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 614 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 791. 1900. entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity)/·for swamp lands, one hundred and twenty-five thousand §‘§,f€§· pe, ,,,,,m_ dollars: orvéded, T_ at agents and others employed under this alppro- ¢¢¢· priation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and al owed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. ‘;;";*s‘;E°“°"’°; d Pao·rEcr1oN AND ADMINISTRATION or Eoansr 1zEsEavEs: To meet muiizildgll gil athe expenses of executing the rovisions of the sundry civil act V°‘·3°·*’·3‘· approved June fourth, eighteen Ilnundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, survey- ors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other eme1·- gency hep in the prevention an extinguishment of forest fires, and or advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservam§gf1*§lQQ;ct‘;f)vl,°;’;g tions. That all selections of land made in lieu of a tract covered by _ by an unperfected an unperfected bona fide claim, or by a patent, included within a pub- °°m‘ tm °l“"°’°°°‘ lic forest reservation, as provided in the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil ex enses of the Government for the sca year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," shall be confined to vacant surveyed nonmineral public lands which are subject to homestead entry not exceeding in area the tract _{;g>§8¢gi time to covered by such claim or patent: Provided, That nothing herein conmake seamen. tained shall be construed to affect the rights of those who, previous to October first, nineteen hundred, shall gave delivered to the United States deeds for lands within forest reservations and make application be§;Q1g;°g§gj:g§F*¤d for SDBCl5C_ tracts of lands in lieu thereof: Provided, That forestry » PCP -· • • diem mem. agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and other persons employed under this agpropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior who y with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political aililiations and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: Providedfurther, _ m{’{gg§g§°“ °* mm That forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons ` employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicab e, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game. Hearings in 1¤¤<1 EXPENSES or HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIESZ For expenses of hear- °"m°S° ings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land OfHce to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character grlhave been made in compliance with law, four thousand five hundred o lars. ‘ . 0,§g$;g§}g°*¤8 PMS REPRODUCING 1=LA*rs or sUnvEYs: To enable the Commissioner of ` the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced oflicial 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, two thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ d€§;f EXAMINATIONS or DESERT LANDs: To enable the Secretary of the l/ol.28,p.·f2: Interior to examine,_ under such regulations and- at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desertlan s selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars. §gggjg}]L¤¤gtQmgg; §)RESERVATI`ON or RECORDS, GENERAL LAND OFFICE: For continucomersodbe. " ing the work of rearrangin, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the (general Land Office, one thousand dollars: