No. 15.-Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, by the General Land Office. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. Surveying the public lands. At rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of standard lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, and covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard lines, $16 for township, and $12 for section lines (R. S., p. 441, sec. 2395; appropriated, Stat. 1877-78, p. 229, sec. 1).. For survey of timbered lands exclusively. Survey of boundary between Territories of Arizona and Utah. For the survey of the boundary line between the Territories of Arizona and Utah, being so much of the 37th parallel of north latitude as is included between the 32d and 37th meridians of west longitude from Washington Observatory, at a rate not exceeding $75 per linear mile, estimated distance 277 miles (submitted) NOTE. The $20.775 is submitted for the purpose of establishing the boundary in order to define the political jurisdictions of the Territories of Arizona and Utah, so that the respective inhabitants may know to which particular Territory their rights of citizenship belong. The boundary is needed in order that the lines of public surveys projected from different bases and meridians may be closed thereon, also to enable settlers to apply to the proper land offices to secure their claims. Survey of northern boundary of Wyoming Territory. For the survey of the northern boundary of Wyoming Territory, NOTE. The $25,050 is estimated for the establishment and marking of the northern boundary of Wyoming Territory in order to segregate the River Crow Indian Reservation in Montana from the Territory of Wyoming, the south boundary of the reservation being coincident with the north boundary of Wyoming for a distance of 180 miles. The boundary is also required to be marked in the field in order that the lines of the public surveys in Montana may be closed thereon. Apportioned by Secretary of the Interior. 7,500 *4, 000 10, 000 *8,000 15,000 *2, 000 20, 775 23, 050 No. 15.-Estimates of appropriations required, &c.—Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. Appraisement and sale of Fort Reynolds military reservation, in Colorado, and other abandoned military reservations. For the appraisement of lands and the buildings erected by the United States and sale of the same to the highest bidder, per act of June 19, 1874 (18 Stat., p. 85), and act of February 24, 1871 (16 Stat., p. 430); submitted.. NOTE. The lines of public surveys have been extended over the reservations, as provided by law, but no disposal thereof has as yet taken place for want of means necessary to cover the expenses of the appraisement, advertisement, and sale. Examination of public surveys. For occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, inspect mineral deposits, coal fields, timber districts, &c., (R. S., p. 392, sec. 2223; appropriated, Stat. 1877-78, p. 229, sec. 1).. NOTE. $10,000 is estimated to cover expenses of examiners, to be designated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office or surveyors general, to test the fidelity of the execution of the field work; also to enable surveyors general to satisfy themselves of the correctness of surveys returned to them for their examination and approval, and to secure thereby a faithful execution of the work by deputy surveyors. Retracing and reproduction by photolithography of worn and defaced official township plats. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys now on file and constituting a part of the records of said office (appropriated, Stat. 1877-78, p. 229, sec. 1) .. NOTE. The sum of $15,000 is required to prevent a total obliteration of designations on official township plats, defaced and mutilated by constant use during a period of eighty years, thus rendering them unreliable in furnishing certified copies under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat., p. 375, sec. 461). Recovery of an iron monument from the Colorado River of the For recovering and restoring in the proper place one of the iron monuments marking the boundary between the States of Cali fornia and Nevada; submitted.. NOTE. $205.28 is submitted to pay W. H. Sailsbury for his personal services, hire and board of Indians, and hire of team in removing from the Colorado River a large iron monument which by an overflow of the river was undermined and washed away, and replacing the same on the proper boundary line, per itemized bill, supported by his affidavit and corroborated by statement of Capt. J. J. Van Horn Eighth Infantry, commanding Camp Mojave, Arizona Territory. The service of Mr. Sailsbury having been recognized by this office as of importance to the government, and there being no funds applicable to payment therefor, this sum is submitted for the purpose. Total * App ortioned by Secretary of Interior. J. A. WILLIAMSON, Commissioner. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTELIOR, General Land Office. September 26, 1878. No. 16.-Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, by the General Land Office. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 390, sec. 2208; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $18,800 is estimated for compensation of clerk hire, consisting of three regular clerks and draughtsmen, calling for $4,800, and fourteen $1,000 clerks, to bring up the arrears in office work of many years' standing, viz, to prepare duplicate patent plats of confirmed private land claims, of which there are about six thousand entitled to patents, and which cannot be patented until such plats are made; also, to transcribe field notes of surveys of about seven hundred and eighty townships, for a long while in arrears, and requiring one month of time to copy the notes of six townships by one clerk. Very limited appropriations for office work in former years caused so extensive arrears. