696 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C1-1. 217. 1920. }lgfhm°”» m’°" $1,000; four watchmen, at $720 each; twenty-eight messengers or °r°’ laborers, at $720 each; six messengers or laborers, at $660 each; twenty-two messengers or laborers, at $600 each; eleven messenger boys, at $600 each; ninety-nine messenger boys, at $480 each; one charwoman, $360; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $344,450. g§;§rg¤¤&v¤¤S¢¤~ GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BnnEAu: For carryirgg into effect ` °° °°' in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United tates, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the Vol. 26. p· 653- provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employment of professors of meteoro ogy, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section _ directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and eeders, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observers, displaymen, and other necessary employees; for uel, gas, electricity, reight and eipress charges, furniture, stationery, ice, dry goods, twine, mats, oi , 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, a paratus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of oigcesg for repairs and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on ublic streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds; and the erection ofltemporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling expenses; for telephone rentals, and for telegraphing, tele honing, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be xed by the Slecretary of Agriculture by agreements with the com anies performing the service; for the maintenance and repair of lWeather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equi ment, and maintenance of meteorolog1cal_offices and stations and for the issuin of weather forecastsand warnings of storms, cold waves, frosts, andlieavy snows, the gauging and measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuin of river orecasts and warnings; for observations and reports rsatin to crops and for_ other necessary observations and reports, incluglin O,§g;’{’,*[j§;gg§, DY,} * h cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological _ _ Y information, as follows: ,¤§;;Qf'}§j‘§.}“ ““"‘ For necessary eirpenses in the city of Washington incident to collecting 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 cit of Washington
for the grinting of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and _ other pu hcations, mcludugg the pay of additional employees, when {#i’1;;;j£,On0,“, ork_ necessary, $12,800: Promd , That no rinting shall be done b the Weather Bureau that, in the judgbment oi the Secretary of Agriculture, can be done at the Government rinting Office without impairing the _ service of said bureau; ‘ u,§ggE;‘;tgI¤;*$¤d° °' For necessary ex‘penses_ outside of the city of Washington incident to collecting and isseminsting meteorological, climatological, and marinemformation, and for investigations in meteorology, climatol— ogy, seismology, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,303,030, mcluding not to exceed $700,000 for salaries, $129,040 for special
