nual rate of appropriation or other law, by Act July 16, 1914, c. 141, § 6, post, § 3228a. The officers and employés of the United States whose salaries are appropriated for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1916, Act March 4, 1915, c. 141, 38 Stat. 1049, are established and continued from year to year to the extent that they are appropriated for by Congress, by 6 of said act, post, § 3228b. Unless otherwise specially authorized by law, no money appropriated by any act shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one salary, when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds $2,000 per annum, with certain enumerated exceptions, by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 6, as amended by Act Aug. 29, 1916, c. 417, post, § 3230a. A Council of National Defense, composed of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, was created by Act Aug. 29, 1916, c. 418, § 2, set forth post, under Title XVII A, "The Council of National Defense and the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics." Decisions Notes of purpose, and thereafter returned to Deportation of aliens.-Under section 4244, post, as amended by Act March 26, 1910, c. 128, § 1, and this and the following sections, and section 4269, post, where an alien was excluded after a finding by the Board of Special Inquiry, confirmed by the Secretary of Labor, that he was attempting to bring in a woman for an immoral § 933. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 2.) Assistant Secretary; chief clerk, disbursing clerk, and other clerical assistants. There shall be in said department an Assistant Secretary of Labor, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk, and such other clerical assistants, inspectors, and special agents as may from time to time be provided for by Congress. (37 Stat. 736.) Further provisions of this section, for the auditing by the Auditor of the Treasury for the State and other Departments, of accounts of salaries and expenses of the office of the Secretary, and of all bureaus and offices under his direction, and of certain other accounts, are set forth ante, § 422. Appropriations for the salaries of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, and of other officers, clerks, and employés in the Department, from March 4, 1913, the date when this act took effect, until the end of the fiscal year 1914, were made by the act making appropriations for expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-Third Congress, Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, 38 Stat. 1. Further provisions making the appropriations and balances of appropriations for the bureaus, offices, etc., transferred to the Department of Labor available for expenditure in and by the Department, and for the transfer of officers, clerks, and other employés engaged upon work relating to the business of the bureaus and offices so transferred, were made also by said Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, 38 Stat. 2. Subsequent appropriations for the remainder of the fiscal year 1914, for additional employés in the office of the Secretary, for additional amounts for contingent, etc., expenses for the offices and bureaus of the Department, and for rent for the office of the Secretary, etc., were made by the urgent deficiency act of Oct. 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 225. The appropriations for the fiscal year 1917 were by the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation act for that year, Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. See notes to § 932, ante. § 934. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3.) Transfer of offices, bureaus, etc., to Department. The following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Commissioner General of Immigration, the Commissioners of Immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and ས་། Naturalization, the Division of Information, the Division of Naturalization, and the Immigration Service at Large, the Bureau of Labor, the Children's Bureau, and the Commissioner of Labor, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the lastnamed department. (37 Stat. 737.) Further provisions of this section, relating to the Bureau of Naturalization, and to the Bureau of Labor, respectively, are placed under subsequent chapters of this title, post, §§ 945, 961, 962. The powers, duties, etc., of the heads of Executive Departments in or over the bureaus, offices, etc., transferred to the Department of Labor, were vested in the head of the Department, by section eight of this act, post, § 940. Provisions for the transfer to the Department of officers, clerks, and employés in the offices, bureaus, etc., transferred under this act were made by section 6 of this act, post, § 936, and by Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, 38 Stat. 2. The records and papers on file, and the furniture in use in the bureaus, offices, etc., transferred by this act, were also transferred to the Department of Labor, by section 5 of this act, post, § 935. The Secretary of Labor has charge of the furniture, records, etc., pertaining to the Department by section 6 of this act, post, § 936. Provisions previous to this act, for the detail, for duty in the Bureau of Immigration at Washington, of special immigrant inspectors and of officers employed in the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Acts and the Alien Contract Labor Laws, which may be applicable to the Bureau of Immigration in the Department of Labor, were made by Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1, Act June 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1, and Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, post, §§ 937939. § 935. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 5.) Transfer of records and papers on file, and furniture in use, in bureaus, offices, etc., transferred to Department. The official records and papers now on file in and pertaining exclusively to the business of any bureau, office, department,_or branch of the public service in this Act transferred to the Department of Labor, together with the furniture now in use in such bureau, office, department, or branch of the public service, shall be, and hereby are, transferred to the Department of Labor. (37 Stat. 737.) § 936. