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 926 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 805. 1901. thereof which are the subjects of interstate and forei n commerce, amos. and for other purposes: Hovided, That live horses and the products "'l"'° h°”°s‘ and carcasses thereof be entitled to the same inspection as other animals, Qfgigggfofcsmhmw carcasses, and products thereof herein named: Providedfurtiwr, 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 recguire such in?ection, one million and fifty &I§g$;°§l§i1;§,giS€¤¤€S thousand dollars; and the ecretary of griculture is hereby author- ` ized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, in such manner as he may think best, in the collection of information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products, and to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, blackleg, tuberculosis, sheep scab, glan ers or farcy, hog cholera, and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necd,;";j,tg%*é¤§;,mg*g-· °* essary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and ` destruction of diseased or exposed animals and the quarantine of the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of gleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one t,g1<>¢h·=¤d¤· Md-· SW tate to another, for improving and maintaining the Bureau Expleri- ' ment Station, at Bethesda, Mariyland; for printing and publis ing fa§;1’§{§)g£*g;l;$}L¤*°' such reports relating to animal in ustry as he may direct; and the Sec- ' retary of Agriculture may use so much of this sum as he deems necessary for promoting the extension and develo ment of foreign markets for dairy and other farm products of the Ilnited States, and for suitable transportation of the same; and such products mag be bought in open market and disposed of at the discretion of the ecretary of Agriculture, and he is authorized to apply the moneys received from the sales of such products toward the continuation and repletition of Laboratory. such experimenta exports; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suitable buil ing 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 of Animal Industr T, and the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry outside of the city of Washington may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretar of Agriculture, be ranted leaves of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year: fgspgtgvgg 3; dgjér %·0vided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may construe the provihim guthorizedpo ‘ sions of the Act of March t ird, eigpteen hundred and ninety-one, as §Zg};§;,§;§§29;,_ amended March second, eighteen undred and ninety-five, fo1' the inspection of live cattle and products thereof, to include dairy lproducts intended for exportation to any foreign country, and may app y, under rules and regu ations to be prescribed by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certification appropriate for ascertaining the -1sbe1. purity and quality of such products, and may cause the same to be So marked, stamped, or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign countries to whichthey may be sent from the United States their purity, uality, and grade; and all the provisions of said Act relating to (live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy products so inspected and certified. Animal <1¤¤r¤¤¤¤¢ ANIMAL QUARANTINE STATIONS! 'I`o purchase, establish, and maintain °"m°"S° uarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter and equi ment for axe care of neat cattle and domestic animals imported, at suclh ports as ma * be deemed necessary, twenty-five thousand dollars. 'llotal for Bureau of Animal Industry, one million one hundred and fifty-four thousand and thirty dollars. dlgggsfu of P*¤¤¤¤· . BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. Salaricsofchiefxrc. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, SALARIESZ 0116 plant physiologist and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one plant pathologist, two thousand five hundred dollars· one botanist,