Chapter 17. making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 17.— An Act making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.March 18, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of Agriculture. Deficiency appropriation for Bureau of Animal Industry. Vol. 23, p. 31. Vol. 26, p. 414. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For carrying out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, and of the act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for an inspection of meats and animals, and also for the purpose of carrying out the provisionsInspection of cattle, etc. of act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to provide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, andVol. 26, p. 1089. the carcasses of and the products thereof which are the subjects of interstate commerce, and for other purposes,” one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Experiments in the manufacture of sugar; To enable the SecretarySugar manufacture experiments. of Agriculture to continue experiments in the production of sugar from sugar cane, sugar beets, and sorghum, and especially for culture experiments looking to the improvement of those sources of sugar, and for experiments for the more complete separation of the sugar from the molasses, and including all necessary expenses in these experiments, namely, traveling expenses, purchase of samples, apparatus, and supplies, and chemical services, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof 8 as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all products of the experiments*Proviso*. may be sold in accordance with existing laws, and the proceeds Sales.thereof used in the experimental work, and that any products of previous experiments now on hand, and any apparatus or supplies which may have been purchased for use in such experiments, and which are no longer necessary thereto, maybe sold and the proceeds applied in further work, and that a full and accurate account of the proceeds of such sales be transmitted to Congress.
Approved, March 18, 1892.