FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. -111. 1889. 959 Exrnxsms or HEARINGS IN LAND Emsrns; For ex enses of hear- umm gmane - inigs held by order of the General Land Office, to deteidmine whether mei an al eged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SXVAMP-LAND AND SWAMP-LAND IN- swampmu calms. DEMNITY: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands. and for indemnity for swamp-lands, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under 1>m¤·uo. this and the appropriations for " depredation on public timber" and P°"‘“°'“ ‘°"‘¤°““`*-
- ‘ protecting pu Jlic lands," while traveling on duty, shall beallowed
per diem, in ieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. REPRODUCING PLATs OF SURVEYS: To enable the Commissioner nepmucing wom of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced *"““· °“°· official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ TRANSCRIPTS or Rncoans AND PLATS: For furnishing transcripts T=;¤S¤¤¤v¢¤ from of records and plats. and paying therefor, twelve thousand Eve hun- mw ' dred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. ' SURVEYING mn Pusmc LANDS. L,.E$j§"°’ °‘ *’“‘°“° For surveys and resurveys of public lands, including ten thousand E¤l>¤¤¤°¤· _ dollars for surveys of lands opened to settlement in the Territory of · Montana under the act approved May first. eighteen hundred and Cg;,‘g"“i,_'f§&“°“ mth eighty-eight. and including five thousand dollars or so much thereof ' as may be necessary, for the survey of the west boundary line of the White Mountains or San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona, two hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for townshi . and five dollars for section lines: Brovidecl. That in expending this appropriation preference shall be Pr¤·~¤‘s<¤. _ given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part. m1;'§’§1°{§`§§°"°°`°t°1°° by actual settlers; and the surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations: Provided further, hat the ommissioner of the General Land Office may allow. for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous. or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines. eleven dollars for townshilp, and seven dollars for section lines, or if in cases of exceptions. difliculties ln the surveys, the work can not be contracted for at these rates. compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear n1i e for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township. and twelve dollars for section lines. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding uesumys, em. twenty thousand dollars may be expende for the examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of work in the field, and to dprevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by eputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent; and ins ting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for malfihg 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 Unitec States._ _ _ _ For survev of oonlipmed private land claims in New Mexico. at ggggggwwm rates prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. _ _ FOI' care and preservation of abandoned military reservations trans- m;”,§_¥*§g”¤‘;f‘ ’““”"’ ferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the (pro- Visions of an not of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen him ed V°‘·”~P~’°°· md eighty-four, two thousand ollars.
