SIXTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 199. 1922. 557 sities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returnm from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public fands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses mcurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the be%nning of each re ular session thereof. _ The use of the fund created gy the Act of March 2, 1895 (28th g,g,?'§Y,,v'§§]§{ ”"1'°°d Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices "°‘·”8·P·9"7- is extended or one ear from June 30, 1922: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of fimd shall be used for the purposes above ` indicated. ruqueimn. _ Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers ,,§°g”t°” md ”°°"' of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land P°“·_P~ 766- offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $372,000: Provided, £2°§'{'°°.{;,t,d ,,4;;.,,, That the offices of registers and receivers at the following land offices are hereby consolidated, and the ap licable provisions of the Act ’ aplproved October 28, 1921, shall be igollowed in effecting such conso idationsz Montgomery, Alabama; El Centro, and Susanville, California; Duran 0 Lamar, and Montrose, Colorado; Coeur d'Alene and Lewiston, ddaho; To eka, Kansas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Cass Lake, Crookston, and If)uluth, Minnesota; Jackson, Mississi%»i; Billings, Great Falls, Kalis el, and Missoula, Montana; Lincoln, 1 e- braska; Elko, Nevada; Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Vernal, Utah; Walla Walla, and Yakima, Washington: Limmt, mm Provided further, That, with the exception of the land offices men- taining assmiiiiiin offices. tioned in the last receding proviso, and also the land offices at Eu- P°"· *’·"°“· reka, Califomia, Nancouver, Spokane, and Seattle, Washington, and Burns, Oregon, and where the land office shall be the onl remaining land office m any State, no money herein appropriated, shall be expended for the maintenance of an land office, other than as is provided in this paragraph, in a land district having public land area of less than one hundred thousand acres, or whose cost of maintenance shall exceed 33i; per centum of the revenues of the office for 8,,,.,,, 6,,,,, M°__ the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921: And Hrmrided further, That the ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤f*¤¤¤<i· land office at Springfield, Missouri, and the offices of register and receiver thereat are ereby abolished. Commgm mmm Contin ent expenses of and offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other ` incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses Pxdimsllbmmm of de ositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detail)ed to examine the books and manavement of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of vo, 38 m new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section ’p` 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, mm and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks: Provided, Expenditures um- That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by im registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices exceyéiggpon pgevious specific authorization by the Commissioner of the eral nd Office, $350,000. _ .1.,,;,,,,,,, d,,,,,d,__ Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settle- ticm, pmacrmga and ment of claims for swamp land and swamp·land indemnity: For "_$p_553_ protecting timber on theupublic lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and es relatingi to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal an fraudulent ent1éy_or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, an indemn1_ty for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services m bringing up and maldng current the work of the General Land Office, $525,000, including not exceeding $35,000 for the purchase of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use 0 agents and others em loyed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exclian e of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor p,,,,,,,,,, boat: lgromkled, That the compensation of the chief of field service Fwd 5¤"*°° ¤•Y· employed hereimder, including his services in the District of Colum-
