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one chief clerk, $1,900 ; one clerk, class four ; two clerks, class three ; 

 one clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,440; one clerk or instrument maker, 

 $1,440; one clerk, $1,380; two clerks, at $1,320 each; four clerks, at 

 $1,260 each; three clerks, class one; one clerk or photographer, 

 $1,200; one clerk or photographer, $1,000; two clerks, at $1,140 each; 

 one clerk, $1,080; one clerk, $1,020; four clerks, at $1,000 each; one 

 clerk, $1)00; one clerk or instrument maker, $1,200; one messenger or 

 laboratory helper, $840; two messengers, laborers, or laboratory 

 helpers, at $720 each ; one messenger or laborer, $000 ; four messen- 

 gers, laborers, or messenger boys, at $000 each ; two messenger boys, 

 at $480 each; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $47,400. 



General expenses, Office of Public Roads: For salaries and 

 the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, 

 .supplies, office fixtures, apparatus, traveling and all other necessary 

 expenses, for conducting investigations and experiments, and for 

 collating, reporting, and illustrating the results or same, and for pre- 

 ])aring, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports, as follows: 

 Prooided^ That no part of these appropriations shall be expended 

 for the rent or purchase of road-making machinery, except such as 

 may be necessary for field experimental work as hereinafter provided 

 for: 



For inquiries in regard to systems of road management throughout 

 the United States and for giving expert advice on this subject, 

 $40,000 ; 



For investigations of the best methods of road making and the best 

 Icinds of road-making materials, and for furnishing expert advice on 

 road building and maintenance, $105,000; 



For investigations of the chemical and ph3'sical character of road 

 materials, $30,000 ; 



For conducting field experiments and various methods of road 

 construction and maintenance, and investigations concerning vari- 

 ous road materials and preparations; for investigating and develop- 

 ing equipment intended for the preparation and application of 

 bituminous and other binders; for the purchase of materials and 

 equipment; for the employment of assistants and labor; for the erec- 

 tion of buildings; such experimental work to be confined as nearl}' 

 as possible to one point during the fiscal year, $45,000; 



For general administrative expenses connected with the above- 

 inentiouod lines of investigations and experiments, $12,000; 



In all, for general expenses, $232,000. 

 ■ Total for Office of Public Roads, $279,400. 



Act March 4. 1913. c. 145, 37 Stnt. 852. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriatiou act for the fiscal 

 year ID14, cited above. 



INSECTICIDE ACT OF 1910. 



(See •' Laws Ai)pllcable to the Uniteil States Department of Agriculture," 1912, 



pp. 257-2G3. ) 



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



Enforcement of the insecticide Act: To enable the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of April 

 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundr^.'d and ten, entitled "An Act for pre- 



