The Secretary of State may prescribe duties for the Assistant Secretaries and the clerks of bureaus, as well as for all the other employees in the department, and may make changes and transfers therein when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary.
(June 20, 1874, ch. 328, 18 Stat. 90; May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 30, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1214.)