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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 256. 1910. 439 Diumaon INVESTIGATIONSZ To enable the Secretary of Agricul— t,,§’n§“““8°*¤V°S*ig* ture to investi ate and report upon the drainage of swamp and other ` wet lands am? to prepare plans for the removal of surplus waters by drainage and for the pre aration and illustration of reports and bulletins on drainage, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all necessary expenses, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. And the Secretary of Agriculture sha.ll make a special report to the next session of Congress giving the aggregate expenditures under this provision, and the areas in the severa States and Territories which ave been investigated. Total for Office of Experiment Stations, one million sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS. P¤b¤¤ R¤•¤i¤0¤i¤¤· Saumrns, Ormcn or Punmc Roms: One director, who shall be a S°‘°'*°°· scientist and have ch of all scientific and technical work, three thousand dollars; oneadgibef clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; five clerks, class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES; Orman or Pmxmo Rows: For salaries, and Genmiupenscs the employment of labor and rent in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, office fixtures, apparatus, traveling and all other necessary expenses for conducting investigations and experiments and for collating, reporting, and il ustrating the results of same, and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reportsas follows: Provided, That no part of these a `propriations shall be ex- mh pended for the rent or purchase of road-messing machinery: ° °°' For inquiries in regard to systems of road managpment throughout Row ¤¤¤~s¤¤=¢¤*- the United States and for giving expert advice on t is subject, sixteen thousand dollars; _ For investigations of the best methods of road making and the best mR&¤rQu:=·¤i¤s ·¤<* ki11ds of road—makin(g materials throughout the United tates and for furnishing expert a vice on road building and maintenance, forty- three thousand dollars; For investigations of the chemical and physical character of road ,.§{}§'fLl$,“,};_ °°°‘* i"' materials, twenty-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For general administrative expenses connected with the above- ,,,,’}§,.,,m}“"°’““'° °" mentioned lines of investigations and experiments, ten thousand seven hundred dollars; b _ In all, for general expenses, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and eigpty dollars. otal for Office of Public Roads, one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. ` And not to exceed ten r centum of the foregoing amounts for the ,,,I§‘,*§§:l`§¤E.{°‘b1° miscellaneous exfpenses oiyihe work of any bureau, division, or office herein provided or shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects included within the general expenses of suc bureau, d1v1sion,_or office, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergleacy, and then o y upon the written order of the Secretary of c ure.