Exception. Hearings in land entries. Reproducing plats of surveys. Desert lands to States. Vol. 28, p. 422. Proviso. Forest reserves. Advertising restoration of lands, etc. Salaries. Opening Indian reservations to entry. Expenses. Proviso. Reimbursement. Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. Surveys, etc. under this appropriation shall be 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, except when agents are employed in the district of Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding six dollars per day each, in lieu of sub sistence. 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, thirty-five 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 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, and the. Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, 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 for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, twelve thousand dollars. Salaries, General Land Office: For twenty-six copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks of class one; five clerks of class two; five clerks of class three; in all, forty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): The appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars to meet the expenses of opening to entry and settlement ceded lands within Indian reservations is hereby continued and made available to meet the expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven: Provided, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively. For completing the surveys within the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, embracing town sites and the subdivision of unallotted lands fronting on Flathead Lake (reimbursable), ten thousand dollars. Surveying. Rates. Provisos. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: 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 Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eightyVol. 26, pp. 215, 222. nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hun Vol. 25, p. 676. Determination of compensation by Sec dred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except 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 include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations. The surveys and resurveys to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation not retary. exceeding two hundred dollars per month as he may prescribe, except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, 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 surveys, timber lands, etc. resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys 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, the sum hereby appropriated to be immediately available: Provided further, Monuments for secThat the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable. Clerks, etc., inspecting mineral, coal, and tion corners. Montana. Toward surveying public lands, including cost of office work in the Special surveys. surveyor-general's office not to exceed three thousand dollars, in Valley, Dawson, Custer, and Fergus counties, Montana, one hundred thousand dollars. Toward surveying lands of the United States in Idaho, including Idaho. cost of office work in the surveyor-general's office not to exceed three thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Authority is hereby given for the survey of township thirty-two Nevada. north, range twenty-three east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, Nevada, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers' applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived. Authority is hereby given for the survey of all the remaining Oregon. unsurveyed townships in Harney County, Oregon, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers' applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived. Authority is hereby given for the survey of townships twenty-two south, ranges twenty-three and twenty-four east, twenty-one south, range twenty-five east, Salt Lake base and meridian, Utah, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers' applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived. For continuing the survey of public lands in Garfield, Iron, Kane, San Juan, and Washington counties, in the State of Utah, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of not exceeding two thousand dollars may be expended for the necessary office work in the surveyorgeneral's office in connection with this survey. For the survey of the lands of the United States in the District of Alaska. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of Abandoned tary reservations. mili. General expenses. Transfer of laboratories, etc., from Geological Survey. Equipment, etc. Rent of offices. Investigation of mine explosions. Testing fuels. Reports of investigation. Post, p. 883. 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, two thousand five hundred dollars. Completing field notes, and so forth, of surveys in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinished drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors-general in those States, three thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF MINES. For the general expenses of the Bureau of Mines, including the pay of the director and the necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and for every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the Bureau of Mines in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, fifty-four thousand dollars; For dismantling and removing chemical laboratories, equipment, and office furniture from the office of the Geological Survey, to the the office of the Bureau of Mines in Washington, District of Columbia, and reinstalling and equipping the laboratories in the office of the Bureau of Mines with fixtures, including laboratory plumbing, sinks, hoods, coal sampling and crushing machinery, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars; For rent of offices in the city of Washington, and for furnishing the same, together with such books, records, stationery and appliances as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, ten thousand dollars; For the investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, three hundred and ten thousand dollars; For the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, ores, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to or for the use of the United States, heretofore under the supervision of the United States Geological Survey, one hundred thousand dollars; For making public reports of the work, investigations and information obtained by said Bureau of Mines, with the recommendations of such bureau, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this Printing restriction. sum shall be expended for printing except at the Government Printing Office; Proviso. Mine inspectors. Per diem, etc. For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars; and said inspectors are hereby authorized to inspect coal and other mines in the District of Alaska, to which District the provisions of said act are hereby extended and made applicable; 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 three dollars per day each while absent from their homes on duty, except in Alaska, when such allowance shall be at the rate of five dollars per day, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, four thousand five hundred dollars; In all for the Bureau of Mines, five hundred and two thousand two hundred 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; two assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class two; three 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-four thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; Geological Survey. Salaries of Director, etc. etc. Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists, Scientific assistants 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, twenty nine thousand nine hundred dollars; General expenses of the Geological Survey: For every expenditure Expenses requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars; Skilled laborers. Topographic sur. Geologic surveys. Chemical and phys ical researches. Illustrations. Mineral resources. For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including direc- Books, etc. tories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps, one hundred thou- Maps. sand dollars; Structural mate rials. So much of the Act establishing a Bureau of Mines, approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, as transfers to said Bureau the supervision of the investigations of structural materials and equip- pealed. ment therefor is repealed; For continuation of the topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million one hundred and seventy-five thousand and fifteen dollars. 24768°-61-2-PT 1-37 Ante, p. 370. National forests sur veys. Indian Department. Fort Hall Reservation. able. INDIAN AFFAIRS. That twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount heretofore approIrrigating work, priated for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system immediately avail- for the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, in Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided in the Act approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available for the purposes therein mentioned. Disbarment pro ceedings. Expenses. Supreme Court Reports. Alaska. Care of insane. Education tives. of na For the payment of all and any necessary expense incurred incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, including the salary of an attorney specially employed, to set aside illegal conveyances of title or protecting the possession of Seminole allottees to their allotted lands in the Seminole Nation, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, six thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Expenses of testimony in disbarment proceedings: For actual and necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department of the Interior, its bureaus and offices, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisions of the Supreme Court for two hundred and seventy copies of volumes two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twenty-three inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, and for fifteen copies of volume fifty-four of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, two hundred thousand dollars, so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: Provided, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated Services, Washing- and actual post of duty: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding seven thousand dollars may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Provisos. Limit of pay. ton, D. C. Supervision of expenditures. Reindeer. All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, twelve thousand dollars. |