FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 985,986. 1902. 303 out the United States; to make investigations in regard to the best methods of road making, and the best kind of road-making materials in the several States; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor re uired in conducting ex eriments in the city of Washington and elsewlnere; and in collating, digestin , reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; to enable the Secretaryof Agriculture to investigate the chemical and physical character of road materials, for the pay of experts, chemists, and laborers, for necessary ap ratus and materials; traveling, and other necessary expenses, and ig; preparing and publishing bulletins and reports on this subject for distribution, and to enable him to assist the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject, thirty thousand dollars. Srnx INVESHGAHONSZ To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to col- Silk °’P°'*”*°¤*¤· lect and disseminate information relating to silk culture in the United States, and for all expenses for experimental work in connection therewith, including expert and other labor in the city of Washington and _ elsewhere,ten thousand dollars: Provided, That all existing statutes smms relating to the Division of Soils, reorganized into the Bureau of Soils; ¤vg!igibL¤ ¢<> Mrthe Division of Forestry, reorganized into the Bureau of Forestry; g° M umm the Division of Chemistry, reorganized into the Bureau of Chemistry; and the Division of Botany, the Division of Pomology, the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, the Division of A rostology and Experimental Gardens and Grounds, reorganized into gre Bureau of Plant Industry, not otherwise repealed, shall remain in effect as applying to the respective bureaus into which the divisions named have been reorganized: And provided furt/ner, That advances of public m$},;;?¤°€¤ °* Public money from the a propriations for the Department of Agriculture ` shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture only to suchchiefs of field parties, agricultural explorers, special agents, and others as shall gave given bonds in such sums as the Secretary of Agriculture shall irect. Provz'dedfu7·the4·, That hereafter the estimates of appropriations for A““"”l°S‘*m”‘°‘· the Department of Agriculture shall be prepared and submitted each year according to the order and arrangement of the Act for the year ggeceding; an any changes in such order or arrangement desired by the cretary of Agriculture mav be submitted by note in the estimates. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, in the Offyéifjzgj *1*,; jgfig Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and quired Amuliuii. annually thereafter, immediately following estimates of each of the respective offices, bureaus and divisions ot the Department of Agriculture a statement showing in detail the number of clerks who were employed in the District of Columbia upon regular and continuous work for thirty days or more during the revious iiscal year in o1· under such offices, bureaus or divisions undlzr authority of and paid from general appropriations, indicating in the case of every such employment the rate of compensation received and the appropriation from which paid. Approved, June 3, 1902. CHAP. 986.--An Act To permit the occupancy of the public-printing building by r£¤¢ 3. 1902- the Grand Army of the Republic. [Public, No. uu] Be it enacted by the Senate and [base oflfzyresen tatires of the United _ _ _ States of rlmerica in Congress assemoted, That the Public Printer of i,,g‘§§§l§'”°"" p"" the United States and the engineer officer in charge of the construction Rg)’3§{}cg£f;Y0gQ‘{g; of the new public-printing office building are hereby directed and author- new nundntg piigiig ized to permit duly accredited members of the Grand Army of the °"°°"“"“°” ° ` Republic to occupy the new public-printing office building for sleeping
