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 1294 six*rY.sEvnNTH corrennss. sm. Iv. GH. 119. 1923. c¤¤m1¤rx>¤¤¤¤¤- ommaax. nxrnnsns, wmrnnn BUREAU. °"’“‘“"‘“"" For car into effect in the District of Columbia. and elsewhere Voliwipim in the Uniigeldlicétates, in the West Indies,  the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employ- ment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, roof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feedldrs, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, s ial observers, displayrnen, and other necessary employees; for gig, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, 109, dry goods, twine, mats, oil, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels; for advertising; for purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and vehicles, the purchase and repair of harness, for official purposes only; for instruments, shelters agparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of o ces; for repair and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds inc1uding_the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on {public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds; and the erection o temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling e uses; for telephone rentals, and for telegraphing, telephoning, axildw cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreements with the comgéanies performing the service; for the ma1ntenance and repair of eather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of stems, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gauging and measuring of the flow of rivers, and the issuin of river forecasts and C u wm warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for an£°i»ii$¤iiia,°;`a. other necewry obmrvations and reports, inc uding cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions pflgearning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as o ows: 1¤§LE§”S?’¤,i° wm" For necessary expenses in the city of Washington incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $118,575; P"“““" °'"°°‘ For the maintenance of a printing office in the cit of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and ,,m,M_ other pu lications, includin the pay of additional employees, when Liuumuon orwmk. necessary, $12,000: Provided, That no printing shall be done b the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing gilice E mmm M without impairing the Service of said bureau; washington. For necessary expenses outside of the city of Washington incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marineunformation, and for investigations in meterology, climatology, sexsmology, volcanolo, evaporation, and aerology, $1,332,240, including not to exceed $%l,0,080 for salaries, $130,470 for special observations and reports, and $299,450 for telegraphing and tele- Frost warnings etc  · ’ ‘ For investigations, observations, and re rts, forecads, warnings, and advices for the protection of horticuitiiral interests from frost Traveling expenses. d"§“g°¤ $12*000; . or official traveling expenses, $28,000;