FIFTY-FIFTH CONGB ESS. Sess. III. Ch. 187. 1899. 88] For one clerk of class four, to obtain, receive, collate, and, under the Azfi9¤l¤¤r¤l¤¤l1¤s• direction of the Commissioner of Education, to furnish the Secretary °m”°1°°` of the Interior with the information in relation to the operations and work of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts that will enable ‘ the Secretary to discharge the duties imposed on the Secretary of the Interior by the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and V·>l· 26· r· 411 ninety, to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- V¤l·12·P·5°3· two, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current Bookwwpublications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of informa- Statistics. tion, two thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ `For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational docu- Distribution, ono. ments, and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational “°°“'“°”*°· apparatus and appliances, text-books and educational reference books, articles of school furniture, and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for procuring anthropological instruments of precision, and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Orrion on Comnssroimn or Rnnnoknsz For Commissioner, four Commissioner or thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; R"‘l'°“°“‘ assistant bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For examination of books and accounts of certain subsidizedrailroad companies, and inspecting roads shops, machinery, and equipments thereof, five hundred dollars. Omvion or rim Aacnirncr or mm Cameron: For Architect, four ,t$r¤¤itw¢¤f¤h¤G¤p thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; draftsman, one ’ ‘ thousand eight hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; person in charge of the heatin g of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, eight hundred and sixty-tour dollars; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; three ' laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, and Dome, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars. OFFICE on mm Dumorron OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For G•>¤l<>zi<=¤1S¤rv¤y. Director, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, . one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one ; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior cooeogoozoxpooooo. and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons, and harness, food and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, seventveight thousand dollars. vox. xxx--56