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ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Salaries, Blreau of Chf-.mistry: One chemist, who shall be chief 

 of bureau, five thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dol- 

 lars; one executive clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks, class 

 four; se\en clerk, class three; one clerk, one thousand four hundred 

 and forty dollars; twelve clerks, class two; one clerk, one thousand 

 three hundred dollars; eighteen clerks, class one; thirteen clerks, at 

 one thousand and twenty dollars each ; eleven clerks, at one thousand 

 dollars each; eighteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one 

 clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant property cus- 

 todian, nine hundred dollars; one chief food and drug inspector, 

 three thousand dollars; one food and drug inspector, two thousand 

 two hundred and fifty dollars; nine food and drug inspectors, at two 

 thousand dollars each; thirteen food and drug inspectors, at one thou- 

 sand eight hundred dollars each; one food and drug inspector, one 

 thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; eleven food and drug in- 

 spectors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eight food and 

 drug inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; two 

 laboratory helpei-s, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one 

 laboratory helper, one thousand and twenty dollars; four laboratory 

 helpers, at one thousand dollars each; four laboratory helpers, at 

 nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two laboratory helpers, at 

 jiine hundred dollars each; six laboratory helpers, at eight hundred 

 and forty dollars each; two laboratory'' helpers, at seven hundred 

 and eighty dollars each ; twenty laboratory helpers, messengers, or 

 laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laboratory 

 helpers, messengers, or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars 

 each; twenty-four laboratory helpers, messengers, or laborers, at 

 six hundred dollars each; one laboratory assistant, one thousand 

 two hundred dollars; one tool maker, one thousand two hundred 

 dollars; one janitor, one thousand and twenty dollars; one student 

 assistant, three hundred dollars; two messengers, at eight hundred 

 and forty dollars each; one skilled laborer, one thousand and fifty 

 dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two 

 messenger boys or laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; 

 eight messenger boys or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars 

 each ; three messenger bo3-s or laborers, at four hundred and twenty 

 dollars each ; one messenger boy or laborer, three hundred and sixty 

 dollars; six charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in 

 all. two hundred and fiftj'-four thousand six hundred and sixty 

 dollars. 



General expenses. Bureau of Chei^iistry : For necessary expenses 

 in conducting the investigations contemplated by the Act of May 

 fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, relating to the application 

 of chemistry to agriculture, and to continue collaboration with otlier 

 departments of the Government desiring chemical investigations and 

 whose heads request the Secretary of Agriculture for such assistance, 

 and for other miscellaneous work, as follows: 



For chemical apparatus, chemicals and supplies, repairs to appa- 

 ratus, gas, electric current, official traveling expenses, telegraph and 

 telephone service, express and freight charges, thirty thousand 

 dollars; 



For the employment of such assistants, clerks, and other persons as 

 the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes 



