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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 143, 175. 1868. 91 eight dollars and seventeen cents; Paschall Morris, twenty dollars; A. Y¤Y'¤°¤I* °f S. Yorke, sixty-five dollars and twenty cents ; Stevens and Brother 3,*2*})*; af:;:,;;, (London magazine), eighty dollars; James Sheehy, six dollars and fifty of Agrijeulturet cents; R. O. Thompson, eighty dollars; W. C. Lodge, thirty-tive dollars; James S. Lippencott, four hundred and twent.y·eight dollars ; J. F. `Walfinger, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; Samuel Ringwalt, one hundred and four dollars ; NVilliam H. Gardner, twenty dollars; G. Hubert Bates, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; William W. Bates, two hundred and four dollars; H. D. Dunn, two hundred and thirty-two dollars ; X. A. Willard, one hundred and ninety-two dollars ; N. B. Cloud, twenty-eight dollars; S. F. Baird, twenty dollars; I-I. F. French, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; C. W. Howard, sixty- seven. dollars and Htty cents; John White, fifteen dollars and fifty-six cents; Henry A. Dreer, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy- five cents; Israel S. Diehl, nine hundred dollars; and to allow so much of the same as shall appear upon due proof under oath to be due and unpaid for goods delivered and services rendered to the Department of Agriculture upon contracts made by the commissioner- prior to the iirst day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, [and] for the payment of the same, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise uppropriatcd. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any commissioner or other H P°“£g°3; “Il’Q:° officer of the Department of Agriculture shall hereafter, in the name of ;ig,;m,:,n(i; of the United States, or in the name of said department, contract for any Agriqulwre crmgoods or services for the use thereof beyond the amount of money appro- grgfgénpigfvices priated and remaining in his or their hands unexpended at the time of beyond approsuch contract, the officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of 2. misde- P“m°¤· &°· mcanor in office, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Arr-novma, July 13, 1868. CHAP. CLXXV.—An Act Lo create the Ofce of Surveyor- General in the Territory of July 16, 1868. [/Yah, and establish a Land Ojce in said Territory, and mend the Homestead and Pro- emption Laws over the same. Poet, p. 234. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ¢y” America in Congress assembled, That the President, by and Surveyopgeuwith the advice [and consent] of the Senate, shall be, and he is hereby, 91."g¥Q;l_;It:; authorized to appoint a surveyowgencral for the Territory of Utah, whose thoyizur annual salary shall be three thousand dollars, and whose power, authority, and duties shall be the same as those provided by law for the surveyor- S=tl¤.ry,p0wer, general of Oregon. He shall have proper allowances for clerk hire, office ““d ‘m°‘"“°°S‘ rent, and fuel, not exceeding what is now allowed by law to the surveyorgeneral of Oregon. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That the public lands of the United Utah land dis— States within said Territory of Utah, shall constitute a new land district, *¤’i°*¤°¤S***¤*°d· to be called the Utah district ; and the President is hereby authorized to Register and appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and €§‘;?;V°;;;’:g receiver of public money for said district, who shall be required to reside P ` at the places at which said offices shall be located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in other Territories. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior is h Lurtgisdiccu, hereby authorized to locate said offices of surveyor-general and register c;‘;d_ ° °` and receiver of public moneys at some suitable place or places m said Territory.