ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.)

Printing office of the Weather Bureau.

Section 31 of the act cited, providing that all printing offices in the departments shall be a part of the Government Printing Office, and that all presses, etc., and supplies shall be furnished by, and all employees be under the control of, the Public Printer, with a proviso excepting the printing office of the Weather Bureau, is set forth on p. 363, post. Printing of maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of Weather Bureau.

Section 89 of the act cited, providing certain limitations on the printing of reports, publications, and documents of the departments, with a proviso excepting therefrom maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, is set forth on p. 24, ante.

ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.)

Sales of surplus maps and publications of Weather Bureau.

* * * hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell any surplus maps or publications of the Weather Bureau, and the money received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes notwithstanding; *

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Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1258.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908, cited above.

Rev. St. sec. 227, mentioned in this provision, is set forth below.

REV. ST. SEC. 227.

Sale of surplus maps and publications of Signal Office.

SEC. 227. The Chief Signal-Officer may cause to be sold any surplus maps or publications of the Signal-Office, the money received therefor to be applied toward defraying the expenses of the signal-service; and an account of the same shall be rendered in each annual report of the Chief of the Signal-Service.

The weather service was transferred from the Signal Corps of the Army to the Department of Agriculture by act October 1, 1890, c. 1266, set forth on p. 33, ante, and the sale of surplus maps and publications of the Weather Bureau by the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized by a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth above.

ACT MAY 25, 1900, c. 555. (31 Stat. 191.)

Destruction of old telegrams of Weather Bureau.

That hereafter all telegrams pertaining to the business of the Weather Bureau may be destroyed after they are three years old, and the accounts based thereon have been settled by the Treasury Department; and the present accumulation of these old telegrams may be destroyed.

Act May 25, 1900, c. 555, 31 Stat. 204.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, cited above.

ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.)

Extra copies of the Annual Report of Chief of Weather Bureau.

SEC. 73. Extra copies of documents and reports shall be printed promptly when the same shall be ready for publication, and shall be bound in paper or cloth as directed by the Joint Committee on Print

ing, and shall be of the number following in addition to the usual number:

Of the Annual Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, four thousand copies; one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, and one thousand copies for the Bureau.

Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 612, 613.

A proviso, annexed to act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 89. set forth on p. 24, ante, authorizes the printing of maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of the Weather Bureau in such numbers as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem for the best interests of the Government.

Maps, weather reports, and weather cards are excepted from the provisions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350, s. 8, set forth on p. 370, post, under "Public Documents," forbidding expenditures for the work of distributing publications in the executive departments, and transferring such work to the Public Printer.

Appropriations for printing and binding for the Weather Bureau are made in the annual sundry civil appropriation acts. The provision of the act for the fiscal year 1913, act August 24, 1912, c. 355, is set forth on p. 229, post, under "Division of Publications."

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.)

Counterfeiting weather forecasts.

Sec. 61. Whoever shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 61, 35 Stat. 1100.

This is a section of an act entitled “An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States." Provisions of act April 25, 1896, c. 140, 29 Stat. 108, act March 2, 1895, c. 169, 28 Stat. 737, and act August 8, 1894, c. 238, 28 Stat. 274, are incorporated in this section, and are expressly repealed by section 341 of said act March 4, 1909.

A provision in the same language and containing an additional clause making it likewise punishable to molest or interfere with any weather or storm flag or weather map or bulletin displayed or issued by the Weather Bureau, was enacted by act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, and is set forth below. "This provision is not included among those mentioned as expressly repealed in said repealing section 341 of the Criminal Code, but a reference to it is noted in the margin of said section 61 thereof, in which the original provision is incorporated. It may be questioned, therefore, whether said additional provision first enacted in act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, is, within the meaning of the last clause of section 341 of the Criminal Code, embraced within and superseded by' said Code, as to be repealed thereby, or whether it is one of the remaining portions' of prior acts, which are to remain in force.'' (Note, United States Compiled Statutes 1901, Supplement 1911.)

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

Counterfeiting weather forecasts and molesting, etc., weather flags, maps, and bulletins.

Any person who shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit weather forecasts or warnings of weather conditions, falsely representing such forecasts or warnings to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, or other branch of the Government service, or shall molest or interfere with any weather or storm flag or weather map or bulletin displayed or issued by the United States Weather Bureau, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction

thereof, for each offense, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not to exceed ninety days, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

Act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, 33 Stat. 864.

This is a provision enacted in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1906. See act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 61, set forth above, and notes thereunder.

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

SALARIES, WEATHER BUREAU: One chief of bureau, six thousand dollars; one assistant chief of bureau, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief clerk and executive assistant, three thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks, class four; nine clerks, class three; twenty clerks, class two; twenty-nine clerks, class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists or typewriters, at nine hundred dollars each; one copyist or typewriter, eight hundred and forty dollars; one telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant foremen of division, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one lithographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; three lithographers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five compositors, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; fourteen printers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eleven printers, at one thousand dollars each; four folders and feeders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief mechanic, one thousand four hundred dollars; five skilled mechanics, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; seven skilled mechanics, at one thousand dollars each; one skilled mechanic, eight hundred and forty dollars; six skilled artisans, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one engineer, one thousand three hundred dollars; one fireman and steam fitter, eight hundred and forty dollars; six firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one electrician, one thousand dollars; one gardener, eight hundred and forty dollars; two repairmen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eight repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventeen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; twenty-seven messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred dollars each; eighty-seven messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-seven messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one charwoman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For fuel, lights, repairs, and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and grounds and the improvements of the existing public buildings of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington; for stationery and blank books, furniture and repairs to same, and freight and express charges; for subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles, and repairs of harness, for official purposes only; for advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware,

ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for in the city of Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, the provisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological observation stations, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies. and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows:

For the employment of professors of meteorology, inspectors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, research observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, five hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars; For fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, and all other necessary supplies and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and five thousand five hundred dollars;

For instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers, and repairs thereto, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

For rent of offices and repairs and improvements to buildings now completed and located outside of the District of Columbia, and care and preservation of grounds, including construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds, ninety-nine thousand dollars;

For official traveling expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars;

For telephone rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreements with the companies performing the service, three hundred and five thousand dollars;

For the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines, four thousand dollars;

For investigations in climatology and evaporation, including the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters for observers, for river, rain, snow, ice, crop, evaporation, aerial, storm, hurricane, and other observations, warnings, and reports, and for pay of special observers and display men, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications, and for pay of additional assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and feeders, when necessary, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

In all, for general expenses, one million two hundred and seventyeight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Total for Weather Bureau, one million six hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 270.

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

LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY..

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ACT MAY 29, 1884, c. 60. An act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals. (23 Stat. 31.)

Establishment of the Bureau.

That the Commissioner of Agriculture shall organize in his Department a Bureau of Animal Industry, and shall appoint a Chief thereof, who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, and whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the condition of the domestic animals of the United States, their protection and use, and also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ a force sufficient for this purpose, not to exceed twenty persons at any one time. The salary of the Chief of said Bureau shall be three thousand dollars per annum; and the Commissioner shall appoint a clerk for said Bureau, with a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, s. 1, 23 Stat. 31.

The designation of the Commissioner of Agriculture is changed by the organization of the department as an executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture, by act February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 1, set forth on p. 9. ante. The authority granted to the Commissioner of Agriculture by this act is vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by act July 14, 1890, c. 707, set forth on p. 11, ante.

The last portion of this section providing for the salary of the Chief of the Bureau and the appointment and salary of a clerk, is superseded by subsequent agricultural appropriation acts providing for increased salary for the Chief of the Bureau and for other officers, clerks, and employees and their salaries, from time to time, increasing with the growth and the extension of the scope and functions of the bureau. The appropriations for the salary of the Chief of the Bureau and other officers, clerks, and employees of the bureau, in the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, are set forth on p. 71, post.

Agents; duties.

SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to appoint two competent agents, who shall be practical stock-raisers or experienced business men familiar with questions pertaining to commercial transactions in live stock, whose duty it shall be, under the instructions of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to examine and report upon the best methods of treating, transporting, and caring for animals, and the means to be adopted for the suppression and extirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and to provide against the spread of other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases. The compensation of said agents shall be at the rate of ten dollars per diem, with all necessary expenses, while engaged in the actual performance of their duties under this act, when absent from their usual place of business or residence as such agent.

Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, s. 2, 23 Stat. 31.

See note under section 1 of this act as to change of designation of Commissioner to Secretary of Agriculture.