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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 299. 1909. 987 eleven dollars for township and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurvegscmay be allowed by the said commissioner, with the approval of the retary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for townshgr, and twelve dollars for section lines: Provided §1.rther, That e,;·°°°°*° °*“*°mi°· in the tates of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, evada, Ore- ' gpu, Utah, Washinmzon, and Wyorrring, the Territories of Arizona and ew Mexico, and the district of Alaska there may be aHowed, in the discretion of the Secrcfzréy of the Interior, for the surve and resurvey of lands heavily tirnbe , mountainous, or covered with dense rmdergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for. standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township and twenty dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twenty-four R. S..¤¤c. 2411.r>· 441. hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above—named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be ex nded resurvey., ear such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Landp°Oflice may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, where Waima compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in 'eu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in Held examinations, as he may rescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make iield examinations, m order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to revent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by dg uty surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting t1¤¤r>¤¤éi¤s mineral. mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by ° °" °” s` · such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required or identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding irrbehalf of the United States: Provided further, That the sum of not exceeding tijflfjgjgw *0***- twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may ` be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, wit the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal monuments to be used or public-land survey corners wherever practicable. bn d _1 For necessary expenses of survey, a praisal, and sale of abandoned uf} ,,§‘,..,§'§‘,f§,,,,'§{‘ " military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved v<>¤.¤·z.p.rm¢. July fifth, eighteen hundred and eiglrty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, four thousand dollars. To enable the United States surveyongeneral of Utah to execute g<>¤¤¤j¤gi¤i‘i§h· and complete the office work necessary to the surveys of public lands way", ° °g° 1°° in Garfield, Iron, Kane, San Juan, and Washington counties, in the State of Utah, authorized by the Act of Congress approved May """·’·““· twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinished Dgirgswrad In drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of ,#,_°in ` Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana, caused by the discontin- ,¤g°Q‘,§°"“g d'““· nance of the offices of the surveyors-general in those States, six thou- ` sand five hundred dollars. ·