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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. 389 ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, which pay- ments shall be allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. ‘ EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES or PUBLIC sans ot public LANDS. MM SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS OF REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS: For $,;,,,18,, m ,,g_ salaries and commissions of Re 'sters of land offices and receivers of WN Md ¤¤¤ii·=¤- public moneys at district land ogces, at not exceeding three thousand ogars each, fivpg hundred and fifty theusand dollars. oN·r1NoEN·r XPENSES or- LAND FFICES: For clerk-hire rent and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hdndred £§$•i$l;?°mm" 4 and seventy-five thousand dollars. - Ex1>ENsEs or- DEPOSITING Puismc Momnrs: For expenses of de- mmm mmm positingumoney received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. DEPREDATIONS ON PUBLIC TIMBER: To meet the expenses of mw depreds Efotecting timber on the public lands, one hundred thousand dol- "‘°“* rs. Pnorncrme runmo LANDS: For the protection of public lands P,.,,,,,,,,,, mm m, from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred and legal ¤¤=¤·i<=¤· twenty thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: FOP expenses of heal'- Hou.mg,i¤m,d—,,,, in held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether twalfezed fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars. . SETTLEMENT or CLAIMS 1voR SWAMP-IAND AND SWAMP-LAND IN- s,,m,;,,,d,,;,m,,_ DEMNITY: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp lands, and or indemnity for swamp lands, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under mM_ this and the appropriations for “Depredation on public timber " and Per diem, e¤>.,.r¤: “Protecting ulblic lands " while traveling on duty, shall be allowed °*'°“‘“· per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. REPRODUCING PLATS OF SURVEYS: To enable the ommissioner of Raproduclng worm the General Land Oihce to continue to reproduce worn and defaced P‘°°°· M- official plats of surveys on iile, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS! For furnishing transcrgts Tummy {mm, of records and plats, and paying therefor, twelve thousand ve Mm-» ` hundred dollars, to be expen e under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. hsyey of public For surve s and resurve s of public lands, four hundred and _ - twenty-five tjhousand d0ll8·l'g at l‘8¥6S l10f Gxceedillg Dine dollars per Expenses liuearvmile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending Pmmzm. this a propriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying rmrelenee m sev townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands “°‘* °°‘”**'**P“· °*°- granted to the States by the act approved February twenty second, von. 2.s,.p. um. eighteen hundred and elgllty-nine, Mid lillé Mts approved July third Ante, pp. 215,22. and July tenth, eighteen hundred and mnety, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations: promdefg fuyther, That the Commisswner of the General Land _1me·. rei- ueavny Oilice may allow, for the Survey of l3·11dS heavily timbered, mount. ainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines,