An Act Organizing the Bureau of Agriculture and Making Certain Appropriations to Meet the Expenses of the Bureau

April 30, 1902

ACT NO. 393

AN ACT ORGANIZING THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE AND MAKING CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS TO MEET THE EXPENSES OF THE BUREAU

SECTION 1. The following officers and employees of the Bureau of Agriculture are hereby authorized: A Chief of Bureau, at four thousand dollars per year, from December first, nineteen hundred and one; one expert in animal industry, at two thousand five hundred dollars per year; one chief clerk, at two thousand dollars per year, who shall also act as disbursing clerk without additional compensation, from February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two; one botanist and assistant agrostologist, at two thousand dollars per year, from February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two; one soil expert, at two thousand dollars per year; one superintendent of the San Ramon Farm, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per year; one expert tropical agriculturist, at one thousand four hundred dollars per year, from February first, nineteen hundred and two; one expert in plant culture and breeding, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year, from February first, nineteen hundred two; one stenographer and typewriter, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year, from February first, nineteen hundred and two; one expert in farm machinery and farm management, at one thousand dollars per year, from February first, nineteen hundred and two; one translator, at one thousand dollars per year; one clerk, of Class C; one messenger, at one hundred and eighty dollars per year; one janitor, at ninety dollars per year; all in money of the United States.

SECTION 2. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the purposes named, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated:

(a) Salaries for the Bureau of Agriculture for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-eight cents.

(b) For wages of temporary clerical and technical employees, special agents, skilled and unskilled laborers, for the quarter ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, three thousand two hundred dollars.

(c) For contingent expenses, including the collecting or purchasing of seeds, roots, bulbs, and plants for distribution or experimental purposes; photographs and illustrations for reports; for printing of bulletins and other publications; for the erection of the necessary buildings upon the experimental stations and farms; for the purchase of necessary working animals, harnesses, wagons, farm machinery, and tools; for the employment of laborers on experimental stations and farms; for office furniture and supplies, scientific instruments, books, and periodicals; for repairs, transportation, freight, and express charges, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

All funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed in local currency on the basis of two dollars and twenty-seven cents in local currency for one dollar in money of the United States.

SECTION 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, April 30, 1902.