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thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty-two clerks, class two; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; thirty-nine clerks, class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand and eighty dollars; forty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; sixty-two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one architect, two thousand dollars; one architect, nine hundred dollars; one illustrator, one thousand four hundred dollars; four inspector's assistants, at one thousand dollars each; twelve inspector's assistants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one laboratory assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laboratory assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one laboratory helper, one thousand and twenty dollars; two laboratory helpers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one laboratory helper, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laboratory helper, six hundred dollars; one laboratory helper, four hundred and eighty dollars; one instrument maker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one carpenter, one thousand one hundred dollars; two carpenters, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger and custodian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger and custodian, one thousand dollars; nine messengers, skilled laborers, or laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; ten messengers, skilled laborers, or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-three messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six messengers or messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; thirty-three skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; two skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; seven skilled laborers. at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one skilled laborer or laborer, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers or messengers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; nine laborers, messengers, or messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; three laborers, messengers, or messenger boys, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one charwoman, six hundred dollars; one charwoman, five hundred and forty dollars; eleven charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four charwomen, at three hundred and sixty dollars. each; one charwoman, three hundred dollars; two charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three hundred and fiftytwo thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry. and the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes; and the provisions of the Act of May ninth, nineteen hundred and two, extending the inspection of meats to process butter, and providing for the inspection of factories, marking of packages, and so forth; and the provisions of

the Act approved February second, nineteen hundred and three, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation," and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows:

For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary expenses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspection of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of live stock and the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, including the establishment and maintenance of quarantine stations and the alteration of buildings thereon, the inspection work relative to the existence of contagious diseases and the tuberculinʼand mallein testing of animals, six hundred thousand dollars;

For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle ticks, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, inspection of renovated butter, factories, and markets, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred dollars:

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A proviso, here omitted, extending the sanitary provisions for slaughtering, etc., establishments, as set forth in act June 30, 1906, c. 3913, to renovated butter factories, as defined in act May 9, 1902, c. 784, s. 5,-is set forth on p. 60, ante.

For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in animal husbandry, fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars;

For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations in diseases of animals, including the maintenance and improvement of the bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and the necessary alterations of buildings thereon, and the necessary expenses for investigations of tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, and analogous products, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars;

For construction of buildings at bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and bureau experiment farm at Beltsville, Maryland, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars;

For general administrative work, including traveling expenses and salaries of employees engaged in such work, rent outside of the District of Columbia, office fixtures and supplies, express, freight, telegraph, telephone, and other necessary expenses, forty-two thousand six hundred and six dollars;

In all, for general expenses, one million two hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars;

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A paragraph, here omitted, relating to the sale or exchange of breeding animals or animal products produced or purchased under appropriations made by Congress, is set forth on p. 45, ante.

COOPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS IN ANIMAL FEEDING AND BREEDING: For experiments in animal feeding and breeding, including cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations, including the repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, and the experiments in the breeding of horses for military purposes, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars.

Total for bureau of Animal Industry, one million six hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 272.

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

BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.

ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 805. (31 Stat. 922.)

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Act March 2, 1901, c. S05, 31 Stat. 926.

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1902, 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. 81, post.

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

All existing statutes relating to the Division of Botany, the Division of Pomology, the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, the Division of Agrostology, and Experimental Gardens and Grounds, reorganized into the Bureau of Plant Industry, not otherwise repealed, are continued in effect as applying to the bureau into which the divisions are reorganized, by a proviso annexed to the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above, set forth on p. 11, ante.

REV. ST. SEC. 527.

Purchase and distribution of seeds, plants, etc.

SEC. 527. That purchase and distribution of vegetable, field, and flower seeds, plants, shrubs, vines, bulbs and cuttings shall be of the

freshest and best obtainable varieties and adapted to general culti

vation.

Rev. St. sec. 527, as amended by the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1897, act April 25, 1896, c. 140, 29 Stat. 106. Provisions relating to the purchase and distribution of seeds, plants, etc., are enacted in the annual agricultural appropriation acts. The provisions of the act for the fiscal year 1913 are set forth below.

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

Expenses of purchase, distribution, etc., of seeds, plants, etc.; seeds, plants, etc., purchased to be of best and adapted to localities; allotment of seeds, plants, etc., to Members of Congress for distribution; distribution of uncalled for allotments; report of place, quantity, price, and date of seeds purchased; diversion of appropriation forbidden; purchase of rare seeds, plants, etc., for experimental tests.

PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF VALUABLE SEEDS: For purchase, propagation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; all necessary office fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum, postal cards, gas, electric current, rent outside of the District of Columbia, official traveling expenses, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same; for repairs and the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, two hundred and eightyfive thousand six hundred and eighty dollars, of which amount not less than two hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars shall be allotted for congressional distribution. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing, and distribution of such valuable seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, the best he can obtain at public or private sale, and such as shall be suitable for the respective localities to which the same are to be apportioned, and in which same are to be distributed as hereinafter stated, and such seeds so purchased shall include a variety of vegetable and flower seeds suitable for planting and culture in the various sections of the United States: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture, after due advertisement and on competitive bids, is authorized to award the contract for the supplying of printed packets and envelopes and the packeting, assembling, and mailing of the seeds. bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, or any part thereof, for a period of not more than five years nor less than one year, if by such action he can best protect the interests of the United States. An equal proportion of five-sixths of all seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants shall, upon their request, after due notification by the Secretary of Agriculture that the allotment to their respective districts is ready for distribution, be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to Congress for distribution among their constituents, or mailed by the department upon the receipt of their addressed franks, in packages of such weight as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster General may jointly determine: Provided, however, That upon each envelope or wrapper containing packages of seeds the contents thereof shall be plainly indicated, and the Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each Member may have

seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents: Provided, also, That the seeds allotted to Senators and Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and thirty-fourth parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery not later than the tenth day of January: Provided, also, That any portion of the allotments to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress remaining uncalled for on the first day of April shall be distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture, giving preference to those persons whose names and addresses have been furnished by Senators and Representatives in Congress, and who have not before during the same season been supplied by the department: And provided also, That the Secretary shall report, as provided in this Act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from sending seeds to those who apply for the same. And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, mulberry and other rare and valuable trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: Provided further, That fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars of which sum, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct, may be used to collect, purchase, test, propagate, and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries or from our possessions for experiments with reference to their introduction into and cultivation in this country, and same shall not be distributed generally, but shall be used for experimental tests, to be carried on with the cooperation of the agricultural experiment

stations.

Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 278.

These provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above, are re-enactments, with alterations and additions, of those contained in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1881 and thereafter.

"It is questionable to what extent, if at all, its provisions can be considered permanent, or whether each is in force only in relation to the particular appropriation made by the act in which each appears." (Compilers' note, 1 Supp U. S. Rev. St. 773.)

ACT MARCH 3, 1875, c. 128. (18 Stat. 340.)

Seeds and reports from Department of Agriculture, to be transmitted free.

SEC. 7. That seeds transmitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, or by any member of Congress or delegate receiving seeds for distribution from said Department, together with agricultural reports emanating from that Department, and so transmitted, shall, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General shall prescribe, pass through the mails free of charge. And the provisions of this section shall apply to ex-members of Congress and ex-delegates for the period of nine months after the expiration of their terms as members and delegates.

Act March 3, 1875, c. 128, s. 7, 18 Stat. 343.

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