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 SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 131. 1914. 417 service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture; for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, assistant observers, operators, skille mechanics, instrument makers, assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders I and feeders, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, spcxzial observers, disp aymen and other necessary employees; for fuel, gas, electricity, reight and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, ggrlss, lumber, hardware, and washing towels; for advertising; for su ° t- ence, care and purchase of horses and vehicles and repairs of harness, for official, purposes only; for instruments, shelters, sgparatus, stormwarning towers and repairs thereto· for rent of offices; for repairs . and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bru·eau grounds; and the erection o temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling expenses· for telephone rentals and for teleggaphing, tele honing, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be ed by the gecretary of Agriculture by agreements with the compvanies performing the service; for the maintenance and repair of eather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenanceof meteorological offices and stations and or the of weather forecasts and warnings of storms, cold waves, frosts, an heavy snows, the gauging and measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for other necessary observations and reports, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and ,,t{,°§°§,‘§§:,§,{°§’,,Y"“ societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorologgcal information, as followsil f W d t 1 E 1 wm or necessary expenses in the city o aslungto' n inci en to co - ,,,,,_ “ ' lecting and disseminating meteorologkzal, climatological, and marine mg information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerologi, $122,000* For necessary expgpses outside of the city of Washington incident t,,§{“"’“° °' w“*"“*‘ to collecting and eminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations m meteorology climatol— ogy, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,189 000, including not to exceed $591,000 for salaries, $120,000 or special observations and reports, $275,000 for telegraphing and telephoning, and $30,000 for traveling expenses; For the maintenance of a printiriguoflice in the city of Washington, P"¤“¤¢ °m°•- for the printing of weather maps, b etins, circulars, forms, and other publications, including the pay of additional employees, when neces- mm sary, $26,000: Provided, That no printing shall be done by theWeather mmrdammwm, Bureau that in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service ort eerectiono ab ding at eah a, asb¥·to` n, to econ- 0,,,,m,;"r,,,,,,,,,· of Isaid grueau; f ull N B W b HMB Wm structed under the supervision of the Chief, of the eather Bureau, in on plans and specifications to be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, an for all necessary labor, materials, and expenses connected with this work, $3,000; In all, for general expenses, $1,340,000. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereb directed to report to Con- §§“‘¥‘,‘§'§°{,‘g“,;,,§’({‘; gress at its next session the present condition and value of the tract gland-gi>¤¤i¢i¤¤ ¤f swof land consisting of eiillaty-four and eight -0ne one-hundredths acres ` of land, more or less, own as Mount Vgeather, and located in_the cormties of Loudoun and Clarke, in the State of Virginia, the original 91006°-vcr. 38-rr 1-27