Permanent ap Repayments to surveyors-general in connection with the survey of mineral lands, any excess in the amount deposited over and above the actual cost of the work performed, including all expenses incident thereto for which the deposits were severally made or the whole of any unused deposit; and such sums, as the several cases may be, propriation for reshall be deemed to be annually and permanently appro- funding. priated for that purpose. Such repayments shall be depositors. made to the person or persons who made the several deposits, or to his or their legal representatives, after the completion or abandonment of the work for which the deposits were made, and upon an account certified by the surveyor-general of the district in which the mineral land surveyed, or sought to be surveyed is situated and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Approved, February 24, 1909 (35 Stat., 645). An Act For the relief of registers and former registers of the United isters and re cellation notices. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Refund to regof the United States of America in Congress assembled, ceivers for canThat the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to registers and former registers of United States land offices money earned by them for issuing notices of the cancellation of entries subsequent to July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which money, under the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, they were erroneously required to deposit in the United States Treasury, contrary to the provisions of the act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Pro- Accounts. vided, That such refund shall be made only of money deposited subsequent to the approval of the act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and shall be made upon accounts stated and certified by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That said Limitation. refund shall be made of only such fees which have not entered into the compensation paid to such registers out of the appropriation for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers for any fiscal year. SEC. 2. That hereafter all money or fees received or collected by registers of United States land offices for issuing notices of cancellation of entries shall be reported and accounted for by such registers in the same manner as other fees or moneys received or collected. Approved, March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1351). Accounting hereafter. RESERVOIR SITES. Page. Act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526)-Reservation of storage 284 Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat, 391)-Repeals act of October 2, 284 Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1101)-Reservoir sites to contain reser Storage voirs in arid region. Investigation. 285 Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act approved October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526). For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows, * * * And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches or Lands reserved canals for irrigation purposes and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement or occupation until further provided by law. from sale. Topographic surveys. arid lands from Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved August 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 391). For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended west of the one hundredth meridian; and so much of the act of October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for Reservation of other purposes,' as provides for the withdrawal of the entry repealed. public lands from entry, occupation and settlement, is Existing bona hereby repealed, and all entries made or claims initiated in good faith and valid but for said act, shall be recognized and may be perfected in the same manner as if said law had not been enacted, except that reservoir sites heretofore located or selected shall remain segregated and reserved from entry or settlement as provided by said Reservoir sites act, until otherwise provided by law, and reservoir sites hereafter located or selected on public lands shall in like manner be reserved from the date of the location or selection thereof. fide entries validated. to be reserved. An Act To repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes. * * * * * voir sites. SEC. 17. That reservoir sites located or selected and Limit on reserto be located and selected under the provisions of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes," and amendments thereto, shall be restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the construction and maintenance of reservoirs, excluding so far as practicable lands occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said reservoirs; Lands of actual settlers. |