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 1°1tTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ctr. 359. 1878. 229 said survey to be made under the direction of the Commissioner of tho General Land Office. To reimburse S. Wolf, late recorder of deeds for the District of Colum- S. Wolf. bia, tour thousand one hundred and ten dollars for the record-books purchased and paid for by him for the use of his office during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and prior years. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reproduce D<>f=¤>¢d platsworn and defaced plats of original surveys now on file and constituting a part of the records of said office, the sum of ten thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers Regis te rs and of public moneys, at ninety-nine land-offices, three hundred and eighty '°‘°°“'”°- thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the landoflices, forty thousand one hundred Expcusesoflamland seventy-five dollars. °“‘°°°· For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public D e p os i tin g lands, ten thousand dollars. ¤¤¤¤¤y¤· ` To meet expenses of suppressing depredations upon timber on the Suppmssingdeppublic lands, twenty-five thousand dollars. ¤*d¤¤i<>¤¤- To pay Peyton Finley, late receiver of the land-office at Montgomery, P. Finley. Alabama, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, amount due him for salary and commissions and over-deposits. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to protect, preserve, and im- Yellowstone prove the Yellowstone National Park, in compliance with section twenty- Pgké 24-,. 456 tour hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes of the United` '°’p' ' States, ten thousand dollars. SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS. For survey of the public lands and private landclaims, three hundred _ Surveys of 1>¤l>- thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than eight thousand one 1‘°l}f‘:v‘};’,;8 hundred dollars of this sum shall be used for the employment of cler- ` ical force to write tract·books or do other general work in the General Land Office for the local land-otiicers: Provided further, That the sum How eqmidad. hereby appropriated shall be expended in such surveys as the public interest may require, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and at such rates as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, not exceeding the rate herein authorized: And provided further, That no Lands lv be wrlands shall be surveyed under this appropriation except, tirst, those "°!/°d· adapted to agriculture without artificial irrigation; second, irrigable lands, or such as can be redeemed, and for which there is sufficient accessible water for the reclamation and cultivation of the same not otherwise utilizcdor claimed; third, timber lands bearing timber of commercial value, either foreign or domestic; fourth, coal lands coutaining coal of commercial value; fifth, exterior boundary of town-sites; sixth, private land-claims. The cost of such surveys shall not exceed Coat. ten dollars per mile for standard lines (and the startingpoint for said survey may be established by triangulation), seven dollars for township and six dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of standard lines in heavily timbered and mountainous land a sum not exceeding sixteen dollars per mile, and for township lines not exceeding fourteen dollars, and for section lines not exceeding ten dollars; and the amounts hereby approprinted for surveys of public lands shall be made available immediately. That the sum of thirty thousand dollars is appropriated for the the sur- Ti1¤b¤¤¢dl¤¤<]¤· vey of timbered lands exclusively. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. Continuation of the geological and geographical survey of tho Terri- H¤yd¤¤’¤ ¤¤1'v¤y· tories of the United States: Under Prolcssor F. V. Hayden : For salaries