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 1116 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 1007. 1903. employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping—car fares, and 'not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Transcripts frm TRANSCRIPTS or Rmcorms AND PLATS, GENERAL LAND Ormcm: For r°°°r°S' furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the Pr¢>vf~>· direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars: Pm- Copvisrs vided, That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per ‘ day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the wor may demand. Surveying- SURVEYING run rrmuo LANDS. · S“"°Y*» mm- For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars PBI' linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for sec- Fhrggfggces tion lines: Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference ` shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States V°‘· “·pP·’“’·”5· by the Acts approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and V<>¤-25·r·676- fifty-seven, andp May eleventh, eighteen hundred and Gfty-eight, the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty- V°l· 26- PP- 2*5 2** nine, and the Acts approved July third and Jul tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such o5¤er.Acts as iprovide for land rants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States ma be entitled ‘ to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and otller purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except in the case of forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except ,,f,,‘,f{,° ’,'{f,§*‘,,c,,;g" that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the ereslnnds-survey and resurvc of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars pe1· linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for townshi, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional ditlllcuities in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary ot the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for _ _ standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for townshi , and twelve ,,,§““°“‘" °“m°"“"· dollars for section lines: Provided N/`urther, That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, evada, Ore on, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Trlexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-tive dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines, H‘S·*‘*"°·2‘“·*’·“‘· the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in _ California and Oregon are hereby extended to all of the above-named B°S“"°"‘°°°‘ States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, hy such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select. diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, wliile
 * ’°" °“°'°- at such compensation not exceeding six dollars per day, and such r