PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
Passed at the first (special) session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifteenth day of March, 1897, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the twentyfourth day of July, 1897.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, President; GABBET A. Honanr, Vice-President and President of the Senate; WILLIAM P. Fam, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Tuoms B. Rnnn, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. 1.-An Act Makin appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for Avril2S. WW- the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Be it enacted ln; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, mms. P and they are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, for the purposes and object hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
ourrslprznmeuttragn. Orrrom or run Smonnnnrz For compensation of Secretary of Afgdf °,S¤:{¤¤:g_- Agriculture, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of Agricul- °° t' ° °' ture, four thousand five hundred dollars; Chief Clerk, who shall be superintendent of the Department buildings, two thousand ilve hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand dollars; stenographer to the Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand four hundred dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand six hundred dollars; one appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one chief of supply division, two thousand dollars; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks at one thousand dollars each, nine thousand dollars; five clerks at eight hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars; one engineer, who shall be captain of the watch, one thousand six hundred dollars; one fireman, who shall be steam fitter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant iireman, six hundred dollars; four night wutchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; messengers, laborers, mechanics, four day watchmen, and charwomen, girifteen thousand dollars; in all, eighty-seven thousand one hundred o ars.
Drvrsrou or` Aooomrrs Ann Drsnunsnmnnrsz Chief of division ,§,¤ggg;-oumunb and disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant me mrttmmta. chief of division, two thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight
