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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2918. 1907. 1335 dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; ]anitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand three hundred and forty dollars; Scimvrrrrc Assrsnwrs or run Gnonooxcn. Smnvnr: For two ¤¤’¤¤¤¤¤•= ¤=¤i¤*=¤¤¤¤· geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two to‘pographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty- nine thousan nine hundred dollars; Fon GENERAL mxrrmsns or trim GEOLOGICAL Suavnrz For the E*P°¤¤¤‘~ Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national main, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United, tes, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for sur ying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, liistirict oflColumbiaf, and all other absoutel necessa e uses, mc u in te egrams, urniture, stationery, telepliones, and allpdther uecessaryg artic es required in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the 'Interior, uamel : Forlpay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty Skilkd l¤l><>¤=¤¤· thousand dollars; For the continuation of the investigation of structural materials m}:{;j;{g;\::gren,_¤* belonging to and for the use of the United States, such as stone, clays, `" cement, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available. one hundred thousand dollars; For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coals, T—·***·¤¤ ¤<···l=··¢‘*·‘· lignites, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to the United States, in order to determine their fuel value, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; l’,·m·ided, That in examinations, hereby authorized. of fuel materials fijgygmons for the use of the Government of the United States, or for the purpose` of increasing the general efficiency or available supply of the fuel resources in the United States, the Director of the Geological Survey may have the necessary materials collected from any part of the United States where they represent extensive deposits; and it shall be the duty of the Director of the Geological Survey to have examined, without charge, the fuels required for use by the Government of the United States. and to give these examinations preference over other work: [’mvz'¢z’»·d further, That in publishing the results of these iuvestiga- Publishing results. tions, the materiaLs examined shall not be credited to any private party or corporation, but shall be collected and described as representing suc extensive deposits; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the W¤¤¤r~¤¤1>p1y. United States and for the investigation of underground currents and