proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. SEC. 6. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. SEC. 7. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, May 18, 1910. CHAP. 252.-An Act To authorize the Pensacola and Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across Perdido Bay from Cummings Point, Escambia County, Florida, to Lillian, Baldwin County, Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Pensacola and Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, be, and hereby is, authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto across Perdido Bay, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from Cummings Point, on the eastern shore thereof, in the county of Escambia and State of Florida, to the town of Lillian, on the western shore thereof, in the county of Baldwin and State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, May 21, 1910. CHAP. 253.—An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River near the mouth of the San Poil River, in the counties of Ferry and Lincoln, Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Spokane and British Columbia Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Washington, its successors and assigns, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Columbia River, between the counties of Lincoln and Ferry, at a point on said river suitable to the interests of navigation at or near a point known as "Hell Gate" and near the mouth of the San Poil River in the State of Washington, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 21, 1910. CHAP. 254.-An Act To repeal section four thousand and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing for the issuance of money-order notices, and for other purposes. Postal service. no. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section four thousand and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing that "the post- tices. master issuing a money order shall send a notice thereof by mail, R. S. sec. 4035, p. 778, without delay, to the postmaster on whom it is drawn," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. repealed. Approved, May 23, 1910. May 23, 1910. [S. 7995.] [Public, No. 189.] Postal service. Receipts on delivery given when requested. amended. CHAP. 255.-An Act To amend section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes to provide for receipts for registered mail, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3928. Whenever the sender shall so request, a receipt shall be R. S., sec. 3928, p. 763, taken on the delivery of any registered mail matter, showing to whom and when the same was delivered, which receipt shall be returned to the sender, and be received in the courts as prima facie evidence of such delivery." May 26, 1910. [H. R. 18162.] [Public, No. 190.] Agricultural partment appropriations. Approved, May 23, 1910. CHAP. 256.-An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United De: States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Solicitor. Law clerks. Proviso. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: Secretary of Agriculture, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, five thousand dollars; solicitor, four thousand five hundred dollars, and hereafter the legal work of the Department of Agriculture shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the solicitor; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as custodian of buildings; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer and executive clerk to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand four hundred dollars; one appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one chief of supply division, two thousand dollars; one inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; one law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; ten law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; seven law clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three law clerks, at one Details of law clerks. thousand six hundred dollars each: Provided, That the law clerks may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for service in or out of Washington; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, class four; three clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; ten clerks, class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; ten clerks, messengers, or skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eight clerks or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief engineer, who shall be captain of the watch, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; six firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one fireman, six hundred dollars; four elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one construction inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, one thousand one hundred dollars; two cabinetmakers, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one carpenter, one thousand one hundred dollars; one carpenter, Engineers, etc. Watchmen, labor one thousand dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred and sixty Total for Office of the Secretary, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars. WEATHER BUREAU. SALARIES, OFFICE OF CHIEF OF Weather BUREAU: One chief of bureau, six thousand dollars; one assistant chief of bureau, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; one librarian, two thousand dollars; seven clerks, class four; seven clerks, class three; eighteen clerks, class two; twenty-seven clerks, class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists or typewriters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one copyist or typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant foremen of division, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one proof reader, one thousand four hundred dollars; one chief mechanic, one thousand four hundred dollars; one lithographer, one thousand three hundred dollars; three lithographers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two pressmen, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. each; ten compositors at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; one skilled mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; six skilled mechanics, at one thousand dollars each; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one electrician, one thousand dollars; six skilled artisans, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one gardener, eight hundred and forty dollars; five messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five folders and feeders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three folders and feeders, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; six messengers or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; thirteen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred dollars each; four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; one charwoman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred and six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Weather Bureau. Salaries. Contingent expenses. General expenses. Vol. 26, p. 653. Cooperation other bureaus. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For fuel, lights, repairs, and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and grounds of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington; for stationery and blank books, furniture and repairs to same, and freight and express charges; for subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles, and repairs of harness, for official purposes only; for advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for in the city of Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, the provisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, equipment, and with maintenance of meteorological observation stations, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows: Station officers, etc. Supplies. Apparatus, etc. Sand Key, Fla. station. Buildings, expenses, etc. Traveling expenses. Maintenanceof telegraph, etc., lines. Investigations, observations, etc. Printing office. For the employment of professors of meteorology, inspectors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, research observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, six hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and ten dollars; For fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, and all other necessary supplies and materials, ninetyfour thousand dollars; For instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers, and repairs thereto, thirty thousand dollars; For rebuilding and equipping the Weather Bureau building at Sand Key, Florida, plans and specifications to be prepared by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the work done under his supervision, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; For rent of offices and repairs to buildings now completed and located outside of the District of Columbia and care and preservation of grounds, including construction of sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds, eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For official traveling expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars; For telephone rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreements with the companies performing the service, two hundred and sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; For the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines, four thousand dollars; For investigations in climatology and evaporation, including the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters for observers engaged in evaporation work, for river, rain, snow, ice, crop, evaporation, aerial, storm, hurricane and other observations, warnings, and reports, and for pay of special observers and display men, none of whom shall receive more than twenty-five dollars per month, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications, and for pay of additional assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and feeders, when necessary, forty thousand dollars; In all, for general expenses, one million two hundred and ninetythree thousand six hundred and ten dollars. Total for Weather Bureau, one million five hundred and twentyfour thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Animal Industry. SALARIES, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY: One chief of bureau, five Salaries. thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one editor and compiler, two thousand dollars; four clerks, class four; five clerks, class three; eighteen clerks, class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; fifteen clerks, class one; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; five clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, seven hundred dollars; one instrument maker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger and custodian, one thousand dollars; three messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; one illustrator, one thousand four hundred dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, five hundred and forty dollars; six charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. General expenses. Vol. 26, p. 414. Vol. 33, p. 1264. GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY: For carrying o out the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred Vol. 26, p. 833. and ninety-one, providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes, and the provisions of the Act of Vol. 32, p. 193. May ninth, nineteen hundred and two, extending the inspection of meats to process butter, and providing for the inspection of factories, marking of packages, and so forth, and the provisions of the Act Vol. 32, p. 791. approved February second, nineteen hundred and three, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes, and also the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June Vol. 34, p. 607. twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation," and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same Collecting infor mation, etc. etc. Tuberculin serums, |