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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 871, 872. 1901. 1449 and financial agents of the Government as may be required of them. The Secretary of the Treasury shall require the associations thus designated to give satisfactor security, by the deposit of United States bonds and otherwise, for the safe-keeping and prom t payment of the public money deposited with them, and for the faitliful performance of their duties as financial agents of the Government. And every association so designated as receiver or depositary of the public money shall take and receive at par all of the national currency bills, by whatever association issued, which have been paid into the Government for internal revenue or for loans or stocks} Approved, March 3, 1901. CHAP. 872.-An Act To establish the National Bureau of Standards. M¤~=h**·1**¤· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati2:es oft/ae United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Office of Standard Stggéxgil Bgfsggf lVeights and Measures shall hereafter be known as the National Bureau lished.`S of Standards. Sec. 2. That the functions of the bureau shall consist in the custody F“¤°“°"$<*f‘*“"=¤**· of the standards: the comparison of the standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the stan ards adopted or recognized by the Government; the construction, when necessary, of standards, their multiples and subdivisions; the testing and calibration of standard measurin apparatus; the solution of problems which arise in connection witg standards; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials, when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere. Sec. 3. That the bureau shall exercise its functions for the Govern- ‘f°"·"h°m "X°’°iS€d· ment of the United States; for any State or municipal government within the United States; or for any scientific society, educational institution, firm, coilporation, or individual within the United States engaged in manu acturing or other pursuits requiring the use of standards or standard measuring instruments. All requests for the serv- r—¤¤<1¤¤·S¢¤ for services of the bureau shall be made in accordance with the rules and ms` regulations herein established. Sec. 4. That the officers and employees of the bureau shall consist ,,,2,‘§§§F md "’“" of a director, at an annual salary of five thousand dollars; one physi- ` cist, at an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; one chemist, at an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant hysicists or chemists, each at an annual salary of two thousand two hundred dollars; one laboratory assistant, at an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; one laboratory assistant, at an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars; one secretary, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars; one clerk, at an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars; one engineer, at an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars; one mechanician, at an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; one watchman, at an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one laborer, at an annual salary of si·x hundred dollars. Sec. 5. That the director shall be appointed by the President, by e,§l“’°‘°”· P°“’°”· and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He shall have the I general supervision of the bureau, its equipment, and the exercise of v_ its functions. He shall make an annual report to the Secretary of the "°"°"· Treasury, including an abstract of the work done during the year and a financial statement. He may issue, when necessary, bulletins for B¤“°*i¤S~