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 1416 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 285. 1911. reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen @,';§·{;’,,mmem,_ hundred and twelve: Promkicd, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, twenty-two thousand dollars. Surveyi¤8- I sunvnvme run rnnmc LAN1>s. mms ‘ For surveys and resurveys of public lands under the snpervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the ‘ Secreta of the Interior, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Pmiwo- Promkielez That in expending this appropriation preference shall be Pr°f°r°°°€& given, iirst, in favor of surveying townships occupied, m whole or m vSi.zs,p.m. part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act V°‘·”“·"*’·2‘°·m· approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nme, ang the Acts approved·July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, 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 m some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands withm boundaries of forest reservations. m§;’§;g°,:“°°° °‘ The surveys and resurveys to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation not exceeding} two hundred dollars per month as he may prescribe, ° except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed ,,,,§‘,§_*’°”‘“°” °’ "“" two supervisors of surveys whose compensation siiall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month each, and except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, as he may prescribe, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and travelin expenses to be allowed to ,ng¤;g;•érg*{·é;ggvjgf,· all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent timber lands. ml surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or exam- · inations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and mspectmg) mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber R¤¤¤"**>‘¤· °'¤· districts, and for making, y such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, examination of unaccepted contract surveys heretofore made and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identiiication of lands for pugoses of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United tates, the sum hereby appro riated to be m}I{°({*0“r’,;g_‘” '°' °°°‘ immediately available: Provided further, That the sum ofliiot exceeding ten ppr centum of the amount hereb appropriated may be expended bv the Commissioner of the General,Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other ecipally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners w erever practicable. 0£{:_·;*¤';}¤¤;u"£<;,*§gé The Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of zetmi. the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to expend out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands for the fiscal year ending Jlime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, not to exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the employment of such additional force in the offices of the United States surveyors eneral and for additional contingent expenses therein, stationery, and so forth, du the fiscal years o nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hund§ and