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THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1853. 205 For the survey of township and section lines in W'isconsin, at a rate not exceeding nve dollars per mile, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the survey of standard, correction, township, and section lines in Minnesota., in conformity with the instructions recently issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for similar surveys in Oregon, at u. rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, forty-five thousand dollars; For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, including office work, two thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of surveyors and other agents required in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Arkansas, to carry into effect the act of twenty- eighth of September, eighteen hundred and nity, granting swamp lands, fourteen thousand dollars ; For detached and um’inished surveys, and resurveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars; For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Arkansas, at a. rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, six thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars; For surveying in Louisiana at augmented rates, including salary and expenses of surveyor, to locate private land claims, nine thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars ; For the survey of private land claims in Florida, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work now under contract, ten thousand dollars; For completing certain surveys in Florida, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the peculiar difliculties attending the execution of the same, on account of swamps, lakes, marshes, &c., and for scrap work, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, twenty thousand dollars; For surveying standard, parallel, township, and section lines in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, nearly equal to six thousand four hundred miles, seventy-six thousand four hundred dollars; For extending the principal meridian line in Oregon, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, four thousand dollars; For rent of Surveyor-General’s office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, &c., two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; To defray the expenses incurred of a geological reconnoissance in Oregon, undertaken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- one, under instructions from the Department of the Interior, and intrusted to Doctor J. Evans, eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty- four dollars and twenty-Eve cents; For completing the geological reconnoissance in Oregon, five thousand dollars; For rentof Surveyor-General’s office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, &;c., eleven thousand four hundred dollars; For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, under act of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, 1862,<>h·108· thirty thousand dollars; For surveying standard lines in California, meandering and surveying irregular and river lots, dce., amounting to two thousand miles, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile, thirty thousand dollars; For subdividing into townships, equal to one thousand two hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, in California, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars;