FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 424. 1899. 1099 For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mi¤¤*¤1*¤¤¤¤*¤¤¤· United States, thirty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the pay- Bwknwwment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, M¤r¤- sixty thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the ,‘i¤¤¤¤€ WMM ¤¤1>- United States, including the investigation of underground currents py` and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, fifty thousand dollars; • For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been $¤"¤y¤f f¤r¢¤¢ rvor may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and °°"°°` thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, six Rmthousand two hundred.dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey. seven hundred and twenty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. _ Any balance of the appropriation of seven thousand six hundred sumy of naman-y and fifty dollars provided for in the sundry civil Act approved June 2,*3 }’§§{,'§Y“M°“°““ fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for surveying the boundary 5*-“••:•·1»·3=¤-_ H f line between Idaho and Montana, that may remain unéxpended on the m”°°"“ °° °r’ thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred. INDIAN AFFAIRS. · Imam Aman. For expenses under the Act “For the protection of the people of the K¤l*¤¤ 'fgci*¤=‘y}, Indian Territory, and for other purposes/’ approved June twenty-eighth, expgrzlgp ..P"§'§r fg; eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely: §}f"°°°‘°“ °‘ P°°Pl° For pay of employees in the Indian Territory, eight thousand dollars; Am, p. ms. — For incidental and traveling expenses, three thousand dollars; In all, eleven thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to I f1b¤¤¤¤w Nation of pay, from the funds in the Treasury belonging to the Choctaw Nation Drtgliieutsurmmm of Indians, outstanding warrants not exceeding in amount the sum of ;f¤g_¤*¤°¤¤¤*¤¤ WM- seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That before any of said war- r;J»a»._ _ rants are paid the Secretary of the Interior shall cause an investigation "‘“*°“"¤*‘”’°”- to be made to ascertain whether such warrants have been duly and legally issued, and are a valid and subsisting obligation of said nation; and payment of the same shall be made by some official or employee designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. jH}:;s¤·cllunvoixs ob- Pmwnxsn or LAND Raooans: To enable the Secretary of the m;?;;;;;; °{,r£m·¤i Interior to purchase from Albert Douglas, administrator of the estate Kenemktennnoiiis of Samuel Kendrick, deceased, late of Ohio, certain original records 1***** '°°°'°°· and indexes of lands, surveys, maps, and papers pertaining to lands and locations within the Virginia military districts of Kentucky and Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars; and the owners or holder of all out- opaamn¤g vn-. standing military land warrants or parts of such warrants issued or $;',l_E,m§j“}§'{° lx: allowed by the State of Virginia for military services performed by the r¤¤•i¢r¤d· officers and soldiers, seamen, or marines of the Virginia State and Continental lines in the Army or Navy of the Revolution are hereby notified and required to present and surrender them to the Secretary of the Interior within twelve months from the passage of this Act for his action under the provisions of the Act entitled **An Act making wt 10. p.143. further provisions for the satisfaction of the Virginia land warrants,” approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and nity-two; and all such warrants or parts of warrants not so presented and urrendered to the Secretary of the Interior shall be forever barred and invalid.
