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 Frr*rY.sEvEN*rH coxcmzss. sms. 1. cs. 1301. 1902. 453 sary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, an not exceeding three dollars r day in lieu of subsistence. Pnnsnnvarrox or msconns, Caiisgunnari LAND Orrrcn: For continu- ,,';§;{;f¤;g“,*°,jg{g¤· ing the work of rearranging, indexing, and reserving the records of ` the recorder’s office of e General Land Otlihe, the appropriation for V°*· *“· P- 1*5**- this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two is hereby made available for expenditure during the iiscal year nineteen hundred . and three for the purposes indicated. Tnaxscimrrs or mzconns AND rnarrs, GENERAL LAND Ormcnc For m'{;;,;_*¤°**P*¤ *¤>¤* furnishing transcrgzts of records and plats, to be ex nded under the direction of the cretary of the Interior, ten gfousand dollars: _ ` Provided, That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be {;°§‘,{'}f’,§{g,_ selected by the Secretary oi) tlie Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand. sunvnrme rim runuc nuns. S¤¤¤vi¤¤· For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty S“'?'°"“· '“°“· five thousand dollars, at rates not exceedin nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and tive dollars for section lines: Havided, That in expending this appro- xgjices priation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying town- ` ships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands ` granted to the States bfv the Acts approved February twenty-sixth, "°*·“·PP· ‘°'·”"· eighteen hundred and fi ty-seven, an May eleventh, eighteen hundred and rift -eight, the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen V°‘·”·P·°"°· hundrecl and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July V0]- W PP- me m tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for lan grants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other 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 forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except ,,,?‘§§';'{;?Q§f1‘§&Y; that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the 1¤¤¤¤- survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous or covered with dense nndefowth, rates not exceedin thirteen dollars per linear mile for stan rd and meander lines, rdeven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional diflicuitics in the surveys, where the work can notbe contracted for at thesc rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner. with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: Provided further, That in the States ,,,;““dF‘“‘°“*“°“**°· of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah,Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Sec- m£*;“°‘*°“°”“"°"‘ retary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undertgrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for stan ard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines, the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, R~S··’°°·““•P·*“· Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizin allowance for surveys in California and Oregon are hereby extended to all of the abovenamed States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby F~¤¤¤¤‘¤r¤· <·=¤= appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land O ce may deem necessary for examina-