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Cooperation of agricultural experiment stations in irrigation and drainage 

 investigations. 



Trrioation and drainage investigations: To enable the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the laws of the States 

 and Territories as affecting irrigation and the rights of appropriators 

 and of riparian proprietors and institutions relating to irrigation and 

 upon the use of irrigation waters, at home and abroad ; with especial 

 suggestions of the best methods for the utilization of irrigation waters 

 in agriculture, and upon plans for the removal of seepage and surplus 

 waters bv drainage, and upon the use of different kinds of power and 

 appliances for irrigation, and drainage; and for the preparation, 

 printing, and illustration of reports and bulletins on irrigation and 

 drainage, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or 

 elsewhere; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby au- 

 thorized and directed to cooperate wnth the Secretary of Agriculture 

 in carrying out said investigations in such manner and to such extent 

 as may be warranted by a due regard to the varying conditions and 

 needs and laws of the respective States and Territories as may be 

 mutually agreed upon, and all necessary expenses, * * * 



Act June 30, 1906. c. 3913, 34 Stat. 694. 



These are paragraphs of the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1907, cited above. Provisions requiring the agricultural 

 exi)eriment stations to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in 

 nutrition investigations and irrigation and drainage investigations, in 

 the same language, accompanied appropriations for such investigations 

 in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal year 1905 and inter- 

 vening fiscal years. Provisions relating to such cooperation were omitted, 

 however, from the appropriations for the pun^oses mentioned in the simi- 

 lar appropriation acts for the fiscal years 190S and thereafter. 



ACT MAY 23, 1908, c. 192. (35 Stat. 251.) 



Sale of copies of card index of agricultural literature; disposition of proceeds. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture hereafter may furnish to such 

 in.stitutions or individuals as may care to buy them copies of the card 

 index of agricultural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, and charge for the same a price covering the additional 

 expense involved in the preparation of these copies, the money re- 

 ceived from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury of the United 

 States as miscellaneous receipts; * * *, 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 266. 



This is a provision of the agi'icultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1909, cited above. Provisions in substantially similar language, but 

 without the word "hereafter", accompanied appropriations for "Office 

 of Experiment Stations" in the agricultural appropriation acts for the 

 fiscal year 1893 and intervening fiscal years. 



A similar provision of the act cited above relating to the sale of a card 

 index of agricultural literature, prepared by the Library of the depart- 

 ment, is set forth on p. 236, ante, under " Library." 



RES. APRIL 27. 1904, No. 29. Joint resolution providing for printing annually 

 the report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, Department 

 of Agriculture. (33 Stat. 590.) 



Report of Director of Office of Experiment Stations. 



That there be printed eight thousand copies of the Report of the 

 Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, prepared under the 

 supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, on the work and expendi- 

 tures of that office and of the agricultural experiment stations estab- 



