FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 830. 1901. 999 each: ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and six copyists, seven of whom may be copyists of drawings; thirty- one copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messen- ·ers; twenty-six 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, seven hundred and seventy-seven_ thousand dollars. For purchase of professional and scientific books and expenses of B°°kS‘ transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand dollars. For equipment of new scientific library rooms with steel stacks and gtlier fireproof and labor-saving furniture and apparatus, five thousand o lars. For purchase of law books`, five hundred dollars. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quar— 0“l°i“l G“"“€· terly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, one hundred thousand dollars. _ _ For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; C°p"*S°‘d“’·w‘“g"· for producing copies of desgns, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done as provided by the "Act providing for the public V°1·’·'8·P·62°· printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” mvideci, That the entire work may be done at the Government §,”g;’,§°·at Govem Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Print- ment Prin¤ing0i'1ice. ing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, sixty-four thousand dollars. For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions ,,,{,‘Q,‘{,‘{§(§§;““g use °’ 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. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the m£§*;3*'§$;°¤¤l B¤· §n1fernational Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, seven hundred and fifty ’ ` o lars. · BUREAU or EDUCATION; For Commissioner of Education, three tiglreuu °f Ed“°¤· thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred ' dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; translator, one thousand six hundred dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; specialist in foreign educational sy stems, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in education as a preventive of pauperism and crime, two thousand dollars; specialist in educational systems, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; two co yists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred andp twenty dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, four hundred dollars; and one laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. _ For one clerk of class four, to obtain, receive, collate, and, under S,,·°;§;§§@‘§i“*“l°°ll°g° the direction of the Commissioner of Education, to furnish the Secretary of the Interior with the information in relation to the operations and work of the collegesof agriculture and mechanic arts that will enable the Secretary to discharge the duties imposed on the Secretary of the Interior by the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hun- V°l·1’·P-‘*7· dred and ninety, to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the
