Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 554a. Employees to be appointed without regard to political affiliations
Statutory text
Forest inspectors, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and fire patrol are to be hereafter appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 55–571 § 1 · 30 Stat. 652
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 554a
July 7, 1898, ch. 571, § 1, 30 Stat. 673
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 7, 1898, ch. 571, § 1, 30 Stat. 673
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Act , transferred certain functions with regard to the administration of public forests from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Agriculture.
Credits
1898–1905 · 2 acts
- 1898July 7, 1898, ch. 571, § 1, 30 Stat. 673
- 1905Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628.
Show as published
(July 7, 1898, ch. 571, § 1, 30 Stat. 673; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628.)