and make report thereon to Congress." The provision for the fiscal year 1914 was by Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 851. Provisions for the printing and distribution of the reports of the Secretary of Agriculture and of the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Animal Industry were made by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, pars. 2-4, post, §§ 7054-7056. Special provisions for the printing and distribution of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils, of the Department of Agriculture, were made by Res. Feb. 23, 1901, No. 8, as amended by Res. March 14, 1904, No. 9, post, § 7096. Provisions applicable to all the Departments, relating to the time of making annual reports, and the time of furnishing copies thereof to the printer were made by R. S. §§ 195, 196, ante, §§ 278, 279. General provisions for the submission by the heads of Departments to Congress of estimates of expenditures and appropriations are contained in Title XLI, "Appropriations." § 836. (R. S. § 529.) Annual report of expenditures. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys expended by him or under his direction. Act March 2, 1867, c. 166, § 1, 14 Stat. 440, 452. The Secretary of Agriculture was authorized and directed to perform all the duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture named in acts of Congress in force Feb. 8, 1889, by a provision of Act July 14, 1890, c. 707, ante, § 819. A detailed statement to Congress at each session of the expenditure of all appropriations for the Department for the preceding fiscal year was required by a provision of Act March 3, 1885, c. 338, § 2, post, § 837. Provisions requiring the Secretary to submit to Congress each year classified and detailed reports of receipts and expenditures by the Forest Service, and classified and detailed estimates and reports of every subject of expenditure by the Department, and statements showing all appointments, promotions, or other changes made in the salaries paid from lump funds, contained in Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1270, 1280, 1282, were repealed by Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1264. The Commissioner was to direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated to the Department, and render accounts thereof, by R. S. § 3677, which may be regarded as superseded by the organization of the Department as, an Executive Department, and the provisions of Act March 3, 1885, c. 338, § 2, post, § 837. Rev. St. § 3709, which required advertisements for proposals for supplies, etc., in any of the Departments, was not to apply in the Department of Agriculture when the amount involved did not exceed $50, by a provision of Act March 1, 1899, c. 325, post, § 6834. § 837. (Act March 3, 1885, c. 338, § 2.) Additional detailed statement of expenditure of appropriations. 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 expenditure of all appropriations for said Department for the last preceding fiscal year. (23 Stat. 356.) This provision was a part of section 2 of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1886, cited above. The preceding portion of the section is set forth ante, § 798. The Department of Agriculture, referred to in this provision by the words "said Department," was made an executive department, under a Secretary of Agriculture, by Act Feb. 9, 1889, c. 122, ante, §§ 789-792, and the Secretary was authorized and directed to perform all the duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture named in acts of Congress previously in force, by a provision of Act July 14, 1890, c. 707, ante, § 819. The vouchers and accounts referred to in this provision, to be furnished to the accounting officers of the Treasury, were required by Act June 16, 1880, c. 252, § 2, 21 Stat. 296, which directed the Commissioner of Agriculture to account and report to such officers of the Treasury in the same manner as the heads of the executive departments. And the requirements relating to those departments were made applicable to the Department of Agriculture by the act making it an executive department, under a Secretary of Agriculture, Act Feb. 9, 1889, c. 122, ante, §§ 789-792. Provisions applicable to all the departments, forbidding additional compensation to clerks, were made by R. S. § 170, ante, § 253. Subsequent provisions similar to those of this section, in requiring the Secretary to submit to Congress classified and detailed estimates and reports of every subject of expenditure by the Department, were contained in Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1282, but were repealed, with other provisions of that act, by Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1264. § 838. (Act May 29, 1884, c. 60, § 11.) Report of persons employed, expenditures, and means adopted for suppression of contagious, etc., diseases among domestic animals. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall report annually to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a list of the names of all persons employed, an itemized statement of all expenditures under this act, and full particulars of the means adopted and carried into effect for the suppression of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases among domestic animals. (23 Stat. 33.) This section was part of the Animal Industry Act, cited above, section 1 of which is set forth under chapter C of this Title, post, § 850, and other sections post, §§ 8690-8697. See note to preceding section, as to the performance by the Secretary of Agriculture of the former duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture. § 839. (Act May 23, 1908, c. 192.) Report of payments for compensation or expenses to officers of any State, etc., in carrying into effect provisions of Pure Food and Drugs Act. For all expenses necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for other purposes," including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; employing such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named ** Provided, That hereafter any sum used for compensation of or payment of expenses to any officer or other person employed by any State, county, or municipal government, shall be reported to Congress in detail, on the first Monday of December of each year. (35 Stat. 261.) This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the Bureau of Chemistry in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1909, cited above. The portion of this section omitted here stated the amount of the appropriation for the particular fiscal year. Act June 30, 1906, c. 3915, mentioned in this provision, was the Pure Food and Drugs Act, set forth post, §§ 8717-8728. Sec. CHAPTER B The Weather Bureau The Weather Service, the duties of which, previous to July 1, 1891, were performed by the Signal Corps of the Army, was transferred to the Weather Bureau established in the Department of Agriculture by Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, 26 Stat. 653. This chapter includes the provisions of that act and subsequent acts relating to the Bureau so established. 840. Establishment of the Bureau. 843. Promotions in the service. 845. Traveling expenses of officers and Sec. 846. Making of appropriations and estimates for Bureau; development of Bureau in interests of agriculture. 847. Weather signals on mail cars, etc. 848. Sale of surplus maps or publications. 849. Destruction of old telegrams in Bureau. § 840. (Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, § 1.) ⚫reau. Establishment of the Bu The civilian duties now performed by the Signal Corps of the Army shall hereafter devolve upon a bureau to be known as the Weather Bureau, which, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be established in and attached to the Department of Agriculture, and the Signal Corps of the Army shall remain a part of the Military Establishment under the direction of the Secretary of War, and all estimates for its support shall be included with other estimates for the support of the Military Establishment. (26 Stat. 653.) This act was entitled "An act to increase the efficiency and reduce the expenses of the Signal Corps of the Army, and to transfer the Weather Service to the Department of Agriculture." This section and sections 3, 4, and 9 of the act, post, §§ 841, 842, 846, contain the provisions of the act of a permanent nature relating to the Bureau. Sections 5 and 10 of the act contained provisions for the transfer of part of the enlisted force and the civilian employés of the Signal Corps to the Weather Bureau, and for the division of property, moneys, etc., pertaining to the Signal Corps, between it and the Weather Bureau, which were temporary only, and are omitted. Other provisions of the act, relating to the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps as part of the Military Establishment, are set forth or referred to post, under Title XIV, "The Army," c. 1, § 1867. § 841. (Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, § 3.) Duties of Chief of Bureau. The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rain-fall conditions for the cotton interests, the display of frost and cold-wave signals, the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties. (26 Stat. 653.) See note to section 1 of this act, ante, § 840. The Bureau is to be specially developed and extended in the interests of agriculture, by a provision of section 9 of this act, post, § 846. Annual appropriations for the Signal Service under the War Department contained provisos that "the work of no other department, bureau, or commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this bureau," Act Aug. 7, 1882, c. 433, 22 Stat. 318, Act July 7, 1884, c. 332, 23 Stat. 217, Act March 3, 1885, c. 360, 23 Stat. 505, which may be regarded as superseded by this section and section 2 of this act, post, § 1867. Provisions for the printing and distribution of the reports of the Secretary of Agriculture and of the Weather Bureau were made by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, pars. 2, 4, post, §§ 7054, 7056. § 842. (Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, § 4, as amended, Res. July 8, 1898, No. 57.) Appointment and compensation of Chief of Bureau; employés to be provided for annually. The Weather Bureau shall hereafter consist of one Chief of Weather Bureau and such civilian employees as Congress may'annually provide for and as may be necessary to properly perform the duties