139. Bonds.-The chief clerk, before entering upon his duties, shall give bond to the Treasurer of the United States in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned to render a true and faithful account to the Treasurer quarter-yearly of all moneys which shall be by him received by virtue of his office, with surety to be approved by the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof. (R. S., sec. 524, May 10, 1934, 48 Stat. 759; 5 U. S. C., sec. 520.)

140. Oaths, affirmations, and affidavits taken by officers, agents, etc.. of Department; use and effect of.-That such officers, agents, or employees of the Department of Agriculture of the United States as are designated by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose are hereby authorized and empowered to administer to or take from any person an cath, affirmation, or affidavit whenever such oath, affirmation, or affidavit is for use in any prosecution or proceeding under or in the enforcement of any law committed to or which may hereafter be committed to the Secretary of Agriculture or the Department of Agriculture or any bureau or subdivision thereof for administration. Any such oath, affirmation, or affidavit administered or taken by or before such officer, agent, or employee when certified under his hand and authenticated by the seal of the Department of Agriculture may be offered or used in any court of the United States and shall have like force and effect as if administered or taken before a clerk of such court without further proof of the identity or authority of such officer, agent, or employee. (Jan. 31, 1925, sec. 1, 43 Stat. 803; 5 U. S. C., sec. 521.)

141. Same; fee for taking.-That no officer, agent, or employee of the Department of Agriculture shall demand or accept any fee or compensation whatsoever for administering or taking any oath, affirmation, or affidavit under the authority conferred by this Act. (Jan. 31, 1925, sec. 2, 43 Stat. 803; 5 U. S. C., sec. 522.)

142. Watchmen. And hereafter all duly and lawfully constituted and appointed watchmen of the Department of Agriculture stationed in and upon the buildings and premises of said department in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, shall have and perform the same powers and duties, while on duty in and about said premises, as the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia. (Mar. 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1057; 5 U. S. C., sec. 523.)

143. Bureaus of Soils, Forestry, Chemistry, and of Plant Industry.— That all existing statutes relating to the Division of Soils, reorganized into the Bureau of Soils; the Division of Forestry, reorganized into the Bureau of Forestry; the Division of Chemistry, reorganized into the Bureau of Chemistry; and the Division of Botany, the Division of Pomology, the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, the Division of Agrostology and Experimental Gardens and Grounds, reorganized into the Bureau of Plant Industry, not otherwise repealed, shall remain in effect as applying to the respective bureaus into which the divisions named have been reorganized. (June 3, 1902, 32 Stat. 303; 5 U. S. C., sec. 524.)

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144. Disbursing clerk; deputy.-Salaries, Division of Accounts and Disbursements: One chief of division and disbursing clerk, who shall be administrative officer of the fiscal affairs of the department, one deputy disbursing clerk, The deputy disbursing clerk herein provided for shall hereafter have authority to sign checks in the name of the disbursing clerk; he shall give bond to the United States in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may require, and when so acting for the disbursing clerk shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct in like cases of the disbursing clerk for whom he acts, and the official bond of the disbursing clerk executed shall also be made to cover and apply to the acts of the deputy disbursing clerk. (Mar. 4, 1911, 36 Stat. 1258; 5 U. S. C., sec. 525.)

145. Promotion of laborers without examination.-That all classified laborers whose positions were transferred from the lump funds to the statutory rolls by the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and who were by the last clause of that Act placed in the classified service without further examination in the grades and at the rates of compensation provided in said Act, are hereby made eligible for promotion without further examination. (June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 695; 5 U. S. C., sec. 526.)

146. Appointments, promotions, and changes in salaries.-Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to make such appointments, promotions, and changes in salaries, to be paid out of the lump funds of the several bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department as may be for the best interests of the service. (Mar. 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1280; 5 U. S. C., sec. 527.)

147. Salaries; how paid.-The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to pay the salary of each employee from the roll of the bureau, independent division, or office in which the employee is working, and no other. (Mar. 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1280; 5 U. S. C., sec. 528.)

