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WE learn that the Weather Service of the United States hitherto under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, is to be transferred to the Agricultural Department after July 1, 1891. A chief will be appointed at a salary of 4500 dollars a year. The present Signal Corps will be discharged from the army, and will thereafter serve as civilians.

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