FIFTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17. 1902. 21 CONTINGENT EXPENSES or LAND orrromsz For clerk hire, rent, and pe‘j,gg},*{;*n*{,°0*gc€§ X· other incidental expenses of the district land offices, fifty thousand " ' dollars: Prwided, That no expenses chargeable to the Government fgifgjit M ex shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local pénses. y ` land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasugy on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses of land o ces," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventy-five dollars. EXPENSES OF DE1=·oSrr1NG PUBLIC MONEYSI For expenses of deposit- D¤r><>¤i¢i¤s ¤=¤¤¤>·¤· in money received from the disposal of public lands, five hundred U dodlars. DE1·REDA1‘1oNs ON PUBLIC TIMBER, PROTECTING PUBLIC I.ANDs, AND tigygggteggggiggj SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SWAMP LAND AND SWAMP—LAND INDEM- lic lahds, and swamp- NITY: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, md °]“'“‘“· 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 swamplands, and indemnity for swamp lands, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, {#01**;}- d_ That a nts and others employed under this a propriation shall be gm ’p°r wm' selectedé by the Secretary of the Interior., 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, inclu ing necessary sleepingcar fares. EXPENSES or INSPECTORSZ For per diem in lieu of subsistence of p€£§§°'*"’“·°‘°·i°" inspectors and of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, tres asses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct; also of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars er day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleepingcar fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seven thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the a propriation ‘“Expenses, special ’and ins ectors, Department of the l)Ylt€I`l0l‘,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundlied and one, two hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents. Rnruonucmo LAND mccoaos, BrSMAaok. Noirrn DAr<o·rA: To enable §§‘,{”rgg$,';,,§g Dy; the Commissioner of the General Land Office to complete the repro- cms. duction of the official plats of United States surveys constituting a part of the records of the office of the surveyor- eneral at Bismarck, North Dakota, which was destroyed by fire on the eighth day of An ust, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. PAYMENT TO A. \V. BARBER: To pay A. W. Barber, clerk, division W-B¤;rj>¤r· of public surveys, General Land Office, for per diem in lieu of sub- 'umm °` sistence, at the rate of three dollars r day, as per orders of the Secretary of the Interior, dated Aprilmfirst, nineteen hundred and one, while engaged in the execution of the survey of certain tracts of mining claims excluded from the Navaho Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, as per account rendered and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three hundred and thirty dollars. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Ge01<>zic¤lS¤rvey- For rent of additional office rooms erected on the east side of the R°“”·°*°· building known as the Hooe Building, situated at thirteen hundred
