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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 9, 1889 · Chapter 122

Chapter 122.

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CHAP. 122.— An act to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture and to create an Executive Department to be known as the Department of Agriculture.February 9, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of Agriculture. To be an Executive Department. That the Department of Agriculture, shall be an Executive Department, under the supervision and control of a Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and section one hundred and fifty-eight of the RevisedR.
S., sec. 158, p. 26, amended. Statutes is hereby amended to include such Department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all amendmentsR. S., Title IV. applicable. thereto, are hereby made applicable to said Department. Sec. 2. That there shall be in said Department an Assistant SecretaryAssistant Secretary. of Agriculture, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall perform such duties as may be required by law or prescribed by the Secretary.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall receive the sameSalaries. salary as is paid to the Secretary of each of the Executive Departments, and the salary of the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture shall be the same as that now paid to the First Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws relating to the DepartmentExisting laws. of Agriculture now in existence, as far as the same are applicable and not in conflict with this act, and only so far, are continued in full force and effect.
Approved, February 9, 1889.
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