formed to the provisions of this section as amended, with the following additional officers and employés: Five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; financial clerk, required to give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Inte rior may determine, $2,250; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; and clerks, draftsmen, copyists and messengers. Said Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, also fixed the salaries of the other officers and employés in the Patent Office, as set forth above, as follows: Chief clerk, $2,750; librarian, $2,000; law examiners, $2,750 each; examiner of classifications, $3,600; examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiner of trade marks and designs, $2,700; first assistant examiner of trade marks and designs, $2,400; assistant examiners of trade marks and designs, $1,500 each; principal examiners, $2,700 each; first assistant examiners, $2,400 each; second assistant examiners, $2,100 each; third assistant examiners, $1,800 each; fourth assistant examiners, $1,500 each.

A provision of this section, "Public Documents: One superintendent at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year," was superseded by the provisions of the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, referred to in note under chapter 7 of this Title, and is omitted here.

Provisions subsequent to the Revised Statutes for additional Assistant Commissioners and similar officers in the several offices of the Department are set forth in subsequent chapters of this title, under the headings of the respective offices, etc.

Recent appropriations for chief clerk of the Department and superintendent of buildings are: "Chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buiidings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000." The provision for the fiscal year 1917 was by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat.

Recent appropriations provide, in the office of the Secretary, for a "female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200." The provision for the fiscal year 1917 was by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. Recent appropriations for the General Land-Office provide for a "depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000," who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence. The provision for the fiscal year 1917 was by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat.

A provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, Act April 17, 1900, c. 192, § 1, 31 Stat. 121, for a librarian for the law library of the General Land-Office, "to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to his special fitness for such work," was repeated in the subsequent similar acts down to 1912. The provision for the fiscal year 1917, under the heading "General Land-Office," for "clerk and librarian, $1,000," was by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. A provision for a private secretary in the office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, made by Act Feb. 27, 1906, c. 510, § 1, is set forth post, § 715.

A provision for a private secretary to the Commissioner of Pensions, made by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1484, § 1, is set forth post, § 730.

The detail from the Department of two clerks, to act as assistant clerks to the House Committees on Pensions and on Invalid Pensions, respectively, was authorized by Res. Feb. 1, 1884, No. 4, post, § 674.

The Board of Pension Appeals was established in the Department by provisions of Act July 7, 1884, c. 331, § 1, 23 Stat. 185, and subsequent acts, but the duties performed by it were transferred to the office of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Department, by Act March 4, 1911, c. 237, § 1, 36 Stat. 1214, and said provisions relating to the Board are therefore omitted. Provisions for a board of appeals in the office of the Solicitor for the Department of the Interior are contained in a provision in Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, post, § 672a.

Provisions for a disbursing clerk for payment of pensions, and for clerks and other employés in his office, were made, in connection with the abolition of the office of pension agent and the existing pension agencies, by provisions of Act Aug. 17, 1912, c. 301, §§ 1, 5, post, §§ 671, 672.

A provision for a financial clerk in the Patent Office, made by Act June 19, 1878, c. 329, § 1, is set forth post, § 673.

A provision for a private secretary to the Commissioner of Patents, made by Act June 27, 1909, c. 297, § 1, is set forth post, § 739.

The office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts was established, as a bureau of the Department, by Act June 19, 1878, c. 316, 20 Stat. 169. The Auditor was styled Commissioner of Railroads, by Act March 3, 1881, c. 130, § 1, 21 Stat. 409. The office was terminated June 30, 1904, and the duties of the Commissioner were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with the

records and files of the office, by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1, 32 Stat. 1119. But said Act June 19, 1878, c. 316, as amended by said subsequent acts, was repealed by Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 374, 37 Stat. 503, and all the provisions so repealed are therefore omitted.

Provisions applicable to all the Departments, relating to the employment of clerks and others were made by R. S. § 169, and Act Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 4, ante, §§ 248, 249.

Provisions applicable to all the Departments, relating to the duties of chief clerks and disbursing clerks, were made by R. S. §§ 173, 174, 176, ante, §§ 255, 256, 258.

See notes to § 666, ante.

Notes of Decisions

Authority of chief clerk during absence of Secretary and Assistant Secretaries.-Under Act March 4, 1911, c. 237, 36 Stat. 1213, authorizing the designation of the chief clerk of the Department to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries,

the chief clerk so designated has au thority to sign a communication designating a special disbursing agent, although ordinarily such appointments must be made by the head of the Department, as directed by R. S. § 3614 post, § 6603. (1912) 29 Op. Atty. Gen 273.

