202 FORTY-N LN TH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. S2?. msu. Washington, if it can there be donc at rcasonahlc rates; und the Commissioner of Patents! under tho direction of the Secretary of the Into rior, shall ho authonzcd to make contracts therefor, mncty thousand . dollars. _ . Inmxigaciug Forjurestigatiug tho question of thopublic use orsulo of nnvcnuons ¤!¤» °*°·» °U¤*°¤· for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents,-and for mg; can _ of expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissxoner mts_ P of Patents, one thousand dollars. _ Bureau of Edu- BUREAU or EDUcATI0N.——For the Commissioner of Education, three °¤*i°¤·, thousand dollars; collector and compiler of stalzistics, two thousand m;';!; °&E°'°"“*` four hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; ’two clerks of class four; one statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one translator, one thousand sux hundred dollars; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class ono; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; one sknlled Iuborcr, eight hundred and forty dollars; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; one assistunt messenger; two laborers; two laborers, ut ibur hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, at four hundred dollars; aud ono 1uhorer,:1t tlxrcc hundred and sixty dollars; in ull, forty-five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Books, etc. For books for library, tivo hundred dollars; current educational poriodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars; other current publications, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; completing valuable sets of periodicals, two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred and seventy-tive dollars. Stutisties. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of informantion, three thousand dollars. Dist ri butmg, For the distribution and exchange of educational documents, and for °*°·» d°°“'”°°*¤· tho collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and - appliances, articles of school furniture, und models of school-buildings illustrative of foreign and dcmestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the some. two thousand iivo hundred dollars. Bmanofubqr. BUREAU OF Luzon.-For Commissioner of Luboxgthrco thousand dg; °éf°"'°“* dollars_; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four, ’both to be statistical experts; two clerks of class three, one of whom may be n stenogmpher; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class
one, one of whom may be u translator and one of whom may be n. stenogmphcr; two clerks,:1t one thousand dollars each; two copyists ; two
_c0py-holders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one assistant messenger; one assistant messenger. at six hundred dollars; one watchman; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two cbarwomcu, at two hundred und forty dollars each ; eighteen special agents, ut: least two of whom shall he ikumlcs, as one thousand four hundred dollars
ouch; in ull, tlfty-two thousand uiuc hundred and sixty dollars.
PQ dwml wv-. For per diem of special agents when away from home on duty, in lieu ”*"""“l"g°“*“· °'°· of expenses for subsistence, the rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, und not to exceed three dollars pur day, and for transportation und assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers. and for employ- B¤v¤ns. ment of experts, thirty nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Qommissioucr or Opmcz or Comnssronmz or RA11.1z0A1>s.-For Commissioner-, ibur
‘·""'°“‘l"· thousand Evo hundred dollars; bookkccpcr, two thousand four hundred dollars; railroad engineer, two thousand (ive hundred dollars; one assistant bookkcoper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one oopjist; aud one assistant messenger; in ull, fourteen
thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
b0I;lj;‘*:;’;°l*°¤ °*` For examination of books and accounts ofccrtain subsidized milrmul ’compumcs, and inspecting roads, shops, machinery, and equipments of
same, three thousand dollars.
m;{m °° ° ¤ Ormcz OF Tm; Axcuxmcw OF Tm-: CAr>1T0L.—Fo1·Arch1tocc,1bur thousand tivo hundred dollars; one clerk ot class four; ono droughtsmnn, ono thousand eight hundred dollars; compensation to dishursing
