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1626 claims. The cost of such surveys shall not exceed
1627 ten dollars per mile for standard lines (and the
1628 starting-point for said survey may be established by trian-
1629 gulation), seven dollars for township and six dollars for
1630 section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General
1631 Land Office may allow for the survey of standard lines in
1632 heavily timbered and mountainous land a sum not exceeding
1633 sixteen dollars per mile, and for township lines not exceed-
1634 ing fourteen dollars, and for section lines not exceeding ten
1635 dollars; and the amounts hereby appropriated for surveys
1636 of public lands shall be made available immediately.

1637 That not-exceeding the sum of twenty-four thousand
dollars herein is appropriated for the survey-of-public-lands
1638
1639 may be used for the survey of timbered lands exclusively.

1640 GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES.

1641
1642 Continuation of the geological and geographical survey
1643 of the Territories of the United States: Under Professor F.
1644 V. Hayden: For salaries of scientific corps; for employees in
1645 the field; transportation of party to and from field; office-rent,
1646 stationery, and postage; expressage and freight; outfitting
1647 and provisions during field-season; purchase of and ranching
1648 animals; purchase of and repairing instruments; miscellaneous
1649 expenses in field, such as provisions, toll, and blacksmithing,
1650 and preparation of reports, seventy-five thousand dollars

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1651 to be available immediately: Provided, That the money
1652 hereby appropriated shall be expended only in prosecuting
1653 said survey north of the forty-second parallel and west of
1654 the one hundredth meridian.

1655 Under Professor J. W. Powell: For continuation of the
1656 geographical and geological survey of the Rocky Mountain
1657 region, fifty thousand dollars; to be available immediately:
1658 Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall be
1659 expended only in prosecuting said survey south of the
1660 forty-second parallel and west of the one hundredth
1661 meridian.

1662 And the National Academy of Sciences is hereby
1663 required, at their next meeting, to take into consid-
1664 eration the methods and expenses of conducting all sur-
1665 veys of a scientific character under the War or Interior Depart-
1666 ment, and the surveys of the Land Office, and to report to
1667 Congress as soon thereafter as may be practicable a plan for
1668 surveying and mapping the Territories of the United States
1669 on such general system as will, in their judgment, secure the
1670 best results at the least possible cost; and also to recommend
1671 to Congress a suitable plan for the publication and distribu-
1672 tion of the reports, maps, and documents, and other results
1673 of the said surveys.

1674 That the sum of twenty-seven thousand five hun-
1675 dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is