(xiii) Agents in the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management employed in field positions, the work of which is financed jointly by the Interior Department and cooperating persons or organizations outside the Federal service.

(xiv) Positions in the field service of the Fish and Wildlife Service concerned with scientific fishery investigations when filled by the appointment of students at colleges and universities of recognized standing: Provided, That substantial contributions to the investigations are made by such college or universities in money, services, or materials or in the use of buildings, laboratories, equipment, or facilities or otherwise. Such employments may be continued under this authority only so long as the appointee is a bona fide student at the particular college or university and receives academic credit toward a degree for the work which he is performing for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

(xv) Office of the Secretary: Director and Assistant Director of the Division of Power.

(xvi) Office of the Secretary: One private secretary or confidential assistant to the Director of the Division of Power.

(xvii) National Power Policy Committee: The General Counsel.

(xviii) Temporary or seasonal caretakers at temporarily closed camps or improved areas to maintain grounds, buildings or other structures and prevent damage or theft of Government property. Such appointments shall not extend beyond six months without the prior approval of the Commission.

(xix) Temporary, intermittent or seasonal field assistants in forestry, range management, soils, engineering, and with surveying parties, for not to exceed 180 working days a year.

(xx) Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: One Administrator and one Head Administrative Officer.

(xxi) Three members of the Federal Petroleum Board.

(xxii) Office of Indian Affairs: The Executive Director of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board.

(xxiii) Temporary emergency forest and range fire and blister rust control employees in the field service of the Department of the Interior employed for fire prevention or suppression or blister

rust control for not to exceed 120 working days a year.

(xxiv) Bonneville Power Administration: The Administrator.

(xxv) Division of Territories and Island Possessions: The Director of the Division.

(xxvi) Territory of Hawaii: One Hawaiian House Representative.

(xxvii) Virgin Islands: The Administrator of St. Croix, V. I.

(xxviii) Office of the Secretary: Six field representatives whose duties are of a confidential nature.

(9) Department of Agriculture. (i) (a) Agents employed in field positions the work of which is financed jointly by the Department and cooperating persons, organizations, or governmental agencies outside the Federal service.

(b) Local agents, except veterinarians, employed temporarily outside of Washington in demonstrating in their respective localities the necessity of eradicating contagious or infectious animal diseases.

(c) Positions the duties of which require a speaking knowledge of one of the Indian languages.

In making appointments under this subdivision, a full report shall be submitted immediately by the Department to the Commission setting forth the name, designation, and compensation of the appointee and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned and of his qualifications for such duties, in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under one of the above classes. The same procedure shall be followed in case of the assignment of any such agent to duties of a different character.

(ii) One chauffeur for the Secretary of Agriculture.

(iii) Two private secretaries or confidential assistants to the Secretary of Agriculture, one to the Under Secretary of Agriculture, and one to each Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

(iv) Student assistants whose salaries shall not aggregate more than $832 a year. Only bona fide students at high schools or colleges of recognized standing shall be eligible for appointment under this subdivision. Employments under this subdivision shall not exceed 180 working days a year.

(v) Four assistants to the Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture.

(vi) Any local veterinarian employed on a fee basis or a part-time basis when, in the opinion of the Commission, appointment through competitive examination is impracticable.

(vii) The Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture.

(viii) Technical or professional consultants or advisers at salaries equivalent to entrance rate of grade P-5 or higher employed for not to exceed 180 working days a year.

(ix) Temporary seasonal field assistants in grades SP-1 through SP-5 for not to exceed 120 working days a year.

(x) Temporary, intermittent or seasonal clerical, crafts, protective and custodial positions in the field service of the Department of Agriculture at places other than civil service regional headquarters, paying not to exceed entrance rate of CAF-4 or its equivalent, for not to exceed 180 working days a year, whenever in the opinion of the Commission appointment through competitive examination is impracticable.

(xi) Temporary or seasonal caretakers at temporarily closed camps or improved areas. Such appointments shall not extend beyond a period of six months without prior approval of the Commission's regional director.

