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employees of the Sigual Service, as may bo necessary for the proper peribrmanee of 

 the duties of the Weather Bureau, sliall, if they so elect, be tranferred to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and the comiiensation of the force so transferred shall continue 

 as it shall be in the Signal Service on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 one, until otherwise TJrovided by law: Provided, That skilled observers serving in 

 the Signal Service at said date shall be entitletl to preference over other i)ersons not 

 in the Signal Service for appointment in the Weather Bureau to places for which 

 they may be properly qualified until the expiration of the time for which they last 

 enlisted. 



Skc. 9. That on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the appro- 

 priations for the support of the Signal Corps of the Army shall be made with those 

 of other staff corps of the Army, and the appropriations for the support of the 

 Weather Bureau .shall be made with those of the other bureaus of the Department 

 of Agriculture, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare 

 future estimates for the Weather Bureau which shall be hereafter specially developed 

 aud extended in the interests of agriculture. 



Approved October 1, 1890. 



LA"W FOR DOCUMENTS AND PRINTING. 



The provisions of act of July 12, 1895, relating to public printing and 

 binding, affecting the Department of Agricalture, are as follows: 



Sec. 67. All documents at present remaining in charge of the several Executive 

 Departments, bureaus, and offices of the (iovernmeut not required for official use 

 shall be delivered to the superintendent of documents, and hereafter all public doc- 

 uments accunmlatiug in said Departments, biireaus, and offices not needed for official 

 use shall be annually turned over to the superintendent of documents for distribu- 

 tion or sale. 



Sec. 73. * * * The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall here- 

 after l)e submitted and printed in two pans, as follows: Part one, which shall con- 

 tain purely business and executive matter which it is necessary for the Secretary to 

 submit to the President aud Congress; part two, which shall contain such reports 

 from the different bureaus and divisions, and such papers prepared by their special 

 agents, accompanied by suitable illustrations as shall, in the opinion of the Secre- 

 tary, be specially suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the country, and to 

 include a general report of the ojieratious of the Department for their information. 

 There shall be printed of part one, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand 

 copies for the House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; 

 and of part two, one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, 

 three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, 

 and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture. The illus- 

 trations for the same will be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, 

 in accordance with directions of the joint committee on printing, said illustrations 

 to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. * * * 



Of the Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, thirty thousand copies, of which 

 seven thousand shall be for the Senate, fourteen thousand for the House, aud nine 

 thousand for distribution by the Agricultural Department. 



Of the Annual Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, four thousand copies; 

 one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, aud one 

 thousand copies for the Bureau. 



