1118 F IFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. C11. 1007. 1903. 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 eightly dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty do lars. S¢i¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤*S°¤¤*¤- Scrmurrmo ASSISTANTS or THE GEOLOGICAL 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 to ographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty- nine thousand) nine hundred dollars. F¤r>¤¤¤· Fon GENERAL Exrnnsres or mE Gnonoercn. 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, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying orest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientilic force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District ot Columbia, and all other necessary ex enses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction _ of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:
- ““u°" '“"°'°”· 4 For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,
twenty thousand dollars; ve';;P°¤’**Pl“° ¤“’· For topographic surveys in various portions- of the United States, three hundredthousand dollars, to be immediately available; _ G°°*°g*°’** S“"°Y¤· For geolo "cal surveys in the various portions of the United States, one hundrecfland fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Rgzaxnmlwc ¤‘¢· For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, ten thousand dollars; A§2Q§}"‘1 '°“°“'°°’* For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of _ Alaska, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; ,,,,2L$,‘“Q§$°I‘ °'°" "°“ For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; m““"“"°“" For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, M, I eigiiteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; m" '°”°"”°°”‘ or the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printingh of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of Book tc which shall be the same as of the annual repprt. fifty thousand dollars; ’” ° ‘ For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed two thousand dollars, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, four thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars; M"’”‘ For engraving and rinting the geological maps of the United States, one hundred thousand) dollars: W°“*"‘“”"‘ For uging the streams and determining the water supply of the UnitedSates. and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, two hundred thousand dollars; ,j}‘§§°’ °‘ *°'°“‘ "* For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: In all, for the United States Geological Surve , one million one hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred auch twenty dollars.
