BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY.

Bureau of Biological Survey.

SALARIES, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY: One biologist, who shall Salaries. be chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one clerk class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.

Investigations.

BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS: General expenses, biological investi- General expenses. gations: For biological investigations, including the geographic distribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; for an investigation of the food habits of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for freight and express charges; for office fixtures and supplies, gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone service; for preparation and publication of reports, and for illustrations, field work, and traveling and other expenses in the practical work of the division, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved May twentyfifth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibiting the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes," forty-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, fifty-two thousand dollars.

DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.

SALARIES, DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS: Chief of division and disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one auditor, two thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, class two, eight thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, class one (one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter), two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; three clerks (now laborers), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one custodian of records and files, one thousand dollars; one clerk (now laborer), six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and ten dollars.

DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS.

SALARIES, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS: One editor, who shall be chief of division, three thousand dollars; one editor, who shall be assistant chief of division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one associate editor, two thousand dollars; one assistant editor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant editors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engraver, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draftsman or clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two draftsmen or clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; one draftsman or clerk,

Preventing transportation of illegally killed game. Vol. 31, p. 187.

Division of Accounts and Disbursements.

Salaries.

Division of Publica tions.

Salaries

General expenses.

documents.

Farmers' bulletins.

Congressional allot

ment.

Provisos.

Notification of con

tents.

one thousand two hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks, class one, four thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one assistant in charge document section, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant in document section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant in document section, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman, document section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman, farmers' bulletin distribution, one thousand two hundred dollars; one chief folder, one thousand dollars; three folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; two folders, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; twenty-eight clerks (now laborers), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; thirty-five clerks (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, twenty-one thousand dollars; two assistant photographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; seven skilled laborers (now laborers), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, five thousand and forty dollars; twenty skilled laborers (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; one skilled laborer (now laborer), four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger (now laborer), seven hundred and twenty dollars; three messengers (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two messengers (now laborers), at four hundred and twenty dollars each, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger boy (now laborer), three hundred and sixty dollars; one fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

PUBLICATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: General expenses, Printing, etc., of Division of Publications: For the preparation, printing, illustration, publication, indexing, and distribution of documents, bulletins, and reports, one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be available for the preparation, printing, and distribution of farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as such Senators, Representatives, or Delegates in Congress shall direct: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall notify Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress of the title and character of each such bulletin, with the total number to which each Senator, Representative, and Delegate may be entitled for such distribution; and on the face of the envelope inclosing said bulletins shall be printed the title of each bulletin contained therein: Disposal of uncalled- Provided further, That all such bulletins included in the quotas of Senators, Representatives, or Delegates not called for on or before the thirty-first day of May in each fiscal year shall revert to the Secretary of Agriculture, and be available to him, either for miscellaneous distribution or in making up Congressional quotas for the next fiscal Additional employ year; three thousand five hundred dollars for additional assistants, editorial, proof reading, indexing, and other necessary help in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for the pay of artists, draftsmen, and Tools, instruments, engravers; the purchase of manuscript for publication; for tools, instruments, and artists' materials; for drawings, engravings, photographs, paintings, lithographs, and other illustration work; for electro

for bulletins.

ees.

etc.

types, and for traveling expenses when necessary; thirty thousand dollars for labor and material required in the distribution of documents, including wagons, harness, and horses, and maintenance of same, and

Watchmen, etc.

for repairs; for rent of buildings for the storage and distribution of Rent.
publications; for the pay of watchmen and charwomen; for all neces-
sary office fixtures and supplies; for gas and electric current, telegraph
and telephone services, and for such other expenses as may be neces-
sary; in all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars.

Total for Division of Publications, two hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS.

SALARIES, BUREAU OF STATISTICS: One statistician, who shall be chief of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand two hundred dollars; one editorial assistant, two thousand three hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks, class four, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, class three, nine thousand six hundred dollars; twelve clerks, class two, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars; thirteen clerks, class one, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; ten clerks (now laborers), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, ninety-seven thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.

Bureau of Statistics.

Salaries.

Collecting statistics.

Proviso.

Monthly crop re

COLLECTING AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS: General expenses, Bureau General expenses of Statistics: Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports; special investigations and compilations; subscription to, and purchase of, statistical and newspaper publications containing data for permanent comparative records; maps and charts, stationery, office supplies, blanks, blank books, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage stamps, office fixtures, telegraph and telephone services, freight and express charges, including employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, actual and necessary traveling expenses: Provided, That the monthly crop reports issued on the third and tenth days of each month shall embrace ports. statements of the conditions of the crops by States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and officially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being issued or published, ninety-three thousand nine hundred dollars, of which not more than twenty thousand dollars shall be expended for salaries in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. Investigations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands of foreign markets for the agricultural products of the United States, and to secure as far as may be a change in the methods of supplying farm products to foreign countries; employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in making investigations in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations; traveling expenses, and freight and express charges; telephone and

Salaries in Wash

ington.

Extension of foreign markets.

Library.

Salaries.

General expenses.

Proviso.

Subscriptions to publications.

R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.

Card index.

Contingentexpenses.

telegraph services; and all necessary office fixtures and supplies, four thousand nine hundred dollars.

Total for Bureau of Statistics, one hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.

LIBRARY.

SALARIES, LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: One librarian, two thousand dollars; one assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk (who shall be a translator), one thousand two hundred dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three cataloguers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk (now laborer), six hundred dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.

LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: General expenses, library: Purchase of technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals necessary for the work of the Department, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for binding periodicals, and for the employment of additional assistance in the city of Washington and elsewhere, when necessary; for traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, shelving, library cards, and other material, eight thousand and forty dollars: Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the subscriptions for publications for the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay in advance for any publications for the use of this Department. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them, copies of the card index of the publications of the Department and of other agricultural literature prepared by the library, and charge for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the preparation of the index.

Total for library, Department of Agriculture, twenty-one thousand and forty dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Purchase of stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting: for lights. freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses, for official purposes only; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, for official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture's proportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceed four hundred dollars; actual traveling expenses while on business of the Department; and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, including not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for postage, thirty-seven thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available.

OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

SALARIES, OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS: One director, three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one editorial assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk and proof reader, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, class two, two thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks, class one, four thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger or laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; one copyist or laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers or charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars.

Agricultural experiment stations.

Vol. 12, p. 503.

Bulletins.

Vol. 24, p. 441.
Statements.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty- Vol. 24, p. 440. seven, entitled "An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto," and to enforce the execution thereof, seven hundred and ninety-four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, twenty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, to enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; shall ascertain whether the Expenditures. expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of said Act, and shall make report thereon to Congress; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and to incur such other expenses for office fixtures and supplies, stationery, traveling, freight and express charges, illustration of the Experiment Station Record, bulletins, and reports as he may find essential in carrying out the objects of the above Acts; and the sums apportioned to the several States shall be paid quarterly in advance. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them, copies of the card index of agricultural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, and charge for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the preparation of the index, and this fund shall be available until used; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend forty-eight thousand dollars of which sum to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in the Territories of Alaska, Porto Ric Hawaii, and Porto Rico, including the erection of buildings, the printing (in Hawaii and Porto Rico), illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins: Provided, That not more than fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended for the maintenance of such stations in any one of said Territories, except in the case of Alaska, where three thousand dollars additional may be used for the purchase and introduction of live stock for experimental purposes; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such. products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and to apply the moneys received from the

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Card index.

Agricultural sta

tions.

Alaska, Hawaii, and

Provisos.
Limit.