devolving on said bureau by law, and the chief of said bureau shall receive an annual compensation of [four thousand five hundred dollars], and be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (26 Stat. 653.) See note to section 1 of this act, ante, § 840. The words of this section inclosed in brackets, "four thousand five hundred dollars," stating the amount of the compensation of the Chief of the Bureau, were superseded by appropriations of an increased salary in subsequent years, amounting in recent years to $6,000, and by the provision, accompanying an appropriation of that amount for his salary for the fiscal year 1914, that every officer or employé of the Department whose compensation was specified therein should thereafter receive compensation at the rate so specified, post, § 802. Said appropriation for the year 1914, also provided for an Assistant Chief of Bureau, $3,250, and for numerous other officers, clerks, and employés, at specified rates of compensation, to which they are entitled thereafter by said further provision of that Act, Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 829, 854. This section, as originally enacted, also contained a proviso, annexed to the provisions set forth here, "that the Chief Signal Officer may, in the discretion of the President, be detailed to take charge of said bureau, and in like manner other officers of the Army, not exceeding four, expert in the duties of the weather service, may be assigned to duty with the Weather Bureau, and while so serving shall receive the pay and allowances to which they are entitled by law." But "the laws authorizing the detail and assignment of the officers of the Army to duty in the Weather Bureau" were expressly repealed, by a proviso annexed to Res. July 8, 1898, No. 57, 30 Stat. 752. The Secretary of Agriculture was authorized to make promotions in the service, and to make changes or assignment to duty in the force of the Bureau, by provisions of Act Aug. 8, 1894, c. 238, and Act March 2, 1895, c. 169, set forth post, §§ 843, 844. Provisions for leaves of absence to employés of the Bureau, outside of the city of Washington, contained in the annual agricultural appropriation acts for several preceding years, were superseded by the provisions for such leaves to employés of the Department, outside said city, contained in Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, set forth ante, § 829. § 843. (Act Aug. 8, 1894, c. 238.) Promotions in the service. Expenses of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, * and the Secretary is hereby authorized to make promotions in the service without prejudice to those transferred from the Signal Service of the War Department. (28) Stat. 273.) This was a provision accompanying an appropriation under the heading "General Expenses, Weather Bureau," in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above. Provisions in the same language were contained in the similar acts for the two years preceding this act. . Changes or assignment to duty § 844. (Act March 2, 1895, c. 169.) in force of Bureau. Salaries of the Weather Bureau: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of the Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, transferring the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture; ** and the Secretary is hereby authorized to make such changes or assignment to duty in the personnel or detailed force of the Weather Bureau for limiting or reducing expenses as he may deem necessary. (28 Stat. 736.) This was a provision accompanying an appropriation for salaries of the Bureau in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. Provisions to the same effect were contained in the similar acts for several years preceding this act. The laws authorizing the detail of officers of the Army to the Bureau were repealed by Res. July 8, 1898, No. 57, 30 Stat. 752. § 845. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 145.) Traveling expenses of officers and employés transferred from one station to another. Hereafter officials and employees of the Weather Bureau, when transferred from one station to another for official duty, shall be allowed all traveling expenses authorized by existing laws applicable to said bureau, notwithstanding any changes in appointments that may be required by such transfers. (37 Stat. 830.) This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the Bureau in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above. § 846. (Act Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1266, § 9.) Making of appropriations and estimates for Bureau; development of Bureau in interests of agriculture. On and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the appropriations for the support of the Signal Corps of the Army shall be made with those of other staff corps of the Army, and the appropriations for the support of the Weather Bureau shall be made. with those of the other bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare future estimates for the Weather Bureau which shall be hereafter specially developed and extended in the interests of agriculture. (26 Stat. 653.) See note to section 1 of this act, ante, § 840. This section and the preceding sections of this act may be regarded as super |