284 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ACT AUGUST 15, 1876, c. 287. (19 Stat. 143.) 



Employment of clerks, etc., and other employees beyond provisions of law pro- 

 hibited. 



Sec. 5. That the executive officers of the Government are hereby 

 prohibited from employing any clerk, agent, engineer, draughtsman [,] 

 messenger[,| watchman, laborer, or other employee, in any of the 

 executive departments in the city of Washington, or elsewhere 

 beyond provision made bj' law. 



Act August 15, 1876, c. 287, 8. 5, 19 Stat. 169. 



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

 act for the fiscal year 1877, cited above. 



ACT AUGUST 5, 1882, c. 389. (22 Stat. 219.) 



Officers, clerks, and other employees to be paid from specific appropriations. 



Sec. 4. 'J'liat no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messen- 

 ger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other em- 

 ployee shall after the first day of October next be employed in any 

 of the executive departments, or subordinate bureaus or offices thereof 

 at the seat of government, except only at such rates and in such 

 numbers, respectively, as may be specifically appropriated for by 

 Congress for such clerical and other personal services for each fiscal 

 year; and no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger, 

 assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee 

 shall hereafter be employed at the seat of government in any execu- 

 tive department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid 

 from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any 

 specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized 

 ^nd payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the 

 appropriation, and then only for services actually rendered in con- 

 nection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which 

 payment is made, and at the rate of compensation usual and proper 

 for such services, and after the first day of October next section one 

 hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes, and all other laws 

 and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act. and 

 all laws and parts of laws authorizing the employment of officers, 

 clerks, draughtsmen, copyists, messengers, assistant mes.sengers, me- 

 chanics, watchmen, laborers, or other employees at a different rate of 

 Eay or in excess of the numbers authorized by appropriations made 

 y Congress, be, and they are hereby, repealed; and thereafter all de- 

 tails of civil officers, clerks, or other subordinate employees from places 

 outside of the District of Columbia for duty within the District of 

 Columbia, except temporary details for duty connected with their 

 respective offices, bo. and are hereby, prohibited; and thereafter all 

 moneys accruing from lapsed salaries, or from unused appropria- 

 tions for salaries, shall be covered into the Treasury: * * * 



Act August 5. l.S,S2, c. .3S9. s. 4. 22 Stnl. 20"). 



Those are i)rovlslons of the legislative, executive, and Judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fl.scnl year 1SS3. cite<l above. 



A provision, similar to tiiat In the above section, relatins to dotnlla 

 of oflicors, clerks, and employees outside (if the District of Columbia 

 f<M- dvity in the departments in the I>istrlct of Columbia, Is contained in 

 act .Tnne 22, 1906, c. .S.-)14. 9. 6. set forth on p. 282, ante. 



Punishment for violation of this section is provideil In act August 23, 

 1912. c. 350, set forth below. 



