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 1258 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2907. 1907. F“*l·“€'“·”·"‘°- FUEL, LIGHTS, AND REPAIRS, YVEATHER BUREAU: Fuel, lights, repairs, and other expenses for the care and preservationtof the publ1c buildings . and grounds of the Weather Bureau in the city of Wlashmgton, ten thousand dollars. C<>¤*i¤8°¤*€xP°¤¤€¤· CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: Stationery and blank books; furniture and repairs to same; freight and express charges; subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles for official purposes only; re airs of harness; advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, aints, glass, liimber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous Supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for andnecessary . for the practical and efficient work of the WVeather Bureau 1D the c1ty of Washington, ten thousand dollars. S¤¤¤<>¤ ·‘¢¤¤P*°Y°°¤· SALARIES, STATION EMPLOYEES, WEATHER BUREAU: Professors of meteorology, ins ectors, district forecasters, local forecasters. section directors, research observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, re airmen, station a ents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary em Ioyees, for duty in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the Uliiited States, in the West Indies or on adjacent I·¢¤V¤=¤ <>f ¤*>¤¤¤<=¤· coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, and the employees of the Weather Bureau outside of the city of Washington, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted eave of absence not to exceed Si°l‘1°“"“‘ fifteen days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year; Eve hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and fift dollars. . G°¤*=¤l°¤P°¤¤°¤· (IIENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: Every expenditure requi- M*’i“*°°““°°· site for and incident to the equipment and maintenance of meteorological observation stations in the United States, in the \VeSt Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, instruments, storm-warning towe1·S, and all other necessary supplies and materials; for rents of offices; for traveling expenses; for freight and express charges; for telegraphing, telephoning, or cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the comm};;_l°8'“Ph· °°°·· panies performing the service: for maintenance and repair ot lVeather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; for investigations on climatology; for river, rain, snow, ice, crop, and aerial observations and reports; for storm, hurricane, and other observations, warnings, and reports; including pay of special observers and display men, none including not to exceed eighteen thousand dollars for the maintenance of • a printing office in the city of \Vashington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, monthly reviews, and other publications. and for pay _ _ of assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithog- S“l"“°*P“'°“°“*'°“*’· raphers, and folders and feeders, when necessary; and hereafter the _ Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to Sell any surplus maps or publications of the Weather Bureau, and the money received from U KS-¤¢<·‘·2='F»P·37- such sales shall be deposited in the T reasurv of the United States section two hundred and twenty-Seven of the `Revised Statutes notwithstanding: in ali, Six hundred and forty-tive thousand dollars. Total \Veather Bureau, one million four hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. mgiytegy or mma SALARIES, BUREAU or ANIMAL Ixnusrnr: One Chief of Bureau, samm. five thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three A clerks of class four, five thousand four hundred dollars; one editor, ~
 * "'*°‘*"¥ °m°°· of whom shall receive more than twenty—1ive dollars per month; and