8 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Department of Agi'iculture, which portrait shall not be accepted 

 until it shall have been approved by the Commission of Fine Arts. 



KENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Kent of Buildings. Department of Agriculture: For rent of 

 buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for use 

 of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of 

 Apiculture, namely : 



For Bureau of Animal Industrv. $2,220; 



For Bureau of Plant Industry, $26,420; 



For Forest Service, $25,075 ; 



For Bureau of Chemistry, $17,320 ; 



For Bureau of Soils, $306 ; 



For Division of Publications, $5,000; 



For Office of Solicitor, $2,160; 



For Office of Experiment Stations, $5,000; 



For Office of Public Roads, $3,500 ; 



For additional rent in cases of emergency for an}' bureau, division, 

 or office of the department, $11,328; 



In all, $98,329. 



Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 850. 



Portions of the net, here omitted, consisting of appropriations foi 

 salaries and general expenses of the Office of E]xi)eriment Stations anc 

 Office of Public Roads, are set forth hereafter under respective headings 

 of the.se offices. 



And not to exceed ten per centum of the foregoing amounts forth( 

 miscellaneous expen.ses of the work of an}* bureau, division, or offic( 

 herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expend! 

 tures on the objects included within the general expenses of sucl 

 bureau, division, or office, but no more than ten per centum shall b< 

 added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordi 

 nary emergency, and then only upon the written order of the Secre 

 tary of Agriculture. 



Total, Department of Agriculture, for routine and ordinarv work 

 $17,376,945. 



Act March 4. 1913. c. 145, 37 Stat. S53. 



The above are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for th 

 fiscal year 1914, cited above. 



:miscellaneous. 



And (lie Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to con 

 tinue investigations on the cost of food supplies at the farm and t 

 the consumer, and to disseminate the result of such investigations i 

 whatever manner he may deem best. 



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An appropriation, here omitted, for carrying Into effect ihe provisior 

 of art A])ril 2*i. TJlO, c. 191, is sot forth on p. 4S, post, nndor " Insect 

 cldo Act of 1910." 



An ajipropri.'ition, here omitted, for fighting and preventing fore; 

 fires in oniorgoiicies. is set forth mi j). 35, post, under " Forest Service." 



To enabU> the Secretary of Agriculture to meet tlie emergenc. 

 c-nii';o<l h\ the continuous sin-ead of the chestnut-bark disease by cor 



