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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 113. 1918. 667 Bu.i1di.r{g and Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Treasury. 0; gh? riited States and one-half out of the revenues of the District 0 0 um ra. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,000 heretofore %§m' on made for general repairs to the bggdiiig temporarily occupied by b¤*_g$jl§m;t;u of the courthouse, District of Columbia, is rea propriated and made °'p' ‘ available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. rrmuo nuns smzvrom. P“""°’“°’· Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers ,,,,’$Z§§f*°” "“d '°‘ of district land omces and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $500,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other °°°u”g°"° °‘p°“S°S‘ incidenta expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange Pudtmm,. I of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to °°' examme the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation or said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen V°"°S·l’·°“°· of the sundriy civil appropriation act approved August first, nineteen hundred an fourteen, and for actual necessary travelfiggexpenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: Pr ed, '1`hat no  ,,_ expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers ’*"°°°d·. and receivers m the conduct of local land offices except upon previous gp§iciHc$ apthorization by the Commissioner of the General Land ce, 4 0,000. · De ositing public mone : For e enses of deposi ° mone D"*’°'°"‘ "‘°”°”· receiiged from lihe disposal of public liiids, bg registeredislrliiil, bank exchange, or otherwise, as maly be directed y the Secretary of the llniterior, aérd under rules to e approved by the Secretary of the easury, 500. 4 Depredations on public timber, srotectin public lands, and settle- Fr'¤iEii$g`i?ilid°¤vii:¤ii% ment of claims for iwampianii ass sw3n;p§a]r;d indemrggyz For pro- °'}$’0f}“I§’”,§, tectm trm er on the u 'c an, an or the more e cient execu- ` ` tion 0% the law andrulgs relating to the cutting thereof; of protectin public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or apfpropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity or swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and makrng current the work of the General Land Omoo, $500,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motorcycles for the use of agents and others employed in the Held service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and - maintenance of a motor boat: Promkled, That the compensation of my °,,,,,,,_ the chief of Held service employed hereunder, including his services WA in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder s all not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska where a compensation not Perdimmmmm to exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed: Ifromled further, That v01.as,p.sso. ` - agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, prusuant to section thirteen of the srmdry civil appropriation Act approved August Hist, nineteen hun- _ dred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3.50 each and actual *“'“"’°"‘°°· necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleepingcar fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence. Ommmdcdmm For the dprotection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad nsrrmdrmrs. Lands an Coos Bay Wagon Road Lan : To enable the Secretary $L‘§_°°§,‘f°§’§{§§ of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secreta of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advislable, to establish and mamtam a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check firm upon the lands revested in the United tates by the Act