Number of contract.

Date of con-
tract.

B.-Statement showing the extent and cost of surveys executed in Dakota during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877.

Subdivision of townships 114 and 115, range 55, and
townships 114, 115, and 116, range 56,

Subdivision of townships 139 and 140, ranges 56 and 57;
township 141, ranges 54, 55, and 56, and township
142, range 54.
Subdivision of townships 114, 115, 116, and 117, range
57, and townships 115 and 116, range 58.
Subdivision of townships 118, 119, and 120, range 57,
and townships 117, 118, 119, and 120, range 58.
Subdivision of townships 143 and 144, ranges 53 and 54,
and townships 142 and 143, ranges 55 and 56.
Subdivision of township 117, range 59; townships 115,
116, 117, and 118, range 60, and townships 115 and 116,
range 61.

Subdivision of township 136, ranges 54, 55, and 56;
townships 137, 138, 139, and 140, range 60, and town-
ship 137, range 61.
Subdivision of townships 119 and 120, range 56; town-
ships 118, 119, and 120, range 59, and township 119,
range 60.

Subdivision of township 145, ranges 52 and 53; town-
ships 145, 146, and 147, range 54, and townships 146,
147, and 148, range 55.

The north and west exterior boundaries and the subdivision of township 149, ranges 53 and 54.

Total..

CR.

Nov. 6

162

Edward F. Higbee.

Nov.

157

D.-Statement of original, Commissioner's, and register's plats made, and date of transmission to the General and local land offices, since the date of last annual report.

E.-Statement of townships surveyed in Minnesota since last annual report, showing area and number of miles surveyed, including meanders, in each.

F.-Estimate of appropriations required for continuing the public surveys in Minnesota for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879.

For field work.

For meridian and standard lines, 242 miles, at $15 per mile

For township lines, 700 miles, at $12 per mile ..

For subdividing 30 townships, estimated 2,200 miles, at $10 per mile

22,000 00

For pay of messenger, books, printing, binding, and other necessary expenses...

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Saint Paul, Minn., August 31, 1877.

$1,500 00

J. H. BAKER,
Surveyor General.

G.-Statement of the incidental expenses of the office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877.

UNITED STATES SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF DAKOTA,
Yankton, August 10, 1877.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the annual report of surveying operations in this surveying district for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, compiled from the archives of this office, my charge of the affairs of the district covering but a few weeks of the close of the fiscal year.

FIELD WORK.

Surveys to the full amount of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, were contracted for and executed, amounting to 23 miles 77 chains and 55 links of township lines, 3,897 miles 1 chain and 77 links of subdivisional lines, and 55 miles 49 chains and 84 links of meander lines, comprising an area of 1,488,003.83 acres, and making a total of 17,800,644.09 acres of surveyed land in the Territory to this date, exclusive of Indian and military reservations.

OFFICE WORK.

Field notes have been transcribed and plats and diagrams made of the surveys described in Schedule F, and duplicates of field notes,plats, and diagrams transmitted to the General Land Office. Triplicate plats and descriptive lists of the surveys executed during the year have been transmitted to the proper local land offices. The original field notes of the surveys of the year have been securely bound and indexed, and are