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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cir. 178. 1918. 975 $1,000; four repairmen, at $840 each; six repairmen, at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; eighteen messengers, messenger boys, "°°°“’8°"·°°°· or laborers, at $720 each; six messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $660 each; thirty-one messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; ninety-nine messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; one charwoman, $360; three charwomen, at $240 eagrh; in all, $328,950. W B F H ENERAL nxrmssss, naman Urmauz or carryin into e act G¤¤¤¤l¤¤¤¤¤¤·- in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, Clmm°°u°°` in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermudafand in Alaska, the dprovisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen V¤L MP-653- hundred an ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local orecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mec anics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, regairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, speci observers, displaymen, and other necessary employ- ees; for fuel, gas, electricity, reight and exdpress charges, furniture, stationery, ice, dry goods, twine, mats, o` , paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels· for advertising; for purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and vehicles, the purchase and repair of harness, for official purposes only; for instruments, shelters, giparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of offices; for repairs and improvements to existing buildings and care and pres ervatron of (grounds, including the construction of necessarg outbuildings an sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather ureau grounds; and the erection o temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling expenses; for telephone rentals and for teleggaphing, telephoning, and cablirig reports and messages, rates to e fixe by the Secretary of Agric ture by agreements with the companies performing the service; for the mamtenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of storms, cold waves, fr-osts, and heavy snows, the gauging an measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for other necessary observations and reports, including cooperation with other bureaus otggyvggjgw otyith of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the ` dissemination of meteorological information, as follows: For necessary expenses in the city of Washington incident to col- “‘ w“"" lecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $109,250; _ _ For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington P“°*·“‘¤ °“°°· for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other pu lications, includirgg the pay of additional employees, when necessary $12,800: Prcmkl , That no printing shall be done by the p,,,,,;,,_ Weather llureau that, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agricul— I·*¤*i*¤°i°¤°¤'°’*· ture, can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing? the service of said bureau; d { h f W hl d E of or necessary ex uses outsi e o the city o as `ngton inci ent ,‘P°““°’,mgm to collecting and digseminating meteorological, climatological, and W mar1ne_mformation, and for- investigations in meteorology, climatology, Seismology, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,312,190. including not to exceed $672,500 for salaries, $130,040 for special