§ 670. (Act Aug. 22, 1912, c. 350.) Estimates for personal services in Indian Office; employment of such services only as specifically appropriated for, except temporary details of field employés.

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and annually thereafter estimates in detail shall be submitted for all personal services required in the Indian Office, and after the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen it shall not be lawful to employ in said office any personal services other than those specifically appropriated for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts, except temporary details of field employees. for service connected solely with their respective employments. (37 Stat. 396.)

This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the Indian Office in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

§ 671. (Act Aug. 17, 1912, c. 301, § 1.) Disbursing clerk for payment of pensions; appointment; salary.

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For salary of one disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, during the last five months of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, ; and from and after the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirteen, there shall be one disbursing clerk in the Bureau of Pensions to be appointed as aforesaid and who shall receive a salary at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum. (37 Stat. 312.) These were provisions of section 1 of the pensions appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

Further provisions of this section repealed R. S. §§ 4778, 4780, authorizing the appointment of pension agents and the establishment of agencies, said repeal to take effect after January 31, 1913, and also abolished existing pension agencies from and after said date.

Recent legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts contain appropriations for the disbursing clerk for payment of pensions, for a deputy disbursing clerk, and for supervising clerks in the disbursing division. The provisions for the fiscal year 1917 were by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. Provisions for annual statements for clerk hire in the office of the disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions were made by Act Aug. 17, 1912, c. 301, § 1, post, § 6716.

Provisions for the payment of pensions by the disbursing clerk were made by sections 2, 3, 6, of this act, post, §§ 9107, 9108, 9110.

§ 672. (Act Aug. 17, 1912, c. 301, § 5.) Acting disbursing clerk for payment of pensions; designation of clerks to sign checks; bond of disbursing clerk.

In case of sickness or unavoidable absence of the disbursing clerk

for the payment of pensions from his office, the Commissioner of Pensions may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, authorize the chief clerk of his office or some other clerk employed therein to temporarily act as such disbursing clerk for payment of pensions.

With the approval of the Commissioner of Pensions and the Secretary of the Interior, the disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions may designate and authorize the necessary number of clerks to sign the name of the disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions to official checks.

The disbursing clerk shall give bond with good and sufficient surety for such amount and in such form as the Secretary of the Interior may approve, and such bond shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the persons authorized to act in his place. (37 Stat. 313.)

This section was part of the pensions appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

See notes to provisions of section 1 of the act, ante, § 671.

§ 672a. (Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1.) Board of appeals in office of Solicitor.

Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each. (39 Stat.)

This section was a provision in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1917, cited above. It was repeated in the prior appropriation acts for the years 1916 and 1915.

See notes to §§ 666, 669, ante.

§ 673. (Act June 19, 1878, c. 329, § 1.) Financial clerk in Patent Office.

United States Patent Office. One financial clerk, two thousand dollars, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine. (20 Stat. 200.)

This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1879, cited above. It was continued in the subsequent similar acts. The appropriation for the financial clerk for the fiscal year 1917 was $2,250 by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. See notes to §§ 666, 669, ante.

§ 674. (Res. Feb. 1, 1884, No. 4.) Detail of clerks as assistant clerks to committees on pensions of House of Representatives. That the Secretary of the Interior, be, and is hereby authorized, if in his opinion the public interests will not suffer thereby, upon the request of either of the Committees hereinafter named, to detail from that department, one clerk to act as assistant-clerk to the House Committee on Pensions, and one clerk to act as assistant-clerk to the House Committee on Invalid Pensions. (23 Stat. 266.)

This was a resolution entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to detail from that Department two clerks to act as assistant clerks to certain house committees."

§ 675. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 1.) Copies of records, etc., to be furnished; fees; authentication; authenticated copies of rules, etc.

