ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.)

Construction of act setting apart portion of Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes.

ARLINGTON EXPERIMENTAL FARM: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the necessary improvements to establish and maintain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office," which Act shall be construed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors jurisdiction over so much of the Government land in Alexandria County, Virginia, known as the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows: Commencing at the point where the Georgetown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the north line of the reservation,

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Act June 3, 1902, c. 985, 32 Stat. 293.

These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above. The provisions are repeated in the same words in the similar appropriation acts for the fiscal years thereafter to an including 1906.

The act mentioned above, act April 18, 1900, c. 243, is set forth above. ACT FEBRUARY 9, 1903, c. 528. An act for the erection of a building for the use and accommodation of the Department of Agriculture. (32 Stat. 806.) Construction of a building for Department of Agriculture; plans; contracts. That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a suitable and commodious fireproof building, for the use and accommodation of the Department of Agriculture, including all of its Bureaus and offices now occupying rented quarters in the District of Columbia, to be erected on such portion of the grounds of the Department of Agriculture belonging to the United States as he may deem expedient, immediately in the vicinity of the present building, said building to be constructed in accordance with plans, to be procured, based on accurate estimates, providing for the erection of said building, complete in all of its details, as herein described, and within a total cost of not exceeding the sum herein stipulated, and he is hereby authorized, after procuring such plans, and after due advertisement for proposals, to enter into contracts within the limit of cost hereby fixed and subject to appropriations to be made by Congress, for the erection of said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, and the removal of the present building or buildings of the Department of Agriculture on said grounds.

Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 1, 32 Stat. 806.

Supervision of construction.

SEC. 2. That the supervision of the construction of said building shall be placed in charge of an officer of the Government especially qualified for the duty, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to the approval of the head of the department in which such officer is employed, who shall receive for his additional services an increase of twenty-five per centum of his present salary, such increase to be paid out of the appropriation for the building herein authorized.

Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 2, 32 Stat. 806.

Limit of cost.

SEC. 3. That the limit of cost for the construction of said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, and the cost for removal of the present building or buildings of the Department of Agriculture, is hereby fixed at one million five hundred thousand dollars, and no contract shall be entered into or expenditure authorized in excess of said amount.

Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 3, 32 Stat. 806.

RES. APRIL 12, 1892, No. 8. Joint resolution to encourage the establishment and endowment of institutions of learning at the national capital by defining the policy of the Government with reference to the use of its literary and scientific collections by students. (27 Stat. 395.)

Facilities for research and illustration in the Department of Agriculture accessible to scientific investigators and students.

Whereas, large collections illustrative of the various arts and sciences and facilitating literary and scientific research have been accumulated by the action of Congress through a series of years at the national capital; and

Whereas it was the original purpose of the Government thereby to promote research and the diffusion of knowledge, and is now the settled policy and present practice of those charged with the care of these collections specially to encourage students who devote their time to the investigation and study of any branch of knowledge by allowing to them all proper use thereof; and

Whereas it is represented that the enumeration of these facilities and the formal statement of this policy will encourage the establishment and endowment of institutions of learning at the seat of Government, and promote the work of education by attracting students to avail themselves of the advantages aforesaid under the direction of competent instructors: Therefore,

Resolved. That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other Governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: One. Of the Library of Congress.

Two. Of the National Museum.

Three. Of the Patent Office.

Four. Of the Bureau of Education.
Five. Of the Bureau of Ethnology.
Six. Of the Army Medical Museum.
Seven. Of the Department of Agriculture.
Eight. Of the Fish Commission.

Nine. Of the Botanic Gardens.

Ten. Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Eleven. Of the Geological Survey.
Twelve. Of the Naval Observatory.

Res. April 12, 1892, No. 8, 27 Stat. 395.

REV. ST. SEC. 1712.

Reports by consuls on agricultural and horticultural industries in foreign countries, for use of Department of Agriculture; information to be embodied in monthly crop reports.

