thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; and for the purchase of stationery for the use of said agents, and the expense of transporting the same to the Pribilof Islands, Alaska; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

ENFORCEMENT OF THE CHINESE-EXCLUSION ACT: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, six hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration as additional compensation: Provided, That the annual subscriptions for publications for use in the immigration service at large may be paid in advance.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES SHIPPING SERVICE: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners' offices, seven thousand dollars; and this sum shall be in full for all such. expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and shall be so disbursed as to prevent a deficiency therein.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thou

sand dollars.

For preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, buildings, Department of the Interior, five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the heating of the old Post-Office building, twenty-four thousand dollars.

FOR THE CAPITOL: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty thousand dollars.

Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, five hundred and eighty thousand dollars, to continue available until expended: Provided, That any clerk or other employee designated by the commissions on the Senate office building, the House office building, or the joint commission on the Capitol extension, respectively, and who may now be receiving a salary from the Government, shall be paid from the date of his appointment such compensation as may be fixed by the respective commissions, not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum in any case.

Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and

three, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars, to continue available until expended.

To continue the construction of a building for a heating, lighting, Heating, etc., plant. and power plant in connection with the office building for the House of Representatives, the installation of necessary machinery, for labor and material, construction of ducts, heating mains, subways, and traction system connecting the Capitol building, and for all other appliances, and for each and every purpose in connection with all of the foregoing, three hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars.

To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Flags. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police

board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Repairing works of the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of art.

the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars.

IMPROVING THE CAPITOL GROUNDS: For continuing the work of the Capitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the improvement of the Capitol grounds for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four is hereby made available for the purchase of fertilizer, seeds, trees, shrubberies, and plants, and labor and material incident thereto, for the improvement of the Capitol grounds during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.

LIGHTING THE CAPITOL AND GROUNDS: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric fighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house and Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Lighting Capitol and grounds.

Repairs, stables, etc.

Court of Claims building.

REPAIRS OF BUILDING, COURT OF CLAIMS: For special repairs to the building occupied by the Court of Claims, namely, for painting, sky-Repairs. lights, new roofing, new doors and sash, glazing; new steam-heating boilers, electric wiring, and for labor and material for and incident to the foregoing, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES. OF PUBLIC

LANDS.

Public lands.

Registers and re

SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS OF REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receiv- ceivers. ers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

Provisos.
Per diem.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF LAND OFFICES: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: Provided further, That no expenses chargeable to the

Restriction on ex

penses.

Depositing moneys.

Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp

claims.

Proviso.

Agents' per diem.

Hearings in land entries.

Reproducing plats

of surveys.

Desert lands.

lections.

Vol. 28, p. 422.

Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

EXPENSES OF DEPOSITING PUBLIC MONEYS: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars.

DEPREDATIONS ON PUBLIC TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS, AND SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SWAMP LAND AND SWAMP-LAND INDEMNITY: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares.

EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, twelve thousand dollars.

REPRODUCING PLATS OF SURVEYS: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars.

EXAMINATIONS OF DESERT LANDS: To enable the Secretary of the Examination of se- Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars: Provided, That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence.

Proviso.
Expenses.

Transcripts from rec

ords.

Provisos.
Compensation.

Restriction.

Surveying.

Surveys, rates.

Provisos.
Preferences.

TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS, GENERAL LAND OFFICE: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: Provided, That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand: Provided further, That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be expended in any one month of the year for which it is available.

SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS..

For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eightyVol. 26, pp. 215, 222, nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except

Vol. 25, p. 676.

Extra rates, heavily

Lands in California,

railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may timbered, etc., lands. allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section_lines: Provided further, That in etc. the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon,. Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twenty-four R.S., sec. 2411, p. 441. hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal Inspecting mineral fields, and timber districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys, office examination of surveying returns, 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 the United States, and from the amount hereby appropriated Surveys in Nevada. there may be expended for surveys in the mining regions of Nevada, situated south of the first standard parallel north of Mount Diablo base line, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.

Resurveys, etc.

Per diem.

lands.

Resurvey of certain

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to Wyoming. cause to be made a resurvey of the following townships in the State townships. of Wyoming: Townships twenty-one north, ranges one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen, and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-two north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-three north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred

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Proviso.

Bona fide rights not affected.

Abandoned military reservations.

Vol. 23, p. 103.

Geological Survey.

Salaries of Director,

etc.

Scientific assistants

Expenses.

Skilled laborers.

Topographical sur

veys.

and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twentyfour north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-five north, ranges one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen, and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian. And all rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior requiring petitions from all settlers on said lands asking for a resurvey and an agreement to abide by the result of the survey, so far as these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the present bona fide rights or claims of any actual occupant of any of said lands so occupied to the amount of land to which, under the law, he is entitled.

For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars.

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.

SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each;

For one geologist, three thousand dollars;

For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars;
For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each;

For one chemist, three thousand dollars;

For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars;
For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twentynine thousand nine hundred dollars.

FOR GENERAL EXPENSES OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For the Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams, and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:

For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars;

For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available;