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SEVEN TY-F IRST C ONGRESS . SEss . III . CH. 278. 1931 . to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly Services in the Dis° Suitable therefor," approved June 7, 1924 (U . S . C ., title 16, sets . tnet .
5 64-5 70), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $74,000 . In all, salaries and expense s, $1,793,56 0 . Total, Extension Service, $5,863,560, of which amount not to exceed $539,630 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia . Grand total, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $13,414,566 . Weather Bureau . WEATHER BUREAU General expenses .
SALARIES AND GENERAL EXPENSES Classification of . For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Vol . 26, p. 653.
Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of an Act approved October u.S. C., p. 381. 1, 1890 (U. S. C., title 15, sees. 311-313, 317), so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and the amendment thereof contained in section 5 (e) Air s ervice r eports . of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (U. S . C., Supp . III, title 15, sec . Vol.44,p.571. u. s. c., sup p . iv, 313), for the employment of professors of meteorology, district fore- p° 132. casters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, fore- men, assistant foremen, proofreaders, compositors, pressmen, litho- graphers, folders and feeders, repair men, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observers, display men, and other necessary employees ; for fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice, dry goods, twine, mats, oil, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels ; for advertising ; for pur chase, s ubsistenc e, and c are of h orses an d vehicle s, the p urchase and repair of harnes s, for o fficial purposes only ; f or instr uments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto ; for rent of offices ; for repair, alterations, and improvements to exist- ing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds ; and the erection of tem- Telegraphing and porary buildings for living quarters of observers ; for official travel- teleph oning . ing expenses ; or telephone rentals, and for telegraphing, telephon- ing, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secre- tary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service ; for the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines ; and for every other expendi- ture required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of warnings °f orecasts and meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of storms, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gauging and measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings ; for observations and reports relating to crops, and for other necessary observations and reports, Cooperation wit h including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and othe r bureau s, etc . societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of mete- Chief
logical information, as follows office pe§ of bureau, and For necessary expenses for g eneral administrative purposes , including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in t he Distri ct of Co lumbia, $137,680 . Expenses in the Dis trict and elsewhere . For necessary expenses incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for inves- tigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and ser ology in the Dist rict of Columbia and els ewhere, i ncluding $ 4, 65 0
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