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 SIXTY-FIF TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27. 1917. 143 hundred and forty, in the district court for the district of Oregon, now pending on appeal in the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000. . Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other groceedings held mE§"""gs i”]“‘°°"' by order of the Commissioner of the General Land O ce to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings P. in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: Provided, That where deplosi- rggsmigi aopoemops. ’ tions are taken or use in such hearings the fees of the officer ta ing them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same an 10 cents er folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. Re md I I Reprodhcin lats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the survgs. udngpats ° General Land %)&ce to continue to reproduce worn and def aced official plats of surve s on file, and other lats constituting a part of the records of saidyoflice, to furnish local) land offices with the same, and for reproduciné by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. C Mmm] { ts Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of Aavetspigsroétomthe Interior to advertise the restoration to the dpublic domain of lands “°” °"°°°S · in forest reserves or of lands temporarily with awn for forest reserve ur oscs, $15,000. O · - P Oipening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertain- vetgnsto igilriiimm ing to the opening to entiéy and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be gpened uring the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Pmm eighteen: Promkle, That the expenses pertaming to the openmgl of Reimbursement. each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation s all be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the-sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $15,000- sumyipg. · snnvnxmo THE PUBLIC LANDS. For s1u·veys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision Vgl-39,v-1101 of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the ,.,,,,,·_m_ Secretary of the Interior, $7 00,000: Provided, That in expending this Preferencesapproppation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying towns `ps occugied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands VOL ,5 p_ 6,,, granted to the tates by the Act approved February twenty-second voi. zu; pp. no, 222. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved Jyuly third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and) to survey under such other Acts as plrovide for land ants to the several States and Territories, and suc indemnity] land? as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in 'eu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have een sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants 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 within bound- Pa asm V rs aries of forest reservations. The surveys and resurveys provided Y °"° ` for in this appropriation to be made by such competent siuweyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not · exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except that the _ Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors v§§P"m°” °f su" of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding Pe, dkmqubsismce $10 per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem in lieu V<»1.3S,pY6S¤. `. ofsubsistence, not exceeding $3, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary ex enses for transportation including necessary sleeping-car fares, saidp per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyois employed here-