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 144 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 27. 1917. under and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be B°"¤"°¤·°*°· detailed to make surveys, resurve, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be delesctive or fraudulent, and mspectmg mineral deposits, coal Eelds, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of “ ¤.i*.$°:.m* l°° °°°°°° the United States: Provided further, That the sum of not exceeding ten r centum of the amount hereb approgrérted may be expende b {lh; Commissioner of the General, Land ce, with the approval of, the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other ually durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners 0,§gg¤ {P ¤¤'¤¤ grflierever practicable: Provvkled further, That not to excee $25,000 W of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors gengraillgcgiices upon returns of surveys Hled therein riortethe ass o t ct. ` u¤i¤g°°d°°°d mm" P Abandoned restgvationsz For necessary expenses of survey, apv,,u,,,_m_ praisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secret of the Interior under the lprovisions of an Act of Congress approvgd July fifth, eighteen hundre and eighty· cmqmn four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, $5,000. Geological Survey. tmrmn srarns euonocrcn. smzvnr. ’“` Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disburning clerk, $2,500;,librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers——one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each;four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen—opp $840i1fonr {git $720 each; janitor, $600; four 8,,.,,,,,;,,,,,,, messenger boys, at 80 eac ; in, $35,340; Scientific asistants: Geo1ogists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geoEnphers——one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 Gnmupmn eac ;mall,$29,900;. v¤1.:a,p. nm. General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authonzed_ work of the Geological S1u·vey, including ersonal services m the District of Columbia and in the field, inc udlng the purchase, hire, mamtenance, repair, and operation of motor—pro elled and horse·drawn pasenger-carrying vehicles for Held use only by geologists, topographers, and engineers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed b the Secretary of the Inte- §",,,’,§,'°·Wd,__ d nor, and under the following heads: Pmmilzd, That hereafter the pur- •¤1»r¤¤¤· chase of supplies or the procurement of services outside the District of Columbia may be made in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount of the purchase does mm m not exceed $50; _ " szgqim pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, T°"°""°°’°""°"" I•:or to aphic surveys in various portions of the United States 1p~...,,,,,'°'"'” ;,,, Am, $350,000:  rovided, That in expanding this sum preference shall bd “'°••- gen special tapogi-aph1c_ surveys o areas selected b the War partment an in securing sucl1_ extra topographic dhta as are Gdmknun reqpested by_the War Department in these or other areas; · swémxétgoeolognc surveys in the various portions of the United States, Alaska  I I mm. "' For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Cmmh, md Php Alaska, $100,000, to be rmmediateliévailable; ¤¤u•¤~s¤. Eor chemical and physical researc relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view o determining