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 950 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 325. 1899. division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic division, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants in biochemic division,.at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic laboratory, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one chief of miscellaneous division, two thousand dollars; one zoologist, two thousand two hundred and nfty dollars; one veterinary inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one veterinary inspector, one thousand six hundred dollars; two veterinary inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; one superintendent of experiment station, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk class three, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; live clerks class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars; seven clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, Eve thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; for employment of artists, laborers, and charwomen, five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-two thousand and thirty dollars. Total amount for salaries, three hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and forty dollars. rymsugnuens and COLLECTING AGRIGULTURAL STATISTICS, DIVISION OF STATISTICS: ih of smh_ Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, m. writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports; special investigations and compilations; subscriptions to and purchase of statistical publications containing data for permanent comparative records, maps, and charts, stationery supplies, blanks, blank books, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage stamps, grwiirgi cm w freight and express charges, and necessary traveling expenses: Pro- ,,,,.,;" Y P vided, That the monthly crop report issued on the tenth day of each month shall embrace a statement of the condition of the crops, by States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and odicially approved by the Secretary of d]§;*r:{*·“¤Z **{m°°d° Agriculture before being issued or published: Provided also That iifi gn mar ets. _ _ 7 teen thousand dollars oi the amount hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, may be expended in continuing the investigations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands of foreign markets for the agricultural products of the United States and to secure as tar as may be a change in the methods of supplying farm products to foreign countries, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, of which sum not more than sixty thousand dollars shall be expended for salaries in the city of Washington, Dis- · trict of Columbia. Division or Botany- BOTAN1cA1. INVESTIGATIONS AND Exrmnrmnivrs, DIVISION OF BOTANY : Investigations relating to medicinal and other economic plants and seeds, the collection of plants, traveling expenses, and express charges; the purchase of paper and all other necessary supplies, materials, and apparatus, and necessary labor; subscriptions to and purchase of botanical publications for use in the division and the rmi1m of armpit preparation, illustration, and publication of reports; and the Secretary °°°d“· of Agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase samples of seeds in open market, test same, and when found not up to standard he may, at his discretion, publish the results of these tests, together with the names of the seedsmen by whom the seeds were sold; twenty thousand dollars, of which amount a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for the erection of a plant house for conduct- e ing botanical experiments, and not exceeding one thousand ive hun-