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ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 



Printing office of the Weather Bureau. 



Section ;^1 of the act cited, itrovidinp that all printing offices in the 

 departments shall be a part of the Government Printint,' Office, and that 

 all presses, etc.. and supplies shall be furnished by, and all employees be 

 under the control of. the Public Printer, with a proviso excepting the 

 printing office of the Weather Bureau, is set forth on p. ."iCS, post. 



Printing of maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of Weather Bureau. 



Section 89 of the act cited, providing certain limitations on the printing 

 of reports, publications, and documents of the departments, with a jiroviso 

 excepting therefrom maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of the- 

 Weather Bureau, is set forth on p. 24, ante. 



ACT MARCH 4. 1907. c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 



Sales of surplus maps and publications of Weather Bureau. 



* * * hereafter the Secretary of AgricuUure is authorized to 

 sell any surplus maps or publications of the Weather Bureau, and the 

 money received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of 

 the United States, section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Re- 

 vised Statutes notwithstanding; * * * 



Act March 4, lOOT, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1258. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1908, cited above. 



Rev. St. sec. 227, mentioned in this provision, is set forth below. 



REV. ST. SEC. 227. 



Sale of surplus maps and publications of Signal Office. 



Sec. 227. The Chief Signal-Officer maj' cause to be sold any surplus 

 maps or publications of the Signal-Office, the mone}^ received therefor 

 to be applied toward defraying the expenses of the signal-service; and 

 an account of the same shall be rendered in each annual report of the 

 Chief of the Signal-Service. 



The weather service was transferred from the Signal Corps of the Army 

 to the Department of Agriculture by act October 1, 1890. c. 1266, set forth 

 on p. 33. anic, and the sale of surplui? maps and publications of the 

 Weather Bureau by the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized by a pro- 

 vision of act March 4. 1907, c. 2007. set forth above. 



ACT MAY 25, 1900, c. 555. (31 Stat. 191.) 

 Destruction of old telegi-ams of Weather Bureau. 



That hereafter all telegrams pertaining to the business «of the 

 Weather Bureau may be destroyed after they are three years old, and 

 the accounts based thereon have been settled by the Treasury Depart- 

 ment ; and the present accumulation of these old telegrams may be 

 destroyed. 



Act May 25, 1900, c. 555, 31 Stat. 204. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1901, cited above. 



ACT JANUARY 12. 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 



Extra copies of the Annual Report of Chief of Weather Bureau. 



Sec. 73. Extra copies of documents and reports shall be printed 

 promptly when the same shall be ready for publication, and shall be 

 bound in paper or cloth as directed by the Joint Committee on Prmt- 



