FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS._ Sess. I. Ch. 3913. 1906. 687 sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported; Employing such assistants, clerks, and other ersons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for tliie urpose named, one undred and forty-five thousand nine hundred anti) twenty dollars. And the employees of the Bureau of Chemistry outside the I¤¤v<=¤¤f¤b¤¤¤¤¤- city of Washington may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leaves of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of Aglriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year. otal for Bureau of Chemistr , one hundred and seventy-four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. BUREAU OF SOILS. ¤¤¤¤·¤¤¢¤¤¤¤- Sxmuuas, BUREAU or Souls: One soil physicist who shall be chief S¤·l¤i¤¤~ of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks, class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, class three, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks, class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, class one, seven thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one carpenter, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant photographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one mechanician, one thousand dollars; one fireman eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one charwoman four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Son, rsvmsrrcxrrousz General expenses, Bureau of Soils: Investi- ?§'§°§§{{°,§,§’§‘{‘§$,“·0, gation of the relation of soils to climate and organic life; for the ¤°“¤- investigation of the texture and composition of sor s in the field and laboratory; for the investigation of the cause and tprevention of the rise of alkali in the soils of the irrigated districts; e investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters; for investigations of soils and for indicating upon maps or plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations; to map the tobacco soils of the United States; to investigate the soils and con itions of tobacco growth T¤¤•¤>¤¤· in Cuba, Sumatra, and other tobaccomomlpeting countries; to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of lant Industry, the methods of curing, with particular reference to fermentation; to investigate, with the view of improving, the conditions relating to the supply and sale of domestic tobacco to any foreign country or countries where the business of buying and selling tobacco is conducted by the government; the location of the stations; I‘<-Int of buildings, not to exceed R°"‘· four thousand dollars per annum, for office and laboratory purposes; , the crnplovment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and i'*’°°l“1“g°“'“·°“" other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of WVashington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; the preparation and printing of reports, drawings, and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, gas, and electric current, furniture, suppl1es;·for telegraph and telephone service, and for traveling expenses, freight
