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274 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. CHs. 238, 243, 244. 1894. ¥•*•¤¤‘•>l°8¥ •¤* for supplies for State weather service stations·_ for apparatus, assist- °°u°' ance, supplies, labor, printing, books; for providing a building or add1— tional apartments not including the erection of new buildings, and for traveling, general, and all necessary expenses of investigation and experi- _ enum. ments on meteorology in relation to agricultural soils; for investigations on the relation of climate to organic life, and for investigations and P¤Ni¤¤¤•¤¤· vw- for a periodical publication on climatology in its application to sanitary · science, and for the erection of necessary buildings for use of the Weather B¤il·iigs•·u°*l“°*· Bureau at Point Reyes Light, California, and Tatoosh IsIand,_ Wash- °i° md ° °g°°°' iugton, not to exceed five hundred dollars, in the interest of commerce and navigation; in all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and six cents. P¤¤¤1¢yf¤r¤¤¤¤f~¤- Any person who shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit - f°°""°”°°"°’ °°°’ weather forecasts or warnings of weather conditions, falsely representing such forecasts or warnings to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, for each oH`ense, be fined in a. sum not exceeding tive hundred dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed ninety days, or be both _ _ lined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. m‘j•g;,"g:,§, :§f"*’ That the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Postmas- · ' ter-General, may arrange a plan by which there shah be displayed on all cars and other conveyances .used for transporting United States mail, suitable flags or other signals to indicate weather forecasts, cold wave warnings, frost warnings, and so forth, to be furnished by the Chief of the Weather Bureau. A¤°¤¤*· Total Weather Bureau, eight hundred and seventy- six thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and six cents. · Approved, August 8, 1894. · _ A¤¢¤•W» WK CHAP. 243.—An Act To authorize sale of lot eight, block ninety-three, city of Hot W Springs, by school directors thereof, and use of proceeds for school purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqxresemtatioee of the United ` §_‘{f_ §¥‘{f,‘;fg.*§j,§;,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That the directors of the school emma. district of the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, are hereby authorized to sell and convey, at private or public sale, lot eight, in block ninety-three, on Ouchita avenue, in said city, as shown by the survey and plat of the United States Commissioners for Hot Springs, heretofore designated and set apart by the Secretary of the Interior as a site for a schoolhouse WM! r·2¤•· under Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and to apply the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of the common schools of said city. - - Approved, August 9, 1894. I A¤z¤l¢ 9. IW- CHAP. 2 .—— n ct To c e in u . s'. '_'""°‘“"` cial districts4t!` Nibrth Caroliiigliigiidtilizingotiitiibtvfdf hrnldihgstsddrtcuinxzgiifzlagtzih district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 R resentatives o the United gzjgigjfggémd States of America in Congress f1886mbl8d,fTh;€$ the countieg of Person eo_mamj¤·i1m1m» Durham, Chatham, and Moore, and Richmond, now constituting a part °"{f§__,u_ my p_ ,,_ of the western judicial district of North Carolina, shall 'be, and are ernargig- Numb hereby, transferred to and made part of the eastern judicial district of tions_ g P North Carolina, but all crimes and otfenses heretofore committed in either of said counties for which the defendants have been bound over shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with Promo. thesnme effect as if this Act had not been passed: Provided, That all re¤¤1s¤gmao¤.. actions or proceedings now pending against parties residing in the