196 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



named, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in conducting in- 

 vestigations, collating and reporting the results of such investigations, 

 and for the rent of buildings outside of the District of Columbia, 

 fifty-five thousand dollars; 



l^or investigating the character of the chemical and physical tests 

 which are applied to American food products in foreign countries, and 

 for inspecting the same before shipment when desired by the shippers 

 or owners of these products intended for countries where chemical and 

 physical tests are required before the said products are allowed to be 

 sold therein, and for all necessary expenses in connection w^th such 

 inspection and studies of methods of analysis in foreign countries, 

 four thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; 



In all, for general expenses, eighty-nine thousand two hundred and 

 eighty dollars. 



Enforcement of the food and DRiros Act: For enabling the Secre- 

 tar}^ of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of 

 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act for pre- 

 venting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or 

 misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and 

 liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other j^urposes," in 

 the cit}^ of Washington and elsewhere, including chemical apparatus, 

 chemicals and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric current, 

 official traveling expenses, telegi-aph and telephone service, express 

 and freight charges, and all other expenses, employing such assistants,* 

 clerks, and other persons as may be considered necessary for the pur- 

 poses named, and rent outside of the District of Columbia, six hun- 

 dred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 



Total for Bureau of Chemistry, nine hundred and sixty-eight thou- 

 sand nine hundred and forty dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912. c. 284, 37 Stat. 288. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



BUREAU OF SOILS. 



ACT JUNE 3. 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.) •» 



Establishment of bureau. 



All oxisting statutes relating to the Division of Soils, reorganized into 

 the Bureau of Soils, not otherwi.<<e repealed, are continued in effect as 

 applying to the said bureau, by a proviso annexed to the agricultural 

 appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903. cite<l above, set forth on p. 11. 

 ante. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 805. (31 Stat. 922.) 

 Chief of bureau. 



* * * One soil physicist who shall be Chief of Bureau. * * * 



Act March 2, 1901, c. 805, 31 Stat. 931. 



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

 year 1902, clte<i above. Provisions in the same words are contained In 

 Ihe similar acts for sub.^equent fiscal years. The provision iu the act 

 for (he fiscal year 1013 is set forth below. 



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



S.\L.\inEs, BiRE.M' OF SoiLs : One soil physicist, who shall be chief 

 of bureau, four thousand dollars; one chie^ clerk, two thousand dol- 



