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 958 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sxss. III. Ch. 325. 1899. dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Weather Bureau, eight thousand dollars. G¤¤•¤¤ ¤¤v¤¤¤·>¤· GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER. BUREAU: General expenses of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, navigation, and other interests, as provided by law, namely:. · '°¤*°*°* Salaries of one inspector, at a salary of not to exceed two thousand ' dollars; thirty local forecast officials, section directors, observers, operators,repair men, messengers, laborers, and other necessary employees, outside of the city of Washington, who, without additional expense to ‘ the Government, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of mls0px!:'::;?:? Agriculture, be granted suclfi leaavgsjoff algsegcevgs Tile ngw authorized wuimgam, to cmp oyees in the office o the ie o the ea er ureau, not o exceed thirty days in any one year, three hundred and eighty-two M bun { t thppsang one hundred and Igpety-§·ivH> dollagp. b H ti ¤P•· ° *¤°·° °· other expenses itemiz as o ows: a s, u e ns stationery and scientific and other publications for statiorls; and the maintenance; of a printing office in the District of Columbia for printing the necessary circulars, weather maps, bulletins, and monthly weather reviews (including the hire of printers, lithographers, and other necessary work- ’1‘I1::=1:m£¤¤. <=¤¤· ing force); for traveling expenses; for freight and express charges; for 1-,,.,g,,,,°{';,,g_ instruments and shelters therefor; for telegraphing or telephoning reports and messages, the rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agricul- ¥¤¤*¤·•*·¤- ture by agreement with the companies performing the services; for rents and other incidental expenses of officcs maintained as stations of Jxfmsqxh ¤. observation; for maintenance and repair of scacoast telegraph lines; for .».°:::·:·em· "" 2£.§"Z,°°‘“'“i,,,m.“;’i’I,’1.§'2.‘}.5‘r‘L°;"§2f°£,5t€5E‘I 2*;% ‘L$£Zf.5’§§£$$I%2E§‘SII¥1i H °mP°m` reports; for aerial observations, and reports; for special observations Supplies_ apnld pay of obsegerls of West Indian,  and Cqntral·Amgrican s a ons uring e urricane season- or su ies for c imate an cro services, and for investigations on climatologlyfincludiiig assistance and all ex;1:enses, thires hundred and eighty-tive thousand nine un e an six y·seven dollars. ,,:1;*** I¤¤i¤¤ ¤*¤· For maintaining the Weather Bureau stations already established ' by the Secretary of Agriculture under the direction of the Pre ident, or  be established by the Secretary of Agriculture, in the West lndiei orhon adjacen; coasa; for taking daily observations of nieteoroogica p enomena· or co ec in re rts thereof b cable am otherwise; for disseminating imbrmagon Iboased thereon of the approach of tropical hurricanes and other storms, and for collecting and publishing such climatological data as may be of public benefit, including salaries Expmm, em of one professor of meteorology, at not exceeding three thousand dollars; one forecast official, at not exceeding two thousand dollars; section directors, observers, and other necessary employee (all for duty at the places named in this Act or at such points in the United States as the exigencies of the weather service may require); rents of offices; stationery, furniture, and instrumental supplies; traveling expenses; freight and express charges; cablegrams and telegrams, and all other _ _ necessary expenses, sixty thousand dollars. ,m{,j}};:j’“ *" ‘“'°"" Bmox ADDIEIIIONS T0 ANNEX BUILDING, WEATHER BUREAU: For all labor, materials, and expenses necessary in building brick additions to the present annex building of the Weather Bureau, on the corner of Twenty-fourth and M streets northwest, in the city of Washington, one and two stories high, with plain trimmings, of the same style of architecture as the present building, including repairs and improvements to old buildings, all plans and specifications to be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the work to be done under the gupergision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, twenty-five thousand o ar . Approved, March 1, 1899.