ESTIMATES.

A.-Estimates of appropriations required for continuing the public surveys in Dakota: For salary of surveyor general and pay of clerks in his office, as per act of Congress, March 2, 1861, and for the incidental expenses of the office, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880.

SURVEYS.

For surveying standard lines..

For surveying township lines

For surveying and subdividing townships

Total for surveys..

For salary of surveyor general....

For pay of clerks in his office

For rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

UNITED STATES SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

$1,620 00 19,000 00 105, 000 00

125,620 00

2,000 00

9,500 00

2,700 00

HENRY ESPERSEN, United States Surveyor General.

Yankton, Dak., July 22, 1878,

Number of contract.

B.-Statement showing the extent and cost of surveys executed in Dakota during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878.

Miles. chs.lks.
5 68 84

Miles. chs. lks.
156 03 62

Miles. chs. lks. 604 07 99

$4,775 54

1877.

163 July 6 Charles Scott

164 July 13 George G. Beardsley...

Exterior township and range lines of townships 150 to
156, inclusive, range 53; townships 150 to 152, inclusive,
range 54; townships 149 to 152, inclusive, range 55; sub-
division of townships 150, 151, and 152 north, range 54;
townships 154, 155, and 156 north, range 53; townships
157, 158, 159, and 160 north, range 52.
Subdivision of townships 150, 151, 152, and 153 north,
range 53, and townships 156, 157, 158, 159, and 160 north,
ranges 50 and 51.

165 July 6 Edwin H. Van Antwerp. Subdivision of township 115 north, range 62; townships

113, 114, 115, and 116 north, range 63; townships 110,
111, 112, and 113 north, range 64, and township 108,
range 65.

Subdivision of township 120 north, range 60; townships
117, 118, 119, and 120 north, range 61, and townships
116, 117, and 118 north, range 62.

All the unsurveyed exterior and sudivision lines of frac-
tional townships 121, 122, 123, and 124 north, range 54;
townships 122, 123, and 124 north, range 55, and west
boundary of township 121 north, range 55.

Plats and field notes
transmitted, and
accounts audited
and closed.

C.-Statement of the condition of appropriation for survey of public lands in Dakota for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878.

No. of contract.

Contractors.

Amount.

Date.

Appropriation.

Oct. 2
1878.

164 George G. Beardsley

1,182 23

1,521 56