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72d CONG RESS . SESS. I. CH. 125 . APR IL 22, 1932 . GENERAL EXPENSES 93 General expenses . Fo r travel ing expe nses of o fficers and empl oyees, i ncluding employ- maps, Trave ling exp enses, ment of stenographers and other ass ista nts when necessary ; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared by the General Land Office ; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise official plats of surveys ; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands Restoring lands in in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest- national forests, etc . reserve purposes ; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings Heari ngs, etc . 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 com - )liance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, S28,000 . Surveying public lands : For surveys and resurveys of public lands, surveying. examination of surveys heretofore made and reported 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 pur- poses 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, $500,000, includ ing not to excee d $7,000 for the purchase , exchan ge, oper ation, vehicles . and maintenance of motor-propelled passe nger-carrying vehicles : Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be D od Said em- expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service ployees . temporarily detailed to the General Land Office : Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation may be used for Oregon and Califor- nia the survey, classification, and sale ofpthe lands and timber of the Bay Ro'aa lands . Coos so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands : Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 la Oil and oil sh ale of this appropriation may be used for surveys and resurveys, under the rectangular system provided by law, of public lands deemed to be valuable for oil and oil shale : Provided further, That no part of Not available for sur. this appropriation shall be available for surveys or resurveys of ing money therefor . n~ public lands in any State which, under the Act of August 18, 1894 vol .2s,p.394 . (U. S . C., title 43, sec. 863), advances money to the United States u .S.C.,p.13M. for such purposes for expenditure during the fiscal year 1933 : Pro- vided further, That this appropriation may be expended for surveys tit Ee psnditures f r om made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land bursable . Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appro- priation, fund, or special deposit . Registers : For salaries and commissions of registers of district Registers. land offices, $80,000. Contingent expenses of land offices : For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses. incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money ; traveling expenses of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices and in the opening of new land off ices and reserva tions, a nd for t raveling expenses of cler ks trans - ferred in the interest of the public service from one district land office to another, $175,000 :_,Provided, That no expenses chargeable to Jr r eov Gus antboriza- the Governm ent shal l be inc urred by register s in the conduct of loca l tion regnired . land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Com- missioner of the General Land Office . I