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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs

§ 58. Limitation on number and kind of employment

Statutory text

The number and kind of employees at each agency shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and none other shall be employed.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 55–3 · 30 Stat. 62

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 58

    (June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Salary Restrictions

Act Apr. 18, 1912, ch. 83, § 10, 37 Stat. 88, as amended by act May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 17, 40 Stat. 578, excluded the Osage Agency from the provisions of act , limiting the amount of money to be expended for salaries of regular employees at any one agency.

Act Feb. 26, 1929, ch. 323, 45 Stat. 1307, which repealed a provision of act Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 388, § 1, 37 Stat. 521, imposing a salary limitation of $15,000 at any one agency and $20,000 at a consolidated agency, was itself repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), , 80 Stat. 647.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)

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