PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT 



OF AGRICULTURE 



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ESTABLISHMENT AND OE,GANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT— 

 THE SECRETARY AND OTHER OFFICERS— MISCELLANEOUS PRO- 

 VISIONS. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 520. 



Establishment of the Department of Agriculture. 



Sec. 520. There shall be at the seat of Government a Department 

 of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to 

 acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful 

 information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most gen- 

 eral and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, 

 and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. 



REV. ST. SEC. 521. 

 Commissioner of Agi'iculture. 



Sec. 521. The Department of Agi-iculture shall be under the charge 

 of a Commissioner of Agriculture, who shall be appointed by the 

 President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and 

 shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year. 



This section is superseded by provisions of act February 9, 1889, c. 122, 

 set forth below. 



Rev. St. sec. 524 requiring that the Commissioner shall give a bond 

 before entering upon his duties is also superseded by said act February 9, 

 1889. 



ACT FEBRUARY 9, 1889, c. 122. An act to enlarge the powers and duties of 

 the Department of Agriculture and to create an Executive Department to 

 be known as the Department of Agriculture. (25 Stat. 659.) 



Executive Department under Secretary of Agriculture. 



That the Department of Agriculture, shall be an Executive De- 

 partment, under the supervision and control of a Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the Senate ; and section one hundred and fifty- 

 eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such 

 Department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, 

 including all amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to 

 said Department. 



Act February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 1, 25 Stat. 059. 



Rev. St. sec. 158, mentioned and amended by this section, Is set forth 

 below. 



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