1232 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 427. 1899. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight ten thousand dollars. g<>l=¤ C-¤·Bl¤>d¤· The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and °"°°° °` directed to pay to John C. W. Rhode, receiver of public moneys for the Weare (late Nulato), Alaska, land district, salary as such receiver, at the statutory rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to the present time, out of the current appropriation for salaries and commissions, registers and receivers; also reimbursement for his transportation and for freight charges upon Government property for said land office in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may deem just and equitable, payable out ` . of current appropriation for contingent expenses, land offices. I¤•>*•l¤¤*¤l°¤P°¤¤°¤- For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land , offices, twenty-tive thousand dollars. ggiaszylgfd 0*§°°; GENERAL LAND OFFICE: For the following additional employees 6.,., X ° mp °y in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the balance of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the same havin g been heretofore provided by law for theiiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, namely: _ For four clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each, and three laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixtydollars each; in all, two thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty cents. sismmk, umn. Reproduction of the official plats of United States surveys, diagrams, ,,,,,R;§§g;f,?§‘;‘Q$f’?,§j field notes, and correspondence, constituting the records and files of g¤¤<·¤¤1. <i¤¤¤¤y¤<\y¤>y the office of surveyor-general and register and receiver at Bismarck, "°= North Dakota, which were destroyed by fare on the eighth day of sues and type August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; also for safes and type- “'““°’“‘ writers for surveyor-generals’ offices and local land offices; the work " , to be done and purchases made under the direction of the Commis- . hmm. siouer of the General Land Office, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, g,E§‘j,°§”,,3‘i[';‘§”,§’,{','{fQ That two thousand dollars ofthis amount may be expended in the purchase of furniture, fixtures, and instruments in the office of the surveyorgeneral of North Dakota which were destroyed by fire. ga<»;s:¤lXé¤;¤¤¤=¤éc_ The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and coun; cr. directed to allow and credit on the accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of one hundred and sixty~two dollars and eighty-six cents, being the amount disbursed by him under the authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior irom the above-mentioned appropriation in payment of the salaries of W. S. Tancre from May twenty-third to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, seventy-seven dollars and ten cents; and O. H. Gates from May tenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at six hundred dollars per annum, eightynve dollars and seventy- six cents; in all, one hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, employees in the Gainesville (Florida) land office, temporarily detailed by the Secretary Vol-Zap-17¤~ of the Interior, under the provisions of section three of the Act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for duty in the office ufsurveyor-general at Tallahassee, to assist in bringing up to date the work of that office. m§_{)'°?;¤gg;f;Q,_d;gg:· To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and mm protecting publid for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the md"- cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and l indemnity for swamp lands, twentysix thousand five hundred dollars: §r¢g:::;1mdi2m· Provided, That agents and others employed under this appropriation g shall be selected 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. C£;·¤gL¤5{¤ Publishing To pay the accounts fully set forth on page twenty of House Docu- " ‘ ment Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, and in House Document
