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 FRTY—NlNTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 392. 1887. 625 said photolithographing or otherwise producing plates and copies, referred to in this and the preceding paragraph, to be done under the supervision oi the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can there be done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to make contracts therefor, ninety thousand dollars. For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions Investigstin g for two years or more prior to tiling applications for patents, and for We °*°·» °f i¤"°“· expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner I°‘°““* °°°‘ of Patents, five hundred dollars. BUREAU on EDUCATION.—Fof the Commissioner of Education, three B¤¤=¤¤ of Em]- thousand doliars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four °“‘°“‘ hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; two . clerks of class four; one statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one translator, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars ; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, at four hundred dollars; and one laborer, at three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, forty-five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current Books, etc. publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, one thousand dollars. · ‘ For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of informa- Statistics. tion two thousand dollars. For the distribution and exchange of educational documents, and for Distributing, the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and °*’°·`· d°°m¤°¤*°· appliances, articles of school furniture, and models of school-buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic. systems and methods of education, _ and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF LABon.-—For Commissioner of Labor, three thousand B¤r¢¤¤ <>fLub0r. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four, both to be statistical experts; two clerks of class three, one of whom may be a stenographer; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one, one of whom may be a translator and one of whom may be a stenographer; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; two copy-holders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one assistant messenger; one assistant messenger, at six hundred dollars; one watchman; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; eighteen special agents, at least two of whom shall be females, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Labor to collect and report to Con- Marriage and digress the statistics of and relating to marriage and divorce in the sev- V<>*¢¤ ¤¤¤¤i¢•f·i¤¤· eral States and Territories and in the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. I For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library, five hundred Books. 1 ollars. For per diem special agents when away from home on duty, in lieu of Special agents, expenses for subsistence, the rate to be Hxed by the Secretary of the experts, Mclnterior, and not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and. for traveling expenses of officers and employees, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS.—FOP ·COmmlSSl0DBT, fO|]I’ Cgmmiggigngr gf thousand five hundred dollars; book-keeper, two thousand four hundred Railroads. dollars; railroad engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant book-keeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of srA·r L—vor. xxiv--40