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2-10 FORTY-NINTH COSGRESS. Sess. 1. C11. 90::. 1886. Sin ¤¤ P-I =· ¤ d Smrrnmumcr OF oniunxs Fon SWAIIP-LAND AND SWAMP—LAl\’D IN- °“‘"‘"‘· DEMNITY: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swa.mp—lands, and lor indemnity for swamp-lands, twenty rmi-no thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under this and the appropriations for “Depredations on public timber " and “ Protecting public lands/’ while travelling on duty, shall be allowed Por diem o £ per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding two dollars and °¤°““- fifty cents per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. Repro duci-ng Rnrnonucmo rmrs or sunvnvs: To enable the Commissioner of “,°f‘ **,9*1 d°f°°° the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced P ° ° ° °""°y°‘ official plats of surveys on iile, and other plats constituting a part of the records of saiddomee, and also to furnish local land-officers with the same five thousan ollars. Transcripts or For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, and paying therefor, '°°°“’“· five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. lmS5i:vcyof public SUBVEYIKG THE PUBLIC LANDS- Bxpi-nses. For surveying the public lands, fifty thousand dollars, at rates notexceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated, twenty-tive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for the examination of surveys in the deld to test the accuracy of the work and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal-fields, swamp-lands, and timber districts, and for making 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. _ S¤¤·¤ri¤»z pub- For surveying the public lands in the State of Nevada, thirty thoul’°‘““‘15’“N°"°d‘· sand 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,_exeept that the Commissioner of the General Land " Oilice may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through · land 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. _ lfrivnte lan d For survey of confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico, at rates gyms, Mw N°¤· prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. rm-nm _ 1 n n i1 For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the rates °I""f’“· C“M°'”’°· prescribed by law, including offico expenses, two thousand dollars. Cl iggngeouigig :1:1 For _$·e3· of con_tirme{l pnvalliedlzmd-claims in Louisiana, at the rates = · preseri y aw, our thousand dollars. d0Ei{5";u?f,*;5 For care and preservation of abandoned military reservations transferm.,,m,,,s_ · red to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions fof an tact ofLCongr<;s(s approved July ilfth, eighteen hundred and eighty- _ _ our, wo t ousani dollars. w§""‘§,,;’§,‘ For the survey of the alleged grant known as the Hanson grant, in M g * the State of Florida, four hundred dollars, the said sum to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. 1,,;; 2;*,*;: Pnouzotuox AND ILIPIQOVBJIENQP OF THE YBLLOXYSTONE Namoiux. . of {0,,,,, U ,1 Espa: Foghthe gonstriieuond and improvement otglsluitable roads and bridges. ri ges wi in the par ·, un er e supervision an irection of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose, twenty thousand dollars. vgeologienl sui-- Uivrrian srntm GEOLOGICAL SUBVBY. E¤1·¤¤¤¤s- For the United States Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey, and the elassiiiwtion of the public lands, and examination of the P