SIXTYZSECOND CQNGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 284. 1912. 271 hundred and twenty dollars each; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventeen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at seven hirndred and twenty dollars each; six messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; twenty-seven messengers, -messenger boys, or laborers, at six hmm- · dred dollars each; eighty-seven messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eightgx-dollars each; Eve messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four undred and iift dollars each; twenty-seven messenger boys, at three hrmdred and, sixty dollars each; one charwoman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. _ ?ONT!NGEN’1‘ Exrmrsns, Wmmnn Burman: For fuel, lights, re. ¤¤¤¤,¤;s%¤¤ ex; pairs, and other expenses for the_ care and preservation of thepublic ml ¤.
and fgrounds and the improvements of the existing pubhe bu mgs 0 the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington; for
stationery and blank books, furniture and repairs to same, and freight and express charges; for subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles, andrepairs of harness, for official purposes only; for advertising, gmgoods, twine, mats, oils, aints, glass, lumber hardware, ice, w g towels, and other aneous su plies and expenses not otherwrseuprovrded for in the city of n, , twenty-five thousand do srs. German. Exrrzrvszs, Wmmm Burman: For carrying into effect °•¤·¤*•¤1·•¤•=* in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, m the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, the provisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen V°l-”·P·'”'· hundred and nmety, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, equrpment, and maintenance of meteorological observation stations, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and °,‘,§‘;’§;}‘,__'{g'j ,,‘,;f‘** societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteoro- ' lo%cal information, as follows: _ or the employment of professors _0f meteorology, rnsplectors, dis- S““°“ °“°°"'·°'°· trict forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, researc observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary cmp oyees, five hundred and surty-mne thousand dollars; For fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, fumiture, s“”“°* stationery, and all other necessary supplies and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and five thousand ve hundred dollars; · For instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers, and **"°“""·°‘°· re airs thereto, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; illor rent of omces and repairs and improvements to buildings now ,,,K'§{” °‘ *’°"°' completed and located outside of the District of Columbia, and care and (preservation of grounds, including construction of necessary outbuil ings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds, ninety-nine thousand dollars; _ For official traveling expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars ; T"'°““‘°"“"°"“ For telephone rentals and for tel¥raE1l:ing, telephoning, and T°l°""m“"°°°' cabling reports and messages, rates to e ed by the Secretary of Agricu ture gg agreements with the companies performing the service, three hundr and five thousand dollars· _, , ub For the maintenance and repair- of Weather Bureau telegraph, ,,l§pEf°£¢TK¤Z, telgphone, and cable lines, four thousand dollars; · I mum, O,) or mvestigations in climatology and evaporation, including the ,s£.¤.,m,€$` ereotronpf temporary buildings for living quarters for observers, for river, ram, snow, ice, crop, evaporation, aerial, storm, hurricane, and other observations, warnings, and reports; and for pay of special observers and display men, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars:
