duty it shall 

 be to investigate and report upon the condition of the domestic ani- 

 mals of the United States, their protection and use, and also inquire 

 into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable 

 diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and cure of 

 the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall be 

 valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country; 

 and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ 

 a force sufficient for this purpose, not to exceed twenty persons at 

 any one time. The salary of the Chief of said Bureau shall be three 

 thousand dollars per annum; and the Commissioner shall appoint a 

 clerk for said Bureau, with a salary of one thousand five hundred 

 dollars per annum. 



Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, s. 1. 23 Stat. 31. 



The designation of the Commissioner of Agriculture is changed by the 

 organization of the department as an executive department under a 

 Secretary of Agriculture, by act February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 1, set forth 

 on p. 9. ante. The anthoritj' granted to the Commii?sioner of Agricul- 

 ture by this act is vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by act July 14. 

 1890, c. 707. set forth on p. 11. ante. 



The last portion of this section providing for the salary of the Chief of 

 the Bureau and the appointment and salary of a clerk, is superseded by 

 subsequent agricultural appropriation acts providing for increased salary 

 for the Chief of the Bureau and for other officers, clerks, and employees 

 and their salaries, from time to time, increasing with the growth and 

 the extension of the scope and functions of the bureau. The appropria- 

 tions for the salary of the Chief of the Bureau and other officers, clerks, 

 and employees of the bureau, in the appropriation act for the fiscil year 

 1913, are set forth on p. 71, post. 



Agents; duties. 



Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to ap- 

 point two competent agents, who shall be practical stock-raisers or 

 experienced business men familiar with questions pertaining to com- 

 mercial transactions in live stock, whose duty it shall be, under the 

 instructions of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to examine and 

 report upon the best methods of treating, transporting, and caring 

 for animals, and the means to be adopted for the suppression and ex- 

 tirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and to provide against the 

 spread of other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable 

 diseases. The compensation of said agents shall be at the rate of ten 

 dollars per diem, with all necessary expenses, while engaged in the 

 actual performance of their duties under this act, when absent from 

 their usual place of business or residence as such agent. 



Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, s. 2, 23 Stat. 31. 



See note under section 1 of this act as to change of d(!signation of 

 Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture. 



