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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I- Ch. 3. 1917. 19 available until expended, to meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. G , For compensation of George Watkin Evans for services as surveyor Ev§§lg° W"k‘" for the ins ection of mineral de osits in Alaska, from July fifteenth P“Ym°“"*°· to twenty-gist, nineteen hundred) and fifteen, and September twenty- first to twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at $8.50 per day, $102; and from September twenty-sixth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the rate of $175 er month, $29.17 ; in all, $l31.17. Omgm and Cam To enable the Secretary of the lnterior, in cooperation with the rmzgiggsgpimadxmas. Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to continue the classification %0;_3§"§E’§'§‘ of lands involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit, as authorized and directed by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixtegn, §$90,g00, go continue available during the Hscal ear nineteen un re an cig teen. . y Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and C°ntmg°m° I ` other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $25,000. For an amount supplemental and additional to the amount here- Hyg; “,§'§‘}*¥;m,d tofore appropriated to pay the certified claims on account of labor, °'¤*¤¤’·• supplies, material furnished and used in the construction of the Cor ett timnel and spillway, $3,556.96. irmnmronr on ALAsKA. ·““*"- That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, not to ,,,?,‘f,,°‘,§Y“"°”“‘°"“‘ exceed fifty per centum of the moneys received from gse sale of lots ugsgwfef !>¤b¤¤ utilior tracts within any town site or town sites heretofore or hereafter v’¤1.ah,p·s07. sold ursuant to the provisions of the Act of March twelfth, nineteen hundlied and fourteen, entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes/’ may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be set apart and expended within the respective town sites in which such lots or tracts are sold, for the purpose of preparing the land for occupancy, the construction, installation, and maintenance of public utilities and improvements, and the construction of public school buildings, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the moneys so set apart and designated are appropriated for the P I purpose o carrying these provisions into effect: romded, That such nambuistmm or moneys as may have been heretofore or may hereafter be expended *““‘°' P°Y“'°¤*¤· for such purposes under and by authority of the Alaskan Engineering Commission from the funds at its dkposal shall be reimbursed from the amount designated for the pmposes herein (provided: Provided further, That a report of the expenditures hereun er shall be made to R°p°r°' Congress at the beginning of each regular session. samr ELIZABETH,S nosprrn. H§g§‘,‘,‘§$i_m‘°b°‘”’ Rental for a system of telephones connecting the superintendents, Telephone mum physicians’, and em loyees’ quarters at the hospital with other locations on the hospital grounds may be paid hereafter from the a propriations for the support of the hospital; and the accounting ogcers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing agent the amounts of payments made by him for this purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.