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the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds; one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars.

LIGHTING THE CAPITOL: For lighting the Capitol, including the Capitol grounds, the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars.

FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC-LIGHT PLANTS IN THE CAPITOL AND TO THE GROUNDS ABOUT THE CAPITOL: For additional engine and generator, running of conduits, wiring, lamps and fixtures, steam pipe and fitting, cables for feeder system, and for the pay of electricians, wire men, and laborers, said work to be done by the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules, in accordance with the plan adopted by said committee, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

VENTILATION, SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL: For the improvement of the ventilation of the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the installation of refrigerating apparatus, in accordance with the plans submitted by Professor S. H. Woodbridge to the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, said work to be done by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of said Woodbridge and the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules, fifty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC
LANDS.

Lighting.

Electric lights, Capitol and grounds.

Ventilation, Senate

wing.

Public lands.

Salaries,

and receivers.

registers

SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS OF REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF LAND OFFICES: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingentexpenses, other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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

land offices.

Depositing moneys.

Timber depreda

DEPREDATIONS ON PUBLIC TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS, tions, protecting pubAND SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SWAMP LANDS AND SWAMP-LAND lic lands, and swamp land claims. 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, ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed 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 and actual necessary expenses for transportation:

Proviso.
Agent's per diem.

tries.

EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hear- Hearings in land enings 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, ten thousand dollars. REPRODUCING PLATS OF SURVEYS: To enable the Commissioner of Reproducing plats 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, ten thousand dollars.

TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

of surveys.

Transcripts from

records.

Surveying.

Surveys, rates.

Provisos.
Preferences.

Vol. 25, p. 676.
Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.

SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.

For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twentyfive 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 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 eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations except that Extra rates for the Commissioner of the General Land Office may 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, when the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commis sioner, 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: Lands in California, Provided, that in the States of California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon,

heavily timbered, etc., lands.

Exceptional difficul.

ties.

etc.

Resurveys, etc.

Arizona, Wyoming, Washington, Colorado, and Utah 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. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for resurveys, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be expended for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts 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 Inspecting mineral and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making 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.

lands, etc.

Survey of private land claims.

Vol. 26, p. 854.

Abandoned military reservations. Vol. 23, p. 103.

Casa Grande.
Arid lands.

For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish a court of private land claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims, in certain States and Territories," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, twenty thousand dollars.

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, five thousand dollars. That under any law heretofore or hereafter enacted by any State, providing for the reclamation of arid lands, in pursuance and acceptance of the terms of the grant made in section four of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and Lien for expenses of ninety-four, a lien or liens is hereby authorized to be created by the State to which such lands are granted and by no other authority whatever, and when created shall be valid on and against the separate legal

Vol. 28, p. 422.

reclaiming.

subdivisions of land reclaimed, for the actual cost and necessary expenses of reclamation and reasonable interest thereon from the date of reclamation until disposed of to actual settlers; and when an ample Patents to States. supply of water is actually furnished in a substantial ditch or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a particular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue for the same to such State without regard to settlement or cultivation: Provided, That in no event, in no contingency, and under no circumstances shall the United States be liable. in any manner directly or indirectly liable for any amount of any such lien or liability, in whole or in part.

Proviso.
United States not

N. Dak.
Lease to Bismarck

That the city of Bismarck, in the State of North Dakota, by and Sibley Island, through its regular city council, shall have authority to use, upon lease from the government by the Secretary of the Interior, Sibley Island, for park. an island in the Missouri River near said city of Bismarck, for a public park: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the felling of timber on said island for sale or consumption, nor shall any timber be cut save for the purpose of improving or beautifying the grounds.

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

FOR SALARIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANTS OF THE GEOLOG-
ICAL 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, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:

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

Proviso.
Timber.

Geological Survey.

Scientific assistants.

Expenses.

Laborers, etc.

veys.

Proviso.
Marks of surveys.

For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surone hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; thirty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one-third of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian: Provided, That hereafter in such surveys west of the ninety-fifth meridian elevations above a base level located in each area under survey shall be determined and marked on the ground by iron or stone posts or permanent bench marks, at least two such posts or bench marks to be established in each township or equiv alent area, except in the forest-clad and mountain areas, where at least one shall be established, and these shall be placed, whenever practicable, near the township corners of the public-land surveys; and in the areas east of the ninety-fifth meridian at least one such post or bench mark shall be similarly established in each area equivalent to the area of a township of the public-land surveys;

For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available;

For continuation of the investigation of the coal and gold resources of Alaska, five thousand dollars;

For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, ten thousand dollars;

Geological surveys.

Alaska resources.

Paleontologic re

searches.

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Chemical researches.

Illustrations.

Mineral resources.

Books.

Maps.

Gauging water supply.

Rent.

Mineral lands, Montana and Idahe.

Commissioners to classify Northern Pacitic lands.

Vol. 28, p. 683.

Proviso.
Compensation.

Monthly reports.

Expenses.

Stenographers.

Supreme Court reports.

Vol. 25, p. 661.

Government Hospital for Insane. Expenses.

For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, seven thousand dollars;

For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, thirteen thousand dollars;

For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, twenty thousand dollars;

For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars;

For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, sixty thousand dollars; and hereafter the Director of the Geological Survey, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to sell copies of topographical maps with text at cost and ten per centum added;

For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, including the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, fifty thousand dollars;

For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, four thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, for the United States Geological Survey, four hundred and eighty-nine thousand one hundred dollars.

MINERAL LANDS IN MONTANA AND IDAHO.

For compensation of the twelve commissioners appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to examine and classify certain lands within the land-grant and indemnity land-grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in the States of Montana and Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or nonmineral character of such lands, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That said commissioners shall be paid at the rate of ten dollars a day each while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, which amount shall include their transportation and subsistence expenses, and that the total amount of compensation to be paid to each commissioner annually shall in no case exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars;

For publication of the monthly reports filed by said commissioners in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Moutana, and the Cœur d'Alene land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining to hearings ordered by, and conducted before, said registers and receivers, ten thousand dollars;

For the payment of stenographers employed by said commissioners when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of reducing testimony to writing in cases where it is found necessary to examine witnesses in order to establish the character of lands examined by said commissioners, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand dollars.

SUPREME COURT REPORTS.

To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and sixtyfour to one hundred and sixty-six, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and fifty-six dollars.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps,

Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty-four thousand four hundred and fifty one dol lars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends.

For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the
Insane, as follows:

For general repairs and improvements, fifteen thousand dollars.
For special improvements as follows:

For heating apparatus for new buildings, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For renewing and fireproofing floors, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For laboratory extension, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For electric fans and resistance coils, six thousand dollars.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs to the buildings of the institution and for the furnishing of the new buildings provided for by Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars.

Buildings and grounds.

Columbia Institution for Dear and Dumb.

Current expenses.

Vol. 28, p. 941.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Howard University.

For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment Maintenance. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars;

For books for library, law library, bookcases, shelving, and fixtures, nine hundred dollars;

For material and apparatus for chemical, physical and natural history, and laboratory, two hundred dollars;

Proviso. Use for theological bidden.

For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used, directly or indirectly, for department, etc., forthe support of the theological department of said university, nor for the support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction therein: And provided further, That no part thereof shall be paid to said university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under this appropriation.

EDUCATION IN ALASKA.

For the industrial and elementary education of children in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars.

REINDEER FOR ALASKA.

For support of the reindeer station at Port Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twelve thousand dollars.

Inspection, etc.

Education in Alaska.

Reindeer for Alaska.

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