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82 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 147, 148. 1892. ` and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and eilicient work of the Bureau, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. G°¤¤¤l ¤¤P°¤¤°°· GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU. Expenses of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, for the beneiit of agriculture, commerce, navigation, and other interests, as provided by law, namely: 0H§c’;:,*;* Qxgj; Salaries of (twenty-six) local forecast officials, observers, assistant nr wssiangdm. observers, operators, repairmen, and other necessary civilian employees outside of the city of Washington, three hundred and twenty-nine thoul sand nine hundred dollars; and the Secretary is hereby authorized { to make promotions in the service without prejudice to those transferred from the Signal Service of the War Department. All other exnqs, em. penses, itemized as follows: Maps, bulletins, and stationery for stfttions, and the maintenance of a printing office in the District of Oo umbia (including the hire of printers, lithographers, and other necessary working force), for printing of the necessary circulars, weather maps, bulletins, monthly weather reviews, and other meteorological data for distribution and display in the interest of agriculture, commerce, and nav- Trs¤¤p¤r¢·¤*·i¤¤- ew- igation; for transportation and legal traveling allowances of employees when traveling on business connected with the Bureau, including transnmmmms. portation of materials and funds; for meteorological and other instrurersmping re- ments and shelters therefor; for telegraphing or telephoning reports, P°”°· °“’· messages, or other information; the special and regular circuits, drops, and rates for Weather-Bureau service, to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the telegraph or telephone company or ram, se. companies performing the services; for rents and other incidental expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation; for the mainte- Cmvwbmvw nance and repair of seacoast telegraph lines; for river observations mwampom. and reports necessary for flood forecasts; for storm, cold wave, ilood, Storm signin- frost, and other signals (including the purchase of iigs for the same); coms ten www- for cotton region observations and reports; for special observations and nm-scene mmm. pay of observers of West India stations during the hurricane season; suppues, eu:. for supplies for State Weather Service stations, and for investigations _cumm mvmiga- on the relations of climate to organic life, three hundred and sixty- eight

  • ‘°““· thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and nfty cents; in all, six

hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-tive dollars and fifty cents. Approved, July 5, 1892. Jn1y6. 1892- CHAP. 148.-—An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the town of ]·‘e¤·on, —""‘""'"""“ County of Emery, Territory of Utah. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fcrmv. UM- States of America in Congress assembled, That the probate judge of ·r¤w¤ siw curry- Emery County, Territory of Utah, be and is hereby, authorized to enter in trust for the inhabitants of the town of Ferron, for town-site pur- R. S., ws- Z%87-¤¤°- poses, section sixteen, in township twenty south, of range seven east, Salt °‘m‘ Lake meridian, subject to the provisions of sections twenty-three hun- . dred and eighty-seven, twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight, and twenty-three hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the aing ?mg¤1¤·=* i¤· United States relating to town sites. Y ° Sec. 2. That upon the passage of this act the Territory of Utah, through its proper officer, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to select R-Ssmlw 1>-341- as indemnity for said land, and in full satisfaction thereof, and for the purpose stated in section nineteen hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, one section of the public lands at any land office in said Territory, said selection to be made in a body according to legal subdivisions. Approved, July 6, 1892.