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sl,CK)0 each; one skilled inechanic. $840; one skilled mechanic. $7'20: 

 ~ix skilled artisans, at $840 each: one enfrineer, $1,300; one fireman 

 ;ind steam Htter. $840; six firemen, at $720 each: one cai)tain of tho 

 watch, SLOOO; one electrician, $1,200; one gardener, $840: two repair- 

 men, at $840 each; eight repairmen, at $720 each; four watciimen, at 

 $720 each; seventeen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at 

 $720 each: six messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at ^OCK) each; 

 thirty-one messengers, messenger boys, or hiboreis, at $000 each; 

 •ighty-seven messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; 

 five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $400 each; twenty- 

 =;even messenger bovs, at $360 each; one charwoman. $^360: three 

 charwomen, at $240 each; in all $32r),860. 

 Contingent expenses. Weather Bureau : For fuel, lights, repairs, 



; ,and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public build- 

 ings and grounds and the improvement of the existing public build- 



j jings of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington : for stationery 



II iand blank books, furniture and repairs to same, and freight and 

 ji , express charges; for subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and 

 .^ jVenicles, and repairs of harness, for official purposes only; for adver- 

 tising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils. ])aints, glass, lumber, hardware, 

 ice. washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses 



J, ,not otherw ise provided for in the city of Washington, $25,000. 



■ General expenses. Weather Bureau : For carrying into effect in 

 [I :the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the 

 J -West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in. 

 ^ jBermuda, the pro\asions of an Act approved October first, eighteen 

 J hundred and ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service trans- 

 i ferred thereby to the Department of Agricidture, and for every ex- 

 'I -penditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, eijuipment, 



,and maintenance of meteorological observation stations, including 

 j, (Cooperation with other bureaus of the Govermnent and societies and 

 :» institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological infor- 



* mation, as follows: 



^ ■ For the employment of professors of meteorology, inspectors, dis- 



|{ .trict forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, research observers. 



u lobservers. assistant observers, operatoi-s, skilled mechanics, repair- 



. imen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other 



necessary employees, $.')90,r»00; 



For fuel, gas." electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, 



-^tationerv. and all other necessary supplies and miscellaneous 



' \l>enses.' $100,500; 



For instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-wamiug towers, and 

 Trepairs ihereto. $43,500; 



ff ' For rent of offices and repairs and improvements to buildings now 

 ■^'completed and located outside of the District of Columbia, and care 

 *'and preservation of grounds, including eonstructifm of necessary out- 

 *■* buildings and sidewalks on i)ublic streets abutting Weather Bureau 

 ^f^, grotmds. $100,000: 

 ^i For official ti'aveling expenses. S^24,500: 



* For teh'phon*' rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, anil cabling 

 reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture 



fij by agreements with the companies perJforming the service. $300,000; 

 ''' * For the maintenance and repair of Weather r.iireati telegra])]). tele- 

 phone, and cable lines, $4,000; 