(xii) Owner-operators of equipment who are residents in the area of employment for periods not to exceed 180 actual working days in any one calendar year. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. (xiii) Temporary, intermittent field enumerators and supervisors at salaries not exceeding entrance rate of CAF-5 or its equivalent, for not to exceed 180 working days a year.

Farm Credit Administration. (xiv) One private secretary or confidential assistant each to the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, the Land Bank Commissioner, the Intermediate Credit Commissioner, the Production Credit Commissioner, and the Cooperative

Bank Commissioner.

(xv) Positions in the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, the Production Credit Corporations, the Federal Land Banks, the Banks for Cooperatives, and positions filled by joint officers and employees for these institutions.

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(xvi) Positions in the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporations, joint stock land bank receivers, and petitions in receiverships, and national farm loan association receivers and conservators.

(xvii) Temporary, intermittent and seasonal collectors at grades not higher than CAF-5 for not to exceed 180 working days a year.

Commodity Credit Corporation. (xviii) Members of the Board of Directors.

(xix) The President, two Vice Presidents, and one assistant to the President. Rural Electrification Administration. (xx) One Deputy Administrator.'

Forest Service. (xxi) Temporary forest workers employed for not to exceed 180 working days a year, such employment to be with headquarters other than in forest supervisor and regional offices unless employed primarily for fire prevention or suppression activities.

(xxii) Temporary, intermittent or seasonal positions when filled by the appointment of persons who are certified as maintaining a permanent and exclusive residence within, or contiguous to, a national forest and as being dependent for livelihood primarily upon employment available within the national forest, subject to approval by the Commission.

Production and Marketing Administration. (xxiii) The Director, Assistant Directors, Regional Directors, and State Directors of the Field Service Branch.

(xxiv) Members of State Committees of the Field Service Branch.

(xxv) Farmer fieldmen and farmer fieldwomen in the Field Service Branch to interpret and explain and supervise farm programs.

(xxvi) Temporary, intermittent and seasonal employees in the Field Service Branch to check allotments whose aggregate employment shall not exceed 120 working days a year.

(xxvii) Farmer fieldmen of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

(xxviii) The Administrator, two Deputy Administrators, three Assistant Administrators, assistants to the Administrator, at salaries equivalent to entrance rate of CAF-13 or higher, ten experts at salaries equivalent to entrance rate of CAF-13 or higher, for the duration of the war; two private secretaries to the

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Administrator, and one chauffeur for the Administrator.

(xxix) Loss adjustors employed locally on an intermittent basis to handle adjustments in crop losses under the Federal Crop Insurance Act for not to exceed 120 working days a year.

Farmers' Home Administration. (XXX) The Deputy Administrator and three Assistant Administrators.

(xxxi) State and county committeemen to consider, recommend, and advise with respect to the Farmers' Home Administration program.

(10) Executive Office of the President. (i) Bureau of the Budget: One private secretary or confidential assistant each to the Director and Assistant Director. (11) Department of Commerce. Two private secretaries or confidential assistants to the Secretary of Commerce, and one to each Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

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(ii) One private secretary or confidential assistant to the head of each bureau in the Department of Commerce who is appointed by the President.

(iii) One chauffeur for the Secretary of Commerce.

(iv) Student assistants in the National Bureau of Standards whose salaries shall not exceed a rate of $832 a year each while employed. Only bona fide students at high schools or colleges of recognized standing pursuing technical or scientific courses shall be eligible for appointment under this subdivision. Appointments shall not exceed six months in any one calendar year, except in especially meritorious cases, and then only upon prior approval of the Commission. Appointments under this subdivision shall be reported to the Commission in such form as the Commission may prescribe.

(v) Seaman, deckhand, fireman, cook, mess attendant, and water tender on vessels of the Department of Commerce.

(vi) Office of the Secretary of Commerce: Six assistants to the Secretary.

(vii) Temporary positions required in connection with the surveying operations of the field service of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as may be authorized by the Commission after consultation with the Department of Commerce. Appointments to such positions shall not exceed eight months in any one calendar year.

