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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 575. 1886. 103 DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. V Dii-isionofAgricultural Statistics, For compensation of one Statistician, two thousand five hundred dol- S t n t ist ician, lars; two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; °1°’k*‘i °’°· three clerks of class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; for collecting foreign and domestic agricultural statistics, and compiling, writing, and illustrating matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, sixty-five thousand dollars; in all, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars. FURNITURE, CASES, AND REPAIRS. F·¤P¤i¥{¤f¢·¤=¤¤¤¤. and repairs. _ For repairing buildings, heating apparatus, furniture, carpeting, matting, water and gas pipes, and other necessary articles, seven thousand dollars ; for one steam-boiler, boiler·front, steam and water gauges, and putting same in place, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, eight thousand one hundred and twenty-Eve dollars. Lmnmr. Llbrnw- · For entomological and botanical works of reference, works on chem- P ¤ I ¤ b =¤ ¤ ¤ -<>f istry and mineralogy, charts, current agricultural works for library, b°°k"• °“’· miscellaneous agricultural periodicals, and the completion of imperfect series, one thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF ANI1[A.L_ INDUSTRY. Bureau of Ani- . mal Industry. For carrying out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth Vol. 23, p. 31. eighteen hundred and eightydour, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, and in such manner as he may think best, to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and destruction of diseased animals Purchase and whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuro- d¤¤¤¤¤<=ii¤¤ of dispnenmonia from one State into another. °““d “““““1“‘ QUARANTINE STATIONS FOR NEAT CATTLE. _Q¤¤¤¤¤Yi¤¤ ¤*=\· tions for neat cut- To establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper m` shelter for and care of neat cattle imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary, thirty thousand dollars. _ DIVISION OF FORESTRY. csgivision of For- For compensation of chief of forestry division, two thousand dollars; _ Chief of Divisfor the purpose of enabling the Commissioner of Agriculture to experi- we- { t. ment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of e,c“"°“*‘g“ ‘°“" torestry, and the collection and distribution of valuable economic forest- ' {ree seeds and plants, eight thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. BECLAMZATION OF AHID AND WASTE LANDS. ,. Reclamation of arid and w a ste To aid in sinking an artesian well in Eastern Oregon or Eastern 1“&,auwc,, in Washington Territory, with a view to reclaim arid and waste public Omg,,,, 0, wm. lands, such well to be located and money expended under the direction ington Territory. of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in conjunction with the expenditure of any appropriation made or which may be made, by said State