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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



The several amounts appropriated for these Bureaus are divided as 

 follows : 



Appropriationn for the neto Bureaus. 



Bureau. 



Bureau of Plant Industry- 

 Bureau of Forestry 



Bureau of Soils 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Salaries. 



S39,68l) 

 39,160 

 18,140 

 11,300 



General 

 expenses. 



Sia5,ooo 



146,280 

 91,000 

 24,500 



Total. 



$204, 680 



185, 440 



109,140 



35,800 



A salary of $3,000 each is provided for tlie chiefs of these Bureaus, 

 with assistants at $2,500 each. The question of salaries for the scien- 

 tific corj)s of the Department of Agriculture has been a matter of con- 

 sideration by the Committee on Agriculture for several years past. 



NEW BUILDINGS AT WEATHER BUREAU STATIONS. 



The Weather Bureau appropriations were increased by $00,000 for 

 1903 for the purpose of establishing new stations, erecting new build- 

 ings where needed, a new cable to Tatoosh Island, State of Washington, 

 for the circulation of daily weather reports by the newly established 

 rural free-delivery routes, and for the installation and operation of a 

 system of wireless communication l)etween the mainland and Tatoosh 

 Island. Of this sum, $20,000 is intended for the purchase of a site 

 and the erection of a small brick and wood building at each of the 

 following-named jjlaces, for the use of the Weather Bureau, and for 

 all necessary labor, materials, and expenses, plans and specifications, 

 and for the purchase of instruments, furniture, supplies, storm- warn- 

 ing towers, etc., to properly equip the same: 



Appropriations for nctv Wcaiher Bureau stations. 



Atlantic City, N.J $6,000 



Hatteras,N. C 5,000 



Fort Canby, Wash 4,000 



Port Crescent, Wash 3.000 



Tatoosh Island, Wash 5,000 



Point Reyes, Cal 3,000 



Total -- 26,000 



PLANS FOR NEW ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING. 



The sum of $5,000 is appropriated "to enable the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to have prepared, under liis direction, plans for a firepi-oof 

 administrative building, to be erected on the grounds of the Depai't- 

 inent of Agriculture, in the city of Washington, said plans, and such 

 recommendations thereon as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem 

 necessary, to be transmitted to Congress at its next regular session." 

 This is the first deci<led and sul)stantial step in the direction of anew 

 administrative building, and is the result of i)ersistent and determined 

 efforts by the Department for many years past. The Committees on 

 Agriculture and on Appropriations are favorabh' disposed toward an 

 appropriation for this pui-pose, fully realizing its importance, and a 

 very friendly feeling exists among INIembersof Congress generally, the 

 necessity for a new building being well understood. 



