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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 1. 1897. 9 appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: Provided, laouezrer, That the Distriburivuadaptcd Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Dele- t°I°°”‘m’" gate seeds entirely unfit for the climate and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each Member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents: Provided also, That the seeds allotted to the Senators and Earlydelivery. Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and thirty-second parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery on the tenth day of January or at the earliest practicable time thereafter. SALARIES AND EXPENSES, BUREAU or ANIMAL INDUSTRY: For Bureau of Animal carrying out the provisions of the Act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen In$Ef°§‘,,_ 3i_ hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal lndustry, and the Act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, pro- V0l.26,p.414. viding for an inspection of meats and animals, and also the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, providing Vol. 26, p. was. for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes, the sum of six hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, in such manner as he may think best, in the collection of information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products, and to prevent the rm-tmnng enema spread of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, sheep scab, glanders or farcy, °""°"g “'“"‘“°· and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this 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, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State info another, and for printing and publishing such reports relating to animal industry as he may direct; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building in the District of Columbia, at an annual rental of not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars, to be used as a laboratory for said Bureau Laboratory. of Animal Industry. ,   WOIth8P BI.'ll‘BD\1. SALAn1Es or THE WEATHER BnnEAU: Office of Chief of Weather fciggsgtegggegtcrre Bureau: One chief' of Bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; two ’ " ' professors of meteorology, at three thousand dollars each, for service in the city of Wasliington, or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, six thousand dollars; three professors of meteorologzy, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, for service in the city of Washingtoii, or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, seven thousand five hundred dollars; three forecast officials, at two thousand dollars each, for service in the city of Washingtoxi, or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, six thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; three clerks of class four, five thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant chief of division of supplies, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks class three, eight thousand dollars; fifteen clerks class two, twenty-one thousand dollars; twenty-five clerks class one, thirty thousand dollars; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; one telegraph operator in the city of YVashington or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, one thousand dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, five thou- Sahd four hundred dollars; three copyists or typewriters, at eight? hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; one copyist or typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one chief mechanician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one captain