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SEC. 1712. Consuls and commercial agents of the United States in foreign countries shall procure and transmit to the Department of State, for the use of the Agricultural Department, monthly reports relative to the character, condition, and prospective yields of the agricultural and horticultural industries and other fruiteries of the country in which they are respectively stationed; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby required and directed to embody the information thus obtained, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his monthly bulletin of crop reports.

Rev. St. sec. 1712, as amended by act June 18, 1888, c. 393, 25 Stat. 186.

BEV. ST. SEC. 1713.

Reports by consular officers of information pertaining to agriculture; information to be included in annual report of Commissioner [Secretary] of Agriculture.

SEC. 1713. Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, as often as shall be required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is situated; and he shall also furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, at least once in twelve months, the prices current of all articles of merchandise, including those of the farm, the garden, and the orchard, that are imported through the port or place in which he is stationed. And he shall also report as to the character of agricultural implements in use, and whether they are imported to or manufactured in that country; as to the character and extent of agricultural and horticultural pursuits there. That part of the information thus obtained which pertains to agriculture shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same shall have been received by him, to the Commissioner of Agriculture, who shall include the same, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his annual reports, stating the said prices in dollars and cents, and rendering tables of foreign weights and measures into their American equivalents.

Rev. St. sec. 1713, as amended by act June 18, 1888, c. 393, 25 Stat. 186.

ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. (37 Stat. 269.)

That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

SALARIES, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE: Secretary of Agriculture, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, five thousand dollars; solicitor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as custodian of buildings; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer and executive clerk to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand four hundred dollars; one appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one chief of supply division, two thousand dollars; one inspector, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one law clerk, at three thousand dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one law clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; ten law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; eight law clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three law clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, class four; six clerks, class three; ten clerks, class two; eighteen clerks, class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; twelve messengers or laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; ten assistant messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief engineer, who shall be captain of the watch, two thousand dollars; one assistant chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; seven firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one construction inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; five cabinetmakers or carpenters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two cabinetmakers or carpenters, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; eight cabinetmakers or carpenters, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; two cabinetmakers or carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; one electrician, one thousand one hundred dollars; one electrical wireman, one thousand dollars; one electrical wireman, nine hundred dollars; two electrician's helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two painters, at one thousand dollars each; two painters, at nine hundred dollars each; five plumbers or steam fitters, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; one plumber's helper, eight hundred and forty dollars; two plumber's helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; one lieutenant of the watch, one thousand dol

lars; thirty-four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four mechanics, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one janitor, nine hundred dollars; eighteen assistant messengers or laborers, at six hundred dollars each; twenty-one laborers, messenger boys, or charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, five hundred and forty dollars; eight charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; for extra labor and emergency employments, twelve thousand dollars.

Total for Office of the Secretary, two hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

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Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 269. Portions of this act, here omitted, consist of appropriations for salaries and general expenses of the Weather Bureau, Bureau of Animal Industry, Bureau of Plant Industry, Forest Service, Bureau of Chemistry, Bureau of Soils, Bureau of Entomology, Bureau of Biological Survey, Division of Accounts and Disbursements, Division of Publications, Bureau of Statistics, and Library. These provisions are set forth hereafter under the headings of the respective bureaus, etc., to which they pertain.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: For stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, and matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, telephoning, postage, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings, grounds, and heating apparatus; for the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and the purchase and repair of harness and vehicles, for official purposes only; for the payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture's proportionate share of the expense of the dispatch agent in New York; for official traveling expenses; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the department, one hundred and six thousand and sixty-six dollars:

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A proviso, here omitted, authorizing the purchase of stationery, supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous materials from the appropriation for Contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture," and the transfer of the same at cost to the bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department in Washington, and the reimbursement therefor of said appropriation from lump-sum appropriations of the bureaus, divisions, and offices by transfer settlements through the Treasury Department; and a proviso authorizing the exchange of typewriters and computing, addressing, and duplicating machines purchased from any lump-sum appropriation of the Department of Agriculture; are set forth on p. 23, ante.

RENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

RENT OF BUILDINGS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for use of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture, namely:

For Bureau of Animal Industry, three thousand and eighty-four dollars;