No. 16.-Estimates of appropriations required, &c.—Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. for each Estimated amount which will be re detailed object of Total amount to be Amount appropria- | 1879. Salaries: PUBLIC LANDS-Continued. Office of surveyor general of Washington 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 $6,500 are submitted for the compensation of clerks in the office of surveyor general of Washington Territory, required for the purpose. not only to expedite the current office work, but to bring up considerable arrears in the transcription of the field notes of former surveys of the public lands and donation claims, and recording the same as required by law; the accumulation of this kind of work having taken place during ten years in consequence of insufficient means provided for that purpose. As the original field notes are in a very dilapidated condition, further delay in transcribing them in proper books will cause great loss, and embarrass not only the public interests but those of individual owners of land. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Nebraska and Iowa. 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 $6,300 estimated for clerk hire is to cover the pay of five clerks actually needed for the transaction of the ordinary busines of the office and which amount is allowed by law. Salaries: Ofice of surveyor general of Montana. 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 $4,800 is estimated for the pay of clerks in the surveyor general's office to transact the official business consequent on the survey of agricultural and mineral lands in Montana: especially the latter surveys, being on an increase, will demand constant work in the examination of complicated claims, protraction of numerous plats, recording the same, transcribing field notes and other duties devolving on the clerks too numerous to state. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Utah. 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 $7,000 is submitted for the compensation of clerks in the office of surveyor general of Utah, indispensably needed to attend to extensive surveys of mineral claims, preparation of maps and field notes of the twenty-nine mining districts, and to transact the usual regular business in the office which will have been delayed on account of small appropriation made for the service during the present fiscal year. Salaries: Office of surveyor general of Wyoming. 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 submitted for compensation of four clerks in the office of surveyor general of Wyoming Territory required to transact the official business devolving on it and to bring up the arrears consisting of the preparation of descriptive lists of corner boundaries of public lands, quality of soil, and timber of 118 townships, 236 lists for the local land offices and for the record in the surveyor general's office. $2,500 00 2,000 00 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. Estimated amount which will be re quired for each Total amount to Amount appropri 1879. Contingent expenses: Stationery, diagrams, parchment paper for land patents, furni ture and repairs of the same, miscellaneous items, for the actual expenses of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, and for advertising and telegraphing, per act May 8, 1872 (17 Stat., p. 75. sec. 1): June 10, 1872 (17 Stat.. p. 364, sec. 1); and June 19, 1878 (Public, sec. 199) Map: For connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in this office, per act June 23, 1874 (18 Stat., p. 213, sec. 1.) and March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., p. 374, sec. 1) Printing, binding, &c.: Land Office reports, circulars, patents, tract books, indexes, records, field notes, abstracts, and other miscellaneous printing and binding required for the use of the office, per act May 8, 1872 (17 Stat., p. 82, sec. 2): June 23, 1874 (18 Stat., p. 204, sec. 1); and March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., p. 371, sec. 1). For rebinding tract books in constant use, which have become damaged by age or by the injury resulting from the late fire, and transcribing the same when necessary. NOTE. The necessity for this appropriation is very urgent, the books being in danger of complete destruction, and no copies of them being in existence. These tract books constitute the only practicable and accessible record of original entries; and not one of them could be lost without a cost of several hundreds of dollars to replace it. Collecting revenue from sales of public lands: Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of district Expense of depositing public moneys, per act June 23, 1874 (18 For the protection of timber on the public lands, per act March Total No. 14.-Detailed estimate of amount for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of the several land offices during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. 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, being that part of the 45th parallel of north latitude included between the 27th and 34th meridians of west longitude from Washington Observatory, at a rate not exceeding $75 per linear mile, estimated distance 334 miles (submitted) 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 res ervation 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 25, 050 |