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Florida. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 390, sec. 2208; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE.-The $4,200 for clerk hire is submitted, it being actually required to transact the current work, and to bring up the arrears in office work retarded by former inadequate appropriations for the same. The arrears consist of 163 townships of descriptive notes of surveys for registers' offices, under diagrams to original field notes and original township plats, and the completion of the condensed history of the private land claims of volume 4. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Minnesota. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 390, sec. 2208; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $8,500 is estimated for seven clerks, to enable the surveyor general to employ them to attend properly to current office work, as well as to the bringing up of the work remaining in arrears on account of heretofore restricted appropriations for the purpose. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Dakota. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 390, sec. 2208; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE.-The sum of $6,500 is estimated for compensation of five employés in the surveyor general's office, consisting of a chief clerk, two draughtsmen, and two transcribing clerks, actually necessary to keep pace with the field work and avoid any arrears in the office work. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Colorado. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 391, sec. 2210; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE.-The $7,500 is estimated for the compensation of five clerks and draughtsmen in the surveyor general's office to attend to the office work consequent on surveys. of public lands and mineral surveys, which latter are sensibly increasing in Colorado, and involve considerable labor in the preparation of the requisite office work. Arrears of four years are reported by the surveyor general: from the necessity of binding the field notes of surveys, and the fact that the appropriation for the current year has been reduced to less than one-half the amount estimated, the present estimate will be actually needed for the service. No. 16.-Estimates of appropriations required, &c.—Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. for each Estimated amount which will be re tailed object of Total amount to be appropriated un- Amount appropri Salaries: PUBLIC LANDS-Continued. Office of surveyor general of New Mexico. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 391, sec. 2210; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $12.000 is submitted for compensation of chief clerk and translator of Spanish language in the adjudication of private land claims in New Mexico, $2,000 per annum, two draughtsmen at $1,500 each, and five clerks at $1,400 each. This force is deemed necessary in view of the diminished appropriation for the like service of the current fiscal year, and also of the arrears existing in the preparation of diagrams of private land claims for the registers, showing the surveying limits of the same. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of California. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 391, sec. 2210; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $27,000 estimated for clerk hire in the office of surveyor general of California is to enable him to successfully cope with a very diversified office work called for by numerous acts of Congress. The maximum allowance by the organic law of $11,000 per annum, having been found inadequate for several years past, appropriations were made of larger sums for the service, but not sufficient for bringing up the great arrears in the preparation of descriptive notes for the local land officers, as required by law. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Idaho. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 391, sec. 2210; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE.-The $4,000 estimated for the compensation of clerks in the surveyor general's office covers scarcely the pay of three clerks for the whole fiscal year, the third clerk receiving $700 for a part of the year. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878, (R. S., p. 391, sec. 2210; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226: appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $6.500 is estimated for clerk hire in the office of surveyor general of Nevada, to cover the compensation of clerks and draughtsman, to attend to the service of the pressing public concerns necessitated by the surveys of the agricultural, mineral, and other surveys; the extended mineral-land surveys demanding considerable labor in order to expedite the returns of numerous surveys. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Oregon. Surveyor general, per act June 19, 1878 (R. S., p. 390, sec. 2209; Clerks in his office (R. S., p. 393, sec. 2226; appropriated, Stat. NOTE. The $7,000 is submitted for the compensation of five clerks in the surveyor general's office, at usual rates per annum, actually needed to attend to the current official business, and to bring up the accumulated arrears in office work since 1862, especially in regard to the swamp-land business, and the transcription of donation claim field notes of survey, the original being in dilapidated condition. |