92 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 171. 1882. for the study of the physical properties of cotton fibers produced under different conditions of climate and culture, and for the preparation of reports thereon, ten thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available. INVESTIGATING DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. Diseases of im-m For continuing the investigation of infectious and contagious diseases ¤¤i1¤¤i¤- to which all classes of domesticated ammals are subject, twenty-Eve thousand dollars. BEGLAMATION on AHID AND WASTE LANDS. . Arid and waste For locating and sinking not exceeding three artesian wells on the k¤d¤· plains east of the Rocky Mountains, with a view to reclaiming arid and Promos. waste public lands, twenty thousand dollars: Promkled, That no part of this sum shall be expended in experiments upon the lands of individuals or corporations, but only upon the lands belonging to the United States: Provided also, That a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars, to be 1m- mediately available, may be used by the Commissioner of Agrrcul ture for payment of expenses already incurred. FonEST11Y. Forestry. For the purpose of enabling the ”GOH1llllSSlOD01‘ of Agriculture to_experiment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, ten thousand dollars. ' POSTAGE. . Peerage. For postage on return letters, circulars, and miscellaneous articles for correspondents and foreign mail, four thousand dollars. coNr1NGENr EXPENSES. Stationery. etc. For stationery, freight, express charges, fuel, lights, subsistence, and care of horses, repairs of harness, paper twine, and gum for foldingroom; and for miscellaneous items, namely, for advertising, telegraphing, drygoods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, and for necessary items, including actual traveling expenses while on the business of the department, fiii teen thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of which sum shall be immediately available. LABOR, AND so FORTH. Labor, imple- For labor, new implements, repair of tools, wagons and carts, manure, ¤¤·*¤*¤-¤¤P¤¤¤»°¤=· gid purchasing trees for arboretum, five thousand five hundred dolrs. For repairing and resurfacing concrete roads and walks on the _' _ grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. A C€’;};§3f;°3’l_'£ Sec. 2. That no part of the sums herein or hereafter appropriated for PE?, ,0 Cong,,,,, the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to any person, as addidemise mm-,mm; tional salary or compensation, receiving at the same time other comof expenditures. pensatron as an officer of employee of the government ; and in addition to_the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appropriated for the said department to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, at the commencement of each regular session, present to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures of all appropriations for said department for the last preceding tiseal year. Approved, May 19, 1882.
