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FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. (111.3:2. 1884. 2]]. SURKEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. Survey of public lands. For surveying the public lands, three hundred und fifty thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding uiuc dollars per linear mile for standard and meander miles, seven dollars ior 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 under-growth, 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 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-fields, and timber districts, aud·for the making of such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. For such resurveys of the public lands as, in the discretion of the Besurveys. Commissioner of the General Land Ofhce, may be considered necessary, ten thousand dollars. For establishing initial monuments of 2. permanent character to gov- _ M°¤§¤1¤¢¤*¤»°*°·» em mineral survey, in order to secure accuracy in survey of mineral fg ';"“°'“1 “‘:'° claims, and to connect the monuments with each other and with the Y ' public lands, five thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of unconfirmed pri- Preliminary mixvate land claims in Arizona, at a. rate not exceeding eleven dollars per v¤y¤» ¤¤<=·» i¤ Afiliuear mile, and otiiee expenses, eight thousand dollars. ‘°““· For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of uuconiirmed pn- New Mexico. vate lsmd·claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the rate Ifrivat e land prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, °l*¤m¤» C¤·hf°¥¤¤¤· five thousand dollars. ‘ For survey of private landelaims in Louisiana, at the rates prescribed Louisiana. by law, five thousand dollars. For purchase of iron monuments, cost of transportation to the offices Imn monuments, of surveyors·generaI, and storage, to mark the lines of public surveys °*<=· passing over public lands devoid of timber and stone, five thousand dollars: Pro/vided, That all appropriations herein under public lands P'°°*••>- shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National _Y•¤U¤W¤¢<>¤¤ N¤- Park: For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, pres- "°“"‘1 P‘“k· ervation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, includ- · ing compensation of superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollnrs, two thousand dollars of said amount to be paid annually to a superintendent of said park, and not exceeding uiue hundred dollars annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and reside continuously in the park, and whose duty it shall be to protect the game, timber, and objects of interest therein; the balance of the sum appropriated to be expended in the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision and direction of mi engineer 06cer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose.