§ 844. (Act March 2, 1895, c. 169.) Changes or assignment to duty in force of Bureau. Salaries of the Weather Bureau: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of the Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, transferring the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture; ** and the Secretary is hereby authorized to make such changes or assignment to duty in the personnel or detailed force of the Weather Bureau for limiting or reducing expenses as he may deem necessary. (28 Stat. 736.) This was a provision accompanying an appropriation for salaries of the Bureau in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. Provisions to the same effect were contained in the similar acts for several years preceding this act. The laws authorizing the detail of officers of the Army to the Bureau were repealed by Res. July 8, 1898, No. 57, 30 Stat. 752. § 845. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 145.) Traveling expenses of officers and employés transferred from one station to another. Hereafter officials and employees of the Weather Bureau, when transferred from one station to another for official duty, shall be allowed all traveling expenses authorized by existing laws applicable to said bureau, notwithstanding any changes in appointments. that may be required by such transfers. (37 Stat. 830.) This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the Bureau in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above. § 845a. (Act Aug. 11, 1916, c. 313.) Printing office for printing weather maps, bulletins, etc. General expenses, Weather Bureau:** For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publication's, including the pay of additional employees, when necessary, $12,800: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau, that in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said. bureau. (39 Stat.) This was a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1917, cited above. It was repeated in prior appropriation acts. See Act June 30, 1914, c. 131, 38 Stat. 417, and Act March 4, 1915, c. 144, 38 Stat. 1088. § 846. (Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, § 9.) Making of appropriations and estimates for Bureau; development of Bureau in interests of agriculture. On and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the appropriations for the support of the Signal Corps of the Army shall be made with those of other staff corps of the Army, and the appropriations for the support of the Weather Bureau shall be made with those of the other bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare future estimates for the Weather Bureau which shall be hereafter specially developed and extended in the interests of agriculture. (26 Stat. 653.) See note to section 1 of this act, ante, § 840. This section and the preceding sections of this act may be regarded as superseding previous provisions that appropriations for the Signal Service, under the War Department, should be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, Act Aug. 7, 1882, c. 433, § 1, 22 Stat. 319; and that no money should be paid out of appropriations for the Army, for the Signal Service, other than the pay of officers, detailed for service therein, except sums specifically appropriated therefor, Act March 3, 1885, c. 339, 23 Stat. 356. Provisions applicable to appropriations and estimates therefor generally are contained in Title XLI, "Appropriations." Provisions for the sale of surplus maps and publications of the Signal Of fice, the money received therefrom to be applied to the expenses of the Signal Service, were made by R. S. § 227, ante, § 329. The Secretary of the Navy was authorized to loan scientific instruments for the use of the signal service, by Act Oct. 19, 1888, c. 1210, § 3, ante, § 644. § 847. (Act April 25, 1896, c. 140.) etc. Weather signals on mail cars, The Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Postmaster-General, may arrange a plan by which there shall be displayed all cars and other conveyances used for transporting United States mail, suitable flags or other signals to indicate weather forecasts, cold-wave warnings, frost warnings, and so forth, to be furnished by the Chief of the Weather Bureau. (29 Stat. 108.) on This was a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal Fear 1897, cited above. Similar provisions were contained in the agricultural appropriation acts for the two preceding years. Provisions of the same acts, punishing the issue or publication of counterfeit weather forecasts, etc., were incorporated in the Criminal Code, § 61, post, § 10229, and were repealed by section 341 thereof, post, § 10515. § 848. (Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907.) Sale of surplus maps or publications. Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell any surplus maps or publications of the Weather Bureau, and the money received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes notwithstanding. (34 Stat. 1258.) This was a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908, cited above. R. S. § 227, mentioned in this provision, authorizing the sale of surplus maps or publications of the Signal Office, under the War Department, the money received therefor to be applied toward the expenses of the signal service, is set forth ante, § 329. $849. (Act May 25, 1900, c. 555.) Destruction of old telegrams in Bureau. Hereafter all telegrams pertaining to the business of the Weather Bureau may be destroyed after they are three years old, and the accounts based thereon have been settled by the Treasury Department; and the present accumulation of these old telegrams may be destroyed. (31 Stat. 204.) This was a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, cited above. Provisions applicable to all the departments, relating to the disposition of accumulations of useless papers, are set forth or referred to ante, §§ 283, 284. Sec CHAPTER C The Bureau of Animal Industry The Bureau of Animal Industry was established in the Department of Agriculture, by Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, 23 Stat. 31, before that Department was constituted an Executive Department. This chapter includes the provisions of that act and subsequent acts relating to the Bureau so established. 850. Establishment of Bureau; Chief of Bureau, clerk, and employés; salaries. 851. Sale or exchange of animals or 1 U.S.COMP.'16-30 Sec. products produced or purchased under appropriations for Bureau. 852. Sale of pathological and zoological specimens. (465) § 850. (Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, § 1.) Establishment of Bureau; Chief of Bureau, clerk, and employés; salaries. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall organize in his Department a Bureau of Animal Industry, and shall appoint a Chief thereof, who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, and whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the condition of the domestic animals of the United States, their protection and use, and also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ a force sufficient for this purpose, not to exceed twenty persons at any one time. The salary of the Chief of said Bureau shall be [three thousand dollars] per annum; and the Commissioner shall appoint a clerk for said Bureau, with a salary of [one thousand five hundred dollars] per annum. (23 Stat. 31.) This section was part of the Annual Industry Act, entitled "An act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals, cited above." Sections 2-9 of the act contained provisions for investigation of methods of treating, transporting, etc., animals and means for suppression of contagious, etc., diseases, for regulations for suppression of such diseases and co-operation with States and Territories in plans and methods adopted therefor, and other provisions relating to exportation and transportation of live stock to foreign countries and among the States, and to the suppression of diseases of live stock. Said sections are set forth or referred to post, under Title 56B, "Regulations of Interstate and Foreign Commerce as to Particular Subjects," c. 1. Section 10 of this act made an appropriation to carry into effect its provisions and is omitted, as temporary only. Section 11 of this act required an annual report to Congress of persons employed, expenditures, etc., under the act, and is set forth ante, § 838. The designation of the office of Commissioner of Agriculture was changed by the change of the department into an executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture, by Act Feb. 9, 1889, c. 122, ante, §§ 789-792. The authority granted to the Commissioner by this act was vested in the Secretary of Agriculture, by a provision of Act July 14, 1890, c. 707, ante, § 819. The provision of this section limiting the number of persons to be employed "not to exceed twenty persons at any one time," and the words stating the amounts of the salaries of the Chief of the Bureau at "three thousand dollars," and of the clerk, at "one thousand five hundred dollars," were practically superseded by subsequent appropriations for an enlarged force, and for increased salaries. And the appropriations for the fiscal year 1914, providing for the Chief of Bureau, $5,000, a chief clerk, $2,500, an editor and compiler, $2,250, clerks of various classes, and numerous other employés, at specified rates of compensation, by Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 830, were accompanied by a further provision that every officer and employé whose rate of compensation was specified therein should thereafter receive compensation at the rate so specified, ante, § 802. The appropriations for the fiscal year 1917, by Act Aug. 11, 1916, c. 313, 39 Stat., provided for additional officers as follows: Assistant chief of bureau, $3,250; chief of division of stations and accounts, $2,750; chief of printing division, $2,500; and three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each—and omitted the provision for the editor and compiler. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with rates of salaries or compensation appropriated by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts are repealed, and the rates of salaries or compensation of officers or employés appropriated for in said acts are to constitute the rate of salary or compensation of such officers or employés, respectively, until otherwise fixed by an annual rate of appropriation or other law, by Act July 16, 1914, c. 141, § 6, post, § 3228a. The officers and employés of the United States whose salaries are appropriated for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1916, Act March 4, 1915, c. 141, 38 Stat. 1049, are established and continued from year to year to the extent that they are appropriated for by Congress, by § 6 of said act, post, § 3228b. Unless otherwise specially authorized by law, no money appropriated by any et shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one salary, when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds $2,000 per annum, with certain enumerated exceptions, by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 6, as amended by Act Aug. 29, 1915, c. 417, post, § 3230a. Provisions for leaves of absence to employés of the Bureau, outside of the City of Washington, contained in the annual agricultural appropriation acts for several preceding years, were