262 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 192. 1908. class two; one artist, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; five clerks at one thousand dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. f_$¤°”f °§ Enrouoroexcn. mvrsrronrrxossz General expenses, Bureau of Entomology: Promotion of economic entomology; investigating the history and habits of insects injurious and benehcial to agricu ture, horticulture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best_ means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects affecting lield crops; investigations of the insects alfecting small fruit, shade trees, and truck crops, forests and forest roducts and stored roclucts; investigation of insects in relation to diseases of men and dlbmestic animals, and as animal parasites; miscellaneous insect investigations, including tobacco insects; the introduction of beneficial insects, quarantine work, and the study of fungous and other diseases of insects; for the expenses of insect laboratory, collections, and experimental garden; investigations in agulture; P’°""°· investigations of insecticides and insecticide machinery: voided,
- ’°'°° m°°· That Porto Rico is not excluded; for rent and the employment of
labor in the city of Washington and elsewliere; freight and express charges and official traveling expenses; for office fixtures, supplies, and apparatus; telegraph an telephone service; gas and electric current, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars, of which sum ten thousand dollars shall be immechately available. Total for Bureau of Entomolog , one hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. ,,g;:;;7¤¤*°*°*°¤°·’ BUREAU or BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. "'"‘°'· Snmnms, BUREAU or Broroerciu. SURVEY: One Biologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one clerk, class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. {*,f$§,"¤,}§,§§§§?“ Bronoercn. mvms·rmA·r1oNs: General expenses, biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the geographic istribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic ornithologv and mammulogy; for an investigation of the food habits of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for the emplo vment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for freight and express charges; for office fixtures and supplies, gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone service; otheial traveling and other g{,f)*;**&Ku,;g*;{;; expenses; and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into fiiim gms. effect the provisions of an Act approved May twent_v·fifth, nineteen `°"m*"·m‘ hundred, entitled "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture. prohibiting the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes," fifty-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, sixty-two thousand dollars. c0Q,{t;Q*j},g“D,QQ,,f,gj DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. lllé!} . 3***** Samnms, Drvisrox or Accouxrs Asn DISBURSENIENTS1 One chief of division and disbursing clerk, who shall he administrative officer of the fiscal affairs of the Department, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars: one auditor, two thousand dollars; one cashier and chief clerk, two thousand dollars: one clerk of class four; six clerks of class three;
