25 USC § 58 - Limitation on number and kind of employment

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title: "25 USC § 58 - Limitation on number and kind of employment"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "58"
section_name: "Limitation on number and kind of employment"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "OFFICERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS"
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currency: "119-84"
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source_credit: "(June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)"
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# § 58. Limitation on number and kind of employment

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

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**Source Credit**: (June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Salary Restrictions

, , as amended by , , 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.

, , which repealed a provision of , , imposing a salary limitation of $15,000 at any one agency and $20,000 at a consolidated agency, was itself repealed by , , .

## 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, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.