superseded by the provisions for such leaves to employés of the Department, outside said city, contained in Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, set forth ante, § 807. Forcibly assaulting, resisting, etc., any officer or employé of the Bureau of Animal Industry in the execution of his duties, and discharging any deadly weapon at such officer or employé; or using any dangerous or deadly weapon in resisting him in the execution of his duties, with intent to commit a bodily injury upon him or to deter or prevent him from discharging his duties, or on account of the performance of his duties, were made punishable, by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1496, § 5, 33 Stat. 1265, which was incorporated in the Criminal Code, § 62, post, § 10230. Provisions for the printing and distribution of the reports of the Secretary of Agriculture and of the Bureau of Animal Industry were made by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, pars. 2, 3, post, §§ 7054, 7055. Notes of Employment of counsel.-Act July 18, 1888 (25 Stat. 333), does not authorize the employment of counsel for the defense of employés of the Bureau for acts done by them under its direction. (1889) 19 Op. Atty. Gen. 328. Validity of regulations.-The order of the Department of Agriculture of April 26, 1904, prohibiting the importation Decisions § 851. (Act Aug. 10, 1912, c. 284.) of hay and straw from continental Europe as a means of preventing the introduction of foot and mouth disease among cattle in the United States, is a regulation of commerce with foreign nations and an exercise of legislative power, and therefore void. (1904) 25 Op. Atty. Gen. 249. Sale or exchange of animals or products produced or purchased under appropriations for Bureau. Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell in the Open market or to exchange for other breeding animals or animal products to the best advantage, without the usual condemnation proceedings and public auction, such animals or animal products produced or purchased under the appropriations made by Congress for the use of the Bureau of Animal Industry as may not be needed in the work of that bureau: Provided, That all moneys received from the sale of such animals or animal products, or as a bonus in the exchange of the same, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (37 Stat. 274.) This was a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. § 852. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 145.) Sale of pathological and zoological specimens. Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prepare and sell at cost such pathological and zoological specimens as he may deem of scientific or educational value to scientists or others engaged in the work of hygiene and sanitation: Provided, That all moneys received from the sale of such specimens shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (37 Stat. 837.) This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the Bureau in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above. (467) TITLE XII A THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE The Department of Commerce and Labor, as an Executive Department, with a Secretary of Commerce and Labor as the head thereof, was established by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, 32 Stat. 825, and by section 4 of that act, various officers, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service were placed under the jurisdiction and made a part of the Department, including the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the Commissioners of Immigration, the Bureau of Immigration, and the Immigration Service at large, transferred from the Treasury Department, and the Department of Labor, previously established by Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, 25 Stat. 182. Thereafter the designation of the Bureau of Immigration in the Department was changed to "Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization," and said Bureau was given charge of all matters concerning naturalization of aliens, by Act June 29, 1906, c. 3592, § 1, 34 Stat. 596. Subsequently, the Children's Bureau was established in the Department by Act April 9, 1912, c. 73, 37 Stat. 79. But by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, 37 Stat. 736, a new Executive Department was created, to be called "The Department of Labor," with a Secretary of Labor to be the head thereof, and the Department of Commerce and Labor was thereafter to be called the Department of Commerce, and the Secretary thereof to be called the Secretary of Commerce; and the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the Commissioners of Immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and the Immigration Service at large, the Bureau of Labor, the Children's Bureau, and the Commissioner of Labor, were transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, to thereafter remain under the jurisdiction of the last-named department. This title, inserted here as additional to the original titles of the Revised Statutes, includes the provisions of said acts and subsequent acts remaining in force and applicable to the Department of Commerce; those relating to the Department, its officers, clerks, employés, etc., generally, being placed in Chapter A, and provisions applicable only to particular bureaus, offices, etc., being grouped in the subsequent chapters under the titles of the several bureaus, officers, etc. Chap. A. The Department and the Secretary of Commerce. C. The Bureau of Corporations.. E. The Bureau of Light-Houses. F. The Bureau of Fisheries. G. The Census Office..... H. The Bureau of Standards. Sec. 853 873 889 890 896 901 909 921 |