148. Assignment of pay. And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to permit employees of the Department of Agriculture to make assignments of their pay, under such regulations as he may prescribe, during such time as they may be in the employ of the said department. (Mar. 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1057; 5 U.S. C., sec. 529.)

149. Details of employees from or to office of Secretary.-That details may be made from or to the office of the Secretary when necessary and the services of the person whom it is proposed to detail are not required in that office. (Mar. 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1280; 5 U. S. C., sec. 530.)

3 The function of disbursement of moneys of the United States exercised by any agency is transferred to the Treasury Department and, together with the Office of Disbursing Clerk of that Department, is consolidated in a Division of Disbursement, at the head of which shall be a Chief Disbursing Officer. The Division of Disbursement of the Treasury D. partment is authorized to establish local offices, or to delegate the exercise of its functions locally to officers or employees of other agencies, according as the interests of efficiency and economy may require. The Division of Disbursement shall disburse moneys only upon the certification of persons by law duly authorized to incur obligations upon behalf of the United States. The function of accountability for improper certification shall be transferred to such persons, and no disbursing officer shall be held accountable therefor. (Executive Order No. 6166, June 10, 1933, sec. 4.)

150. Same; Law clerks.-That hereafter the law clerks may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for service in or out of Washington. (Mar. 4, 1911, 36 Stat. 1236; 5 U. S. C., sec. 531.)

151. Same; from and to library and bureaus and offices.-That hereafter employees of the library may be temporarily detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for library service in the bureaus and offices of the department, and employees of the bureaus and offices of the department engaged in library work may also be temporarily detailed to the library. (Mar. 4, 1911, 36 Stat. 1261; 5 U. S. C., sec. 532.)

152. Same; from and to Division of Accounts and Disbursements and bureaus and offices.-That hereafter employees of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for accounting and disbursing work in any of the bureaus and offices of the department for duty in or out of the city of Washington, and employees of the bureaus and offices of the department may also be detailed to the Division of Accounts and Disbursements for duty in or out of the city of Washington, traveling expenses of employees so detailed to be paid from the appropriation of the bureau or office in connection with which such travel is performed. (Aug. 10, 1912, 37 Stat. 294; 5 U. S. C., sec. 533.)

153. Leaves of absence; employees outside Washington.-The employees of the Department of Agriculture, outside of the city of Washington, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year. (May 23, 1908, 35 Stat. 267; 5 U. S. C., sec. 534.) 154. Same; employees assigned to permanent duty in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam.-Hereafter employees of the Department of Agriculture assigned to permanent duty in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leave of absence not to exceed thirty days in any one year, which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases where an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed thirty days additional in any one year. (June 30, 1914, 38 Stat. 441; June 30, 1932, sec. 215, 47 Stat. 407; Mar. 20, 1933, title II, sec. 4, 48 Stat. 14; 5 U. S. C., sec. 535.)

155. Same; employees in the Virgin Islands.-That hereafter employees of the Department of Agriculture assigned to permanent duty in the Virgin Islands shall be entitled to the same privileges as to leave of absence as are conferred upon employees assigned to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam by the Act of June 30, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 441) [5 U. S. C., sec. 535], and if any employe of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands shall elect to postpone the taking of any or all of the annual leave to which he may be entitled under the said Act of June 30, 1914, he may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to the interests of the public service, be allowed to take at one time unused annual leave which may have accumulated within not to exceed four years, and be paid at the rate prevailing during the

year such leave of absence has accumulated. (July 24, 1919, 41 Stat. 262; 5 U. S. C., sec. 536.)

156. Leave of absence to agricultural experiment station employees in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.-The employees of the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico may in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year. (June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 694; 5 U. S. C., sec. 537.)

157. Traveling expenses. And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase from appropriations made for traveling expenses for employees of the Department of Agriculture, mileage and mileage books, at commercial rates, in the manner in which such mileage or mileage books are usually purchased. (Mar. 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1281; 5 U. S. C., sec. 538.)

