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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEsS. I. Cs . 137. 1928 . Offi ce al lotm ents . Printing and binding . For Department, bu- For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, resus, etc . inclu ding all of its bu reaus, of fices, in stitutio ns, and s ervices i n the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Alaska Railroad and the Bureau of Reclamation, $256,500, of which $27,000 shall be for the National Park Service, $45,000 for the Bureau of Education, and $120,000 for the Geological Survey, of which latter amount not more than $25,000 may be used for engraving . General Land Office . Commissioner, and office personnel .

For C ommis sione r of the Gener al L and O ffice and othe r per sonal Proviso . services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classifi- Acting depositary of cation Act of 1923, $675,000 : Provided, That the depositary acting public moneys .

for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Clerk tosignlandpat- ent s

Office to act as such depositary in his absence . One clerk of grade 1, . clerical, administrative, and fiscal service, who shall be designated by the President, to sign land patents . General expenses, public lands. Traveling expenses, maps, etc. Restoring lands in national forests, etc. Hearings in land en- tries, etc . Proviso . Deposition fees. Land Office maps . Distr ibuti on, e tc . Public lands. Survey ing ex penses . Ante, p . 201 . cals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the busi- ness of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the In terio r De partm ent h erein nam ed, t here is h ereby made avai labl e -from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following respective sums : Office of the Secretary, $900 ; Indian Service, $200 ; Bureau of Educati on, $1,400 ; Bureau of Reclamation, $1,500 ; Geological Survey, $2,000 ; National Park Service, $500 ; General Land Office, $500 . PRINTING AND BINDING GENERA L LAN D OFF ICE SALA RIES GENERAL EXPENSES For traveling expenses of officers and employees, including em- ployment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary ; for separate maps of public-land States and Alaska, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared by the General Land Office ; for the reproduction by photolithography or otherwise of official plats of surveys ; for expenses of restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves and of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes ; and for expenses of hearings or other pro- ceedings held by order of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands, whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with the law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $20,000 : Provided, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 25 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 5 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. For connected and separate United States and other maps, pre- pared in the General Land Office, $ 50, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes . All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use . Surveying public lands : For surveys and resurveys of public lands, exam ina tion of surv eys here tof ore made and rep ort ed t o be de- fectiv e or f raudul ent, i nspect ing mi neral d eposit s, coa l fiel ds, an d