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 6.) Custody of Department buildings, property, records, etc.; grades and salaries of officers, clerks, and employés transferred; work and duties of bureaus, offices, etc., transferred. The Secretary of Labor shall have charge in the buildings or premises occupied by or appropriated to the Department of Labor, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property pertaining to it or hereafter acquired for use in its business; he shall be allowed to expend for periodicals and the purposes of the library and for rental of appropriate quarters for the accommodation of the Department of Labor within the District of Columbia, and for all other incidental expenses, such sums as Congress may provide from time to time: Provided, however, That where any office, bureau, or branch of the public service transferred to the Department of Labor by this Act is occupying rented buildings or premises, it may still continue to do so until other suitable quarters are provided for its use: And provided further, That all officers, clerks, and employees now employed in any of the bureaus, offices, departments, or branches of the public service in this Act transferred to the Department of Labor are each and all hereby transferred to said department at their present grades and salaries, except where otherwise provided in this Act: And provided further, That all laws prescribing the work and defining the duties of the several bureaus, offices, departments, or branches of the public service by this Act transferred to and made a part of the Department of Labor shall, so far as the same are not in conflict with the provisions of this Act, remain in full force and effect, to be executed under the direction of the Secretary of Labor. (37 Stat. 738.) The Secretary of Labor is authorized to permit the use of Charleston immigration and dock for an armory, by the South Carolina Naval Militia, under certain regulations and restrictions, by Res. May 3, 1916, No. 107, 39 Stat. § 937. (Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1.) Detail of special immigrant inspectors for duty at Washington. Bureau of Immigration: * * Hereafter special immigrant inspectors, not to exceed three, may be detailed for duty in the Bureau at Washington. (28 Stat. 780.) This was a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the Bureau of Immigration in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. Subsequent provisions for detailing one officer employed in the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and one employed in the enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws, for duty at Washington, were made by Act June 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1, and Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, post, §§ 938, 939. § 938. (Act June 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1.) Detail of officer employed in enforcement of Chinese exclusion acts for duty at Depart ment. Nothing in section four of the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and twenty-five) shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from hereafter detailing one officer employed in the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Acts for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington. (31 Stat. 611.) This was a provision accompanying an appropriation for enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, cited above. The authority possessed by the Secretary of the Treasury by virtue of any law in relation to exclusion of Chinese having been transferred to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 522, § 7, ante, § 858, and this act having provided, by section 6 thereof, ante, § 936, that the laws prescribing the work and defining the duties of the several bureaus, etc., transferred to the Department of Labor, should be executed under the direc tion of the Secretary of Labor, this provision may be regarded as applicable to the detail of an officer to the Department of Labor. A further provision of the same act, accompanying the appropriation for enforcement of alien contract-labor laws, authorized the detail of one special inspector for duty in Washington. It was superseded by the provision of the similar act for the year next following Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, 31 Stat. 1155, which was in turn superseded by a provision in Act March 4, 1915, c. 147, § 1, post, § 939. § 939. (Act March 4, 1915, c. 147, § 1.) Detail of officer and clerk employed for enforcing alien contract labor laws for duty at Department. Section four of the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-five), shall not be construed to prevent the Secretary of Labor from hereafter detailing one officer and one clerk employed for the special duty of enforcing the alien contract labor provisions of the immigration Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eight hundred and ninety-eight), in pursuance of section twenty-four of said immigration Act, for duty at the Department of Labor at Washington. (38 Stat. 1151.) This was a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1915, cited above. It superseded a similar provision in Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, 31 Stat. 1155. Act Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 4, mentioned in this section, is set forth ante, § 249. Act Feb. 20, 1907, c. 1134, also mentioned in this section, is set forth post under Title XXIX, "Immigration," Chapter A, "Regulation and Restriction of Immigration in General." See notes to the similar provision for detail of an officer employed in enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Act June 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1, ante, § 938. § 940. