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 484 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1762. 1904. hundred and ninet, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as rovide for land, grants to the several States and Territories, except railioad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other pur ses which may have been sold or-included in some reservation or otlidrwise disposed of, and other surveys shall he confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, m§{§,gd’°§,’g hfglfély mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding ’ "thirteen dollars per linear mile for standa and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional diiliculties 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 of the Interior at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear ‘ mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen do lars for townshirg and unasmcnrmmni, twelve dollars for section lines: I*r0v£ded_;‘i4rt}wr, That in the tates '°°‘ of Califorrf Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washingit1»<gnlPWyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and thetrict of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurve of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard. and meander lines, twenty~three dollars for township, and twenty rz. S.,sec. 2411, p.441. dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twent —four hundred and eleven,`Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allow- · ance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to mmap, ew. all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of eGeneral Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by 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, at such compensation not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in iield examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent survelyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and m dn mmm, for examinations ot surveys heretofore made and reported to be defeclandmlc. 8 five or fraudulent, and ins ctin mineral deposits, coal ticlds, and timber districts, and for making hy such competent surveyors fra - mentary surveys, office examination of surveying returns, and sudh other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the Unite States. p,?,i‘,}'{',§’{,'{d°‘Q'1}f}$;f"’ For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Ltah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mex- V°'-”·P· ico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to rovide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and) Territories," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resruvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deeme necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also ' available for omce work on such surveys and for the examination of the surveys in the field.