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 -202 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 555. 1900. Tw °“““'°· TEA CULTURE: For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on the cost of making tea and the best method of cultivating andpreparing the same for market, so as to demonstrate whether it is practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry, five thousand dollars, of which amount two thousand five hundred dollars shall be immediately available. A _ - Bureau of Auimul SALARIES AND EXPENSES, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY: For car- I°§Ki%'p_;;;, ryin out the provisions of an Act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen huncied and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal In ustry, V<>l-26»v-414- and the Act og August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, pro- Vul-26-v-1069- viding for an inspection of meats and animals, and also the provisions Insp-ctiuu of came- of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, providing ’ L for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products _ thereof which are the subjects of interstate and foreign commerce, and {,'{,’;,"§,°,f,;S,,s_ for other purposes: Provided, That live horses and the products and - . carcasses thereof be entitled to the same inspection as other animals, w§;1¤i,;gf¤_§g¤rti¤¤¤¤¤ carcasses, and products thereof herein named: P1·0mIdedfurt}wr, That ’the Secretary of Agriculture may in his- discretion waive the requirement of a certificate with beef and other products, which are exported to countries that do_not require such inspection, one million 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 &mPg§,‘,;°;’,§§“u§agf¤°“S°“ stock, dairy, and other animal products, and to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, blackleg, tuberculosis, sheep scab, glanders or farcy, ' og cholera, and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to d_Purch¤se._ enc., vi employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any “°°’°°° mma °‘ part of this sum in the purchase and destruction o diseased or exposed. animals and the quarantine of the same whenever in his judgment it isessential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or t,g]°*h°Sd¤» Md-- ¤“*· other diseases of animals from one State to another, for improving ` and maintaining the Bureau Experiment Station, at Bethesda, Mary- - land; for printing and publishing such reports relating to animal ,¤§',f1'g;*$•§,‘fg*g;';$g§*°' industrly as he may direct; and the Secretary of Agriculture may use ' so muc of this sum as he deems necessary for romoting the extension and develonnient of foreign markets for dairy and other farm products of the nited States, and for suitable transportation of the same; and such products may be bought in open market and disposed of at the.discretion of the Secretar of Agriculture, and he is author- . ized to apply the moneys receive; from the sales of such products toward the continuation and repetition of such experimental exports; L”b°'°*°'V· and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building in the District of Columbia, at an annual rental not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be used as a laboratory for said Bureau · 0uL,§,*{,;°gm‘;_§0;$“°° of Animal Industry, and the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry outside of the city of Washington may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leaves of absence not to exceed fifteen da ‘s in any one year. ‘ Total miscellaneous, Bepartment of Agriculture, Wwhei B¤$¤==··- WEATHER BUREAU. wfseglgigigfé P¤>f¢S· SALARTES or THE WEATHER BUREAU: OfHce of Chief of Weather ' '·Bureau: One Chief of Bureau, five thousand dollars; two professors of meteorology, at three thousand dollarseach, for service in the city of Washington or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, six thousand dollars; three professors of meteorology, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, for service in the city of Washington or elsewhere, as the exigencies of the Bureau may demand, seven thousand