No. 15.-Estimates of appropriations required, &c.—Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. Estimated amount which will be re detailed object of | Total amount to be Amount appropri 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 California 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. No. 16.-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 quired for each Total amount to be Amount appropri- 1879. Salaries: PUBLIC LANDS. Office of surveyor general of Louisiana. 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 exten sive 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. 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 appropria- ¦ tion 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. 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. No. 16.-Estimates of appropriations required, &c.-Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. Estimated amount 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 elerks 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 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. |