The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-22

| this shall be taken as prima facie evidence
| that the forty-acre division within which 1t
| is located is mineral land; provided, that
! the word mineral" where it occurs in
this act, shall not be held to include iron
or coal; and provided, further, that the
classification of lands hereby authorized
shall not be controlled by any previous
examination or report or classification
thereof; and provided, also. that appeals
shall be allowed from the decisions of the
register and receiver to the commissioner OF
the general land office, and to the secretary
of the interior, under such rules and regu-
lations as the secretary OF the interior may
prescribe.
SEC. o. That each of said commission
ers shall receive his travelling expenses and
$40 for each day he is actually engaged in
the performance of his duties, and the ac-
counts of said commissioners shall be
audited by the secretary of the interior,
and paid monthly; and each attorney so
appointed by the president of the United
States shall receive his reasonable travel
ing expenses from his place of residence TO
the United States land office, which he is
required to attend, and return, and $l5 for
each day he is actually engaged in the per-
Torrance of his duties, and his accounts
shall be audited by the secretary of the in
terror, and paid monthly.
SFC. Z. That there is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated the sum of $4,000, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, to
be expended to carry into effect the pro-
visions of this act.
The fourth and last is bill to appropri-
ate money for the construction of works
to impound mining debris, and thereby to
protect the navigabie streams OF Califor-
mia. 1t reads rs follows:
Section l. That there is hereby appro-
priated out OF any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated the sum OF
81 ,030, 900, which sum shall be immedl-
ately available and shall be expended
under the direction of the secretary OF
war. in accordance with the plans. specih-
cations and recommendations of the Cali
forna Debris commission.
SEC. =. Whenever any such works for
the restraining and impouuding OF mining
debris shall have been constructed out OF
such approximation, or shall have reached
such a stage as, in the opinion of such COM
mission, it shall be safe to use the same, it
shall be lawful for such commission to
make the order provided for in section 13
of said act, upon proceedings being first
had and taken in accordance with the pro-
visions of sections 9, l l and 2 of said act,
but in such cases the owners of the mines
affected by said orders shall not be bound
by the proviso to said section Is of said act
nor by the provisions contained in section
8 thereof.
SEC. 3. The said commission shall also
have the power to make the order provided
for in section IS of said act as to any mine
or mines whenever it shall appear to the
satisfaction of said commission that no
impounding works are nece sary other
than the means already provi6 j by nature
to protect from material injury the naviga-
BILE streams mentioned in said act and the
land adjcent thereto, upon proceedings
had in accordance with sections 8, 10 and
= of said act.