lars; one executive assistant, two thousand dollars; three clerks, class four; two clerks, class three; three clerks, class two; one clerk, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; eight clerks, class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one soil cartographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one soil bibliographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one laborer, three hundred dollars; one charwoman or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fifty thousand five hundred and forty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF SOILS: For all necessary expenses connected with the investigations and experiments hereinafter authorized, including the employment of investigators, local and special agents, assistants, experts, clerks, draftsmen, and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; official traveling expenses, materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, repairs to apparatus, chemicals, furniture, office fixtures, stationery, gas, electric current, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for all other necessary supplies and expenses, as follows:

For chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition and soil minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil and all chemical properties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture, and soil productivity, including all routine chemical work in connection with the soil survey, eighteen thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars;

For physical investigations of the important properties of soil which determine productivity, such as moisture relations, aeration, heat conductivity, texture, and other physical investigations of the various soil classes and soil types, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility and remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties and composition of soil humus, and the transformation and formation of soil humus by soil organisms, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars;

For exploration and investigation within the United States to determine a possible source of supply of potash, nitrates, and other natural fertilizers, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For the investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters, five thousand dollars;

For the investigation of soils and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars;

For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned lines of investigation, four thousand two hundred and eighty dollars;

In all, for general expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

Total for Bureau of Soils, three hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 290.

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

ACT APRIL 23, 1904, c. 1486. (33 Stat. 276.)

Chief of bureau.

One entomologist, who shall be chief of bureau,

Act April 23, 1904, c. 1486, 33 Stat. 289.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1905, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in the similar acts for subsequent fiscal years. The provision in the act for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth on p. 200, post. The agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1896 to 1904. inclusive, contain provisions for "One entomologist, who shall be chief of division."

ACT JUNE 16, 1880, c. 235. (21 Stat. 259.)

Entomological investigations transferred to Department of Agriculture.

For the completion of the work of the United States Entomological Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cottonworm, Provided, That after the close of the next fiscal year all work of the character herein provided for shall be exclusively under the control of the Agricultural Department, *

** * *

Act June 16, 1880, c. 235, 21 Stat. 276.

*

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1881, cited above.

ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1501. An act to prohibit importation or interstate transportation of insect pests, and the use of the United States mails for that purpose. (33 Stat. 1269.)

Transportation, removal, or importation of insects injurious to crops, vegetables, trees, etc., except for scientific purposes, forbidden.

That no railroad, steamboat, express, stage, or other transportation company shall knowingly transport from one State or Territory into any other State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia into a State or Territory, or from a State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from a foreign country into the United States, the gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant-louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees; or the eggs, pupæ, or larvæ of any insect injurious as aforesaid, except when shipped for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for; nor shall any person remove from one State or Territory into another State or Territory, or from a foreign country into the United States, or from a State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the District of Columbia into any State or Territory, except for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for, the gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant-louse, boll

weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees; or the eggs, pupæ, or larvæ of any insect injurious as aforesaid.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 1, 33 Stat. 1269.

Letters, parcels, etc., containing insects injurious to crops, vegetables, trees, etc., nonmailable, except for scientific purposes; violations of section punishable.

SEC. 2. That any letter, parcel, box, or other package containing the gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant-louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees, or any letter, parcel, box, or package which contains the eggs, pupæ, or larvæ of any insect injurious as aforesaid, whether sealed as first-class matter or not, is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter, except when mailed for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for, and shall not be conveyed in the mails, nor delivered from any post-office, nor by any letter carrier, except when mailed for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for; and any person who shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited, for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable matter, or cause the same to be taken from the mails for the purpose of retaining, circulating, or disposing of, or of aiding in the retention, circulation, or disposition of the same shall, for each and every offense, be fined, upon conviction thereof, not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years, or both, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall authorize any person to open any letter or sealed matter of the firstclass not addressed to himself.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 2, 33 Stat. 1270.

Regulations for mailing, shipping, transportation, delivery, and removal, for scientific purposes, of insects, etc., within sections 1 and 2 of act.

SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is hereby authorized and directed to prepare and promulgate rules and regulations under which the insects covered by sections one and two of this Act may be mailed, shipped, transported, delivered, and removed, for scientific purposes, from one State or Territory into another State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia into a State or Territory, or from a State or Territory into the District of Columbia, and any insects covered by sections one and two of this Act may be so mailed, shipped, transported, delivered, and removed, for scientific purposes, under the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, in so far as they affect the method of mailing insects, shall be approved by the Postmaster-General, and nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any State from making and enforcing laws in furtherance of the purposes of this Act, prohibiting or regulating the admission into that State of insects from a foreign country.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 3, 33 Stat. 1270.

Violations of provisions of section 1 of act punishable.

SEC. 4. That any person, company, or corporation who shall knowingly violate the provisions of section one of this Act shall, for each offense, be fined, upon conviction thereof, not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 4, 33 Stat. 1270.

ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.)

SALARIES, BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY: One entomologist, who shall be chief of bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; one executive assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, class four; two clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; four clerks, class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one superintendent of moth work, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant superintendent of moth work, one thousand and eighty dollars; one entomological assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two entomological draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one entomological draftsman, one thousand and eighty dollars; three foremen, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; two entomological preparators, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one entomological preparator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six entomological preparators, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one mechanic, eight hundred and forty dollars; one mechanic, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; two charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY: For the promotion of economic entomology; for investigating the history and the habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture, and ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious; for salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, freight, express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and electric current, in connection with the following investigations:

For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, vineyards, nuts, and so forth, including investigations of the pear thrips, cranberry insects, and apple maggots, forty thousand six hundred dollars;

For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage plants, including the alfalfa weevil, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available;

For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, including the cotton-boll weevil and other insects injurious to cotton, insects affecting tobacco, rice, and sugar cane, the Argentine ant, and life history studies of ticks, forty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;

For investigations of insects affecting forests, forty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For investigations of insects affecting truck crops, sugar beet, stored grains, and other stored products, thirty thousand dollars;

For investigations in bee culture, fifteen thousand dollars;

For investigations of insects affecting citrus fruits, including the white fly, orange thrips, and scale insects, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars;

For investigations of the Mediterranean fly in the United States, its territories and possessions, thirty-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available;

For investigations of miscellaneous insects, inspection work, study of insects affecting the health of man and animals, insecticides, and the importation and exchange of useful insects, nineteen thousand seven hundred and forty dollars;

In all, for general expenses, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

PREVENTING SPREAD OF MOTHS: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths by establishing and maintaining a quarantine against further spread in such manner as he shall deem best, in cooperation with the authorities of the different States concerned and with the several State experiment stations, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, two hundred and eighty-four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Total for Bureau of Entomology, six hundred and seventy-two thousand three hundred and forty dollars.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 291.

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

RES. JULY 30, 1912, No. 35. Joint resolution making appropriation to be used in exterminating the army worm. (37 Stat. 640.)

Extermination of army worm.

That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used by the Secretary of Agricul ture in exterminating a dangerous pest commonly called the army worm, now devastating crops in various sections of the United States. Res. July 30, 1912, No. 35, 37 Stat. 640.

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY.

ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1405. (33 Stat. 861.)

Chief of bureau.

* * One biologist, who shall be chief of Bureau,

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, 33 Stat. 877.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1906, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in the similar acts for subsequent fiscal years. The provision in the act for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth on p. 226, post. The agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1897 to 1905, inclusive, contain provisions for "One biologist, who shall be chief of division."