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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 113. 1918. 669 not exceed $250 per month each, and such per diem in lieu of sub- $yid:}8¤m=¤y¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ sistence, not exceeding $3.50, when allowed pursuant to section ’P` ` thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August Hist, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary ex enses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, saidp per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereimder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurve , or examinations of surveys ResurveYs,etc. heretofore made and reported to li: defective or fraudulent, and insylsglqting) mineral deposits, coal Helds, and timber districts, and for ma g, y such competent surveyors, fraigientary siuveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may required for 1dentiH- cation of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in _ behalf of the United States: Provided further, That the sum of not mgm ”°°t‘°” °°" exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereb1$;8;p1p5•£r·iated may be expen ed by the Commissioner of the General ce, with the approval of the Secretaiiy of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durab e monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable: Promkled further, That not w,§§';Q_§m¤P °m°° to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the ` arrears of office work in surveyors genera1’s offices upon returns of surveys Hled therein prior to the passage of this Act:‘ Provided m,FgQ°¤¤G Pl°Y°°lf·A'£1‘ furtiwr, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be om. expended for salaries of employees of the Held surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Ofhce. A andoned reservations: For necessary expenses of sruvey, wg_¤¤¤¤*¤·* fmmappraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred v¤i.zs,p.m. to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the (provisions of an Act of Congress approved uly fifth, eighteen hundre and eighty- four, and any aw prior thereto, including a custoilian of the of °“°G”"°°‘ Casa Grande, $5,000. rmrrma s·ra·rns enonoeroar. snnvmr. °°°1°"°“1 S“"°" Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing ,,,§““"°“· D"°°t°’* clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; phot er, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; cler ne of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, fom- at $900 each: four copyists, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $31,020; www mmm Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers——one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900; General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident $j‘,,f',§}‘§,‘{°““‘· to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, includin1g(p;1r·sonal services in the District of Columbia and in the Held inc u g not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and_not to exceed $15,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation, of motorpropelled and horse—drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for Held use onli by geologists, topographers, and engineers to be expended under e regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following eads: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, Sumd l‘°°'°”’ °”' $15,080; _ For topogaphic surveys in various portions of the United States, $$.}°,°i,‘TY°h‘°s'"v°’°` $142,196: romkied, That in expendinfg this sum preference shall be m?_’;'°'°°°° *° ”'“’ ggven special tcépographic surveys o areas selected by the War epartment an in securing such extra topographic ata as are reqruested by_ the War Department in these or other areas; $34_?167g§<§8g1c siuveys in the various portions of the United States, °°°‘°‘*“"'"”‘ I !