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FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 143. 1883. 623 For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public E_¤p¢¤¤¢¤ of delands, ten thousand dollars. ggslting m°“°Y» To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy- _P¤‘<>l=¤¤*i<>¤ of five thousand dollars; and the same, or any part thereof, may be used t““b°"·"t°· in paying agents employed a fixed sum per day, not to exceed three dollars, in lieu of actual daily expenses, as now provided by law. For expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp Agents, etc., for lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen thousand dollars. gig-ES f°¤` ¤W¤mP SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. I agggvcyof public For surveying the public lands, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines; or where, for any cause not provided for by law, in Oregon, or Washington Territory, he is unable to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he may allow a sum, not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated sixty thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available shall be expended for surveys in the Territory of Dakota; and a further amount, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof, may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal-iields, and timber districts, and for the making of such other surveys or examination as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence iu any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States; and a further amount, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in retracing and resurveying imperfect surveys in the State of Kansas. ‘ _ For survey of connrmed private landelaims in California, at the rates California. prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, . ten thousand dollars. . · For survey of confirmed and private land-claims in New Mexico, at a New Mexico. rate not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses A eight thousand dollars. ‘ For survey of confirmed private land-claims in Arizona, at a rate Arizona. not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and omce expenses eight thousand dollars. For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry Illegal and or appropriation one hundred thousand dollars of which sum nity *¤*¤d¤1°¤'* °¤*¤'Y» thousand dollars shall be immediately available. °t°‘ To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue Worn and deto reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and f¤<=°d 1*]**** °f ¤¤F· officr plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to "°Y“·°°"‘ furnish local land officers with the same, twenty thousand dollars. INDIAN AFFAIRS. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend a _Wi¤¤¤b9g¤ Insum, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, out of the no- *3:::; W‘°°°""”· cumulatcd fund in the Treasury belonging to the Winnebago tribes in ~ Wisconsin, for the purpose of completing the census provided for in the act approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- 21 S*“*·•316· one. ‘