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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 360. 1885. 499 To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for the manuscript House Executive proof-reading und other necessary expenses of the third edition of gg';“m:r%§;;‘g;' House Executive Document Number Forty-seven, part four, as provided p,mg,£,0fthi,d’,,di: by joint resolution approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and mm. eighty two, two thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be immedi- 188?,v<>1- 22.Nontely available. 73-P··*’3· SURVEYING Tm; PUBLIC LANDS. Islayé? of r>¤b1i¤ For surveying the public lands, three hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and mean- ' der miles, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Odlce may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowtli, n sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines; or where, for any cause not provided for bylaw, in Oregon or Washington Territory, he is unable to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he may allow a sum not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six dollars for section lines; and of tho sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the Held and to prevent payment ior fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for the making of 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. For such resnrveys of the public lands as, in the discretion of the Resurveys. Commissioner of the General Land Office, may be considered necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For survey of eoniinued private land·claims in New Mexico, at a. rem Survey o noon. not exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and oniee expenses, three g;:;;. P¤'•*• thousand dollars. N", For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the rates Califomis prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, three thousand dollars. _ For survey of private land claims in Louisiana, at the rates pre- L°¤i¤¤·¤¤·- scribed by law, confirmed by decrees of courts or by private nets of Congress, five thousand dollars. That hereaiter in all cases of the survey of private la.nd-claims the GM of ¤¤¤¤yl» cost of the same shall be refunded to the Treasury by the owner before °°w::r',:;f}f•::3d°u‘;{ the delivery o1' the patent. 3,, of mmm To complete the survey of the boundary-line between the Territories B¤¤¤<l¤'¥_ b 9 -· of Dakota and Montana, estimated at two hundred and eighty miles, ;}'“I;;;£Q;"“’fQ°s_" eight thousand four hundred dollars. M,,,m,,,,_ For completing remarking the bonndarydine between the State of B°¤¤d¤*Y b•· Colorado and the Territory of Utah, estimated at two hundred and ten :‘;Q°§t£°1§?:i? miles, six thousand three hundred dollars. ,,,,3 For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned P T' ° M ¤P· military reservations transferred to the oontrol of the Secretary of the £;:‘:3};¤?1° :m’€ Interior under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July ,,,,,v,¤°,,_ fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four twenty thousand dollars: Pro- mzue p. 103. vided, That ull appropriations herein under public lands shell be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Fon rum Pnormctuox nm IMPBOVEIENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE Pr¤¤¤¤¥·i¤¤, ¤¤¤·. Nyrxomu, Pnzx: For every purpose and object necessary for the pro· of Y:¥‘;,"';°”° N* teetion, preservation, `and improvement of the Yellowstone National °° " ' Park, ineludiug compensation of superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of said amount to be paid an-