10 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; appointment and duties. 



Sec. 2. That there shall be in said Department an Assistant Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, to be appointed by the President, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall perform such duties 

 as may be required by law or prescribed by the Secretary. 



Act February 9, 1889. c. 122, s. 2, 25 Stat. 659. 



A provisiou of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, authorizing the Assistant 

 Secretary to perform such duties as may be assigned by the Secretary, 

 is set forth below. 



Rev. St. sec. 177, set forth on p. 275, post, provides that, in case of the 

 death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the head of a department, the 

 duties of the office shall be performed, temporarily, by the assistant. 



Salaries of tde Seciutary and the Assistant Secretary, 



Sjc; 3.: .Thiat the Secretary of Agriculture shall receive the same 

 salary as is paid to the Secretary of each of the Executive Depart- 

 ments, and the salary of the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 be the same as that now paid to the First Assistant Secretary of the 

 Department of the Interior. 



Act February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 3, 25 Stat 659. 



Each head of a department is entitled to a salary of $8,000 a year by 

 Rev. St. sec. 160 and act January 20, 1874, c. 11, 18 Stat. 4. The sum 

 appropriated for compensation of the First Assistant Secretary of the 

 Interior for the fiscal year in which this act was passed, bv act July 11. 

 1888, c. 615, s. 1, 25 Stat. 2.84, was $4,500. The sum of $8,000 for the 

 salary of the Secretary of Agriculture and the sum of $4,500 for the 

 salary of the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture were appropriated an- 

 nually in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1890 

 and thereafter to and including 1907, The compensation of the heads 

 of executive departments was increased to $12,000 per annum by act 

 February 26, 1907, c. 1635, s. 4, set forth on p. 283, post, and that sum for 

 the salary of the Secretary of Agriculture, and the sum of $5,000 for the 

 salary of the A.ssistant Secretary of Agriculture, are appropriated in the 

 agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1908 and thereafter 

 The provisions of the act for the fiscal year 1913 are set forth below. 

 Laws of the department continued in force. 



Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws relating to the Department 

 of Agriculture now in existence, as far as the same are applicable and 

 not in conflict with this act, and only so far, are continued in full 

 force and effect. 



Act February 9, 1889, c, 122, s. 4, 25 Stat, 659. 

 REV. ST. SEC. 158. 



Application of provisions of Title Four of Revised Statutes to Executive Depart- 

 ments. 



Sec. 158, The provisions of this Title shall apply to the followin^y 

 Executive Departments: 



First. The Department of St^ate. 

 Second. The Department of War. 

 Third, The Department of the Treasury. 

 Fourth. The Department of Justice. 

 Fifth. The Post-Office Department. 

 Sixth. Tlie Department of the Navy. 

 Seventh. The Department of the Interior. 



This section Is amended to Include the Department of Agriculture bv 

 act February 9, 1889. c. 122, s. 1, set forth above. =,iituicure oy 



