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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 575. 1886. 101 CHEMICAL DIVISION. _ Chemical Divis- 10D. For compensation of chief chemist, two thousand five hundred dol- Chemist, ¤¤¤i¤t· iars; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; ono ”“”» °*°· assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; employment of additional assistance, when necessary, in the chemical division, six thousand dollars; chemicals and apparatus for the use of the chemist, and for necessary changes in and additions to the iixtures to the laboratory,{1ud necessary expenses in conducting experiments, including purchaseof samples, six thousand dollars; for purchase, erection, Sugar m,,,,,,;,,,,- transportation, and operation of machinery, and necessary traveling um. within the United States and other expenses in continuing and concluding experiments in the manufacture of sugar, by the diffusion and saturation processes, from sorghum and sugar-cane, so much thereof as may be necessary to be immediately available, ninety-four thousand · dollars; in all, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars. All machinery purchased under the provisions of this act shall be §i=¤9hi¤¤r{,t9 be built in the United States, wholly of domestic material, except so much “} of e ‘g;°‘l of it not exceeding ten thousand dollars in cost as is now under contract, °°’ ° ° P °'. express or implied, or such parts thereof as can not be builtin the United States within proper time. ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVISION. FP€°¤¤°1°S*°*l ( Division. _ For compensation of entomologist, two thousand five hundred dol- Entomolo gist, lars; one assistant entomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; =¤¤l¤*¤¤¢¤· one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; for investigating the history and habits of insects injurious to Investigations. agriculture, arboriculture, and horticulture, experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them, for drawings and illustrations, and for chemicals and traveling within the United States, and other expenses on the practical work of the entomological division, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars. mvrsrox or ncoxomc onmrnoroox Am: rtunntrocr. Diyisicn of Ew- For the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; an in- l 1¤\·ésngaiioEs.` vestigation of the food-habits, distribution, and migrations of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture and forestry; for publishing reports thereon; and for drawings and traveling and other expenses in the practical work of the division, ten thousand dollars. SILK CULTURE. Silk culture. For collecting and disseminating information relating to silk-culture. coi1qmng and for purchasing and distributing silk-worm eggs, and lor conducting, at •!¤¤¤°}¤!¤=¤**¤€§ l¤· some point in the District of Coluinbia, experiments with automatic ‘°"“‘“"’“* ° °‘ machinery for reeling silk from the cocoon, ten thousand dollars. And Sales. the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to sell, in open · market, any and all rceled silk and silk waste produced in these experiments, and to apply the proceeds of such sales to the payment of the legitimate expenses incurred therein; and the Commissioner of Agriculture shall make full report to Congress of the experiments herein pro- _ vided for, and also of all sales and purchases made under this paragraph. For the encouragement and development of the cultureof raising \Voman’s sin;. raw silk, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of  ‘““°°“" the Woman’s Silk-Culture Association of the United States, located at ‘ Philadelphia, and to be paid directly to said association.
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