Volume 53
Public Law 76–181
To define the status of the Under Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Approved June 5, 1939
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To define the status of the Under Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Under Secretary
Department of Agriculture.
Under Secretary; functions and duties.
of Agriculture is authorized to exercise the functions and perform the duties of the first assistant of the Secretary of Agriculture within the meaning of section 177 of the Revised Statutes of the United
R. S. § 177.
States (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 4) and shall perform such other duties as may be required by law or prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Approved, June 5, 1939.