ESTABLISHMENT OF DErARTMENI, 11 



REV. ST. SEC. 159. 

 Word " Department." 



8i:c. ir)9. The word " Department '' when used alone in this Title, 

 and Titles five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, means one of 

 the Executive Departments enumerated in the preceding section. 



The Department of Agriculture is included in this definition by act 

 February 9, 1S89, c. 122, s. 1. set forth above. 



ACT JULY 14, 1890, c. 707. (26 Stat. 282.) 



Secretary of Agriculture to perform duties of former Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture. 



The authority granted to the Commissioner of Agriculture by the 

 act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, estab- 

 lishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, and by the provisions of the 

 appropriation act for the Agriculture Department, approved July 

 eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, relating to said 

 Bureau, is hereby vested in the Secretary of Agriculture; and the 

 said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to perform all the 

 duties named in said acts and all other acts of Congi'ess in force on 

 Februarj'' eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be performed 

 by the Commissioner of Agriculture. 



Act July 14, 1890, c. 707, 26 Stat. 288. 



Act May 29, 1884, c. 23. mentioned in this paragraph, is set forth on 

 p. 41, post, under " Bureau of Animal Industi'y." 



The authority granted by the agricultural appropriation act of July 

 18, 1888, referred to in this paragraph, is limited to the use of the sum 

 therein appropriated for carrying out the provisions of act May 29, 1884. 

 Appropriations in substantially similar terms are made in subsequent 

 agricultural appropriation acts. 



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

 Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 



* * * the Assistant Secretary is hereby authorized to perform 

 such duties in the conduct of the business of the Department of Agri- 

 culture as may be assigned by the Secretary of Agriculture ^ * * * 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1256. 



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

 year 1908, cited above. A provision in the same words is contained in 

 the similar act for the preceding fiscal year. 



A previous provision requiring that the Assistant Secretary shall per- 

 form such duties as may be required by law or prescribed by the Secre 

 tary is contained in act February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 2. set forth above. 



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



Establishment of Bureau of Soils, Bureau of Forestry, Bureau of Chemistry, and 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 



* * * That all existing .statutes relating to the Division of Soils, 

 reorganized into the Bureau of Soils; the Division of Forestry, reor- 

 ganized into the Bureau of Forestry; the Division of Chemistry, 

 reorganized into the Bureau of Chemistry; and the Division of 

 Botany, the Division of Pomology, the Division of Vegetable Physi- 

 ology and Pathology, the Division of Agrostology and Experimental 

 Gardens and Grounds, reorganized into the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, not otherwise repealed^ shall remain in effect as applying to 



