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 924 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 805. 1901. ' local-forecast officials; section directors, observers, operators, repair men, messengers, boy ._messen ers, laborers, and other necessary employees, outside of the city cfg Washington, who, without additional expense to the Government, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted such leaves of absence as are now authorized to emplo ees in the office of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, not to exceed, thirty days in any one year, four hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ I*°m*¤°d °¤P°¤¤°¤· All other expenses, itemized as follows: Maps, bulletins, stationery, and scientific and other publications for stations, and the maintenance of a printing office in the District of Columbia for rintin the neces-' sary circulars, weather maps, bulletins, and monthl) weagier reviews (including the hire of printers, lithographers, and other necessary yvorking force); for traveling expenses; for freight and express chargles; for instruments and shelters therefor; for telegraphing o1· telep oning reports and messages, the rates to be iixed by the Secretary of Agricu ture by agreement with the companies erforming the services; or rents and other incidental expenses of oghes maintained as stations ofobservation; for maintenance and repair of seacoast telegraph lines; for experiments in wireless telegraphy, including all necessag expenses; for river observations and reports; for storm and other sign s; or cotton-region observations an reports; for corn and w eat observations and reports; for aerial observations and reports; for supplies for climate and crop services, and for investigations on climato ogiy, including! assistance and all necessary expenses, four hundred and fty-seven thousand dollars. w°“I’““°“““*“°“'· For maintaining the Weather Bureau stations already established by the Secretary of Agriculture, or to be established by the Secretary of Agriculture, in Bermuda, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, _ and for establishing and equi ping meteorological stations in the H°""“’““ m““°“‘ Hawaiian Islands for taking dlaily observations of meteorological phenomena; for collecting reports thereof by cable and otherwise; or disseminating information based 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 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 employees (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); rent of offices; stationery, furniture, and instrumental supplies; traveling expenses; freight and express charges; cablegrams an telegrams; and a l other necessary expenses, sixty thousand dollars. m§;;¢:{g¤gdg;db¤*i¤· For the purchase of a site and the erection of a small brick and wood ` building at each of the following·named places, for use of the Weather Bureau, and for all necessaiéy labor, materials, and expenses, plans and specifications to be repare and approved by the Secretary of A riculture, and work dgme under the supervision of the Chief of \Vea§1er Bureau, namel : Atlantic City, New Jersey, six thousand dollars; Hatteras, North Carolina, five thousand dollars; Fort Canby, Washington, four thousand dollars, Port Crescent, Washington, three thousand dollars; and Tatoosh Island, Washin ton, five thousand dollars: Point Reyes, California, three thousang dollars, including the — purchase of instruments, furniture, supplies, ilagstaifs, and storm mggbla ‘1`¤¤<><>=¤ is warning towers to properly equip these stations; for the purchase and ` laying of a cable between the mainland and Tatoosh Island, and for eneral repairs to telegraph line from Port Crescent to Tatoosh Island, Nlfashington, including all necessary labor, materials, •and other expenses, twenty thousand dollars; in all, forty-six thousand dollars:
 * §’§g{°*°"· °b“°"" Salary of one"i°lnspecto1·, not to exceed two thousand dollars; thirty