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 32 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 2. 1897. and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas litters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty· four thousand dollars. · Engine house and For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and Senate “'*“""’“· and House stables, and for repairs and paving of floors and courtyards of same, five hundred dollars. ventilation. For the necessary care and repair of the steam-heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate, including air ducts, elevators, legislative senate wang. bell service, and all machinery relating thereto in the Senate wing of the Capitol, and also the Supreme Court, and including materials and tools, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. nam ying. For new boiler for House wing of the Capitol, foundation for same, N"' "°"°"· °‘°· enlargement of smoke ilue, steam piping, steam valves and connections to engine and pumps, eight thousand five hundred dollars. raise nun EXPENSES OF THE c0LLEoTION OF REVENUE FRoM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS. Stluriqs. registers SALAR1Es AND COMMZISSIONS OF REGISTEBS AND RECEIVERS: For °“"’ ""’°“'°"‘ salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. · c·»¤u¤§»¤i¤¤p¤¤¤·»¤ CONTINGENT EXPENSES or LAND orrrcns: For clerk hire, rent, °"““"" °°‘ and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Depositing public EXPENSES OF DEPOSITING PUBLIC MoNEYs: For expenses of ‘“°“°>"’· depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. rimneraepreaniione, DEPREDATIONS ON PUBLIC TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS, }Q’,j’,{fj°,f,'jf,§wal,L‘;,l},},§_§ AND SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SWAJIP LANDS AND SWAMP-LAND claims. INDEMNITY: To -meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, ninety thousand dollars: gryevllgg, Umm Provided, That agents and others employed under this appropriation ° °°shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation. Hearings in land EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES? For €Xp6IlSOS of11B2J.`- ·=¤*¤¤¤· ings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Oillce to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, six thousand dollars. r..»pmai.a..r pim REPRODUCING PLATS or soavmrsz To enable the Commissioner of °‘¤*""°¥**· the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on tile and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, five thousand dollars. Transcripts or TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS: For furnishing transcripts '“"’""· °‘°‘ of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Survvwuz- SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. Sumrsi r=¤¤¤· M For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty- Iive thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township and gggggcm fire dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending this appro- ' priation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships