ing and other expenses on the practical work of the entomological division, twenty thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars: Provided, That the amount expended for subsistence when making investigations shall not exceed three dollars per day, exclusive of transportation. GARDEN AND GROUNDS. For compensation of superintendent of garden and grounds, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for labor, new implements, repairs of tools, wagons and carts, manure, and purchasing trees for ar boretum, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for repairing and resurfacing concrete roads and walks on the grounds, three thousand dollars; for labor in experimental garden, five thousand dollars; for plant-pots, two hundred and fifty dollars; for repairing and painting greenhouse, five hundred dollars; for purchasing and propagating new seeds of economic value, six hundred dollars; for repairing heating apparatus, new pipes, and so forth, in conservatory, four hundred and fifty dollars; for the purchase of charcoal, sod, and sand for potting plants, one hundred dollars; sashes for plant-frames, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. MICROSCOPICAL DIVISION. For compensation of microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars. BOTANICAL DIVISION. For compensation of one botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for one assistant botanist, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. MUSEUM. For compensation of curator of museum, one thousand four hundred dollars; one attendant in museum, one thousand dollars; one night watchman for museum building, who shall also act as night watchman of seed building, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for collecting and modeling specimens of fruits and vegetables, and collecting and preparing specimens for the museum and herbarium, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. LABORATORY. For chemicals and apparatus for the use of the chemists and microscopists, and for necessary expenses in conducting experiments, including experiments in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum and other vegetable plants, fifty thousand dollars. SEED DIVISION. For compensation of chief of seed division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one superintendent of seed-room, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars; one clerk, at eight hundred and forty dollars; for the purchase and propagation, and distribution, as required by law, of seeds, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, and expenses of putting up the same, to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, one hundred thousand dollars. An equal proportion of two-thirds of all plants, seeds, cuttings, vines, and shrubs shall, upon their request, be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents, or shall, by their direction, be sent to their constituents, and the persons receiving such seeds shall inform the Department of the results of the experiments therewith: Provided, That all seeds, plants, and cuttings herein allotted to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution remaining uncalled for at the end of the fiscal year shall be distributed by the Commissioner of Agriculture: And provided also, That the Commissioner shall report, as provided in this act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, from whom purchased, and the date of purchase. But nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Commissioner of Agriculture from sending flower, garden, and other seeds to those who apply for the same. And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, propagation, and distribution of improved and valuable seeds, plants, cuttings, and vines: But provided, however, That the Commissioner shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents; in all, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and forty dollars. 'DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. For compensation of one statistician, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks of class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; for collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, and compiling, writing, and illustrating matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, one hundred thousand dollars. Said reports shall give full statements, monthly, showing freight-charges and cost of carriage for the chief agricultural products upon the principal lines of railroads and water-routes to the principal markets in the United States; in all, one hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred dollars. FURNITURE, CASES, AND REPAIRS. For repairing of building, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, and matting, water and gas pipes, and other necessary articles, six thousand dollars. LIBRARY. For entomological and botanical works of reference, works on chemistry and mineralogy, charts, current agricultural works for library, miscellaneous agricultural periodicals, and the completion of imperfect series, one thousand five hundred dollars. INVESTIGATING DISEASES OF ANIMALS. Investigating diseases of domestic animals: For continuing the investigation of infectious and contagious diseases to which all classes of domestic animals are subject, twenty-five thousand dollars. 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, paper, twine, and gum for foldingroom, and for miscellaneous items, namely, for advertising, telegraphing, dry-goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, and for necessary items, including actual traveling expenses while on the business of the Department, fifteen thousand dollars. FORESTRY. For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner of Agriculture to experiment and to continue an investigation and report upon the subject of forestry, ten thousand dollars. TEA PLANTS. To continue the cultivation and distribution of the tea-plant, three thousand dollars; one thousand of which shall be immediately available. SILK CULTURE. For the encouragement and development of the culture and raising of raw silk, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. SEC 2. That no part of the sums herein or hereafter appropriated for the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to any person, as additional salary or compensation, receiving at the same time other compensation as an officer or employee of the Government; and in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appropriated for the said Department to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, at the commencement of each regular session, present to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures of all appropriations for said Department for the last preceding fiscal year. Approved, June 5, 1884. [PUBLIC-No. 84.] AN ACT making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the India Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, f the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for oth purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, an they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury n otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and co tingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty stip lations with the various Indian tribes, namely: For pay of sixty agents of Indian affairs at the following-name agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely: At the Warm Springs agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Klamath agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; At the Grand Ronde agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Siletz agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Umatilla agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Quinaielt agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Yakama agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Colville agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Nisqually and S'Kokomish agency, at one thousand two hu dred dollars; At the Tulalip agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Round Valley agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars At the Tule River agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Mission agency, at one thousand three hundred dollars; At the Nez Perces agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Fort Peck agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Fort Belknap agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Yankton agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Crow Creek and Lower Brule agency, at one thousand eigl hundred dollars; At the Standing Rock agency, at one thousand seven hundred dollars At the Shoshone agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Ouray, formerly the Los Pinos agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Pueblo agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Navajo agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Mescalero agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Southern Ute agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Omaha and Winnebago agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Santee agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Quapaw agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; and not more than one thousand two hundred dollars of any moneys appropriated by this act shall be expended for clerical labor at this agency; At the Osage agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars; At the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Union agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Green Bay agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Mackinac agency, at one thousand dollars; At the New York agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Colorado River agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; For the Eastern Cherokee Indians, eight hundred dollars; in all, ninety thousand dollars; and all provisions of law fixing compensation for Indian agents in excess of that herein provided are hereby repealed. For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay of five Indian inspectors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, fifteen thousand dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, six thousand dollars. Pay of one Indian school superintendent, three thousand dollars. Necessary traveling and incidental expenses of one Indian school superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars. For buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, thirty-five thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and traveling and incidental expenses of special agents, and for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That special agents shall be allowed three dollars per diem for travel |