FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14. 1900. 21 determined by a board appointed by the Secretary of the interior to assess damages, two hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents. For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several S‘”*“°“~‘“’Y· bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, eleven thousand dollars. PATENT OFFICE. P“‘°“*°“°"· For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quar- off¤¤i¤1G¤¤¤t¢¤-I terly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, twenty-eight thousand dollars., . For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; C<>pi<~>S <>f<i¤¤vi¤s¤ for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; em and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work 1‘Gf(·}1‘1`€(]. to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done as provided by the "Act providing' for the public rintin vo; 28_ p_ 620_ and binding and for the distribution of public documents: ” §0videc§ Prvvisv- That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office mZll°iri§r1&i¤gG8`§§g.' if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, thirty-five thousand dollars. runmo I.ANDs sERv1oE. P“b"°l““d“· SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS or REGISTERS AND REoEIvERs: For sal- ,,§§§g‘c§,§$,i,,,f°g‘S*°” aries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public·moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, forty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nineteen thousand and eighty-five dol-lars and five cents. _ CONTINGENT EXPENSES or LAND orrromsz For clerk hire, rent, and p,§,§€‘g§,}§‘,¥§,$,'{,§,,cgotljpr incidental expenses of the district land offices, fifteen thousand , i dollars. PROTECTION AND ADMINISTRATION or FOREST RESERVES: To meet the gggfggégssfggg- OL expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved Vo1.30,p.3l4. " June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents; supervisors, surveyors, ` rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertisin dead and matured tI·ees for sale within Such reservations: Prov-ideeZ,%hat forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and §r<¤»iSvS· I wd other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by u;eiif§e°¢i,%i§:s¤(icpe» the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness, mm “’·°‘°· and without regard for their political affiliations, 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, includin necessary . sleeping·car fares, thirty-five thousand dollars: P1·0vi0Ze0Zj§m5}ze1~, That Igvwction of fish forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons em- an g°m°‘ ` ployed in connection withithe administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish. and game. DErREDATIoNs ON PUBLIC TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS, AND tiggugg depredu- SETTLEMENT or GLAIMS FOR SWAMP 1.ANDs AND swAMr-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
