200 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Violations of provisions of section 1 of act punishable. 



Sec. 4. That any person, company, or corporation who shall know- 

 in^h' violate the provisions of section one of this Act shall, for each 

 offense, be fined, upon conviction thereof, not more than five thousand 

 dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years, or both, 

 lit the discretion of the court. 



Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 4, 33 Stat. 1270. 

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



Salaries, Bureau of Entomology : One entomologist, who shall be 

 chief of bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; one executive 

 assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief 

 clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, class four; two 

 clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; four clerks, class one; five 

 clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred 

 dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one super- 

 intendent of moth work, two thousand seven hundred and fifty 

 dollars; one assistant superintendent of moth work, one thousand 

 and eighty dollars; one entomological assistant, one thousand eight 

 hundred dollars; tw^o entomological draftsmen, at one thousand four 

 hundred dollars each ; one entomological draftsman, one thousand 

 and eighty dollars; three foremen, at one thou.sand and eighty 

 dollars each; two entomological preparators, at eight hundred and 

 forty dollars each; one entomological preparator, seven hundred 

 and twenty dollars; six entomological preparators, at six hundred 

 dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two 

 messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; 

 one mechanic, eight hundred and forty dollais: one mechanic, seven 

 hundred and fifty dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; 

 two charwomen, at four hundred and ei^htv dollars each; one char- 

 woman, two hundred and forty dollars; in all. fifty-eight thousand 

 seven hundred and fifty dollars. 



General expenses. lii reau of Entomology: For the promotion of 

 economic entomology; for investigating the hi.story and the habits of 

 insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and ar- 

 boriculture, and ascertaining the In'st means of destroying those found 

 to l)e injurious; for salaries and the employment of labor in the city 

 of AVashington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Colum- 

 bia, freight, exjircss charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, 

 supi^lies. apparatus, tclegiaph and telephone service, gas. and electric 

 current, in connection with the following investigations: 



F'or investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, 

 vineyards, nuts, and so forth, including investigations of the pear 

 thrips. cranberry insects, and apple maggots, forty thousand six 

 hundred dollars; 



For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage plants, 

 including the alfalfa weevil, seventy-tive thousand dollars, of which 

 sum fifteen thousand dollars .shall be iuunediately available; 



For investigations of in.sects affecting southern field crops, including 

 the cotton-l>oll weevil and other insects injurious to cotton, insects 

 affecting tobacco, riee. and sugar can(>. the Ai'gentine ant. and life 

 history studies of ticUs. forty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty 

 dollars ; 



