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SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 185. 1922. 509 twelve of class three, twenty-four of class two, fort -eight of class _ one, nine at $1,000 each; foreman of printing, $1,600;lithographers— ,,t§"”t°"’ m°°h”“l°" one $1,500, three at $1,400 each; pressman, $1,200; printers or compos1tors—ten at $1,440 each, eight at $1,350 each, seventeen at $1,300_each; four press feeders at $840 each; instrument makers-- supervisor $1,620, one $1 440, three at $1,300 each; assistant engineer, $1,260; skilled mechanics, three at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 E hmm each, ten at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,300; three firemen at $840 ¤ec.ugm°°t’ ’ each; foreman of laborers and messengers, $1,100; electrician, $1,200; repa1rmen—two at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each; gardener, $1,000; messengers or laborers——twenty-eight at $720 each, six at $660 each, twenty-two at $600 each; messenger boyseleven at $600 each, one hundred at $480 each; charwomen—-one $360, three at $240 each; in all, $351,400. GENERAL nxrnrrsns, wnxrnnn nrmnan. G°¤°¤*l °'P°“S°°· For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere C'“S*“°°“°“· in the United States, 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 provisions of an Act approved October VOL 26, 1>· **5% 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employment of professors of meteorolo , district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section clgrxectors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant oremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, rgpairmen, station agents, messenghers, messenger boys, laborers, speci observers, displa§men, and 0 er necessary employees; for fuel, as, electricity, freig t and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice, c§·y goods, twme, mats, oil, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels; for advertisin ; for purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and vehicles, the purghase and repair of harness, for official purposes only; for instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of offices; for repair and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, includingh the construction of necessary outbuildings an sidewalks on pub `c streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds; and the erection of temporary buildings or living quarters of observers; for omcral traveling expenses; or telephone rentals, and for telegraphmg, telephoning, and cablin reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agricugzure by agreements with the companies performing the service; for the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, maintenance of meteorological offices and stations an for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnin of storms, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gauging ani? measuring of the How of rivers, and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for other necessary observations and C um ,,1,, reports, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government ¤¢u , etc. and societies lang institutionsfofl learning for the dissemination of meteoro o `ca i ormation as o ows: . For negdssary expenses lin the city of Washington incident to ool- mglfifnriiscin WM lecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations m meteorology, climatology, seismelogy, volcanology, evaporation, aerology, $115,575; _ _ For the maintenance of a printing office II} the city of Washington P““"‘“$°m°°· for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications, including the pay of additional employees, when