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clerk, $'J.500; one executive clerk, $2,000; seven clerks, class four; 

 nine rlerks. class three: one clerk. $1,440; twelve clerks, class two; 

 one clerk. $1,;)()0: ei<iliteen clerks, class one: thirteen clerks, at $1,020 

 each: eleven clerks, at $1,000 each: twenty-two clerks, at $000 each; 

 one clerk, $840: one chief food and druir inspector, $:^,000; one food 

 and dniir inspector, $2.2.')0: thirteen food and.dnif; insiM'etors. at 

 $2,000 each; thirteen food and dru<; inspectors, at $1,800 each: one 

 food and drus: inspector, $1,020: eleven food and drug inspectors, at 

 $1.<)00 each: four food and druir inspectors, at $1,400 each: four 

 lahoratorv helpers, at $1,200 each: one laboratory helper. $1,020; 

 four laboratory helpers, at $1,000 each; four laboratory hel])ers. at 

 $960 each; two laboratory helpers, at $900 each; six laboratory 

 helpers, at $840 each; two laboratory helpers, at $780 each: twenty 

 ' laboratory helpers, messengers, or laborers, at $720 each; two labo- 

 ratory helpers, messengers, or laborers, at $()()0 each; twenty-six 

 I laboratory helpers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $G00 each ; one 

 laboratory assistant, i^l.200; one tool maker, $1,200; one sampler, 

 $1,200; one janitor, $1,020; one student assistant, $300; two messen- 

 gers, at $840 each; one skilled laborer, $1,050; one skilled laborer, 

 $840: two messenger boys or laborers, at $540 each; eight messenger 

 boys or laborers, at $480 each: three messenger boys or laborers, at 

 $420 each; one messenger bov or laborer, $3G0; six charwomen, at 

 $240 each; in all, $273,800. 



General expenses. Bureau of Chemistry: For all necessary 

 expenses, for chemical api)aratus. chemicals and su]ij)lies. repairs to 

 apparatus, gas, electric current, official traveling exj)enses, telegi-aph 

 and telephone service. ex[)ress and freight charges, for the employ- 

 ment of such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of 

 Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named, in the 

 city of Washington and elsewhere, in conducting investigations, col- 

 lating and rej)orting the results of s\u'h inve-stigations. and for rent 

 outside of the District of Columbia, for carrying out the investiga- 

 tions and work herein authorized, as follows: 



For conducting the investigations contemplated by the Act of May 

 fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. relating to the application 

 of chemistry to agriculture. $05,000; 



For collaboration with other depai-tments of the Government 

 desiring chemical investigations and whose heads re(|uest the Sc<'ie- 

 tarv of Agriculture for such assistance, and for other miscellanefuis 

 I woi-k, $40,000; 



For investigating the character of the chemical and physical tests 

 which are api)lied 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 coimtries where 

 chemical and phvsical tests are required before the said prcnlucts are 

 allowed to be sold therein, and for all necessary expenses in coiniec- 

 I tion with such inspection and studies of methods of analysis in for- 

 eigii countries, $4,280; 



In all. for general expenses. $109,280. 



Enforcement of the food and drtt.s Act: For enabling the 

 Secretarv of Agriculture to carry into effwt the provisions of the Act 

 of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. entitled "An Act for 

 preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, 

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



