PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN 



GENERAL. 



OFFICERS, CLERKS, AND EMPLOYEES. 



(See "Laws Applicable to the United States Departmeut of Agriculture," 1912, 



pp. 273-308.) 



ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 142. (37 Stat. 739.) 



Details of clerks and employees from departments, etc., to Civil Service Com- 

 mission for duty in District of Columbia, forbidden. 



Xo detail of clerks or other employees from the executive depart- 

 ments or other Government establishments in "Washington, District 

 of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of 

 duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the 

 tiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. 



Act March 4, 1913, c. 142, s, 1, 37 Stat. 750. 



This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropria- 

 tion act for the fiscal year 1914. cited above. Similar provisions were 

 contained in the similar acts for 190G and succeeding fiscal years. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 142. (37 Stat. 739.) 



Amendment of section 7, act August 26, 1912, c. 408. 



Sec. 4. That section seven of the general deficiency appropriation 

 Act approved August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, 

 is amended to read as follows: 



Lump-sum appropriations not available for increased compensation; not appli- 

 cable to mechanics, etc., on public works, 



" Sec. T. That no part of any money contained herein or hereafter 

 appropriated in lump sum shall be available for the payment of pov- 

 sonal services at a rate of compensation in excess of that paid for the 

 same or similar services during the preceding fiscal year: nor shall 

 any ijor.son employed at a specific salary be hereafter transferred and 

 hereafter paid from a lump-sum ap]:)ropriation a rate of compensa- 

 tion greater than such specific salary, and the heads of departments 

 shall cause this provision to be enforced: Provided. That this section 

 shall not a|)ply to mechanics, artisans, their helpers and assistants, 

 laborers, or any other employees whose duties are of similar character 

 and required in carrying on the various manufacturing or construct- 

 ing operations of the (Tovernnient.*' 



Act March 4. 1913, c. 142, s. 4, 37 Stat. 790. 



Sei'tlou 7 of act August 20, 1912, c. 40S, mentioned in and amended by 

 this sectiini. is set furlli in "Laws .Vpplicable to the United States l>e- 

 l>artment of -Vgrlculture," 1912, j). 2S5. 



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