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 THIRTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Ssss. II. Ch. 145. 1853. 245 tore a judge of a United States Court, or other competent officer, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and give bond in the same amount as other Sur- B<>¤<i· veyors-General, the penalty thereof to be increased whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall deem proper. He shall be entitled to receive a Semi'- salary at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarter-yearly, to commence from the time of entering into bond. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed for His clerksclerk hire in the office of the Surveyor—General the sum of eleven thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provi- ?¤>vis¤· ded, That the salary of no clerk shall exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum ; and for office rent, fuel, and other incidental expenses of his office, such sums as shall be found necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause an olii- His 06**%] msicial seal to be prepared for the office of the said Surveyor-General ; and any copy of or extracts from the plats, iield notes, and other records and _Hi¤ ******69 documents on file in his office, when attested as such, by the said seal, ggg£mad° °v*` and the signature of the Surveyor-General, shall, in all judicial matters, have the same force and effect as the originals. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Surveyor-General His power und shall have the same power and authority, and perform the same duties d“°‘°s‘ respecting the public lands and private claims in the State of California, as by law appertain to and are required of the Sur·veyor—General in Louisiana, except so far as the same may be modified by this act. He shall engage a sufficient number of skilful surveyors as his deputies, whom he shall cause to survey, measure, and mark base and meridian lines through such points, and perpetuated by such monuments, and such other correction parallels and meridians as may be prescribed, and also to survey and establish the other lines of the public lands. He shall also cause all private claims to be surveyed after they have been con- Deputiesiirmed, so far as may be necessary to complete the surveys of the public lands; and in the location and survey of them he shall have the same power and authority as are conferred on the land officers of Louisiana by the sixth section of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-·0ne, 1881, ch. 116. creating the office of the Surveyor-General for that State; and for surveying the base and meridian lines, and private claims, and meandering navigable waters, the deputy surveyor shall be allowed not exceeding Pay per mile sixteen dollars per mile; and for surveying the other lines of the public °f S"·"°Y· lands there shall be paid not exceeding an average of twelve dollars per mile: Provided, That none other than township lines shall be surveyed Pr<>vis<>· when the lands are mineral or are deemed unfit for cultivation ; and no allowance shall be made for such lines as are not actually run and marked in the field, and were actually necessary to be run. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if, in the opinion of the Geodetic me- Secretary of the Interior it shall be advisable, he is hereby authorized g;,‘;dw"3“Y bs to direct such surveys after what is known as the geodetic method. And P ` whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, a departure R<=¢t¤¤z}1i¤¤‘ from the rectangular mode of surveying and subdividing the public lands would promote the public interests, he may direct such change to bemade from. in the mode of surveying and designating the said lands as he may deem proper, with reference to the existence of mountains, mineral deposits, and the advantages derived from timber and water privileges: Provided, Proviso. That such lands shall not be surveyed into less than one hundred and sixty acres, or subdivided into less than forty acres. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by Register and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a regis- ter of the land office and receiver of public moneys for the State of pointed, California, at such time as, in his judgment, the public interest may