880 rrrrrmeuru couenmss. sm. III. cu. 1405. wes. - telegraph services; and all necessary office fixtures and supplies, four thousand nine hundred dollars. Total for Bureau of Statistics, one hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. mnmy. LIBRARY. S,,,,,,` SAr.ARms, LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT or Aenrcurxruanz One librarian, two thousand dollars; one assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk (who shall be a translator), one thousand two hundred dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three catalo ers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; three cidiks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk (now laborer), six hundred dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, t ree hundred and sixty dollars; in all, - . thirteen thousand dollars. °°¤¤¤l¤P°¤¤· Lmnnr, Dm·An•nn#mT or Asmcvrzrunnz General expenses, library: Purchase of technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals necessary for the work of the Department, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for binding . periodicals, and for the employment of ditional assistance in the city of Washington and elsewhere, when necessary; for traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, shelving, library cards and other glffgiiptious w material, eight thousand and forty dollars: Provided, That section pubrrmmns. thirty-six hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes shall not B‘°"'°°‘°°°•"m‘ apply to the subscriptions for publications for the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay in C•'di”'l°*- advance for any publications for the- use of this Department. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them, co ies of the card index of the publications of the Department and of other agricultural literature repared by the library, and charg: for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in e reparation of these _ copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense`of the preparation of the index. Total for library, Department of Agriculture, twenty-one thousand and forty dollars. ` ¤¤¤¤¤¢¤¤=¤=r¤¤·¤¤- CONTINGENT EXPENSES. Courrsemrr mxrmssns, Dm-Anrunxr or AGRIGULTURE: Purchase of stationery, blank books, twine, pa r, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, luu1m1·, ardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses, forofficial purposes only; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, or official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceed four hundred dollars; actual traveling expenses while on business of the Department; and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for thegpractical and emcient work of the Department, rncludrng not to exceptwo thousand five hundred dollars for postage, thirty-seven thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available. _
