FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEr;s. II. Ch. 853. 1901.. 1161 lars; 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; 'anitor, six hundred dollars; four messen ers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANTS or THE GEOLOGICAL Sunvnrz For two geol- S<=i<*=¤¢i¤¤ Mmmm ogists, 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 to(pographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty- nine thousan nine hundred dollars. Hereafter specific estimates shall be annually submitted to Congress Speciic estipmwsfcr for all personal services, including those of a technical or scientific grirgsriiidgieiirhriirdyie character, necessary to be employed in' the office of the Geological Survey at Washington, District of Columbia. Fox GENERAL EXPENSES OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For the Expenses- Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the eological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the nationa¥domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological maplof the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the Held and office, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the nterior, namely: . For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, sixteen Laborers. thousand dollars; _ For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic sur. including examination of and report on the topo raphy and geology v°"s‘ of the territory adjacent to the forty-ninth araIle1 west of the one hundred and tenth meridian, two hundred ang fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geological surveys. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Aissks resources. Alaska, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; " For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United Palgouwlogio ro- States, ten thousand dollars; mm es` For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the cnomroox, oro., re United States, twenty thousand dollars; S°“‘°h°S· For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, niwranoor. sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; I For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources. United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume, and as a distinct publ1cation, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including direct- B<><>k¤r¤¤<=- ories and professional and scientific dperiodicals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed one thousan dollars, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; For en raving and printing the geological maps of the United States, Maps. seventy fiousand dollars; 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 in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of
