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 1332 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS, Sess. II. Ch. 2918. 1907. P“b“°l°¤"*- EXPENSES or THE COLLECTION or REVENUE Enom SALES or rr1sL1c · LANDS. B<=‘Si¤*<=¤ Md W SALARIES AND coMM1ss1oNs or REGISTERS AND REoE1vERs: For sala- CGIVBIS. · . • . . . • . ries and commissions of registers ot district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. ¤<>¤¤¤z¤¤¤¤¤P¤¤¤¢¤- CONTINGENT EXPENSES or LAND oFr1oEs: For clerk hire, rent, and, other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and gggvgzg twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall ` be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceedin three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual €I:§§;;i:£<>¤ <>¤ ¤><· necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary psleeping-car fares: P1·0·v2Yded further, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. D¤x><>¤i*i¤z¤¤¤¤€Y=- EXPENSES or DErosrr1NG PUBLIC m0NEYs: For ex enses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars. tiggggtgciggegug DEPBEDAHONS ON 1>UBL1c TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS, AND swamp-land maxim. SETTLEMENT or CLAIMS FOR SWAMP LAND AND SWAMP-LAND INDEM- NITY: To meet the expenses of protectin timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dol- I*"'7!'i§08· lars: Prm·éa'ed, That no art of this appropriation shall be available R°°°"°“°°' for the examination of the lands embraced in any entry upon which Hnal proof has been made, unless the Department has information furnishing good grounds to suspect fraud or noncompliance with law as Pcrdiem. to that specific entry: ]’r0vlded, That agents and others employed under this appro riation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed) r diem, subject to such rules and re ulations as he may prescribe, in liiau of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping~car fares. Hearings in 1¤¤<1 EXPENSES or HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hearings °°m°S‘ held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Oiii ce to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, nine thousand dollars. - Repr<»1M¤ REPRODUCING PLATS or SURVEYS: To enable the Commissioner of the M “"“"`”‘ General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on iile, and other lats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnishllocal land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. 9**** 1¤¤d*· EXAMISATIONS or DESERT LANDs: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of one thousand dollars made by the Act of Congress Examinations or Se. approved March third, nineteen hundred and tive, to enable the Secre- ‘°jEg;*¤i) WL tary of the Interior to examine, during the iiscal year nineteen hun- `dred and six, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the pro- V¤1.22,p.m. visions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby continued and V