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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. ou. 077. 1888. 333 traveling expenses; for statistical publications furnishing data for permanent comparative records; for compiling, writing. and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual and special reports, and for the necessary expenses of the same, including paper and envelopes, postal-cards and postage-stamps, sixty-five thousand dollars. For preparation of maps and charts illustrating the progress of rural Mensproduction in the Unite States, and showing local crop distribution and limitation, five thousand dollars. Furniture, eases, and repairs : For repairing buildings, heating ap- Furniture, eases, and paratus, furniture, carpeting, matting, water and gas pipes, new furni- mmm' ture., and all necessary material and labor for the same, including, lumber, hardware, glass, and paints, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Library : For entomological, botanical, and historical works of Libmry- reference, works on chemistry, forestry, mineralogy, maps, charts, current agricultural works for library, miscellaneous agricultural pepfodicals, and the completion of imperfect series, two thousand o ars. Salaries and expenses Bureau of Animal Industry: For carryin Bureau or Ammui out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred miii1»iig` p. 31 and eight-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, five hun- y · dred 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 suc 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 or exposed animals and the quarantine of the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuro—pneumonia from one State into another, and of this sum an amount not exceeding fifteen thou sand dollars may be applied to the payment of expenses incurred durin the fiscal year e1gl1teen hundred and eighty-eight: Provided, Proviao. That llfteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be ex ended in continuation of the investigations and experi- lirivesrlgmcnct img ments, to be conducted within the United States, into the nature, °'° °"" ‘ causes, and remedies for the prevention and cure of hog cholera and swine plague. _ Quarantine stations for neat-cattle: To establi h and maintain Quammsue stations quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter for and care of °"` ”*""'°""'°· neat—cattle imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. Division of forestry: For the purpose of enabling the Commis- Fvremy division. sioner of Agriculture to experiment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, and for traveling and other necessary ex enses in the investigation and the collection and distribution of valiiable economic forest·tree seeds and plants, eight thousand dollars. _ _ To enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to continue experiments lilnnpiracvuru or in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum cane, including the pur- "g‘" "°“‘S°'*"“‘“· chase and transportation of samples and supplies, one hun red thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner is hereby required to numu. make a separate re ort to Congress stating fully and accurately an Repun. itemized account otp every expenditure ma e under this provision and the results of all experiments made, and also including the purchase and transportation of samples and supplies. Postage: For postage on return·letters, circulars, and miscellaneous Pvsvmarticles for correspondents and foreign mail, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses: For stationery. freight. express-charges, fuel, Conriugmexpenses lights, subsistence and care of horses, repairs of arness, for paper, twine, and gum for folding-room, advertising, telegraphing, ry- goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats. oils, paints. glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, washing towels, actual traveling