228 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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

 year 1910, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in 

 the similar acts for the subsequent fiscal years. The provisions in the 

 act for the fiscal year 1013 are sot forth below. 



ACT MARCH 4. 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.) 



Deputy disbursing clerk; authority, bond, and liabilities. 



* * * one deputy disbursing clerk, * * *, 



The deputy disbursing clerk herein provided for shall hereafter 

 have authority to sign checks in the name of the disbursing clerk; he 

 shall give bond to the United States in such sum as the Secretary of 

 the Treasury may require, and vs^hen so acting for the disbursing clerk 

 shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law 

 for the official misconduct in like cases of the disbursing clerk for 

 whom he acts, and the official bond of the disbursing clerk executed 

 shall also be made to cover and apply to the acts of the deputy 

 disbursing clerk. 



Act March 4, 1011, c. 2.38, 36 Stat. 1258. 



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

 year 1912, cited above. 



Details of officers to Forest Service. 



* * one chief of office of accounts and fiscal agent, who may 

 be detailed to the Forest Service for duty in or out of the city of 

 Washington, * * * seven district fiscal agents, * * * who 

 may be detailed to the Forest Service for duty in or out of the city of 

 Washington; * * *, 



Act March 4. 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1258. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1912. cited above. Similar provisions are contained in the similar 

 acts for the two preceding fiscal years. 



These provisions are superseded by a more comprehensive provision 

 of act August 10, 1912, set forth below. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Details of employees from and to Division of Accounts and Disbursements and 

 bureaus and offices of department; payment of traveling expenses of em- 

 ployees detailed. 



* * * That hereafter employees of the Division of Accounts 

 and Disbursements may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 for accounting and disbursing work in any of the bureaus and offices 

 of the department for duty in or out of the city of AVashington, and 

 employees of the bureaus and offices of the department may also be 

 detailed to the Division of Accounts and Disbursements for duty in 

 or out of the city of Washington, traveling expenses of employee.^ so 

 detailed to be paid from the appropriation of the bureau or office in 

 connection with which such travel is performed. 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 St^it 294. 



This is a proviso nnnexe<l to the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1913, cited above. 



This provision supersedes a less comprehensive provision of act March 

 4, 1911, c. 238, set forth above. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Salaries. Division ok AfToiiNis and Disrurskmen ts: One chief of 

 division and disbursing clerk, who shall l>e administrative officer 

 of the fiscal aflfairs of the department, four thousand dollars: one 



