Chapter 36.
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CHAP. 36.— An act making appropriations for the Agricultural Department of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, and for other purposes. Jan. 20, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations for the Agricultural Department. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service for the fiscal year ending June, thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for the objects and purposes hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. office of commissioner. Compensation of the Commissioner, clerks, etc.For compensation of Commissioner of Agriculture, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk in said department who shall he superintendent of the department building, two thousand two hundred dollars, one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of division of accounts and disbursing officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant, who shall act as property clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk to disbursing officer, one thousand dollars; one engraver, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class three, three thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand four hundred dollars; eight clerks at one thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand and forty FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 36. 1883. 409 dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two firemen, seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; superintendent of folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; messengers, carpenters, watchmen, and laborers, eight thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. chemical division.
For compensation of cheap chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars;Chemist. one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars. For the employment of additional assistants, when necessary, in the chemical department, four thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand five hundred dollars. entomological division. For compensation of entomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist, one thousand four hundred dollars;Entomologist. for assistants in entomological division, when necessary, four thousand dollars; and for investigating the history and habits of insects injurious toInsects injurious to agriculture. agriculture and horticulture; experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them; for drawings and for chemicals, and traveling, and other expenses on the practical work of the entomological division, twenty thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollar’s: *Provided,* That the amount expended tor traveling expenses*Proviso.* shall not exceed three dollars per day, exclusive of transportation. garden and grounds.
For compensation of horticulturist, pomologist, landscape gardener,Superintendent garden and grounds. and superintendent of garden and grounds, two thousand dollars; for labor, new implements, repairs of tools, wagons and carts, manure and purchasing trees for arboretum, live thousand live hundred dollars; for repairing and resurfacing concrete roads and walks on the grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars; for labor in experimental garden,Labor, materials, and repairs. five thousand dollars; plant pots, two hundred and fifty dollars; continuing repairs and painting green houses, and so forth, five hundred dollars; purchasing and propagating new plants and seeds of economic value, six hundred dollars; tools for greenhouses, one hundred and fifty dollars; repairs to heating apparatus, new pipes, and so forth, three hundred and fifty dollars; charcoal, sand, and sod for potting plants, one hundred dollars; new hose, one hundred dollars; new frames for young plants, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. microscopical division For compensation of microscopist,Microscopist. one thousand eight hundred dollars. botanical division.
For compensation of one botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars;Botanist. one assistant botanist, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. museum. For compensation of curator of museum, one thousand four hundredMuseum. dollars; one attendant in museum, one thousand dollars; for collecting and modeling specimens of fruits and vegetables, and collecting and preparing specimens for the museum and herbarium, one thousand dollars; for night watchman for museum building; who shall also act as night watchman of seed building, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. 410 laboratory.
Chemicals and apparatus, laboratory.For chemicals and apparatus for the use of the chemist and microscopist, and for necessary expenses in conducting experiments, including experiments in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum and other vegetable plants, sixteen thousand dollars. seed division. Chief of seed division, etc.For compensation of chief of seed division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one superintendent of seed room, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks at one thousand dollars each; one clerk at Purchase and distribution of seeds, plants, cuttings, etc.eight hundred and forty dollars; for the purchase and propagation and distribution, as required by law, of seeds, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, plants, eggs of silk worms, and expenses of putting up the same, to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, seventy-live thousand dollars.
An equal proportion of two-thirds of all seeds, plants, and cuttings shall, upon their request, be supplied to Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents, or shall, by their direction, be sent to their constituents; and the persons receiving such seeds shall inform the department of the results of *Proviso*.the experiments therewith: *Provided,* That all seeds, plants and cuttings herein allotted to Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress for distribution remaining uncalled for at the end of the fiscal year shall be distributed by the Commissioner of Agriculture: *And provided also, *Report of purchases.That the Commissioner shall report, as provided in this act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, from whom purchased, and the date of purchase.
But nothing in this paragraph shall be. construed to prevent the Commissioner of Agriculture from sending flower, garden and other 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, propagation, and distribution of improved and *Proviso*.valuable seeds, plants, cuttings and vines: *But provided however,* That the Commissioner 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; in all, eighty-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. division of agricultural statistics.
Statistics.For compensation of one statistician, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three, three thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks of class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars; four clerks at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; two clerks at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars ; for collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating matter for monthly annual and special reports, eighty thousand dollars.
Said reports shall give full statements, monthly, showing freight-charges and cost of carriage for the chief agricultural products upon the principal lines of railroads and water-routes to the principal markets in the United States; in all, one hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars. ’ furniture, cases, and repairs. Repairs of furniture, etc.For repairs of building, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, and matting, water and gas pipes, and so forth, six thousand dollars.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 36, 40. 1883. 411 library. For entomological and botanical works of reference, works on chemistryLibrary. and mineralogy, charts, current agricultural works for library, miscellaneous agricultural periodicals and the completion of imperfect series, one thousand live hundred dollars. investigating the diseases of domesticated animals. For continuing the investigation of infectious and contagious diseasesDiseases of domesticated animals. to which all classes of domesticated animals are subject, twenty-five thousand dollars. reclamation of arid and waste lands.
For continuing, locating, and sinking artesian wells on the plains eastArid lands. of the Rocky Mountains, with a view to reclaiming arid and waste public lands, ten thousand dollars : *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall*Proviso*. be expended in experiments upon the lands of individuals or corporations, but only upon the lauds belonging to the United States. postage. For postage on return letters, circulars, and miscellaneous articles forPostage. correspondents and foreign mail, four thousand dollars. contingent expenses.
For stationery, freight, express charges, fuel, lights, subsistence, andContingent expenses. care of horses, repairs of harness, paper, twine and gum for folding-room ; and for miscellaneous items, namely, for advertising, telegraphing, dry-goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, and for necessary items, including actual traveling expenses while on the business of the department, fourteen thousand dollars. forestry.
For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner of Agriculture to experimentForestry. and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, ten thousand dollars. Sec. 2.— That no part of the sums herein or hereafter appropriatedAdditional salary, etc., prohibited. for the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to any person, as additional salary or compensation, receiving at the same time other compensation as an officer or employee of the Government; and in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appropriated for the said department, to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, at the commencement of each regular session, present to Congress a detailed statement of theCommissioner to make to Congress detailed statement of expenditures. expenditures of all appropriations for said department for the last preceding fiscal year.
Approved, January 20, 1883.