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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 259-JUNE 28, 1941 as he may deem proper: Provided, That the salary of the legal adviser and the financial expert shall not exceed the annual rate of $10,000 and $9,000 each, respectively: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), shall not apply to any pur- chase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggre- gate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. GENERAL LAND OFFICE SALARIES For Commissioner of the General Land Office and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $760,000, including one clerk, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents. Transcribing records: For special personal services in the District of Columbia to transcribe records of the General Land Office, $10,000. Binding records: For personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase and maintenance of equipment, and all other expenses requisite for and incidental to the operation and maintenance of a branch of the Government Printing Office in the Interior Building, to bind, rebind, and repair books of record in the General Land Office, to be expended under the supervision of the Public Printer, $10,000. GENERAL EXPENSES 309 Provisos. Salaries of legal ad- viser, etc. Minor purchases. Post, p. 833. For traveling expenses of officers and employees, for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary, for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official plats of surveys; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve pur- poses; and for expenses of hearings or other proceedings held by Hearings. order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment pro- ceedings, $20,000. Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for pur- poses of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $900,000, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 of this appropriation may be Porisos. expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service tailed employees temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be used for the igstan: ' ofds- survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: Provided further, That this appropriation may be Expenditures f'o expended for surveys made under the supervision of the Commissioner ys of the General Land Office, but when expended for surveys that would not otherwise be chargeable hereto it shall be reimbursed from the applicable appropriation, fund, or special deposit. Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices, $78,000. Salaries and expenses of land offices: For salaries (except registers) P"' P s and all necessary expenses incident to the operation and maintenance

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