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[CITE: 16USC554a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 554a. Employees to be appointed without regard to political 
        affiliations
        
    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.

(July 7, 1898, ch. 571, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 673; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, 
Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 628.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Act Feb. 1, 1905, transferred certain functions with regard to the 
administration of public forests from Secretary of the Interior to 
Secretary of Agriculture.
