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thereof be punished by a fine of not more than one thousaiul dollars 

 or by imprisonment for not more than one year. 



Act August 23, 1912. (•. 3nO, s. 4, 37 Stat. 413. 



These are provisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial nppro- 

 prialion act fur the fls<al year 1913, cite<l above. 



ACT AUGUST 24, 1912, c. 389. (37 Stat. 639.) 



Bemovals from classified service, except to promote ef&ciency, forbidden; notice 

 of charges and opportunity for answer, required; right of persons in civil 

 service to petition, etc. Congress. 



Sec. 6. That no person in the classified civil service of the United 

 States shall be removed therefrom except for such cause as will pro- 

 mote tlie efficiency of said service and for reasons given in writing, 

 and the person whose removal is sought shall have notice of the same 

 and of any charges preferred against him, and be furnislied with a 

 copy thereof, and also be allowed a reasonable time for personally 

 answering the same in writing; and affidavits in support thereof; 

 but no examination of witnesses nor any trial or hearing shall be 

 required except in the discretion of the officer making the removal; 

 and copies of charges, notice of hearing, answer, reasons for removal, 

 and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of 

 the proper department or office, as shall also the reasons for reduction 

 in rank or compensation; and copies of the same shall be furnished 

 to the person affected upon request, and the Civil Service Commission 

 also shall, upon request, be furnished copies of the same: * * * 

 The right of persons employed in the civil service of the United 

 States, either individually or collectively, to petition Congres.s, or 

 any Member thereof, or to furnish information to either House of 

 Congiess, or to any committee or member thereof, shall not be denied 

 or interfered with. 



Act August 24. 1912. c. 389, s. 0, 37 Stat. 556. 



These are provisions of "An act making appropriations for the service 

 of the Post Office Dapartuient for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes," cited above. 



ACT AUGUST 23, 1912, c. 350. (37 Stat. 360.) 



Details of employees of executive departments, etc., to the oflce of the President. 



* * * That employees of the executive departments and other 

 establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be 

 detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United 

 States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessaiy. 



Act August 23, 1912, c. 350, s. 1, 37 Stat. 371. 



This is a provi.so annexed to appropriations for the Kxecutlve. in the 

 legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 

 1913. cjted above. Provisos in the same words were contained in the 

 .similar acts for 1906 and intervening fiscal years. 



ACT JUNE 22, 1906, c. 3514. (34 Stat. 389.) 



Transfers of clerks and other employees from one department to another, re- 

 stricted. 



Sec. 5. It shall not be lawful hereafter for any clerk or other cm- 

 plovee in the classified service in any of the Executive Departments 

 to be transferred from one Department to another Department until 



