1096 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 424. 1899. surveyed at the expense of the claimant by metes and bounds and a plat made of the same and filed in the local land ofnce, showing the land embraced in his original settlement which he desires to enter, not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres, and thereupon he shall be allowed to enter said land, as per said plat and survey, as a homestead; and the Secretary of the Interior shall make the necessary rules and Prvviw- _ _ regulations to carry this Act into eftect: Prorideel, That in any case p,§,]°j2i,:,°},,pl§{,§°¥""`°° where, upon investigation by a special agent of the Interior Department and after due and proper hearing, it shall be established that an entry interfered with the general water supply, or was detrimental in any way to the public interests, or infringed upon the rights and privileges of other citizens, the Secretary of the Interior shall have authority to cause said entry to be moditied or amended or in his discretion to nnally cancel the same. Hearings ni land EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hear- °'“"°°‘ a ings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, three thousand dollars. Reproducing plats REPBODUCING PLATS or sonvnxsz To enable the Commissioner of °f ““"°’“‘ the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced offi- · cial plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. 1Y<>r¤h¤r¤ P¤¤i¤<= The time for the completion of the classification of lands within the R°¥L’f'§g,,_683_ landgrant and indemnity land-grant limits of the Northern Pacino 0folL?D;;“56{a;sj **,*1: Railroad Company, authorized by the Act of Congress entitled “An grant u»._ _ Act to provide for the examination and classification of certain mineral w§fe';}““'·‘°” °f lands in the States of Montana and Idaho/’ approved February twenty- ` sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Acts supplementary thereto, is hereby extended to and, including the thirty-first day of . October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, on or before which date the work of the commissioners shall be completed and the said commissioners be discharged. ' Mineral 1¤m<1¤.M¤¤- MINERAL LANDS IN MONTANA ANI) IDAHO: For compensation until °'(}“,,’f,§":,i,`i,,“l,§`],‘ti,,.. and including October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, g{a_;g;;¤;`i;;m;;;]¤P;? of the twelve commissioners appointed under the Act of February cine `Rahman mu twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninetynve, to examine and classify €”““· certain lands within the land-grant and indemnity landgrant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. in the States of Montana and Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or nonmineral character of govisg- t such lands, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That said commissioners ”° p°"‘°°‘ shall be paid at the rate of ten dollars a day each while actually engaged in the peribrmance of their duties, which amount shall include their transportation and subsistence expenses, and that the total amount of compensation to be paid to each commissioner shall in no case exceed for the period named the rate of two thousand five l1undred V dollars per annum. 1<¤p<·¤¤··¢¢¢- For publication of the monthly reports tiled by said commissioners in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Coeur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining to hearings ordered by, and conducted before, said registers and receivers, three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars. smmgmpnm. For the payment of stenographers employed by said commissioners when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of reducing testimony to writing in cases where it is thund necessary to examine witnesses in order to establish the character of liaiips examined by said commissioners, three hundred and thirty-three o ars. I n all, thirteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. Examination of EXAMINATIONS OF DESERT LANDS.-—T0 enable the Secretary' of H10 d°$°(,Y§§f‘,§i°g22_ Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the
