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FIFTY-SECOND CON GRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 214-216. 1893. 743 interest of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; for transportation rmspomutumm. and legal traveling allowances of employees when traveling on business connected with the Bureau, including transportation of materials and funds; for meteorological and other instruments and shelters therefor; Iumumenw. for telegraphing or telephoning reports, messages, or other information; roitgmpinugm the special and regular circuits, drops, and rates for Weather-Bureau ’°"‘*°"* service, to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the telegraph or telephone company or companies performing the services; for rents and other incidental expenses of offices maintained as “°"'·“· stations of observation; for the maintenance and repair of seacoast C°¤¤° °°‘°S¤‘°Pl¤¤· telegraph lines; including the maintenance of telegraphic or telephonic communications between Middle and Thunder Bay Island in the city Mi¤u1¤¤u11‘huuu<>r of Alpena, Michigan; for river observations and reports necessary for B°;H0I£d]“TB°§5;]g,{°h‘ flood forecasts; for storm, cold wave, flood, frost, and other signals S°°"¤ ¤ig¤¤l¤· (including the purchase of flags for the same); for cotton region obscr- ¤¢>¤*·>¤¤—b·=¤¤ ¤¤1>•>¤¤- vations and reports; for special observations and pay of observers of West India stations during the hurricane season; for supplies for State §;'”,fg__¤*;,ffP°”¤· Weather Service stations, and for investigations on the relations of cuiii)m ’ investigaclimate to organic life, four hundred and four thou and one hundred “°“* and seventy dollars; in all, seven hundred and forty-eight thousand ` one hundred and seventy dollars. ‘ Approved, March 3, 1893. CHAP. 215.-An act relating to copyrights. Msrub 3. BW- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 0'ongress assembled, That any author, inventor, de- g*;lg_{_f§g;¤-of mm signer, or proprietor of any book, or other article entitled to copyright, umn at delivery of who has heretofore failed to deliver in the office of the Librarian of °‘ Congress, or in the mail addressed to the Librarian of Congress, two complete copies of such book, or description or photograph of such article, within the time limited by title sixty, chapter three, us.ue.m.x,¤mp of the Revised Statutes relating to copyrights, and the acts in 3·*"°“ amendment thereof, and has complied with all other provisions thereof, 18E";'; }§,{’,;6"F 2*1*- who has, before the first day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred ' and ninetythree, delivered at the office of the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in the mail addressed to the Librarian of Congress two complete printed copies of such book, or description, or photograph of such article, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of said title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes and the acts in amendment thereotl Approved, March 3, 1893. CHAP. 216.-An act to continue the duties on certain manufactures of flax at the umn 3.1893- fate now provided bylaw. `“A"`"`W` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph numbered gx?; on mma three hundred and seventy-one of an act entitled ·‘An act to reduce the manufactures tum. Tevenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," ap- V°‘·“·P·“°“· proved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “ninety-four" and inserting " ninety-five," so that the proviso embraced in said paragraph shall _ read as follows; “Pm vided, That until January first, eighteen hundred Qgggmm um and ninety-five, such manufactures of flax containing more than one J¤¤.1.1¤¤6. hundred threads to the square inch, counting both warp and filling, shall be subject to a duty of thirty-five per centum ad valorem in lieu of the duty herein nrovided." Approved, March 3, 1893.