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 srxrirsrxrrrr ooxerinss. Sess. II. Ch. 217. iezo. 701 one clerk or artist, $1,400; two clerks or artists, at $1,200 each; two ’·°"°"*‘°'Y"·**“·°‘°· laboratory aids, at $1,440 each; one laborato aid, $1,380; four laborator aids or clerks, at $1,200 each; one llfwboratory aid, clerk or skilledy laborer, $1,080; three laboratory aids, clerks, or skilled laborers, at $1,020 each; two laboratory aids, at $960 each; two laboratory aids, at $900 each; six laboratory aids, at $840 each; seven laboratory aids, at $720 each; one map tracer or laboratory aid, $900; two gardeners, at $1,440 each; four gardeners,‘at $1,200 G"°°°°”’°t°' each; eight gar eners, at $1,100 each; fifteerlglgardeners, at $900 each; nineteen gardeners, at $780 each; one s ed laborer, $1,100; one skilled laborer, $960; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; one assistant in technology, $1,400; one assistant in technology, $1,380; one general mechanic, $1,400; one mechanician, $1,080; one mechanical assistant, $1,400; one mechanical assistant, $1,200; one carpenter, $900; one painter, $900; one teamster, $840; twenty-one messengers or laborers, at $540 each; twenty-nine messengers or laborers, at $480 each; Eve messenger boys, at $660 each; fourteen messenger boys, at $600 each; ten messenger boys, at $480 each; five messenger boys, at $420 each; four charwomen, at $480 each; twenty-one charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $517,300. GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU or PLANT IN1>Us·r1rY: For all neces- ,,§$,€{}",,,;°,{§§’{',§*f°°*‘“‘ sary expenses in the investigation of fruits, fruit trees, Hgrain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, for?e, drug, medicin, poisonous, · fiber, and other plants and plant in ustries, rn cooperation with other branches of the department, the State experiment stations, and ' practical farmers, and for the erection_ of necessary farm buildings: Pmm rovided, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed Limit rbrbuiiamgs. $1,500• for field and station expenses, includi1§ fences, drains, and other farm improvements; for refpairs in the istrict of Columbia and elsewhere; for rent outside 0 the District of Columbia ; and for I’“'°°°g“*°”*"°‘ the em loyment of all investigators, local and special agents, agricultural) explorers, experts, clerks, illustrators, assistants, and all labor and other necessary expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere required for the investigations, experiments, an demonstrations herein authorized, as follows: mm mmm ew For investigations of plant diseases and pathological collections, ’ ` includin the maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $62,020; OMIM m ,mm For the investigation of diseases of orchard and other fruits, r·~»·a.»¤.’ " $80,035: Pm·v·ide=d, That $8,000 of said amount shall be available P°°”‘“”‘ for the investigation of diseases of the pecan; For conducting such investigations of the nature and means of °“'°’°°°k°" communication o the disease o citrus trees, known as citrus canker, and for applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the (iudgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessa r, inclu ing the payment of such expenses and the employ- ment ol) such persons and means, in the city of Washington and Cmpmtm m,md_ elsewhere, and cooperation with such authorities of the States con- mms. cerned, organizations of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish Such purposes, $109,720, and, in the dis- LM, c,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, cretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, no ex nditures shall be r¤~i¤ir¤¤· made for these purploses until a sum or sums atggast equal to such expenditures shall ave been a propriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, County, OT locig authorities, or by i.nd.ividu8.lS 0I` P,,,,.,;,,,_ organizations for the awomplishment of such oses: Provided, m;‘g>P%g¥°*d°$“°Y°d That no part of the money herein appropriated slhliil-Fbe used tofay '° ` the cost or_Va.ll1e_0f trees or other pro erty injured or destrgyo ; ·m,,,s_S_m»¤ss,m, For the investigation of diseases ofp forest and ornament trees and shrubs, including a study of the nature and habits of the parasitic fungi causing the chestnut·tree bark disease, the white-pine blister rust, and other epidemic tree diseases, for the purpose of discovering