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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3914. 1906. \725, sunvmxmo rim PUBLIC LANDS. S¤1"°Y*”¤· For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand S¤"°>"~ mmdollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending this appropriation prefer- mm ence shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, ` in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hun- V°l· 25- P- 67** dred and eightymine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, V°l- °°· PP- 21% W- eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such o er Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and TB1`I‘l~ tories, except railroad 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 purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be coniinedtolands athpted toagriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lan s within boundaries of forest reservations except that the Commissioner of the General Imnd Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of "lands heavily timbered, ,,,§{,,,“‘,',;,;`,°f,*;’;,·hgn'},*,{ mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding " thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for townshi, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional dilliculties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for survpys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with e approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines fifteen dollars for townshi, and twelve dollars for section lines: Provided jiertieer, That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Mon- tpmasnicaiucmm. tana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, the Ter- ° ' ritories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of A aska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey 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 dollars for section lines; the provisions Mp. s., see. 2m. p- of section twenty-four hun red and eleven, Revised Statutes of the ‘ United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above—na,med States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby approprmted there R*>¤“"°Y¤y°¤¤· mav be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surve ing districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the lyhterior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he mav authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such com- Per di¤¤· pensation: not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors 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 surve s returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surve s heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber  ¤¤¤¤¤*l districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required