38 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGKICULTUEE. 



ing, and shall be of the nuiiibor following in addition to the usual 

 number : 



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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, and one thousand copies for the Bureau. 



Act Jammry 12. 1895. c. 23, s. 73. 28 Stat. 612, 613. 



A prosisd, jinuoxoil to iu?t ,J:nui;iiy 12. 1805. c. 23. s. 89. set forth on 

 p. 24. otife, authorizes the printing of maps, charts, bulletins, and minor 

 reiwrts of the Weather Bureau in such numbers as the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may deem for the best interests of the Government. 



Maps, weather reports, and weather cards are excepted from the pro- 

 visions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350, s. 8. set forth on p. 370, post, under 

 " Public Documents." forbidding expenditures for the work of distribut- 

 ing publications in the executive departments, and transferring such 

 work to the Public Printer. 



Appropriations for printing and binding for the Weather Bureau are 

 made in the annual sundry civil appropriation acts. The provision of the 

 act for the fiscal year 1913. act August 24. 1912. c. 355. is set forth on p. 

 229, post, under "Division of Publications." 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 

 Counterfeiting weather forecasts. 



Sec. Gl. AVhoever shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit 

 weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely represent- 

 ing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the 

 Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the 

 Government service, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. 

 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both. 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 61, 35 Stat. 1100. 



This is a section of an act entitled "An act to codify, revise, and amend 

 the penal laws of the United States." Provisions of act April 25, 1806, 

 c. 140, 2t) Stat. 108, act March 2, 1895. c. 169, 28 Stat. 737. and act August 

 S, 1804, o. 238. 2S Stat. 274. are incorporated in this section, and are ex- 

 pressly repealed by section 341 of said act March 4, 1909. 



A provisioH in the same language and containing an additional clause 

 making it likewise punishable to molest or interfere with any weather or 

 storm flag or weather map or bulletin displayed or issued by the Weather 

 Bureau, was enacted by act March 3. 1005, c. 1405. and is set forth below. 



"This provision is not included among those mentioned as expressly 

 rei^ealed in sjiid rei)ealing section .341 of the Criminal Code, but a refer- 

 ence to it is noted in the margin of said section 61 thereof, in which the 

 original jtrovision is incorporated. It may be questioned, therefore, 

 whether said additional provision first enacted in act March 3, 1905, 

 c? 1405, is. within the meaning of the last clause of section 341 of the 

 Criminal Code, ' embraced within and superseded by ' said Code, as to be 

 repealed thereby, or whether it is one of ' the remaining portions' of prior 

 acts, which are to 'remain in force.'" {Note, United States Compiled 

 SliUiitts l!)OI, .Supplrmctit 1911.) 



ACT MARCH 3. 1905. c. 1405. (33 Stat. 361. t 



Counterfeiting weather forecasts and molesting, etc., weather flags, maps, and 

 bulletins. 



Any person who shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit 

 weather forecasts or warnings of weather conditions, falsely repre- 

 senting such forecasts or warnings to have been issued or published by 

 the Weather Bureau, or other branch of the GovernnuMit service, or 

 shall mole.st or interfere with any weather or storm flag or weather 

 map or bulletin displayed or issued l)y the United States Weather 

 B\irenu. shall be deemed jjuiltv of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 