158. Same; on transfer between stations.-That hereafter officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, may be allowed actual traveling expenses, including charges for the transfer of their effects and personal property used in official work, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. (Mar. 4, 1911, 36 Stat. 1265; 5 U. S. C., sec. 539.

159. Same; Per diem in lieu of subsistence.-That hereafter, when officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture are traveling on official business in the United States, they may be allowed necessary railroad and steamboat fares, sleeping berth, and stateroom on steamboats, livery hire and stage fare, and other means of conveyance between points not accessible by railroad, but in lieu of subsistence and all other traveling expenses they may receive a per diem allowance, to be fixed by the Secretary in each case, in addition to their regular salaries, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe. (Aug. 10, 1912, 37 Stat. 300; 5 U. S. C., sec. 540.)

160. Same; Reimbursement for street-car fares.-That hereafter officials and employees of the Department of Agriculture may, when authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, receive reimbursement for moneys expended for street-car fares at their official headquarters when expended in the transaction of official business. (Aug. 10, 1912, 37 Stat. 300; 5 U. S. C., sec. 541.)

161. Purchase for bureaus from appropriation for contingent expenses. That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may purchase stationery, supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous materials from this appropriation [for contingent expenses] and transfer the same at actual cost to the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture in the city of Washington, reimbursement therefor to be made to this appropriation by said bureaus, divisions, and offices from their lump-fund appropriations by transfer settlements through the Treasury Department. (Aug. 10, 1912, 37 Stat. 296; 5 U. S. C., sec. 542.)

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162. Reimbursement of appropriation for salaries and compensation in mechanical shops.-That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may, by transfer settlement through the general accounting office, reimburse any appropriation made for the salaries and compensation of employees in the mechanical shops of the department from the appropriation made for the bureau, office, or division for which any work in said shops is performed, and such reimbursement shall be at the actual cost of labor for such work. (May 11, 1922, 42 Stat. 508; 5 U. S. C., sec. 543.)

162a. Employees in Alaska; subsistence, equipment, supplies.-That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish subsistence to employees of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Territory of Alaska, and to purchase personal equipment and supplies for them, and to make deductions to meet the cost thereof from any money appropriated for salary payments or otherwise due such employees. (Feb. 16, 1931, 46 Stat. 1162, 5 U. S. C., sec. 543a.)

163. Sale of waste paper. And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell as waste, waste paper, or otherwise to dispose of the accumulation of Department files which do not constitute permanent records, and all other documents and publications which have become obsolete or worthless. (Mar. 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1281; 5 U. S. C., sec. 544.)

164. Exchange of typewriters and computing machines.-That the Secretary of Agriculture may hereafter exchange typewriters and computing, addressing, and duplicating machines purchased from any lump-fund appropriation of the Department of Agriculture. (Aug. 10, 1912, 37 Stat. 296; 5 U. S. C., sec. 545.)

165. Exchange of scientific apparatus and laboratory equipment.-The Secretary of Agriculture may hereafter exchange general scientific apparatus and laboratory equipment purchased from any appropriation of the Department of Agriculture. (June 30, 1914, 38 Stat. 441; 5 U. S. C., sec. 546.)

166. Exchange of books.-That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may exchange books and periodicals of the library not needed for permanent use for other books and periodicals. (Mar. 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1107; 5 U. S. C., sec. 548.)

167. Sale or exchange of animals or animal products.-Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell in the open market or to exchange for other livestock such animals or animal products as cease to be needed in the work of the department, and 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 of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. (Mar. 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1114; 5 U. S. C., sec. 549.)

168. American bison for municipalities, etc., permitted. That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and under such conditions as he may prescribe, supply to any municipality or public institution not more than one American bison from any surplus which may exist in any herd under the control of the Department of Agriculture; and, in order to aid in the propagation of the species, animals may be loaned to or exchanged with other owners of American bison. (July 24, 1919, 41 Stat. 270; 5 U. S. C., sec. 550.)