(viii) Caretakers and helpers at magnetic and seismological observatories outside continental United States.

(ix) Caretakers and light attendants employed on emergency landing fields and other air navigation facilities.

(x) One private secretary or confidential assistant to the Administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

(xi) Agents to take and transmit meteorological observations in connection with airways, whose duties require only part of their time, and whose compensation does not exceed $135 a month.

Weather Bureau. (xii) Agents employed in field positions the work of which is financed jointly by the Department of Commerce and cooperating persons, organizations, governmental agencies outside the Federal service.

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In making appointments under this subdivision, a full report shall be submitted immediately by the Weather Bureau to the Commission, setting forth the name, designation and compensation of the appointee and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned and of his qualifications for such duties in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under the above subdivision. The same procedure shall be followed in case of the assignment of any such agent to duties of a different character.

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Bureau of the Census. visors, assistant supervisors, and supervisors' clerks and enumerators in the field service for temporary, part-time, or intermittent employment for not to exceed one year. Such appointments may be extended for not to exceed one year with the express prior approval of the Commission.

(xiv) Employments of individuals, firms, or corporations for not to exceed one year for special statistical studies and statistical compilations, the compensation for which is derived from funds deposited with the United States under the act of May 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 292), Provided, That such employments may, with the approval of the Commission, be extended for not to exceed an additional year.

(xv) Special agents employed in collecting cotton statistics.

Inland Waterways Corporation. (xvi) The President, the Vice Presidents, and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Corporation.

(xvii) All members of the Advisory Board.

(xviii) All positions under the Warrior River Terminal Company.

(xix) All unlicensed personnel on vessels operated by the Corporation.

(xx) Wharf laborers.

(12) Interstate Commerce Commission. (1) One private secretary or confidential assistant to each commissioner.

(13) Department of Labor. (1) Commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of Labor the interests of industrial peace so require.

(ii) Office of the Secretary: Three special assistants to the Secretary.

(iii) One private secretary or confidential assistant to the head of each bureau in the Department of Labor who is appointed by the President.

(iv) Two private secretaries or confidential assistants to the Secretary of Labor, one to the Under Secretary of Labor, and one to each Assistant Secretary of Labor.

(v) One chauffeur for the Secretary of Labor.

(vi) Member, Wage Adjustment Board (Labor Representative).

(vii) Member, Wage Adjustment Board (Industry Representative).

(viii) Member, Wage Adjustment Board (Public Representative).

(14) General Accounting Office. (i) One private secretary or confidential assistant to the Comptroller General.

(ii) Two assistants to the Comptroller General.

(15) Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System. (i) All positions.

(16) The Tax Court of the United States. (i) One private secretary and two technical assistants for each Judge of the Court.

(ii) Until December 31, 1947, a Clerk of the Court and a Chief Deputy Clerk. (iii) One administrative assistant to the Presiding Judge.

(17) Federal Loan Agency; Reconstruction Finance Corporation. (i) A Secretary to the Corporation, two assistants to the Secretary, five assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer, two assistants to the Treasurer, and four assistant Treasurers.

(ii) Two private secretaries or confidential assistants to each of the following: the Federal Loan Administrator; the Chairman of the Board of Directors. One private secretary or confidential assistant to each of the following: each Member of the Board of Directors (other than the Chairman); the Secretary of the Corporation; the Treasurer of the Corporation; the General Counsel.

(iii) One assistant, and twelve special assistants, to the Board of Directors, and one assistant to each member of the Board of Directors.

(iv) Six administrative assistants and two junior administrative assistants in the Office of the Board of Directors.

(v) Six special representatives (field). (vi) Four chauffeurs for the Chairman and members of the Board of Directors.

(vii) All directors, trustees, and officers (President, Vice President, General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer) of subsidiary or affiliated corporations.

(viii) Any position wher: the incumbent thereof is serving as director or officer of any subsidiary or affiliated corporation.

(ix) One General Counsel, one Special Counsel, and six Assistant General Counsels.

(x) A Chief Accountant.

