House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents

General object.
(Title of appropriation.)

Estimates of appropriations required by the various Departments, &c.—Continued.

PUBLIC LANDS-Continued.

Amount due John A. Henderson, deputy surveyor, for surveys
executed under contract of December 23, 1875, being a defi.
ciency for the fiscal year 1876

March 3, 1875

18 383

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$302 63

$10,000 00

Amount due S. P. Henry, deputy surveyor, for surveys executed
under contract of January 21, 1875, being a deficiency for the
fiscal year 1875..

NOTE.-It is estimated that the surveys under the above con-
tract will amount to $750. An unexpended balance of $417 21
of the appropriation, to which it is properly chargeable, was
carried to surplus fund June 30, 1877, but being insufficient to
defray the estimated cost of the surveys under the above con-
tract, the amount is submitted as a deficiency.

Amount due Pierre A. Thibodeaux, deputy surveyor, for sur
veys executed under contract of July 17, 1875, being a defi.
ciency for the fiscal year 1876

Amount due Wm. E. Smith, deputy surveyor, for surveys ex-
ecuted under contract of May 4, 1871, being a deficiency for
the fiscal year 1872

Amount due S. Corwin and J. C. Handley, deputy surveyors,
for surveys executed under contract of February 26, 1873,
being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1873.
Amounts due for surveys executed under contracts, as follows:
Jasper W. Wilkins, deputy surveyor, under contract of
June 21, 1873.

Jason Owen, deputy surveyor, under contract of July 1, 1873.

John D. Crawford, deputy surveyor, under contrat of July 9, 1873

55 83

do.

181 54

Wm. H. Byars, deputy surveyor, under contract of July 14, 1873.

12 13

70 55

50,000 00

263 52

70, 000 00

L. F. Bannon and N. O. Walden, deputy surveyors, under contract of July 15, 1873.

Being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1874.

Amount due J. H. Evans and J. G. Gray, deputy surveyors, for surveys executed under contract of July 6, 1874, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1875.

NOTE.-The foregoing estimates for surveying public lands in
Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Oregon, are sub-
mitted in order to liquidate balances due to the deputy sur-
veyors for surveys executed under their respective contracts
entered into with the respective surveyors-general of the United
States and Territories. The deficiencies were caused by said
surveyors-general under-estimating the cost of the work em-
braced in the contracts, but as the surveys have been approved
and are available to the Government in the disposal of the lands
thus surveyed, the respective sums are submitted.
Amounts due for surveys executed under contracts, as follows:
New Mexico: Wm. H. McBroom, deputy surveyor, under
contract of September 27, 1876.

Arizona: Theodore F. White, deputy surveyor, under
contract of December 7, 1876.

Nevada: G. W. Garside, deputy surveyor, under contract
of November 11, 1876

Being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877.

NOTE. The foregoing estimates are for deficiencies arising
under limited contracts, the amount submitted being in excess
of the respective contracts, caused by the respective surveyors-
general under-estimating the cost of the work. The lands sur
veyed were included in the contracts, and the surveys having
been approved and made available in the disposal of the lands
so surveyed, the respective sums are submitted.

Amount due Sawyer & McBroom, deputy surveyors, for surveys
executed under contract of April 15, 1876, being a deficiency
for the fiscal year 1876

NOTE.-Sawyer & McBroom's contract was limited to the sum
of $9,900. The surveys executed by them under their con-
tract amounted to $10,372 83, exceeding the limit by $472 83.
The private land claims surveyed were authorized by their
contract, and the surveys having been approved, this item is
submitted.

California: Amount due John A. Benson, deputy surveyor, for
surveys executed under contract of November 14, 1876.
NOTE.-The above contract was for surveying the out-bound-
aries of the Round-Valley Indian reservation in California, for
which no appropriation is applicable. It was necessary, however,
to have the boundaries of this Indian reservation surveyed, in
order to make the adjacent public lands available, and to keep
white settlers from intruding on the reservation.

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General object.

Estimates of appropriations required by the various Departments, &c.-Continued.

(Title of appropriation.)

Salaries, office of surveyor Clerks in his office, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1878... general of Arizona.

March 3, 1877

Rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1878.

eral of Arizona.

Salaries, office of surveyor Clerks in his office, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1878. general of Colorado.

Rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1878.

NOTE.-The above estimated deficiencies arise from the fact that Congress has imposed upon the United States surveyorsgeneral the duty of examining and reporting upon the validity of title to private land claims in Arizona and Colorado-the estimated amount for clerk-hire being for the pay of a competent clerk in each office, versed in the English and Spanish languages, to act as translators; and the deficiencies in contingent expenses arise also under the duties of the United States surveyors-general, in examining and adjudicating private land claims. These estimates are necessary for the public service, unless Congress should, as recommended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, devolve said duties upon a board of commissioners to be authorized to act for that purpose. Salaries of clerks in his office, being a deficiency for the fiscal

year 1878.

NOTE.-The above estimate is submitted for salaries of two
draughtsmen and two copyists, for six months, in the office of
the surveyor-general of New Mexico. The sum of $33,500 having
been apportioned to New Mexico for the survey of private land

Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho.

Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada.

Geological survey of the
Territories.

claims from the appropriation of $300,000, of March 3, 1877, for
the survey of public and private lands, the appropriation of
85,000, of March 3, 1877, for salaries of clerks in said office, will
not be sufficient to pay the salaries of the clerks necessary to
perform the work arising under the above large apportionment,
and keep up the current business of the office. The services of
the present force of clerks will be required to perform the work
arising under the survey of public lands.

To pay L. F. Cartee, surveyor-general of Idaho, for expenses
incurred in investigating certain surveys, under instructions
from the General Land Office, dated November 19, 1868, being
a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871, and prior years........

NOTE.-The sum of $299 94 is submitted to refund the expenses
incurred in investigating certain surveys in the field, under in-
structions from the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
dated November 19, 1868, the contingent fund of the surveyor
general's office not admitting at the time of liquidating the
amount due him. This estimate was formerly submitted for
appropriation, but not eventuating in any provision for the pur-
pose, and the claim being a just one, and of long standing, is
herewith submitted again, with recommendation that it receive

Salary of messenger in surveyor-general's office, from July 1, 1876, to June 30, 1877

Amount due A. L. Bancroft & Co., for stationery, being de-
ficiencies for the fiscal
year 1877.

NOTE.-The foregoing deficiency in the salary of messenger in
the surveyor-general's office arises from the fact that the appro-
priation of $1,500 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was
insufficient to pay the salary of the messenger, and defray the
other necessary incidental expenses of the office. The messenger
was retained in the service by the surveyor-general during the
period specified, and, being entitled to his pay for said services,
the above estimate is submitted. The estimate of $68 75 is for
stationery purchased by the surveyor-general during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1877. The appropriation for that year
having been exhausted, the amount is submitted for appropriation.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Rent of building and office-furniture.
Preparation of atlas of the Black Hills

Engraving and printing of geological plates to accompany the
Black Hills report

NOTE. For explanation of these estimates, see Appendix, marked "N."

July 15, 1870