40 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses 

 not otherwise provided for in the city of AVashington, twenty-five 

 thousand dollars. 



General Expenses. Weather Bureau: For carrying into effect in 

 the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the 

 West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in 

 Bermuda, the provisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service trans- 

 ferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and for every 

 expenditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, equip- 

 ment, aiid nminicnance of meteorological observation stations, includ- 

 ing cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies 

 and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological 

 information, as follows: 



For the employment of professors of meteorology, inspectors, dis- 

 trict forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, research observers, 

 observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repair- 

 men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other 

 necessary employees, five hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars; 



For fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, 

 stationery, and all other necessary supplies and miscellaneous ex- 

 penses, one hundred and five thousand five hundred dollars ; 



For instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers, and 

 repairs thereto, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; 



For rent of offices and repairs and improvements to buildings now 

 completed and located outside of the District of Columbia, and care 

 and preservation of grounds, including construction of necessary out- 

 buildings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau 

 grounds, ninety-nine thousand dollars; 



For official traveling expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars; 



For telephone rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, and 

 cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture by agreements with the companies perforaiing the serv- 

 ice, three hundred and five thousand dollars; 



For the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, 

 telephone, and cable lines, four thousand dollars; 



For investigations in climatology and evaporation, including the 

 erection of temporary buildings for living quarters for observers, for 

 river, rain, snow, ice, crop, evaporation, aerial, storm, hurricane, and 

 other observations, warnings, and reports, and for pay of special 

 observers and display men, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollai-s; 



For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, 

 including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for print- 

 ing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications, 

 and for pay of additional assistant foremen, proof readers, composi- 

 tors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and feeders, when neces- 

 sary, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; 



In all. for general expenses, one million two hundred and seventy- 

 eight thousand seven Innulred and fifty dollars. 



Total for Weather Bureavi, one million six hundred and nineteen 

 thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 270. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



