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 .FIFTY·S1XTH CQNGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 192. 1900. 123 for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance and any »other necessary expenses,·including telegrams, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided; That two special examiners, or clerks detailed and acting Pgwpv- d _ as chief and assistant chief of the division of special examiners, may spgcifi ekhmxhsgiitdnt be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in ·· lieu of per diem and al expenses for subsistence, a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectiveg, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on o cial business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner, he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in field service; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the _ sum herein aippropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein, » For an ad 1tional force of one hundred and fifty special examiners Aaqaiomi special for one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, °”mm°”' one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; an any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. M, U Y on PATENT Ormonz For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand P¤t°¤t°m°°- dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to, him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand tive hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirty- six princilpal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars eac ; thirty-eig t first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; fifty-one third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred- dollars each; sixty fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight-hundred dollars each; five clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of lan ua es; fourteen clerks of class two; fifty-seven clerks of class one; skil§edalgabore1·, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messengeri and Iproperty clerk, one thousand dollars; five model attendants, at one thousandt dollars each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each;~ninety-six copyists, seven of whom maiy be copyists of drawings; forty-one copy- ists, at seven hundred an twenty dollars each; three messengers; twenty-six assistant messengers; fifty-one laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifty laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirt -four messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all}; seven hundred and seventiy-three thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of professiona and scientific books and expenses-_of B°9k¤· transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to forei%n governments, two thousand dollars. __ or purchase of law books, five hundred dollars. For producing the Official Gazette, `including. weekly, monthly, Ottititl Gazette 1 quarter y, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, one hundred thousand dollars. .