1052 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 544. 1891. contingent. CONTINGENT EXPENSES! Contingent expenses for stationery, furniture and re airs to the same; freight, express charges; subsistence, care, and purchase of horses; repairs of harness; paper, twine advertising, dry goods, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, ardware, ice, urchasing supplies, washing towels, and other m1scellaneous. supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efiicient work of the bureau, thirteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars. The time for the final completion of the report of the extent and availability for irrigation by the underflow an artesian water within the region between the ninetly-seventh degree of longitude and the eastern foothills of the Roc y Mountains, and the correction and publication of information as to the best method of cultivating the soil by irrigation, limited to the iirst of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by the act of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby extended to the nrst day of J anuary, epghteen hundred and ninet -two; and the sum of ten thousan dollars is hereby appro riatedt to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to correct and publish informationas to the best methods of cultivating . the soil by irrigation. ¤¤¤<¤¤¤¤¤v¤¤¤¤¤· GENERAL EXPENSES or THE WEATHER Burman: For the expenses of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture for the ben•t of ag)riculture, commence, navigation, _r»y¤¢ rommsmm- and other interests as provided y law, namely : For salaries of
°’ forecast officials, observers, assistant observers, operators, repairmen, and other necessary civilian employees outside of the city of
M¤v¤ wd MMM Washington ; for ina s and bulletins, and the maintenance of a Pri¤¤¤s<>¤¤¤- printing office in the Bistrict of Columbia (including therefor the ‘ sum of not more than twenty one thousand one hun red and sixty- ummmom. ive dollars and fifty cents for hire, at rates not exceeding those paid by the Public Printer for work of a similar character, of printers, lithographers, (and other necessary working force) for printing of the necessary circulars, weather maps, bul etins, monthly weather reviews, and other meteorological data for distribution and display m'!`c*;*’§g¤H ¤U°"· in the interests of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; for trans- ’portation and legal traveling allowances of officers and employees when traveling on usiness connected with the Bureau; for meteor-
ological and other instruments and shelter therefor ; for telegraphing or teleplioning reports, messages, or other information ; for
semen m¤t¤.¤:¤. rents and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observacomwsgnpnunat tion; for the maintenance and repair of seacoast telegraph lines; for Wgu wd ¤¤¤¤ ¤>- river observations and reports necessary for flood forecasts; for swim sigma. storm, cold·wave, flood, frost and other signals ; and for cotton re ion vaggnmn ¤b¤¤r· observations and reports, itemized as follows: Salaries (including
- ’°'°" twenty local forecast officials, at one thousand five hundred dollars
each), three hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars ; maps and bulletins; transportation (including travel of officers and men, and transportation of materials and funds); instruments and shelter; telegraphing and telephoning, for the purpose of ex- _ tending the bene ts of the weather service in agricultural sections ; S b _ rents and expenses of stations ; seacoast telegraph lines (including O,,,‘Q;,,§°, "‘ the renewal of the submarine cable at Oregon nlet, North Carolina); river and flood observations ; e nses of storm andweather signals (including the purchase of ilagslfdr the same) ; cotton region obser- ,f,;§’¤{Q,ay*g*j¤:g vations ; the restoration and maintenance of telegraphic communirenangekswua cation between Tatoosh Island and Port Angeles, State of Washington, three hundred and forty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents; in all, six hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents. Approved, March 3, 1891. •
