STATUTES PERMITTING APPOINTMENTS WITH- DEPUTY COLLECTORS AND DEPUTY MARSHALS. internal reve may ap deputies without regard to civil-service act *** That hereafter any deputy collector of in- Collectors of ternal revenue or deputy marshal who may be required by nu and marlaw or by authority or direction of the collector of inter-point bonded nal revenue or the United States marshal to execute a bond to the collector of internal revenue or United States and rules. marshal to secure faithful performance of official duty may be appointed by the said collector or marshal, who may require such bond without regard to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof, and the officer requiring said bond shall have power to revoke the appointment of any subordinate officer or employee and appoint his successor at his control of discretion without regard to the act, amendments, rules, or regulations aforesaid. (38 Stat., 208, act of Oct. 22, 1913.) appointing cer. FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. SEC. 11. The Federal Reserve Board shall be authorized and empowered: * * * * * of employees. (1) To employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, Employment clerks, or other employees as may be deemed necessary to conduct the business of the board. All salaries and fees shall be fixed in advance by said board and shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the members of said board. All such attorneys, experts, assistants, elerks, and other employees shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (volume twenty-two, United States Statutes at Large, page four hundred and three), and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the President from placing said employees in the classified service. (38 Stat., 262, act of Dec. 23, 1913.) COMMERCIAL ATTACHÉS. pointed by Sec merce. Duties. To be a p- For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the retary of Com-Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each; and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, travel to and from the United States, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attaches shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000. (38 Stat., 500, act of July 16, 1914.) Exceptions from civil-service act and rules. Classified ployees. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each commissioner, the attorneys, and such special experts and examiners as the commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work, all employees em- of the commission shall be a part of the classified civil service, and shall enter the service under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission and by the Civil Service Commission. (88 Stat., 718, act of Sept. 26, 1914.) Appointments. FEDERAL FARM LOAN BOARD. SEC. 3. * * * The Federal Farm Loan Board shall be authorized and empowered to employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees as it may deem necessary to conduct the business of said board. * * * All such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees and all registrars, examiners, and appraisers shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the act of January 16, 1883 (vol. 22, U. S. Stats., L., p. 403), and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the President from placing said employees in the classified service. (39 Stat., 361, act of July 17, 1916.) HEADQUARTERS CLERKS, QUARTERMASTER CORPS, INCLUDED IN THE MILITARY SERVICE. a part of the Hereafter headquarters clerks shall be known as Army Allowances, field clerks and shall receive pay at the rates herein pro- Army. vided, and after twelve years of service, at least three years of which shall have been on detached duty away from permanent station or on duty beyond the continental limits of the United States or both, shall receive the same allowances, except retirement, as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and shall be subject to the Rules and Articles of War. (39 Stat., 625, act of Aug. 29, 1916.) The Attorney General rendered an opinion June 21, 1917, in which it is held that Army field clerks may, under the provision quoted above, be арpointed by the Adjutant General without respect to the rules and regulations SEC. 4. of the Civil Service Commission, and that from the date of their appointment they are solely within the control of the rules and Articles of War and not subject to the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission. SHIPPING BOARD. Exceptions With the exception of the secretary, from civil-service a clerk to each commissioner, the attorneys, naval archi-act and rules. tects, and such special experts and examiners as the board may from time to time find necessary to employ for the conduct of its work, all employees of the board shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civilservice law. (39 Stat., 729, act of Sept. 7, 1916.) SEC. 701. TARIFF COMMISSION. Exceptions With the exception of the secretary, from civil-service a clerk to each commissioner, and such special experts as act and rules. the commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work, all employees of the commission shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil-service law. (39 Stat., 795, act of Sept. 8, 1916.) IMMIGRATION SERVICE. SEC. 24. * That said Secretary, in the enforcement of that portion of this act which excludes contract laborers and induced and assisted immigrants, may employ, for such purpose and for detail upon additional service under this act when not so engaged, without reference to the provisions of the said civil-service * * act or to the various acts relative to the compilation of the Official Register, such persons as he may deem advisable, and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their compensation. * Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigration at the several ports of the United States as provided by the sundry civil appropriation act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of such commissioners heretofore appointed. (39 Stat., 893, act of Feb. 5, 1917.) BUREAU OF WAR-RISK INSURANCE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. * With the exception of the director, the commissioners, and such special experts as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of the work of the bureau, all employees of Appointment. the bureau shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil-service law. * * * (40 Stat., 400, act of Oct. 6, 1917.) SPECIAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. SEC. 10. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to employ, for service within or without the District of Columbia, without regard to civil service laws, rules, and regulations, and to pay from the sums hereby authorized and appropriated for construction purposes, at customary rates of compensation, such additional technical and clerical services as may be necessary, exclusively to aid in the preparation of the drawings and specifications for the above-named objects Appointment. and supervision of the execution thereof, for traveling expenses, and printing incident thereto, at a total limit of cost for such additional technical and clerical services and traveling expenses, and so forth, of not exceeding $210,000 of the above-named limit of cost. (Act of Mar. 3, 1919, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, 40 Stat. L., 1304.) BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. SEC. 3. * * * The assistant director shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The chief statistician, the disbursing clerk, the appointment clerk, the chiefs of divisions, and the private secretary to the director shall be appointed without examination by the Secretary of Commerce upon the recommendation of the Director of the Census. The statistical experts and the stenographers shall be ap- Appointment. pointed in conformity with the civil-service act and rules: Provided, That whenever practicable women and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors shall be employed in the positions herein provided for. SEC. 9. * * * The supervisors 1 shall be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce upon the recommendation of the Director of the Census. (Census act of Mar. 3, 1919, 40 Stat. L., 1292.) 1 See opinion of Atty. Gen. of June 14, 1919, p. 96. |