FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 1405. 1905. 863 buildings and grounds of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washin%on, ten thousand dollars. oxcrmonnr EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: Stationery, blank °°““"g°“‘°’P°“°”· books, necessary scientific and other publications; furniture and repairs to same; freight and express charges; subsistence, care, and purchase of horses for official purposes only; repairs of harness; advertising, dry goods., twine, mats, oils, gaints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other misce laneous supplies and ex uses not otherwmihprovided for and necessary for the ractical and eghient golpk of the eather Bureau in the city of Wasliington, ten thousand o ars. SA1.Aa1Es, WEATHER BUREAU: Professors of meteorolo ins t- 0¤¤i¤i¤ ¤¤¤i¤¤ of ors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section dimcmiésiireselaihh w°m°K°°°' observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, for duty in the United States in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, who, without additional expense to the Government, may hereafter, in the discretion _ of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leaves of absence not to Leaves of amuse exceed thirty days in any one year, five hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES,WEATHER BUREAU: Every expenditure requisite G¤¤¤¤¤¢¤=x>¤¤¤¢¤- for and incident to the establishment, e ui ment, and maintenance of ¤·¤¤¢¤¤¤¤•=¤- meteorological observation stations in t(l1eWnited States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, including the purchase of scientific and other publications, stationery, furniture, instruments, storm·warning towers, and all other necessary supplies and materials; for rents of oiiees; for traveling expenses; for freight and express clmrges; for telegraphing, tele houmg,~or cabling reports and messages, rates to·be fixed by the &Ql'6l3II·l'_Y of , Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service; for maintenance and repair of seacoast telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; for investigations on climatology; for river observations and reports; for rain observations and reports; for snow observations and reports; for ice observations and reports; for crop observations and reports; for aerial observations and reports; for storm and other warnings and reports; for hurricane observations and reports; including pay of special observers and display men, none of whom shall receive more than twenty-five dollars per month; and for the maintenance of l’*i¤*i¤8·>¤*•¢- a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, monthly reviews, and other publications, and for pay of assistant foremen, roofreaders, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and fheders, when necessary, five hundred and sixty- two thousand and ten dollars. Bnrnnmos, WEATHER BUREAU: For the purchase of sites and the mfvfltjrlfef eff °** erection of not less than live buildin for use as Weather Bureau° observatories, and for all necessary liesbor, materials, and expenses, plans and specilications to be prepared and approved by the Secretary of A riculture, and work done under the supervision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, including the purchase of instruments, furniture, supplies, flagstafls, and storm-warning towers to properly equip these stations: Pmvirled, That if any of the money for these several build- §g'§}°'b;,,mm_ . ings remains unexpended for the special purposes for which it is appropriated, so much of it as is necessary may be expended for the _ repair, improvement, and equipment of any other buildings or grounds owned by the Government an occupied by the V\'eather Bureau, outside of the District of Columbia: An<I_p:·m·£<lvdfurt/aer, That a portion gggggiggéxhto of the Federal building site at Springfield, Illinois, fronting ninety feetry
