FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 1486. 1904. 293 authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them copies of the card index of the publications of the Department and of other agricultural literature pre red by the library, and charge for the same a price covering the adddional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the preparation of t e index. ‘ Total for library, Department of Agriculture, twenty thousand two hundred dollars. MUSEUM: One care taker, one thousand dollars; for labor in clean- ““““'“· ing and caring for building, one charwoman, at five hundred and forty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. _ CONUNGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT or AGRIGULTURE: Purchase of C°“"“g°‘“°‘*’°““°'· stationery, blank books, twine, pa er, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, ffrmber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, washin towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; for the employment of one carpenter, at one thousand dollars, and for the employment of one painter, at nine hundred s dollars; the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses, for official purposes only; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, for official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceed four hundred ` dollars; actual travelin expenses while on business of the Department; and other miscellaneous supplies and exipenses not otherwise Brovided for, and necessary for the practical an efficient work of the epartment, including not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for postage, thirty-seven thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. Mi*°°"""°"“”· .AGRIOULTURAL EXPERIMENT STAT10NS: To carry into effect the pro- mg§{;<;:l;g§g*€XP¢*i· visions of an Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eig ty- v01. 24, p. 440. _ seven, entitled "An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and V°'· 1* r>~ 50% sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto," and to enforce the execution thereof, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars; forty Bulletins. thousand dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Secreta of Agriculture, to enable him to carry out the provisions of section fhree of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty- V¤*· 2% P- 441- seven; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of said Act of S¤¤*<>¤¤¤¤*~¤· March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance wit the provisions of said Act, and shall make report thereon to Congress. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ F><r>¤¤<¤i¤¤¤·~a such assistants. clerks. and other persons as he may deem necessary, in the city of \Vashington and elsewhere. and to incur such other expenses for office fixtures and supplies, stationery, traveling, freight and express charges, illustration of the Experiment Station Record, bulletins, and reports, as he may find essential in carrying out the Objects of the above Acts, and the sums apportioned to the several *’”Ym**¤°*°S*¤*¤¤- States shall be paid quarterly in advance; and the Secretary of Agri- Cam index. culture is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individ-
