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dred dollars; in all, one hundred and four thousand two hundred dollars.

Collecting agricultural statistics, division of agricultural statistics: For collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics: for expenses of local investigations and compilations, and for necessary traveling expenses; for statistical publications furnishing data for permanent comparative records; for compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual and special reports, and for the necessary expenses of the same, including paper and envelopes, postal-cards and postage-stamps, sixty-five thousand dollars. For preparation of maps and charts illustrating the progress of rural production in the United States, and showing local crop distribution. and limitation, five thousand dollars.

Furniture, cases, and repairs: For repairing buildings, heating apparatus, furniture, carpeting, matting, water and gas pipes, new furniture, and all necessary material and labor for the same, including, lumber, hardware, glass, and paints, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

Library: For entomological, botanical, and historical works of reference, works on chemistry, forestry, mineralogy, maps, charts, current agricultural works for library, miscellaneous agricultural periodicals, and the completion of imperfect series, two thousand dollars.

Salaries and expenses Bureau of Animal Industry: For carrying out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eight-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, five hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, and in such manner as he may think best, to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and destruction of diseased or exposed animals and the quarantine of the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia from one State into another, and of this sum an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be applied to the payment of expenses incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: Provided, That fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in continuation of the investigations and experiments, to be conducted within the United States, into the nature, causes, and remedies for the prevention and cure of hog cholera and swine plague.

Quarantine stations for neat-cattle: To establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter for and care of neat-cattle imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary, fifteen thousand dollars.

Division of forestry: For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner of Agriculture to experiment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, and for traveling and other necessary expenses in the investigation and the collection and distribution of valuable economic forest-tree seeds and plants, eight thousand dollars.

To enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to continue experiments in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum cane, including the purchase and transportation of samples and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner is hereby required to

make a separate report to Congress stating fully and accurately an itemized account of every expenditure made under this provision and the results of all experiments made, and also including the purchase and transportation of samples and supplies.

Postage: For postage on return-letters, circulars, and miscellaneous articles for correspondents and foreign mail, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses: For stationery, freight, express-charges, fuel, lights, subsistence and care of horses, repairs of harness, for paper, twine, and gum for folding-room, advertising, telegraphing, drygoods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, washing towels, actual traveling expenses while on the business of the Department, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, fifteen thousand dollars.

EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS.

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That to carry into effect the provisions of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto," five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; ten thousand dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Commissioner of Agriculture to enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and to compare, edit, and publish such of the results of the experiments made under section two of said act by said experimental stations as he may deem necessary; and for these purposes the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary.

Approved, July 18, 1888.

[PUBLIC-No. 202.]

An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightynine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, "That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, in conformity with the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For mail depredations, and post-office inspectors, and fees to United States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars.

For advertising, sixteen thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For compensation to postmasters, twelve million eight hundred thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in post-offices, five million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in post offices for unusual business, as contemplated by Revised Statutes, section thirty-eight hundred and sixty-three, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For rent, light, and fuel for first and second class post-offices, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For rent, light, and fuel to post-offices of the third class, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of three hundred dollars, nor more than sixty dollars for fuel and lights in any one year.

The Postmaster-General may hereafter allow rent, light, and fuel at offices of the third class in the same manner as he is now authorized by law to do in the case of offices of the first and second class: Provided, That no contract for rent for a third-class post-office shall be made for a longer period than one year, nor shall the aggregate allowance for rent made in any year exceed the amount appropriated for such purpose.

For miscellaneous and incidental items for the first and second class post-offices, including furniture, one hundred thousand dollars. For free-delivery service, six million dollars.

For the additional expense of the free-delivery service made necessary by the act entitled "An act to limit the hours that letter carriers in cities shall be employed per day," approved May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one million dollars.

For stationery in post-offices, fifty-five thousand dollars.

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For wrapping twine, eighty thousand dollars.

For wrapping paper, forty-five thousand dollars.

For letter balances, scales, and test weights, fifteen thousand dollars.

For post-marking and rating stamps, and ink and pads for stamping and cancelling purposes, forty-three thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by star routes, five million four hundred thousand dollars.

For inland transportation by steam-boat routes, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For mail-messenger service, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.

For mail locks and keys, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay the freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper from the manufactories to post-offices and depots of distribution, seventeen million dollars.

For railway post-office car service, two million dollars.

For railway post-office clerks, five million two hundred and fortysix thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-one cents. For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and ninety-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars.

For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of agency, eight thousand dollars.

For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and letter-sheets, seven hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars.

For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and twelve thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars.

For the pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For registered package, tag, and official and dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars. For ship, steam-boat, and way letters, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

That hereafter the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions,

and plants shall be charged at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, subject in all other respects to the existing law.

OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT FOREIGN MAILS.

For transportation of foreign mails, five hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars.

For balance due foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. That if the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Departinent for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

Approved, July 24, 1888.

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