UNI inn STATUS DUPARTIEITT OP AGRICULTURE 
■ • BUJOAU OP BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
LASHJjiGTCH, D--C . 
October 2, 1918. 
SPECIAL H3MORAHDUM FOR FULL 3.IPL0Y3BS . 
This is t. advise you that the regular appropriation bill for 
the Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal year 1919, has now 
passed both Houses of Congress and been signed by the President, 
and became a law on Ootober 1, 1918, Fr.m October 1, you will 
therefore be limited in making expenditures *nly by the amounts 
•overed by your letters cf authority and such instructions a 3 have 
been #r may be given you. 
Chief Cleric and Executive Assistant 
