Chapter 575.
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CHAP. 575.— An act making an appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.June 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Agricultural Department appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States nor. otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for (he fiscal year ending June thirtieth,eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. office of commissioner. For compensation of Commissioner of Agriculture, four thousand fiveSalaries: Commissioner, clerks, etc. hundred dollars; chief clerk in said Department, who shall be superintendent of the Department buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division of accounts and disbursing officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant disbursing officer, who shall act as property clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk to disbursing officer, one thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred 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, live thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand four hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; superintendent of folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants in folding-room, at six hundred dollars each; messengers, carpenters, watchmen, and laborers, ten thousand dollars; one assistant fireman, at five hundred dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. botanical division.Botanical Division.
For compensation of botanist, two thousand dollars; for one assistantBotanist, assistant. Investigations. botanist, one thousand two hundred dollars; for investigating the nature of the diseases of fruits and fruit-trees, grains, and other useful plants due to parasitic fungi, and for experiments necessary to determine suitable remedies for these diseases, and for field investigation in the South and West with respect to the discovery and introduction into cultivation of forage plants and grasses suitable to increase the grazing capacity of the arid districts of the South and West, five thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars. pomological division.Pomological Division.
For compensation of pomologist, two thousand dollars; and for thePomologist, etc. collection and dissemination of pomological information, three thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. microscopical division.Microscopical Division. For compensation of microscopist, two thousand dollars; one assistantMicroscopist, assistant. Investigations. microscopist, one thousand dollars; for microscopical apparatus, chemicals, and purchase of food samples and fibers in making necessary investigations and examinations into the adulteration of food, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. 101 chemical division.Chemical Division.
For compensation of chief chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars;Chemist, assistants, etc. one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; employment of additional assistance, when necessary, in the chemical division, six thousand dollars; chemicals and apparatus for the use of the chemist, and for necessary changes in and additions to the fixtures to the laboratory, and necessary expenses in conducting experiments, including purchase of samples, six thousand dollars; for purchase, erection,Sugar manufacture. transportation, and operation of machinery, and necessary traveling within the United States and other expenses in continuing and concluding experiments in the manufacture of sugar, by the diffusion and saturation processes, from sorghum and sugarcane, so much thereof as may be necessary to be immediately available, ninety-four thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
All machinery purchased under the provisions of this act shall beMachinery to be built in the United States; exception. built in the United States, wholly of domestic material, except so much of it not exceeding ten thousand dollars in cost as is now under contract, express or implied, or such parts thereof as can not be built in the United States within proper time. entomological division.Entomological Division. For compensation of entomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars;Entomologist, assistants. one assistant entomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; for investigating the history and habits of insects injurious to Investigations.agriculture, arboriculture, and horticulture, experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them, for drawings and illustrations, and for chemicals and traveling within the United States, and other expenses on the practical work of the entomological division, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars. division of economic ornithology and mammalogy.Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy.
Investigations. For the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; an investigation of the food-habits, distribution, and migrations of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture and forestry; for publishing reports thereon; and for drawings and traveling and other expenses in the practical work of the division, ten thousand dollars. silk culture.Silk culture. For collecting and disseminating information relating to silk-culture,Collecting and disseminating information, etc. for purchasing and distributing silkworm eggs, and for conducting, at some point in the District of Columbia, experiments with automatic machinery for reeling silk from the cocoon, ten thousand dollars.
AndSales. the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to sell, in open market, any and all reeled silk and silk waste produced in these experiments, and to apply the proceeds of such sales to the payment of the legitimate expenses incurred therein; and the Commissioner of Agriculture shall make full report to Congress of the experiments herein Provided for, and also of all sales and purchases made under this paragraph. For the encouragement and development of the culture of raisingWoman’s Silk-Culture Association. raw silk, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Woman’s Silk-Culture Association of the United States, located at Philadelphia, and to be paid directly to said association. 102 experimental gardens and grounds.Experimental gardens and grounds.
