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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1301. 1902. 455 Hereafter, in lieu of the specific estimates for personal services now inlggggagg °mPl°Y€°¤ required by law, there shall be submitted in the Annual Book of Esti- S`. . mates, under each item of appropriation under "General expenses of the Geological Survey," notes showing the number of persons employed U and the rate of compensation paid to each from each of said appropriations during the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year for which estimates are submitted. Fon GENERAL nxrnwsns or mm GEOIDGICAL Suavmrz For the geo- Expenses logical survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national omain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other em loyees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses., includin telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary ofg the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty i·•bo¤¤·¤. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, W*j<;P¤€¤¤P¤*¤ ¤¤¤- three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; l ` For geolppical surveys in the various portions of the United States, G¤¤¤¤z¤<>¤1¤¤rv¤y¤. one hundr and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United~ P¤l,¤g:*<>l<>Ki¤ re States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the m2*c¤,::is_¤1. ¤t<=-. re- United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, m“¤*¤°*°¤¤- eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; or the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mmml www- Cnited States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume, and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including direct- Books. etcories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical urposes, and not exceeding four thousand dollars for the payment ibr the transmission of pu lic documents through the Smithsonian exchange, six thousand dollars: Provided, That the purchase of pro- zlggeg f book fessional and scientific books and periodicals needed for statistical ° ty °r s' urposes hereafter by] the scientific divisions of the United States Geo ogical Survey is ereby authorized to be made and paid for out of appropriations made for the said Survey. For enlgraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, Mwone hun red thousand dollars; · For aging the streams and determining the water supply of the Wnwrmply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing water resources two hundred thousand dollars; For continuation of the survety of the public lands that have been or wsgrvey of forest re may hereafter be designated as orest reserves, one hundred and thirty °°° thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million and sixty- six thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Misonrraxnous omncrs, DEPARTMENT or mm nrrnnron. Mvceunnwms Orman or Comussroxna or Rnnaosnsz For Commissioner, four £rg¤;*é,i¥‘°¤*¤ 0* thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one Sam-iesI assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thou-