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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 187-MAY 9, 1938 Transcribing re Transcribing records: For special personal services in the District ords of Columbia to transcribe worn and defaced records of the General Land Office, $10,000. Binding records. Binding records: For personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase and maintenance of equipment, and all other expenses requi- site for and incidental to the establishment, operation, and main- tenance of a branch of the Government Printing Office in the Interior Building, to bind, rebind, and repair books of record in the General Land Office, to be expended under the supervision of the Public Printer, $10,000. General expenses. GENERAL EXPENSES Traveling expenses, For traveling expenses of officers and employees, including employ- ment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska; for the reproduc- tion by photolithography or otherwise of official plats of surveys; topublpic domains for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve pur- Hearings. poses; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings 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 Disbarment pro- made in compliance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $15,000. Maps. For United States maps, prepared in the General Land Office, Deliveryprovisions. $10,000, to be immediately available, all of which maps shall be deliv- ered 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. Public lands. Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber dis- tricts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or exami- nations 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, $1,000,000, including Vehicles. not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and main- Peporarily de- tenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, tailed employees. That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily Oregon and Cali- detailed to the General Land Office: Provided further, That not to fornia Railroad and oos Bay Wagonn exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, Road lands. classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: heSrveys chargeable Provided further, That this appropriation may be expended for sur- veys made under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Other surveys, re- Land 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. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, $76,000. Contingent expen- Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other 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 for traveling expenses of 296 [52 STAT.