ifornia, etc. and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve Lands in Cal- dollars for section lines: Provided further, That in * * * the district of Alaska there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for townsec. ship and twenty dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in Californ and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories Resurveys, and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there R. S., 2411. etc. Per diem. may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or frauduInspecting lent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf Monuments of the United States: Provided further, That the sum of not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable. mineral, etc., lands. for section corners. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Alaska. CARE AND CUSTODY OF THE INSANE OF ALASKA: For the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in sane." the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Education of natives. Books, etc. Limit of pay. EDUCATION IN ALASKA: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for textbooks and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, two hundred thousand dollars, so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: Provided, That no person employed hereunder Provisos. as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from their designated and actual posts of duty: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated not ex- Services, ceeding seven thousand dollars may be expended for per- D.. sonal services in the District of Columbia. All expenditures of money appropriated herein for Supervision school purposes in Alaska shall be under the supervision tures. and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. REINDEER FOR ALASKA: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, twelve thousand dollars; and all reindeer owned by the United States in Alaska shall, as soon as practicable, be turned over to missions in or natives of Alaska, to be held and used by them under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the sale of surplus male reindeer and make regulations for the same. The proceeds of such sale shall be turned into the Treasury of the United States. PROTECTION OF GAME IN ALASKA: For carrying out the provisions of an Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes," including Washington, of expendi Reindeer. Protection of game. salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. * UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. * NATIONAL CEMETERIES. (Bringing home remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad. See p. 113.) * * UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Alaska. Incidental expenses. Traveling expenses. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. * INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, DISTRICT OF ALASKA: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, six thousand dollars. TRAVELING EXPENSES, DISTRICT OF ALASKA: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. JUDICIAL. * (Expenses, U. S. courts in district of Alaska. See p. 224.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Bureau of American Re BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS: To enable the Interpublics. national Bureau of American Republics to provide and Exhibit at maintain an exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ExpoExposition by. sition, three thousand dollars, to be immediately Alaska Yukon available. CHAP. 301.-An Act Making appropriations for the Depart- Mar. 4, 1909. ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nine- [H. R. 27053.] teen hundred and ten. [Public, No. Department ap Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 1039. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby,, Agricultural appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the propriations. United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FOREST SERVICE. General ex United States. GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make penses. and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part Restricted to of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed five hundred dollars; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve the national forests; to ascertain the natural al forests. conditions upon and utilize the national forests; and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the national forests, * * * to be exported from the State, Territory, or the District of Alaska in which said forests are respectively situated: (Establishment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations in Alaska. See p. 224.) Provisos. Cost of bulld ings. Protecti on, etc., of nation ber. Sales of tim Mar. 4, 1909. [H. R. 28192.] [Public, No. 349.] 85 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1075. Mar. 4, 1909. [S. 2982.] [Public, No. 350.] 35 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1088. CHAP. 320.-An Act To amend the Acts respecting copyright. (Applicable to Alaska. See sec. 34, p. 236.) CHAP. 321.-An Act To codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States. (See p. 242.). |