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 932 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Srzss. II. Ch. 84):3. 1901. thousand four hundred dollars; two assistant entomologists or clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand seven hundred dollars. Invesiismions. GENERAL EXPENSES or ENTOMOLOGICAL 1NvEsT1GAT1oNs: Promotion of economic entomology; investigating the history and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of the codling moth, with a view of ascertaining the best method of its extermination; investigations in apiculture; purchase of chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other materials, supplies, and instruments required in conducting such experiments and investigations; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; freight and express charges, and necessary traveling expenses; preparing, illustrating, and publishing the results of the work of the division, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That six thousand five hundred dollars of the amount hereby appropriated be used for the following purposes: Three thousand five hundred dollars for an investigation into the ravages of the cotton-boil weevil, with a view of ascertaining the best method of its extermination; two thousand dollars for investigations in apiculture; and one thousand dollars for an investigation into the rava es of the codling moth in the Northwest, with a view of ascertaining tie best remedial measures to be adopted in that section of the country. ...Tota.l for Dixdsion of Entomology, thirty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Division of Bio1og— Division or BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, sALAR1Es: One biologist, who ml S“"€Y‘ shall be chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant biologist, who shall be assistant chief of division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant biologists, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; one assistant biologist, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. investigations. GENERAL EXPENSES or BIOLOGICAL 1NvEsir1GA*r1oNs: For biological investigations, including the geographic distribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants; for the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; for an investigation of the food habits of North American bird and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; fgor the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments, in the city of `Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for freight and express charges; for preparation and publication of reports, and for illustrations, field work, and traveling and other expenses in the prac- Authority or socio- tical work of the division, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture g;',§;° p’€“"”· "“"· to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved May twenty- Ame. D- 187- fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibiting the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other -purposes," twenty thousand dollars, one thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available. Total for Division of Biological Survey, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Division oiaoooimis. Division or Aécouivrs AND D1snURsEMEN·rs: Chief of division and °t°` disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant