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986 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 299. 1909. 0,*:g§g;‘°*“¥ P‘°” Rnrrzonuomo rLA*rs or srmvmrsz To enable the Commissioner of ` the General Land Oihce to continue to reproduce worn and defaced oificial plats of surveys on file, and other lats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish locdl land offices with the same, three thousand five hrmdred dollars. s,f‘g:_°" ’*“‘** °° ExnrmA·rroNs or nnsmnr LAN1>s: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensa- ‘”'“‘”""°" °* tion as he ma rescribe, the desert lands selected by the States selections. Y .P . ver. 2s, p. 422- under the rovisions of sectron four of the Act of Congress approved Au st eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand

 dolleilrs: Provided, That if such exammations e made by detailed

clerks or employees of the department, they shall be entitled to · actual necessary expenses for transportation mcluding necessary sleleping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in heu of su sistence. . rem: menu RESTORATION or LANDS IN Former rznsnnvns: To enable the Secre- “'°'°'°"‘ tary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lan in forest reserves, or of lands (tprlnporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, twelve thousand o ars. - Tnnscrivtn of TRANSCRIIZIS OF RECORDS AND PLATS, GENERAL LAND OFFICE: '°°°""‘ For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under p,,,,,;,,._ the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven _ °°¤*P°¤*°“°“· hundred and twenty dollars: Provided, That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, at a compensation of sixty dollars per month each, and shall be entitled to the same leave of absence or leave for sickness with pay as is allowed by law to other employees of the executive departments: Provided R°°°"°°°°’ {agrther, That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall expended in any one month of the year for whic it is available. 0v¤2¤*¤¤i¤¤*¤¤ M- Ornnnm INDIAN RESERVATIONS (REIMBURSABLE): To meet the ervauons to entry. . . . mmm. exppuses of opening to entry and settlement ceded lands with1n 11;»~·;g{>`;memcM' In an reservations, twenty-five thousand dollars, orso much thereof as ° may be necessary: Promkled, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and pai for out of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United tates from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively. S¤·»·v<>vi¤s· svrzvnrrnc rum PUBLIC LAr1r>s. “**'°’· For surveys and resurveys of 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 ,’j;§}K,$;ce_ five dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending this appro- 7 _ priation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying town- -l·{f}jEj’,;’,§,,{"§,,,m_ ships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved Jluly third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and), second, to surveying under such other Acts asiprovide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except r oad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other p oses which may have been sold or included in some reservation orklglierwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reser- _ mem mes, hams- vaticns, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may °mb"°°’ °°°" l°"d“‘ allow for the survey and resurvcy of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covere with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines,