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 616 Personal services in the District. Weathe r Bure au. General expenses. 72d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 443. JULY 7, 1932. In all, salaries and expenses, $1,688 170. Total, Extension Service, $5,760,170, of which amount not to exceed $5 16,410 ma y be expe nded for personal services in the Di strict' of Columbia. Grand total, office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $13,076,911. WEATHER BUREAU SALAR IES AND GENE RAL EXPENSES Classifi cation of. For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and else- where in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of an Act u Voi.26,p.853 . approved October 1, 1890 (U . S . C ., title 15, sets . 311-313, 317) .S. C c.,p.3si. > so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to Air service reports. the Department of Agriculture, and the amendment thereof con- Vol.44,p.571. tamed in section 5 (e) of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (U . S . C. p'U.S. C., Supp. V, Supp . V, title 15, sec. 313), for the employment of professors ott meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proofreaders, com- positors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observ- ers, display men, and other necessary employees ; for fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice, 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, apparatus, storm- warning towers and repairs thereto ; for rent of offices ; for repair alterations, and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abutting Weather Bureau grounds ; -and t he erecti on of tem porary bu ildings for livin g Telegraphing and quarters of observers ; for official traveling ex enses ; for telephone telephoning. ~ p ~ rentals, and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service ; for the main- tenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines ; and for every other expenditure required for the estab- lishmen t, equ ipment, and mainte nance of mete orolog ical o ffices and leaning forecasts anad stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of warnings. storms, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gaging and measur- ing of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings ; for observations and reports relating to crops, and for cooperation with other bureaus, etc. other necessary observations and reports, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follow s office of of ureau, and General administrative, expenses : For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of ' bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $136,180 . Expenses in the Dis- General weather service and research : For necessary expenses met and elsewhere' incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climato- logical, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorol- ogy, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology in the