clerks, class three; ten clerks, class two; eight clerks, class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one custodian of records and files, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars.

Total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.

DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS.

Publications Divi

sion.

SALARIES, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS: One editor, who shall be Salaries. chief of division, three thousand dollars; one editor, who shall be assistant chief of division, two thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one assistant editor, two thousand dollars; four assistant editors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two assistant editors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one assistant in charge of indexing, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one indexer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant in charge of illustrations, two thousand dollars; one draftsman or photographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; two draftsmen or photographers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; six draftsmen or photographers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant photographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant in charge of document section, two thousand dollars; one assistant in document section, one thousand six hundred dollars; one foreman, miscellaneous distribution, one thousand five hundred dollars; one foreman, farmers' bulletin distribution, one thousand two hundred dollars; one forewoman, one thousand four hundred dollars; one forewoman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, class two; five clerks, class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; thirty-two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief folder, one thousand dollars; one folder, nine hundred dollars; three folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; fifteen skilled laborers, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; nineteen skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers or messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two messengers or messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; two messengers or messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; three charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS: For miscellaneous objects of expenditure in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, as follows:

For rent in the city of Washington, five thousand dollars; For labor-saving machinery for addressing and mailing documents, including necessary supplies, three thousand dollars;

For envelopes, stationery, and materials used in the distribution of documents, eleven thousand five hundred dollars;

General expenses.

Rent.
Supplies, etc.

Bureau of Statistics.

Salaries.

General expenses.

Administrative ex

penses.

Special field agents.

State agents.

Travel, etc.

Cost of farm prod

ucts.

Library.

Salaries.

For office furniture and fixtures, one thousand dollars; For photographic equipment and for photographic materials and artists' tools and supplies, four thousand dollars;

For gas, electric current, telephone and telegraph service, and freight and express charges, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For wagons, bicycles, horses, harness, and maintenance of the same, one thousand dollars;

For purchase of manuscripts, traveling expenses, electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided for, three thousand dollars;

In all, for general expenses, thirty thousand dollars.

Total for Division of Publications, two hundred and two thousand seven hundred and thirty 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 five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, class four; nine clerks, class three; twelve clerks, class two; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; sixteen clerks, class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, six hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger or messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; one charwoman, five hundred and forty dollars; two charwomen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and four thousand seven hundred dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF STATISTICS: For all necessary expenses for collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, and for special investigations and compilations, as follows:

Salaries, employment of labor, and rent in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, telegraph and telephone service, freight and express charges, and all other necessary miscellaneous administrative expenses, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars;

Salaries and traveling and other necessary expenses of special field agents, fifty-six thousand dollars;

Salaries and traveling and other necessary expenses of state statistical agents, thirty thousand two hundred dollars;

Traveling and other necessary expenses of officials and special investigators, two thousand dollars;

Salaries and traveling and other necessary expenses for investigating the cost of production of farm products, two thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, for general expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.

Total for Bureau of Statistics, two hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

SALARIES, LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: One librarian, two thousand dollars; one assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, class one, one of whom shall be a translator;

two cataloguers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three cataloguers, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one charwoman, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, LIBRARY: For technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; for rent and the employment of additional assistants in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and other material, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.

Total for Library, thirty-five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

General expenses.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: For sta- Contingent expenses. tionery, 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, and matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, telephoning, postage, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; for rent in the District of Rent. Columbia; for the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and the purchase and repair of harness and vehicles, for official purposes only; for the payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture's proportionate share of the expense of the dispatch agent in New York; for official traveling expenses; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the department, one hundred thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

Office of Experi ment Stations.

SALARIES, OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS: One director, four Salaries. thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk and proof reader, one thousand six hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks, class two; six clerks, class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk or messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk or messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three clerks or messengers, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one copyist or laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers or charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers or charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, forty-six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES, OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS: To carry tral experiment stainto effect the provisions of an Act approved March second, eighteen tions. hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to establish agricultural Vol. 12, p. 503. experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provision of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto," the sums apportioned to the several States and Territories to be paid quarterly in advance, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

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istration, etc. Vol. 34, p. 63.

Statements.

Stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam.

To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of the above Act, and a supplementary Act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof," relative to their administration, including rent and the employment of clerks, assistants, and other persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, freight and express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and electric current, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, and make report thereon to Congress.

To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the island of Guam, including the erection of buildings, the preparation, illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins, and all other necessary expenses, ninety-nine thousand dollars, as follows: Alaska, twenty-eight thousand dollars; Hawaii, twenty-eight thousand dollars; Porto Rico, twenty-eight thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars shall be especially devoted to experiments relating Sale of products, etc. to the culture of coffee; and Guam, fifteen thousand dollars; 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, Porto Rico, and the island of Guam, and to apply the money received from the sale of such products to the maintenance of said stations, and this fund shall be available until used.

To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes and agricultural schools in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars;

In all, for general expenses, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand four hundred dollars.

NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the nutritive value of agricultural products used for human food, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for this purpose, with the cooperation of other bureaus of the department, and to disseminate useful information on this subject, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars.

IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the laws of the States and Territories as affecting irrigation and the rights of appropriators, and of riparian proprietors and institutions relating to irrigation, and upon the use of irrigation waters, at home and abroad, with especial suggestions of the best methods for the utilization of irrigation waters in agriculture, and upon the use of different kinds of power and appliances for irrigation, and for the preparation and illustration of reports and bulletins on irrigation, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all necessary expenses, seventy thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.

DRAINAGE INVESTIGATIONS: To enable the Secretary of Agricul-Drainage investigature to investigate and report upon the drainage of swamp and other wet lands and to prepare plans for the removal of surplus waters by drainage and for the preparation and illustration of reports and bulletins on drainage, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all necessary expenses, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make a special report to the next session of Congress giving the aggregate expenditures under this provision, and the areas in the several States and Territories which have been investigated.

Total for Office of Experiment Stations, one million sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS.

SALARIES, OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS: One director, who shall be a scientist and have charge of all scientific and technical work, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; five clerks, class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS: For salaries, and the employment of labor, and rent in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, office fixtures, apparatus, traveling and all other necessary expenses for conducting investigations and experiments, and for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of same, and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports as follows: Provided, That no part of these appropriations shall be expended for the rent or purchase of road-making machinery:

Public Roads Office.

Salaries.

General expenses.

Proviso.
Restriction.

For inquiries in regard to systems of road management throughout Road management. the United States and for giving expert advice on this subject, sixteen thousand dollars;

For investigations of the best methods of road making and the best Road making and kinds of road-making materials throughout the United States and for materials. furnishing expert advice on road building and maintenance, fortythree thousand dollars;

For investigations of the chemical and physical character of road materials, twenty-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned lines of investigations and experiments, ten thousand seven hundred dollars;

In all, for general expenses, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

Total for Office of Public Roads, one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

And not to exceed ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of any bureau, division, or office. herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects included within the general expenses of such bureau, division, or office, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency, and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Chemical, etc., investigations.

Administrative ex

penses.

Interchangeable appropriations.