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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss . II. C$. 706 . 1929 . BOTANIC G ARDEN Improvements : For replacing nursery stock lost on account of high water and repairing damages to overflowed land, including ditching and tiling and all expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1929, $ 15,000 . UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT BUILDING COMMISSION To enable the United States Supreme Court Building Commission to carry out the provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States," approved December 21, 1928, inc luding the pr ocurement of models, $25,00 0, to remain available during the fiscal year 1930 . PORTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF COMMISSION For the purpose of making loans to any individual coffee planter, coconut planter, fruit grower, or other agriculturist in the island of Porto Rico, $5,000,000, of which $3,000,000 shall become immediately available and $2,000,000 shall become available on January 1, 1930 ; for rebuilding and repair of schoolhouses damaged or destroyed by the hurricane in small towns and rural districts of Porto Rico, and for the employment of labor and the purchase of materials for re- pairing insular and rural municipal roads, $2,000,000 ; for purchase and distribution of seeds and seedlings, $100,000 ; and for adminis- trative expenses of the commission, $30,000 ; in all, $7,130,000, fiscal year 1929, to remain available until expended, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 74, approved December 21, 1928 . DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFF ICE OF EX PERIMENT STATIONS Salar ies and gener al expenses, O ffice of Experiment Stations (insular experiment stations) : For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain agricultural expe rime nt s tati ons for the purp ose of r epai ring or rest orin g pr op- erty damaged or destroyed at the Porto Rico and Virgin Islands experiment stations by the hurricane of September 13, 1928, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultur al Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $12,500 . CE NTER M ARKET, DISTRIC T OF C OLUMBIA To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue operation of the Center Market, Washington, District of Columbia, including the same objects and purposes specified under this head in the Agri- cultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $60,000 . DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Customs statistics : For an additional amount covering the same objects and purposes specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1929, to remain available until June 30, 1930, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia . 1609 Botanic garden . Improvements . Supreme Co urt Building Commission. Procuring plans, etc . , for construction of building. Ante, p . 1067. Porto Rican Hurri- cane Relief C omm is- sion . M aking loans to . Repairs of schools, roads, etc . Seeds and seedlings, etc. Ante, p.1068. Department of Agri- culture . Experiment Stations Office . Repairing, etc . . bui ld- ings in Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. Center Market, D . C . Operation, etc. Ante, p. 663 . Department of Com- merce. Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce Bureau . Customs statistics . Expenses of collect- ing, etc.