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and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes," 

 in the city of AVasliington and elsewhere, including chemical appa- 

 ratus, cheniical.s and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric cur- 

 rent, official traveling expenses, telegraph and telejihone service,, 

 express and freight charges, and all other expenses, employing such 

 assistants, clerks, and othei- persons as may be considered necessary 

 for the purposes named, and rent outside of the District of Columbia, 

 $675,000. 



Total for Bureau of Chemistry. $1,058,140. 



Act March 4. 1913. c. 145, 37 Stat. 844. 



These are provisions of the Mgricultnrnl appropriation act for the fisal 

 year 1914. fited above. 



BUREAU OF SOILS. 1 



(See " I>aws Applicable lo the I'nite«l States Departuient of Af^riculture," 



1912. pp. 196-198.) 



ACT MARCH 4. 1913. c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



BUREAU OF SOILS. 



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Sal.\ries, Bureau of Soils: One soil physicist, who shall be chief 

 of bureau, $4,000: one chief clerk. $2,000; one executive assistant, 

 $2,000: three clerks, class four: two clerks, class three; four clerks, 

 class two; one clerk. $1,260: eight clerks, class one: four clerks, at 

 $1,000 each; three clerks, at $000 each: one soil cartographer, 

 $1,800; one soil bibliographer. $1,400: one ])hotographer,* $1,200; 

 four draftsmen, at $1,200 each : one draftsman. $1,000: one messenger, 

 $840; three mes.sengers. messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each : one 

 laborer, $600: one laborer, $800: one eharwoman or laborer, $480i 

 in all, $53,620. 



(teneral expenses. Bureau of Soils: For all necessary exi)ens 

 connected with the investigations and ex])eriments hereinafter au 

 thorized, including the employment of investigators, local and speci 

 agents, assistants, experts, clerks. draft.smen. and labor in the city o: 

 Washingtxm and elsewhere; official traveling expenses, materials, 

 tools, instruments, apparatus, repairs to apparatus, chemicals, furni- 

 ture, office fixtures, stationery, gas. electric current, telegraph and tele- vi 

 phone service, express and freight charges, rent outside of the Dis"f 

 trict of Columbia, and for all other necessary supplies and expenses, 

 as follows: 



l''or chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition and soil 

 minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil and all chemical proj^er- 

 ties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture, and soil 

 prodnctivity, including all routine chemical work in connection with 

 the soil survey, $18,135; 



For ])hysical investigations of the important ]iroperties of soil 

 which determine productivity, such as moisture relations, aeration, 

 heat con<lnctivity, texture, and other physical investigations of the 

 various .soil classes and soil types, $11,265; 



For soil-fertilitv investigations into organic cau.ses of infertility 

 and remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties and 

 composition of soil humus, and the transformation and formation 

 of >~oil luunus by soil organisms, $27,200; 



