4 PREFACE. 



and matter directed by amendatory acts to be added, inserted, or 

 substituted is incorporated and accompanied by explanatory notes. 



The purpose of the present work is to present the text of the law 

 as it now exists. No change in the language has been made without 

 express and statutory authority. In cases where doubt exists whether 

 acts or portions of acts and sections of the Revised Statutes are 

 superseded by subsequent provisions both the earlier and later provi- 

 sions are set forth with explanatory notes. In some instances it 

 was deemed necessary to include portions of the context not in them- 

 selves applicable to the department, but necessary to complete the 

 sense or indicate the intent or purpose of the portions directly 

 pertinent. In many acts and portions of acts and many sections of 

 the Revised Statutes incorporated in the work, parts thereof are 

 omitted as inapplicable to the Department of Agriculture, and such 

 omissions are indicated by the insertion of asterisks. Where entire 

 acts are incorporated they are set forth, as far as consistent with the 

 logical arrangement of the work, as entities ; but where they treat of 

 more than one subject they are divided and the different sections or 

 provisions are set forth in parts of the work where they respectively 

 fall. Separate provisions relating to similar matters are correlated 

 by reciprocal notes. Many incidental matters which may aid in con- 

 struction are explained by notes. 



Acts or portions of acts are preceded by citation of the date of the 

 act, the chapter, and the page of the Statutes at Large on which the 

 act begins. Where entire acts or the first portion of acts are set 

 forth, the legal title of the act is given. At the close of each section 

 of the work taken from the Statutes at Large is a note in small type 

 citing the date of the act, and the chapter, section, and particular 

 page of the Statutes at Large on which it occurs. Sections of the 

 work taken from the Revised Statutes are preceded by the citation of 

 the corresponding section of the same. Sections, paragraphs, or 

 provisions of the Statutes at Large and sections or portions of sec- 

 tions of the Revised Statutes are preceded by headings indicating 

 their import. 



The insertion of the copious explanatory notes and the very com- 

 plete index, it is believed, will add to the convenience and value of 

 the work. 



It was deemed advisable to insert, in the appropriate parts of the 

 work, (he text of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1913, though its provisions are in general tem- 

 porary in nature. 



A list of the citations to the annual agricultural appropriation acts 

 of the Department of Agriculture has been appended. 



