432 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 3514. 1906. which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pe11sion Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. P**“’"*°‘““°· PATENT Ormcn: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; examiner of trade-marks and designs, two thousand five hundred dollars; forty principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; fift first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; seventy third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; eighty fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may etermine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of languages; fifteen clerks of class two; seventy clerks of class one; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; forty-seven permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and prqperty clerk, one thousand dollars; live model attendants, at one thousan dollars each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; ’one hundred and seven copyists, seven of whom may be copyists of drawings; thirty-one copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; fifty- one laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifty laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, nine hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
- """‘”·‘*"’· F or purchase of professional and scientific books and expense of
transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to forcigin governments, two thousand five hundred dollars. _ _ , `or purchase of law books, five hundred dollars. jQ°f“Q‘§l ,,, For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates and illustra-
- '**¤**¤M °m<>¤· tions for the Official Gazette, for work to be done at the Government
Printing] Office in producing the Official Gazette, including the letter press, the weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, plzgplusive of expired patents, in all, one hundred and thirty thousand lars. _,,f.;""‘*""" ‘"""""““· For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and _ _ specifications; one hundred and forty thousand dollars. ,,,{,Q},f;‘j,§°;{Q,$ ‘“" "f For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred and fifty dollars. n_;§Q",§,Q;‘,QQf"“‘ ”"‘ For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the llnpernational Bureau at Berne, Switzerland. seven hundred and fifty 0 lars. ,,,f{{{"*“" "‘ E°“°**‘ Bumm; or Eocoxrioxz For Commissioner of Education, three thousand five hundred dollars: chief clerk. one thousandeight hundred dollars: statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in
