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 672 FIF'I`Y—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3913. 1906. w°“*,,,°'*",,, m,'{}"’*"° °’ _ SAi.Anms, Wnyruna BUREAU: Professorsof meteorology, inspectors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, research observers, observers, assistant observers, opirators, repair men. station agents, messengers, messep-ger boys, la rers, and other necessary employees, for duty in the nited States, in the West Indies or on a - jacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, who,_without MI-;L¤ ¤* ¤*>¤¤¤°¤ additional expense to the Government, may hereafter, in the discretion ' of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leave of absence not to S*°*l°°'**- exceed 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 A riculture not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year; five Eundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. <}lg_¤L_¤¤¤¤¤P¢¤¤e¤ Gmzmxax. mxrnxsns, Wmrnnx BUREAU: Every expenditure requie' site for and incident to the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological observation stations in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, including the purchase of ground and the erection under the supervision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau of not to exceed four additional observatory buildings, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, instruments, storm-warning towers, and all other necessary , supplies and materials; for rents of offices; for traveling expenses; remnpm. for freight and express charges; for telegraphing, telephomng, or cabling reports an messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performin the service; for maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraplli, 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 re rts; including pay of — special observers and display men, none of wliiim shall receive more Pri¤¤¤s¤¤•=¤- t an twenpy-five dollars per month; and for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, monthly reviews, and other publications, and for ay of assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithoggapheris, and g¢gch<~irs and feeders, when necessary, six hundred and t irty thousand dollars. gm? *°* °** Bunmrxos, YVEATHER BUREAU: For the purchase of sites and the erection of not more than five buildings for use as Weather Bureau observatories, and for all necessary labor, materials, and expenses. plans and specifications to be prepared and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, and work done under the supervision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, including the purchase of instruments, furniture, p supplies, ilagstaifs, and storm-warning towers to properly equip these {gggvwmml stations: {Mwzded, That if any of the money for these several buildings remains unexpended for the special purposes for which it is appropnated, so much of it as is necessary may be expended for the repair. improvement, and equipment of any other buildings or grounds owned by the Government and occupied by the Vlfeather Bureau, outside of the District of Columbia, fifty-three thousand dollars. Total Wveather Bureau, one million four hundred and thirtv-nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars. ` ,,,§g,;·;;;{ 0* A¤¤¤·¤ BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. sarees SALARIES, BUREAU or ANIMAL Ixncsrarz One Chief of Bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four, five thousand four hundred dollars; one editor, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class three, eight thou-