(xi) Division Chiefs of the following Divisions: Auditing, Agency, Examining, Railroad, Self-Liquidating, Statistical and Economic, and Information.

(xii) Section Chiefs of the following Sections of the Self-Liquidating Division: Public Agency, Mining, Bond Service, and Drainage and Irrigation.

(xiii) Six Assistant Chiefs and three Administrative Assistants in the Examining Division.

(xiv) Two special examiners in the Railroad Division.

(xv) Not to exceed 32 positions of Loan Agency Manager and 36 positions of Assistant Loan Agency Manager.

(xvi) Inventory custodians, watchmen, caretakers, and laborers engaged in the care and preservation of property held by the Corporation or its subsidiaries as security for loans, or property to which title has been acquired by the Corporation or its subsidiaries.

(xvii) Positions of Executive Director of the following offices: Office of Defense Plants, Office of Metals Reserve, Office of Defense Supplies, Office of Rubber Reserve.

(xviii) Chief Administrative Officer of the Price Adjustment Board.

(18) Veterans' Administration. (i) Five special assistants to the Administrator.

(ii) One private secretary or confidential assistant to the Administrator.

(iii) Positions in Veterans' Administration facilities when filled by the appointment of members of such facilities receiving domiciliary care if, in the opinion of the Veterans' Administration, the duties can be satisfactorily performed by such members.

(19) Federal Security Agency. (1) Two private secretaries or confidential assistants to the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency.

National Office of Vital Statistics. (ii) Supervisors, assistant supervisors, and supervisors' clerks and enumerators in the field service for temporary, parttime, or intermittent employment for not to exceed one year.

Public Health Service. (iii) Special escorts to accompany patients of the Public Health Service in accordance with existing laws and regulations. Employment under this paragraph shall be only for the period of time necessary for the escort to deliver the patient to his destination and to return.

(iv) Positions at Government sanatoria when filled by patients during treatment or convalescence.

(v) All positions in leprosy, yellow fever, and psittacosis investigation stations.

(vi) Trainees in cancer research.

(vii) Positions concerned with problems in preventive medicine financed or participated in by the Federal Security Agency and a cooperating State, county, municipality, incorporated organization, or an individual, in which at least onehalf of the expense is contributed by the cooperating agency either in salaries, quarters, materials, equipment, or other necessary elements in the carrying on of the work.

(viii) Professional, technical, or scientific specialists when employed on a fee basis or part-time basis as consultants in connection with problems in preven

tive medicine, subject to the prior approval of the Commission.

(ix) Internes and externes (medical and dental) and student nurses.

St. Elizabeths Hospital. (x) Visiting physicians and organist.

Food and Drug Administration. (xi) Professional, technical or scientific specialists when employed intermittently for short periods, not to exceed a total of 60 days in any one year, as members of the Standards Committee for duty in connection with the formulation of deflnitions and standards of identity and quality for food products, or as consultants upon problems in their specialized fields having to do with the enforcement of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Freedmen's Hospital. (xii) Pupil nurses, internes, and externes (medical and dental), student dietitians, and resident physicians.

(20) Central Intelligence Group. (i) All positions.

(21) U. S. Maritime Commission. (i)` All positions on Government-owned ships operated by the U. S. Maritime Commission.

(ii) Twelve positions of Director of Division.

(iii) One assistant to each member of the Commission and two assistants to the Chairman of the Commission.

(iv) Ten special assistants to the United States Maritime Commission. (v) The Secretary of the Commission. (vi) The General Counsel.

(vii) One private secretary or confidential assistant to each Commissioner and to the General Counsel.

(viii) The Executive Director.

(ix) The Financial Assistant to the Chairman.

(22) Federal Power Commission. (i) One private secretary and one confidential assistant to each Commissioner.

(ii) A Secretary to the Commission. (iii) Consultants, experts and special counsel whose employments and compensation are fixed by contract within the limits of special funds appropriated by Congress for this purpose.

(23) Securities and Exchange Commission. (i) One private secretary or confidential assistant to each member of the Commission.

(ii) A Solicitor.