194 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 555. 1900. dollars; five clerks class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars; seven clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand eight hundred and eiggty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and foI·t dollars; four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars eacli, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; one illustrator, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. , Total amount for salaries in Department of Agriculture, three hundred and/twenty-tive thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. Library. axnanaas- LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE: Purchase of technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals necessary for the work of the Department, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, and for library fixtures, shelving, library cards, and other material, five thousand dollars. Ganiinsantaxpanaaa CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE! For the purchase of Stationery, blank books, necessary scientific and other pub lications, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, was ing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating a paratus; , for the employment of one carpenter, at one thousand dollars, and for the employment of one painter, at nine hundred dollars; the pur-. chase, subsistence, and care of horses, for official purposes onlv; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, Pisnawh agent- for official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture’s roportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceedp four hundred dollars; actual traveling expenses while on business of the Department, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise rovided for and necessary for the practical and eiiicient work of the Department, including not tg exceeél thousand five hundred dollars for postage, thirty-seven thousand dollars. gggigai quarantine ANIMAL QUARANTINE STATIoNs: To purchase, establish,-and main- ' tain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter and equipment for the care of neat cattle and domestic animals imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary, fifty thousand dollars (to be immediately available). Investigations and COLLECTING °AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS: Collecting domestic and BXPBQSBS. • · . . » . • • • • Agnemmmi. foreign, agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and Illustratm Y statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports; speciad investigations and compilations; subscription to, and purchase of, statistical and newspaper publications containing data for permanent comparative records; maps and charts; stationery supplies, blanks, blank books, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage starpps, Prwiscs. freight and express charges, and necessary traveling expenses: roilgtgnihiy crop ra- vided, That the monthly crop report issued on the tenth day of each p°month shall embrace a statement of the condition of the crops, by States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to, and officially a proved by, the Secretary flgxtepdmgdimgnds of Agriculture before being issued or published: Provided, also, That ° °"”g° um °fifteen thousand dollars of theiamount here by a propriated, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, may be