The Secretary of the Interior, the head of any bureau, office, or institution, or any officer of that department, may, when not prejudicial to the interests of the Government, furnish authenticated or unauthenticated copies of any official books, records, papers, documents, maps, plats, or diagrams within his custody, and charge therefor the following fees: For all written copies, at the rate of fifteen cents for each hundred words therein; for each photolithographic copy, twenty-five cents where such copies are authorized by law; for photographic copies, fifteen cents for each sheet; and for tracings or blue prints the cost of the production thereof to

be determined by the officer furnishing such copies, and in addition to these fees the sum of twenty-five cents shall be charged for each certificate of verification and the seal attached to authenticated copies: Provided, That there shall be no charge for the making or verification of copies required for official use by the officers of any branch of the Government: Provided further, That only at charge of twenty-five cents shall be made for furnishing authenticated copies of any rules, regulations, or instructions printed by the Government for gratuitous distribution. (37 Stat. 497.)

This section and the five sections next following were an act entitled "An act to make uniform charges for furnishing copies of records of the Department of the Interior and of its several bureaus."

§ 676. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 2.) records.

Inspection and copying of

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit or restrict in any manner the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem proper governing the inspection of the records of said department and its various bureaus by the general public, and any person having any particular interest in any of such records may be permitted to take copies of such records under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. (37 Stat. 498.)

§ 677. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 3.) Authenticated copies of records, etc., as evidence.

All authenticated copies furnished under this Act shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof. (37 Stat. 498.)

§ 678. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 4.) Authenticated copies to be attested by official seal.

All officers who furnish authenticated copies under this Act shall attest their authentication by the use of an official seal, which is hereby authorized for that purpose. (37 Stat. 498.)

§ 679. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 5.) Repeal of Act April 19, 1904, c. 1396; other provisions not repealed; fee for certificate of official character of officer of Department.

The Act of Congress approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and four, chapter thirteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to repeal the provisions of sections four hundred and ninety to four hundred and ninety-three, inclusive, and forty-nine hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes, fixing the rates. for patent fees; or the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, chapter five hundred and forty-one, fixing a rate for certifying printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents; or of section fourteen of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and five, chapter five hundred and ninety-two, to authorize the registration of trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and to protect the same; nor shall anything in this Act be construed to repeal any of the provisions of section eight of the Act approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, chapter eighteen hundred and seventy-six, authorizing the officer having charge of the custody of any records pertaining to the enrollment of members of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians to furnish certified copies of such records and charge for that service such fees as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; nor shall anything herein contained prevent the Secretary of the Interior, under his general power of supervision over Indian affairs, from prescribing such charges or fees for furnishing certified copies of the rec

ords of any Indian agency or Indian school as he may deem proper; and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to charge a fee of twenty-five cents for each certified copy issued by him as to the official character of any officer of his department. (37 Stat. 498.)

Act April 19, 1904, c. 1396, 33 Stat. 185, repealed by this section, provided that copies of patents, records, etc., in the General Land Office authenticated by the seal and certified by the Recorder of such Office should be evidence equally with the originals thereof to the same force and effect as when certified by the Commissioner of said Office.

R. S. §§ 490-493 and 4934, mentioned in this section as not repealed thereby, are set forth post, §§ 753-756, 9482.

The provision of Act March 3, 1891, c. 541, mentioned in this section as not repealed thereby, is set forth post, § 757.

Act Feb. 20, 1905, c. 592, § 14, mentioned in this section as not repealed thereby, is set forth post, § 9499.

§ 680. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 370, § 6.) Disposition of receipts under act.

All sums received under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. (37 Stat. 498.)

§ 681. (R. S. § 441.) Duties of Secretary.

The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to the following subjects:

First. [Superseded.]

Second. The public lands, including mines.

Third. The Indians.

Fourth. Pensions and bounty-lands.

Fifth. Patents for inventions.

Sixth. [Superseded.]

Seventh. Education.

Eighth. Government Hospital for the Insane.

Ninth. Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.

Act March 3, 1849, c. 108, §§ 3, 5-9, 9 Stat. 395. Act July 8, 1870, c. 230, § 1, 16 Stat. 198. Act Feb. 5, 1859, c. 22, § 1, 11 Stat. 379. Act July 20, 1868, c. 176, § 1, 15 Stat. 92, 100.

The first subdivision under this section included therein "The Census; when directed by law." It was superseded by the transfer of the Census Office, "and all that pertains to the same," to the Department of Commerce and Labor, by the act establishing that Department, Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 4, post, § 857.

The sixth subdivision of the section included "The custody and distribution of publications." It was superseded by the provisions of the Printing and Binding Act, Act Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, referred to in note under chapter 7 of this Title.

The Commissioner of the General Land Office is required to perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties relating to the public lands, etc., by R. S. § 453, as amended, post, § 699.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is given the management of all Indian