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 SIXTY-FIF TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27. 1917. 147 For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; Agisgle inspector, For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on ofhcial business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said ins ector, $2,500; For technical and scientific books and publications and book of L“’““'Y· reference, $1,500; For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such cu§§,?‘,gf*‘g§§°”*°"°* conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the_site of an ex erimental _ mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: Pravideef That the fggemgfhm 0, lands, Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or awlands, buildings, or improvements, that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual a propriations by Congress; _ Persons em loyed) during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ¤°T§'§mp;§§;Lg?*““S“ eighteen in fiigd work, outside of the istrict of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in Washington, District of Columbia, for urposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be md in addition to their regular compensation only their actual trav g expenses or er diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: _ ~ I;’rmn2Zed, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees {,’§;;f°,,,;t 0, · nm of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per diem, in lieu ¤¤ry¤x1>¤¤scs.¤tcof subsistence while on tem orary detail m Washington, District of Columbia, for urposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the Iiinited States. All details made hereunder, and the purploses of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be repprted in the annual estimates of a propriations to Congress at the egin— ning of each regular session tlhereof ; In all, Bureau of Mines, $1,167 ,070. nncnimarron saavrcm. R°°I“m“*’°”S°"’°°‘ The followintg sums are gppropriated out of the special fund in ¤,,ifi$ii‘i,t,iir°mr°°1° the Treasury o the United tates created by the Act of June seven- "°'·32»P·”8· teenth, nineteen hundred and two, and therein designated "the reclamation fund": For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, ${L°§,‘g’°"d,§§,‘g'°*‘· nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, p e three hun- 'I" ` dred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thered? and sup lementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other diets under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including °°j°°tsd°“i““”°d‘ salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent of office quarters in the city of Washington, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere• examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse—drawn or motor- ropelled passengercarxéying vehicles; payment of damages caused) to the owners of lan s or private property of any kin b reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or emplbyees, in the surve, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, andy which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretaiiy of the Interior, namely: _ Salt 1ver project, _Arizona:_ Flor maintenance, operation, con- S“’““""·*’*'· unuation of construction, and mcidental operations, $458,000;