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SE VEN TY-F IRS T CONGRESS . SEss. II. Cs. 273. 1930 . Public lands . GENERAL EXPENSES Traveling expenses, Fo r trav eling expens es of office rs and employ ees, i ncludi ng maps,e Lc,

emplo yment of ste nographers an d other assis tants when ne cessary ; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged hom estead Acts, prepared b t he General La nd Office ; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official Restoring lan ds in plats of surveys ; for expenses of restoration to the public domain national forests, etc . of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for Hearin gs, etc . forest-reserve purposes ; and for expenses of hearings or other pro- ceedings held by order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of Prov iso

hearings in disbarment proceedings, $$23,000 : Provided, That where Deposition fees . depositions are taken for use in schearings the fees of the officer tak ing them shal l be 25 cents per folio for taking and certifying sam e and 5 cents per folio fo r each copy furnished to a party on request. Dist ribut ion, Office maps.

For United States maps, prepared in the General Land Office, . $50, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes . All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use . surveying .

Surveying public lands : For survey s and resurv eys of publi c Ante, p .281 . lands, examination of surveys he retofore mad e and reporte d to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and 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, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, section corner monu - $700000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 may be expended me nu, by the ommissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners Det a D et aiile d fiel d em- wherever p racticable : Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this plo yees .

appropriation may be expended or salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office nfa Ore gon Ra ilro ad and and Coo s s Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation Bay Road lands .

may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-ca lled Oregon a nd Californi a Railroad la nds and lanIIdds and o il shale the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands : Provided further, That not to' exceed $50,000 of t his appropria tion may be used for surv eys and resurveys, under the rectangular system provided by law, of public lands deemed to be valuable for oil and oil shale : Provided further, vet's Not is St ates available for ad va ano-- That no part of this appropriation shall be available for surveys ing money ther efor . or resurveys of public lands in any State which, under the Act of u sd. 28 1 .1388 .

August 18, 1894 (U . S . C ., title 43, sec. 863), advances money to the United States for such purposes for expenditure during the fiscal Application to other surve ys, r eimbu rsabl e . ye ar 193 1 : Provided furt her, That thi s ap prop riat ion may be expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commis- sioner of the General Land Office, but when exp ended for sur veys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit . R egist ers .

Registers : For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, at not exceeding $3,600 per annum each, $88,000 . Contingent p. 2 S1 .expenses. Contingent expenses of land offices : For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the