UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

REVISED EDITION

OF

LAWS APPLICABLE

TO THE UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

1945

CONTAINING

LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT UP TO AND INCLUDING THE 78TH CONGRESS, REORGANIZATION PLANS, EXECUTIVE ORDERS REFLECTING

THE ORIGIN AND ORGANIZATION OF AGENCIES

OF THE DEPARTMENT, AND CURRENT
APPROPRIATION PROVISIONS.

TITLE 4-FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND

THE STATES.

16

Naval Stores Act...

Department of Agriculture..

Civil Service Commission and classified civil service.

Classification of civilian positions..

Retirement of civil-service employees.

Compensation for injuries to employees of United States

Subsistence Expense Act of 1926..

Preference of veterans in government employment..

TITLE 6- OFFICIAL AND PENAL BONDS......

TITLE 7- AGRICULTURE

Commodity Exchanges.

Cotton Standards Act.

Grain Standards Act.

Insecticides Act.

Insect pests generally.

Nursery stock and other plants and plant products.

Rubber

Packers and stockyards..

77

94

102

122

143

154

156

163

166

185

190

195

198

204

210

219

222

Warehouses

239

Farm produce received in interstate commerce by commission

merchants and others; destruction or dumping; investigation of

quality and condition of produce.

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

TITLE 10-ARMY:

Quartermaster Corps.

Reserve forces.

Commissioned Officers.

Supplies, stores and services.

Transportation of troops and supplies; Army transport service.

Surplus War Department real property; sale; disposition of

proceeds

TITLE 12-BANKS AND BANKING:

Federal Reserve System.

Farm Credit Administration..

Adjustment and cancellation of farm loans.

Local agricultural-credit corporations, livestock-loan companies

and like organizations; loans to individuals to aid in formation

or to increase capital stock.

Federal Credit Unions..

TITLE 13-CENSUS:

Cotton statistics.

Cottonseed statistics..

Fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses..

TITLE 15-COMMERCE AND TRADE:

Federal Trade Commission..

Standard baskets and containers.

Standard hampers, round stave baskets and splint basket for fruits

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410

422

439

502

511

531

531

532

532

533

534

534

535

668

670

671

679

681

681

683

689

TITLE 16-CONSERVATION:

The National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments and Seashores......

The National Forests..

TITLE 18-CRIMINAL CODE AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE:

Offenses against elective franchise and civil rights of citizens.

Offenses against foreign and interstate commerce..

Offenses within Admiralty, Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction

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Importation of milk and cream.

902

Viruses, serums, toxins, anti-toxins, and analogous products..

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.....

TITLE 22-FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE:

Diplomatic and Consular Service generally.

903

905

905

Passports

906

International bureaus, congresses, etc.....

906

Foreign Service Buildings.

906

Foreign wars, war materials and neutrality.

907

Hemisphere relations..

911

TITLE 23-HIGHWAYS:

Federal Highway Act.

913

TITLE 24-HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND CEMETERIES.

Entry under mining laws of lands containing petroleum, or other

mineral oils, or gas..

988

Agricultural entry of lands withdrawn or classified as containing
phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals........
Entry of building-stone or saline lands under Placer-mining laws....
Leases and Prospecting Permits..

989

991

992

Lease of oil and gas deposits in or under railroads and other