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and binding in any executive department or other Government estab- 

 lishment unless expressly authorized by law. 



Act June 25, 1910, e. 3S4. s. 1. 36 Stat. 770. 



This is a paragraph of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1911, cited above. 



ACT FEBRUARY 26, 1907, c. 1635. (34 Stat. 935.) 

 Compensation of heads of executive departments. 



Sec. 4. Tliat on and after March fourth, nineteen liundred and 

 seven tlie compen.sation of * * * the heads of Executive Depart- 

 ments who are members of the President's Cabinet shall be at the 

 rate of twelve thousand dollars per annum each, * * *. 



Act February 2G, 1907. c. 1035, s. 4. 34 Stat. 993. 



This section is a portion of the legislative, executive, and judicial 

 appropriation act for tlie fiscal year 190S, cited above. 



This section supersedes Rev. St. sec. 160, which provided that " Kach 

 head of a department is entitled to a salary of ten thousand dollars a 

 ye.ir, to be paid monthly." 



EEV. ST. SEC. 167. 



Salaries of clerks and employees in the departments. 



Sec. 1G7. The annual salaries of clerks and employes in the De- 

 partments, whose compensation is not otherwise prescribed, shall 

 be as' follows : 



First. To clerks of the fourth class, eighteen hundred dollars. 



Second. To clerks of the third class, sixteen hundred dollars. 



Third. To clerks of the second class, fourteen hundred dollars. 



Fourth. To clerks of the first class, twelve hundred dollars. 



Fifth. To the women employed in duties of a clerical character, 

 subordinate to those assigned to clerks of the first class, including 

 copyists and counters, or temporarily employed to perform the duties 

 of a clerk, nine hundred dollars. 



Sixth. To messengers, eight hundred and forty dollars. 



Seventh. To assistant messengers, seven hundred and twenty 

 dollars. 



Eighth. To laborers, seven hundred and twenty dollars. 



Ninth. To watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars. 



KEV. ST. SEC. 168. 

 Salary of temporary clerks. 



Sec. 108. Except when a different compensation is expressly pre- 

 scribed by law, any clerk temporarily employed to perform the same 

 or similar duties with those belonging to clerks of either class, is 

 entitled to the same salary as is allowed to clerks of that class. 



KEV. ST. SEC. 169. 



Authority to employ clerks and other employees. 



Sec. 169. Each head of a Department is authorized to employ in 

 his Department such number of clerks of the several classes recog- 

 nized by law, and such messengers, assistant messengers, copyists, 

 •watchmen, laborers, and other employes, and at such rates of com- 

 pensation, respectively, as may be appropriated for by Congress from 

 year to year. 