Superintendent; labor; material, etc. For compensation of superintendent of gardens and grounds, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for labor in experimental garden and grounds, ten thousand dollars, for the purchase and repair of tools, wagons, carts, harness, machinery, horseshoeing, and necessary material, one thousand dollars; for purchase of seeds of new and rare kinds, of plants and cuttings for propagation and distribution, including expense for material anti putting up same, three thousand dollars; for glass, lumber, and carpenter work, and other material for repairing, glazing, and painting greenhouses, two thousand five hundred dollars; for cleaning and necessary material for painting the iron fence on B street, two hundred dollars; for repairing, stoning, and graveling drives and walks, two thousand five hundred dollars; for concreting or paving part of carriage-yard in rear of main building, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase, cultivation, propagation, and distribution of foreignForeign medicinal plants. medicinal plants, two thousand dollars. museum.Museum. For compensation of curator of museum, one thousand four hundredCurator, assistant, etc. dollars; one assistant, one thousand dollars; one nightwatchman for museum building, who shall also act as night watchman for seed building, seven hundred and twenty dollars; collecting and modeling specimens of fruits and vegetables, and collecting and preparing specimens for the museum and herbarium, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. seed division.Seed Division.
For compensation of chief of seed division, one thousand eight hundredChief of Division, superintendent, etc. dollars; one superintendent of seed-room, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at eight hundred and forty dollars; for the purchase and propagation, and distribution, as required by law, of seeds, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, andDistribution. plants, and expenses of putting up the same, to be distributed in localities adapted to the culture, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
An equal proportion of two-thirds of all plants, seeds, trees, cuttings, vines, and shrubs 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 *Provisos*.the-results of the experiments therewith: *Provided*, That, all seeds, plants, and cuttings herein allotted to Senators, Representatives, and Distribution of seeds, etc., uncalled for.Delegates in Congress, for distribution, remaining uncalled for at the end of the fiscal year, shall be distributed by the Commissioner of Agriculture;
Report.And *provided also*, 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 valuable seeds, plants, cuttings, and vines:
But *Provided, however*,Distribution to be made with regard to climate and locality. 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. 103 division of agricultural statistics.Division of Agricultural Statistics. For compensation of one statistician, two thousand five hundred dollars;Statistician, clerks, etc. two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks of class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; for collecting foreign and domestic agricultural statistics, and compiling, writing, and illustrating matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, sixty-five thousand dollars; in all, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars. furniture, cases, and repairs.Furniture, cases, and repairs.
For repairing buildings, heating apparatus, furniture, carpeting, matting, water and gas pipes, and other necessary articles, seven thousand dollars; for one steam-boiler, boiler-front, steam and water gauges, and putting same in place, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, eight thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. library.Library. For entomological and botanical works of reference, works on chemistryPurchase of books, etc. and mineralogy, charts, current agricultural works for library, miscellaneous agricultural periodicals, and the completion of imperfect series, one thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of animal industry.Bureau of Animal Industry.
For carrying out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth,Vol. 23, p. 31. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, and in such manner as he may think best, to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and destruction of diseased animalsPurchase and destruction of diseased animals. whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia from one State into another. quarantine stations for neat cattle.Quarantine stations for neat cattle.
To establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter for and care of neat cattle imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary, thirty thousand dollars. division of forestry.Division of Forestry. For compensation of chief of forestry division, two thousand dollars;Chief of Division. Investigations, etc. for the purpose of enabling the Commissioner of Agriculture to experiment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, and the collection and distribution of valuable economic forest-tree seeds and plants, eight thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. reclamation of arid and waste lands.Reclamation of arid and waste lands.
Artesian well in Oregon or Washington Territory. To aid in sinking an artesian well in Eastern Oregon or Eastern Washington Territory, with a view to reclaim arid and waste public lands, such well to be located and money expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in conjunction with the expenditure of any appropriation made or which may be made, by said State 104 or Territory, and contributions by individuals, for such purpose, five *Proviso*. To be on Government land.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be used in sinking any well except the same be located on lauds owned by the United States; and the one hundred and sixty acres of land on which the same may be sunk shall be reserved from sale till otherwise provided by law. tea culture.Tea culture.
For the distribution of the tea-plants now on the Government tea-formDistribution of plants; closing up tea-farm. in South Carolina, or such number of them as are in proper condition for transplanting, and to preserve the property and close out the interests of the Government at that place, two thousand dollars. postage.Postage. For postage on return letters, circulars, and miscellaneous articles for correspondents and foreign mail, four thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For stationery, freight, express charges, fuel, lights, subsistence and 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 necessary items, including actual traveling expenses while on the business of the Department, fifteen thousand dollars. Approved, June 30, 1886.