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 418 SIXTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Srss. II. Ch. 256. 1910. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤°°*P°¤¤¤¤ CONTINGENT Ex1>ENsEs, WEATHER BUREAU: For fuel, lights, repairs, and other ezipenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and groun s of the Weather Bureau in the c1ty of Washington; for stationery and blank books, furniture and repau·s to same, and freight and express charges; for subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles, and repairs of harness, for_ official purposes only; for advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other mrsce laneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for in the city of Wash1ngton, twenty-five thousand dollars. _ _ eeuemnxpeuscs. GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands,_and m V0, ,,,,,_6,,3_ Bermuda, the provisions of an Act approved October ’rirst,_eighteen hundred and mnet, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to tile Department of Agriculture, and for every expen- _ diture requisite for and mcident to the establishment, equipment, and cwimuou wan maintenance of meteorological observation stations, including cooper- °'·'*°' “'°•‘“~ ation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows: - S¤·¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤r¤. ew- For the emplo ent of professors of meteorology, insplectors, district forecasters, mal forecasters, section directors, researc observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, six hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and ten dollars; ¤¤P¤¤¤¤· For fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, and all other necessary supplies and materials, ninety- four thousand dollars; Am>¤r¤·¤¤¤·¤¢¤— For instruments, shelters, a paratus, storm—warning towers, and re airs thereto, thirty thousand) dollars; §‘,§§’u‘§f,’{·,§‘;; M_ %`or· rebuilding and equipping the Weather Bureau buildin at Sand ¤t•¤<>¤- Key, Florida, lp ans and spec` cations to be prepared by the Secretary of Agricu ture, and the work done under his supervision, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; m1}¤¤*¤i¤s¤-¤¤v¤¤¤¤¤· For rent of offices and repairs to buildings now completed and ` located outside of the District of Columbia and care and preservation ` of grounds, including construction of sidewalks on public streets gbiitting Weather Bureau grounds, eighty-two thousandp five hundred o ars; T““'°““¥°‘¥’°”°°*· For official traveling expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars; T"*°K"“¥’h"’¥· °‘°· For telephone renta s and for telegraphin, tclephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreements with the companies performing the service, two hun- M i he n fm drcid argsixty-fiye thousanrllseven_hur;d1§/_d Millarsé ' ¤ ¤ Q} ;:°_ °· or e mam enance an re air 0 eat er ureau tele ra h gmpbmi '1 es telephone, and cable lines, four dlrousand dollars; g P , Se§,‘,§g·j)°{,§f;§,‘;Y”· °'* For investigations in climatologgf and evaporation, including the erection _0f temporary buildings or living quarters for observers engaged in evaporation work, for river, rain, snow, ice, crop, evaporation, aerial, storm, hurricane and other observations, warnings, and reports, and for pay of special observers and displav men, none of whom shall receive more than twenty-five dollars per month one MM me hundred and twenty thousand dollars; i rmlaigi. _ For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printi weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications aiivd for pay of laéllditional assistant fpremen, (proof readers, compositors, ressmen, i o a ers, and fo ders an feeders Forty thousand glollizrs; y when neccSSm’y'