276 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 182. 



Officers appointed to temporary vacancies not entitled to extra compensation. 



Sec. 182. An officer i^erformin^^ the duties of another office, during 

 a vacancy, as authorized by sections one hundred and seventy-seven, 

 one hundred and seventy-eight, and one hundred and seventy-nine, 

 is not by reason thereof entitled to any other compensation than that 

 attached to his proper office. 



Rev. St. sees. 177, 178. and 179, mentioned in this section, are set forth 

 above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 163. 



Classification of department clerks. 



Sec. 103. The clerks in the Departments shall be arranged in four 

 classes, distinguished as the first, second, third, and fourth classes. 



The salaries of clerks of the four classes and of other employees in 

 the departments, are fixed by Rev. St. sec. 167. set forth on p. 283. post. 



Provisions authorizing: the heads of departments to alter the distribu- 

 tion of clcrlis among the various bureaus and oflices of their departments, 

 and to reduce the force employed, are contained in Rev. St. sec. 166, set 

 forth on p. 279, post. 



REV. ST. SEC. 164. 



Examinations for appointments to department clerkships. 



Sec. 164. No clerk shall be appointed in any Department in either 

 of the four classes above designated, until he has been examined and 

 found qualified by a board of three examiners, to consist of the chief 

 of the Bureau or office into -svhich such clerk is to be appointed and 

 two other clerks to be selected by the head of the Department. 



Provisions, more comprehensive in their scope than those of this sec- 

 tion, for examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public 

 service, and for appointments and promotions as the results of such ex- 

 aminations, are contained in act January 16, 1883, c. 27, set forth below. 



ACT JANUARY 16. 1883, c. 27. An act to regulate and Improve the civil service 

 of the United States. (22 Stat. 403.) 



Civil Service Commission; appointment. 



That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom 

 shall be adherents of the same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, 

 and said three commissioners sliall constitute the United States Civil 

 Service Comuiission. Said commis-sioners shall hold no other official 

 place under the United Slates. 



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 Act Januaiy 16. 1883, c. 27, s. 1. 22 Stat. 403. 



Preparation of rules; duty of department officers to aid in carrying out rules: 

 provisions of rules. 



Sec. 2. '^Fhat it shall be the duty of said commissioners: 

 First. 'J'o aid (he President, as he may request, in preparing suit- 

 able rules for carrying this act into eflfect, and when said rules shall 

 have been pi-onnilgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United 

 States in the di'p:\rtmeiits and offices to which any suoli rules may re- 

 late to aitl, in all i)roi)('r ways, in carrying said rules, and any modi- 

 fication thereof, into effect. 



