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290 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 985. 1902. ment it is essential to prevent the s read of pluero-pneumonia, tuber- Experiment sm- culosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another; for "°“‘ B°°°°°d°’ Md' improvin and maintaining the Bureau Experiment Station, at Bethesda, “3;'*'*¤‘~*“° 5** Marylandé toestablish, improve, andmaintainquarantinestations,andto ' provide proper shelter and equipment for the care of neat cattle, domestic and other animals imported at such ports as may be deemed necessary; R¤=»p¤¤¤· for printing and publishingezuch reports relating to animal industry ,,,f,j'f,l§,'j,,§';‘;fk°“*°’ as he may irect; and the retary of Agriculture may use so much of this sum as he deems necessary for promoting the extension and developmentof foreign markets for dairy and other farm products of the United States, and for suitable transportation of the same; and such products may be bought in open market and disposed of at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is authorized to apply the moneys received from e sales of such products toward the }*j§f,;.,,m._ continuation and repetition of such experimental exports; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building in the District of Columbia, at an annual rental of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be used as a laboratory for said Bureau of I‘°“°' °* ‘l"°"°°· Animal Industry; and the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry outside of the city of Washington may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leaves of absence not to exceed fifteen days in www any one year: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may conver. ;-.10so. str·ue the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and v°"°’*"m‘ ninety-one, as amended March second, eighteen hundred and ninet - five, for the inspection of live cattle and products thereof, to include dairy products intended for exportation to any foreig: country, and " may apply, under rules and regulations to be prescri d by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certi cation appropriate for ascertainingb the purity and quality of such products, and may cause the same to e so marked, stamped, or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign countries to which they mav be sent from the United States their purity, quality, and grade; and all the provisions of said Act relating to live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy products so inspected and cer- ,h${Q,‘gf}§§§6§f‘ tified: Provided further, at not to exceed ten thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be used to purchase additional land for the Bureau experiment station at Bethesda. Marvland. Total Bureau of Animal Industry, one million two hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. ,,£;:;;$·“°‘*"·¤°’"· BUREAU or PLANT ixnusrnr. 5******* Burman or Pmsr Ixncsrar, ssmrmasz One plant ph siolog-ist and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars; one plantp ysiologist and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau in absence of Chief, two thousand seven hundred and hfty dollars; one botanist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one pomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one agrostologist, two thousand tive hundred dollars; one assistant pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant pomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant agrostologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks class three, six thousand four hundred dollars; nine clerks class two, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred ang eighty dollars; in all, sixtv-two thousand seven hundred andthirty o ars.