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the United States: Provided, That sections 851-855 of this title shall not authorize any such camp for employment upon any Indian reservation. (Feb. 26, 1929, ch. 336, § 1, 45 Stat. 1318.)

§ 854. Expense of operating camps; appropriation for payment. -The expense incident to the establishment, equipment maintenance, and operation of prison camps shall be payable from the appropriation for support of United States prisoners, and such appropriation shall be reimbursed to the extent agreed upon by the Attorney General and the head of the department to which the appropriation for road building or such other public improvement incident to which the prison camp was established was made. (Feb. 26, 1929, ch. 336, § 5, 45 Stat. 1318.)

ADDITIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR CONFINEMENT OF

MALE PERSONS

§ 906. Employment of inmates; establishment of industries; disposition of manufactured products; working-capital fund. The inmates of institutions established under section 901 of this title shall be employed in such manner and under such conditions as the Attorney General may direct. The Attorney General may, in his discretion, establish industries, plants, factories, or shops for the manufacture of articles, commodities, and supplies for the United States Government; and the several Federal departments and all other Government institutions of the United States shall purchase at not to exceed current market prices such products of the industries herein authorized to be carried on as meet their requirements and as may be available and are authorized by the appropriations from which such purchases are made. Any disputes as to the price, quality, suitability, or character of the products manufactured in any prison industry and offered to any Government department shall be arbitrated by a board consisting of the Comptroller General of the United States, the Superintendent of Supplies of the General Supply Committee, and the Chief of the United States Bureau of Efficiency, or their representatives. The decision of said board shall be final and binding upon all parties. There may be established a working-capital fund for said industries out of any funds appropriated for said institutions; and said working-capital fund shall be available for the purchase, repair, or replacement of industrial machinery or equipment, for the purchase of raw materials and supplies, for personal services of civilian employees engaged in any industrial enterprise, and for the payment to the inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the Attorney General shall deem proper. (May 27, 1930, ch. 339, § 6, 46 Stat. 389.)

TITLE 19-CUSTOMS DUTIES

TARIFF ACT OF 1930

§ 1201. Free list.-Except as otherwise specially provided for in this chapter, the articles mentioned in the following paragraphs, when imported into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, and the island of Guam), shall be exempt from duty:

Par. 1606. (a) Any animal imported by a citizen of the United States specially for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free, whether intended to be used by the importer himself or for sale for such purposes, except black or silver foxes: Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed and duly registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for that breed: Provided further, That the certificate of such record and pedigree of such animal shall be produced and submitted to the Department of Agriculture, duly authenticated by the proper custodian of such book of record, together with an affidavit of the owner, agent, or importer that the animal imported is the identical animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe such regulations as may be required for determining the purity of breeding and the identity of such animal; And provided further, That the collectors of customs shall require a certificate from the Department of Agriculture stating that such animal is pure bred of a recognized breed and duly registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for that breed.

Par. 1671. Eggs of birds, fish, and insects (except fish roe for food purposes): Provided, That the importation of eggs of wild birds is prohibited, except eggs of game birds imported for propagating purposes under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and specimens imported for scientific collections.

Par. 1682. Live game animals and birds, imported for stocking purposes, and game animals and birds killed in foreign countries by residents of the United States and imported by them for noncommercial purposes; under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.

Par. 1742. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane, seeds, and other material for planting, imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title II, § 201, 46 Stat. 672-685; Mar. 4, 1933, ch. 280, 47 Stat. 1570; June 12, 1934, ch. 474, § 2 (a), 48 Stat. 944; June 25, 1938, 5 p. m. E. S. T., ch. 679, §§ 2, 35, 36, 52 Stat. 1077,1092, 1093.)

§ 1306. Cattle, sheep, swine, and meats-Importation prohibited in certain cases (a) Rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease. If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease exists in any foreign country, he shall officially notify the Secretary of the Treasury and give public notice thereof, and thereafter, and until the Secretary of Agriculture gives notice in a similar manner that such disease

no longer exists in such foreign country, the importation into the United States of cattle, sheep, or other domestic ruminants, or swine, or of fresh, chilled, or frozen beef, veal, mutton, lamb, or pork, from such foreign country, is prohibited.

(b) Meats unfit for human food. No meat of any kind shall be imported into the United States unless such meat is healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food and contains no dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient which renders such meat unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, and unless such meat also complies with the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture. All imported meats shall, after entry into the United States in compliance with such rules and regulations, be deemed and treated as domestic meats within the meaning of and subject to the provisions of sections 1-15, 95 of Title 21.

(c) Regulations.-The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section, and in such rules and regulations the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe the terms and conditions for the destruction of all cattle, sheep, and other domestic ruminants, and swine, and of all meats, offered for entry and refused admission into the United States, unless such cattle, sheep, domestic ruminants, swine, or meats be exported by the consignee within the time fixed therefor in such rules and regulations. (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 306, 46 Stat. 689.)

UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION

§ 1334. Cooperation with other agencies.-The commission shall in appropriate matters act in conjunction and cooperation with the Treasury Department, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission, or any other departments, or independent establishments of the Government, and such departments and independent establishments of the Government shall cooperate fully with the commission for the purposes of aiding and assisting in its work, and, when directed by the President, shall furnish to the commission, on its request, all records, papers, and information in their possession relating to any of the subjects of investigation by the commission and shall detail, from time to time, such officials and employees to said commission as he may direct. (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 334, 46 Stat. 700.)

PROMOTION OF FOREIGN TRADE

§ 1354. Notice of intention to negotiate agreement; opportunity to be heard; President to seek information and advice.Before any foreign trade agreement is concluded with any foreign government or instrumentality thereof under the provisions of Part III of this title, reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate an agreement with such government or instrumentality shall be given in order that any interested person may have an opportunity to present his views to the President, or to such agency as the President may designate, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe; and before conclud

ing such agreement the President shall seek information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce and from such other sources as he may deem appropriate. (June 12, 1934, ch. 474, § 4, 48 Stat. 945.)

TITLE 20-EDUCATION

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

§ 17. Federal board; members; chairman; terms of office; cooperation with State boards; investigations; assistants.-A Federal Board for Vocational Education is created, to consist of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the United States Commissioner of Education, and three citizens of the United States to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. One of said three citizens shall be a representative of the manufacturing and commercial interests, one a representative of the agricultural interests, and one a representative of labor. The board shall elect annually one of its members as chairman. In the first instance, one of the citizen members shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter for three years each.

The Federal Security Agency shall have power to cooperate with State boards in carrying out the provisions of sections 11-15, 16-28, of this title. It shall be the duty of the Federal Security Agency to make or cause to have made studies, investigations, and reports, with particular reference to their use in aiding the States in the establishment of vocational schools and classes and in giving instruction in agriculture, trades and industries, commerce and commercial pursuits, and home economics. Such studies, investigations, and reports shall include agriculture and agricultural processes and requirements upon agricultural workers; trades, industries, and apprenticeships, trade and industrial requirements upon industrial workers, and classification of industrial processes and pursuits; commerce and commercial pursuits and requirements upon commercial workers; home management, domestic science, and the study of related facts and principles; and problems of administration of vocational schools and of courses of study and instruction in vocational subjects.

When the Federal Security Agency deems its advisable such studies, investigations, and reports concerning agriculture, for the purposes of agricultural education, may be made in cooperation with or through the Department of Agriculture; such studies, investigations, and reports concerning trades and industries, for the purposes of trade and industrial education, may be made in cooperation with or through the Department of Labor; such studies, investigations, and reports concerning commerce and commercial pursuits, for the purposes of commercial education, may be made in cooperation with or through the Department of Commerce; such studies, investigations, and reports concerning the administration of vocational schools,

courses of study and instruction in vocational subjects, may be made in cooperation with or through the Office of Education. The Commissioner of Education may make such recommendations to the Federal Security Agency relative to the administration of sections 11-15, 16-28 of this title as he may from time to time deem advisable. It shall be the duty of the Federal Security Agency to carry out the rules, regulations, and decisions which it may adopt. The Federal Security Agency shall have power to employ such assistants as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 11-15, 16-28, of this title. (Feb. 23, 1917, ch. 114, § 6, 39 Stat. 932; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 15, June 10, 1933; Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 Fed. Reg. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

The Office of Education was originally established in the Department of the Interior from which it was transferred to the Federal Security Agency by Reorganization Plan No. I, cited to text, which is set out in note to section 133t of Title 5, Executive Department, and Government Officers and Employees.

In the appropriation act of July 12, 1870, ch. 251, 16 Stat. 242, the Office was designated the Bureau of Education. This designation was retained until the act of May 14, 1930, ch. 273, 46 Stat. 281, 319, which made appropriations for the "Office of Education." Since that time, all appropriations have been made to the "Office of Education."

Functions of Federal Board for Vocational Education were transferred to Interior Department and from there to the Federal Security Agency.

SMITHSONIAN GALLERY OF ART

§ 76d. Donations of works of art from Government agencies. -The Federal Works Administrator and other agencies of the Government are authorized to donate to the Gallery any works of art now or hereafter under their control. (May 17, 1938, ch. 238, § 5, 52 Stat. 401; Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 301, 303, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 Fed. Reg. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, 1427.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division in the Treasury Department and Public Works Administration and other agencies were consolidated into the Federal Works Agency, and functions transferred to the Federal Works Administrator, by Reorganization Plan No. I, §§ 301, 303, effective July 1, 1939, set out in notes to section 133t of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

§ 82. National Zoological Park; aid in acquisition of collections. -The heads of executive departments of the Government are authorized and directed to cause to be rendered all necessary and practicable aid to the said Regents in the acquisition of collections for the Zoological Park. (Apr. 30, 1890, ch. 173, § 3, 26 Stat. 78.)

GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR RESEARCH, AND MATERIAL FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

§ 91. Literary and scientific collections accessible to investigators and students.-The facilities for study research and illustration in the Government departments and in the following and

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