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 8.) Powers of Secretary as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes; transfer of duties, powers, etc., of heads of executive departments over bureaus, offices, etc., transferred to Department. The Secretary of Labor shall have power to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require. it to be done; and all duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this Act transferred to the Department of Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch, or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or otherwise, shall hereafter be vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Labor. (37 Stat. 738.) See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 932. An appropriation to pay the expenses of commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes, appointed in pursuance of this section, was made by the urgent deficiency Act of Oct. 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 225. The appropriation for the fiscal year 1917, was by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for that year, Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. § 941. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 9.) Annual report to Congress; special investigations and reports. The Secretary of Labor shall annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to Congress, giving an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him and his department and describing the work done by the department. He shall also, from time to time, make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary. (37 Stat. 738.) § 942. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 10.) Report on coordination of activities, duties, and powers of the office of Secretary of Labor with those of existing bureaus, commissions, and Departments, relating to labor and its conditions. The Secretary of Labor shall investigate and report to Congress a plan of coordination of the activities, duties, and powers of the office of the Secretary of Labor with the activities, duties, and powers of the present bureaus, commissions, and departments, so far as they relate to labor and its conditions, in order to harmonize and unify such activities, duties, and powers, with a view to further legislation to further define the duties and powers of such Department of Labor. (37 Stat. 738.) § 943. (Act March 4, 1909, c. 299, § 1.) Report of expenditures of Division of Naturalization. Special examiners, Division of Naturalization: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Division of Naturalization, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, provided for by the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States," and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe; and for the actual necessary traveling expenses of the officers and employees of the Division of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. A detailed report of the expenditures under the appropriations for this service shall be annually submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. (35 Stat. 982.) These were provisions of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1910, cited above. The appropriations made therein and the accompanying provisions relate to the particular fiscal year only, but the requirement of a report of the expenditures under the appropriation for this service, to be submitted annually, may be regarded as permanent. Appropriations for similar purposes are made in the subsequent sundry civil appropriation acts. The provisions for the fiscal year 1917 were made, under the heading “Naturalization Service," by Act July 1, 1916, c. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. CHAPTER B The Bureau of Labor Statistics The Department of Labor, established by Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, 25 Stat. 182, which, on the establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor, by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, 32 Stat. 825, was by section 4 of that act placed under the jurisdiction and made a part of said Department, and which was designated in subsequent acts as the Bureau of Labor in that department, was again transferred, on the creation of the Department of Labor as a new executive department by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, 37 Stat. 736, to said Department, by section 3 of said act, to be known thereafter as the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This chapter includes the provisions of said acts and subsequent acts relating to said former Department of Labor or Bureau of Labor which remain in force and may be applicable to the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a bureau of the Department of Labor. Sec. Commissioner of Labor Statistics; powers and duties of former Commissioner of Labor retained; administration of act granting compensation to injured employés of United States. 945. Powers of Bureau; collection and reports of statistics of labor conditions, etc.; powers of Secretary of Labor. 946. Former Department of Labor; de sign and duties. Sec. 947. Commissioner; appointment and term of office; salary. 950. Bulletin to contain abstract of Reports of statistics of Labor, etc., 953. Laws relating to former Bureau of Labor continued in force so far as applicable. § 944. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3.) Designations of Bureau and of Commissioner of Labor Statistics; powers and duties of former Commissioner of Labor retained; administration of act granting compensation to injured employés of United States. The Bureau of Labor shall hereafter be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor shall hereafter be known as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics; and all the powers and duties heretofore possessed by the Commissioner of Labor shall be retained and exercised by the Commissioner of Labor Statistics; and the administration of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compen |