Chapter 76. To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide the necessary organization of the customs service for an adequate administration and enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1922 and all other customs revenue laws,” approved March 4, 1923
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CHAP. 76.— An Act To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide the necessary organization of the customs service for an adequate administration and enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1922 and all other customs revenue laws,” approved March 4, 1923. January 13, 1925.[[H. R. 9076](/us/bill/68/hr/9076).][[Public, No. 321](/us/pl/68/321).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Customs Service.Vol. 42, p. 1453, amended.
That section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide the necessary organization of the customs service for an adequate administration and enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1922 and all other customs revenue laws,” approved March 4, 1923, is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 2. Secretary to appoint, etc., deputy comptrollers and other customs officers. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and directed to appoint deputy collectors, deputy comptrollers, deputy surveyors, deputy and assistant appraisers, examiners of merchandise, inspectors and such other customs officers, laborers, and other employees as he shall deem necessary, prescribe their designations and duties when not otherwise defined by law, Special customs agents and attachés.and fix their compensation.
He is authorized to appoint special agents of the Customs Service in number, as now provided by law, and fix their compensation, and to appoint and fix the compensation of such number of customs attaches for duty in foreign countries and of customs agents as he may deem necessary, all of whom shall perform their duties as defined by existing law or prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the immediate supervision *Provisos.*Designations for foreign service.of the director, special agency service of the customs: *Provided*, That any officer of the Customs Service designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for foreign service shall, through the Department of State, be regularly and officially attached to the diplomatic missions of the United States in the countries in which they are to be. stationed, and when such officers are assigned to countries in which there is no diplomatic missions of the United States appropriate recognition and standing with full facilities for discharging their official duties shall be arranged by the Department Authority of Secretary of State as to foreign assignments.of State: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of State may reject the name of any such officer whose assignment to the foreign post for which he has been designated would, in his judgment, be Clerks, etc., Board of General Appraisers.prejudicial to the public policy of the United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall likewise appoint and fix the compensation of the clerks and other employees of the Board of United States General Appointments subject to civil service laws, upon nomination of officers in charge.Appraisers. The appointment of such customs officers and employees shall be made pursuant to the civil-service laws and regulations upon the nomination of the principal officer in charge of the office to which such appointments are to be made.” " Approved, January 13, 1925.