34 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



commerce, and the takin<^ of such meteorological observations as may 

 be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the 

 United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the fore- 

 going duties. 



Act October 1, 1890, c. 126G, s. ?,, 26 Stat. 653. 



Chief of Bureau and employees. 



Sec. 4. That the Weather Bureau shall hereafter consist of one 

 Chief of Weather Bureau and such civilian employees as Congress 

 may annualh' provide for and as may be necessary to properly per- 

 form the duties devolving on said bureau by law, and the chief of 

 said bureau shall receive an annual compensation of four thousand 

 five hundred dollars, and be appointed by the President, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Senate : * * * 



Act October 1, 1890, c. 1266, s. 4, 26 Stat. 653. 



The i)ortion of this section here omitted, relating to the detail of the 

 Chief Signal OtEcer and other officers of the Army for duty in the 

 Weather Bureau, is expressly repealed by Res. July 8, 1898, No. 57, 

 30 Stat. 752. 



Subsequent agricultural appropriation acts provide an increased salary 

 for the Chief of the Weather Bureau. The provision of the act for the 

 liscal year 1913 is set forth below. 



Transfer of enlisted force of Signal Corps to Department of Agriculture. 



Sec. 5. That the enlisted force of the Signal Corps, excepting those 

 hereinafter provided for, shall be honorably discharged from the 

 Army on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and such 

 portion of this entire force, including the civilian employees of the 

 Signal Service, as may be necessary for the proper performance of 

 the duties of the Weather Bureau shall, if they so elect, be trans- 

 ferred to the Department of Agriculture, and the compensation of 

 the force so transferred shall continue as it shall be in the Signal 

 Service on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetj^-one, until 

 otherwise provided by law: Provided, That skilled observers serving 

 in the Signal Service at said date shall be entitled to preference over 

 other persons 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 were last enlisted. 



Act October 1, 1890, c. 1266, s. 5. 26 Stat. 653. "^ 



Appropriations for Bureau. 



Sec. i). That on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 one, the appropriations for the support of the Signal Corps of the 

 Army shall be made with those of other staff corps of the Army, 

 and the a|)|>ropriations for the support of the Weather Bureau shall 

 bo made with tliose of the other bureaus of the Department of Agri- 

 I'ullurc. and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 prej)are future estimates for the Weather Bureau which shall be 

 hereafter specially developed and extended in the interests of agri- 

 culture. 



Act October 1. 1890, c. 1266, s. 0. 26 Stat. 654. 



This act and subsequent acts relating to the Weather Bureau super- 

 sede Itcv. St. sees. 221-223. sot forth below. 



Appropriations for carrying into olToct .the provisions of this act are 

 (•(iiit.iiiHNl in llio annual agricultural appropriation acts beginning with 

 the fiscal year 1892. 



Sections 2, 6. 7, and 8, here omitted, relate exclusively to the Signal 

 Corps of the Army and are inapplicable to the Weatfier Bureau. 



