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 1276 FIFTY-NINTH coxeanss. sms. 11. cn. 2907. ism. of artists, draftsmen, and engravers; the purchase of manuscript for reeiaem. publication; for tools, instruments, and artists’ materials; for drawings, engravings, photographs, paintings, lithographs, and other illustration work; for electrotypes, and for traveling expenseswhen · necessary; for labor and material required in the distribution of documents, including wagons, harness, and horses, and maintenance of R"“*· °‘°· same, and for repairs; for rent of buildings for the storage and distribution of publications; for the pay of watchmen and charwomen; for all necessary office fixtures and supplies; for gas and electric eurrent, telegraph and telephone services, and for such other expenses as may be necessary, thirty-five thousand dollars. In all, for Division of Publications, one hundred and sixty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. B*M¤°'**·¤¤**°¤· BUREAU or STATISTICS. S·¤*·¤*=¤· Sannzms, BUREAU or Surrsrros; One Statistician, who shall be chief of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand two . hundred dollars; one editorial assistant, two thousand three hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks class four, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks class three, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars; twelve clerks class two, sixteen `thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars; eleven clerks class one, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, siren thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at six hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; two messen ers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six Supdred and eighty dollars; in all, ninety-seven thousand and forty 0 ars. g§gg?l¤c¤Svt§gj$;é_ COLLECTING Aomounruimr. STATISTICSZ General expenses, Bureau g" of Statistics: Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, an special reports; specia investigations and•com ilations; urchase of maps and charts, stationery, office supplies, blanles, blank hooks, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage stan1ps,oflice fixtures, telegraph and telephone services. freight and express charges, including employment of labor in the city of 'Nashington and else- mp m_ where, actual and necessary traveling expenses: Ifroviderl, That the pém. monthly crop re orts, which shall be issued on or before the tenth of each month, shall embrace statements of the conditions of the crops by States. in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and officially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being issued or published: l’:·m,n'ded jhru rger ··¤¤·¤- Mer, That the condition reports of the cotton crop shall be issued on the same day as the first ginners’ report of actual cotton ginned in each month, respectively, during the months in which both condition reports and ginners’ reports are issued. one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. of which not more than twenty thousand dollars ahgll ble expended for salaries in the city of lvashington. District of Yo um ia. mEl=§::;¤°¤¤*fo¤*H¤ Investigations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands ', of foreign markets for the aggicultural products of the United States, ‘ and to secure, as far as may, a change in the methods of supplying