A.-Statement showing the amount, character, and present condition of the surveys in Minnesota, &c.-Continued. St. Paul, Minn., August 31, 1976. SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, J. H. BAKER, Surveyor General. B.-Statement of original, Commissioner's, and register's plats made and date of transmission to the general and local land offices, since the date of last annual report. *Field notes returned, but plats Dec. 21, 1875 not yet completed. B.-Statement of original, Commissioner's, and register's plats made, &c.—Continued. SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, Saint Paul, Minn., August 31, 1876. Total. NOTE.-The register's plats and descriptive notes of townships 163 and 164 N., ranges 46 to 51 W., inclusive, were burned in the mail car, at Brainerd, Minn., on the night of November 23, 1875. C.-Statement of townships surveyed in Minnesota from August 26, 1875, to date, showing area and number of miles surveyed, including meanders in each. J. H. BAKER, Remarks. C.-Statement of townships surveyed in Minnesota from August 26, 1875, &c.—Continued. D.-Estimates of appropriations required for continuing the public surveys in Minnesota for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878. FOR FIELD WORK. For meridian and standard lines, 463 miles, at $15 per mile. $6,945 00 9,000 00 For township lines, 750 miles, at $12 per mile INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. For pay of messenger, stationery, books, printing, binding, and other incidental expenses SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, $1,600 00 J. H. BAKER, Surveyor General. St. Paul, Minn., August 31, 1876. E.-Statement of the incidental expenses of the office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. D.-Annual report of the surveyor general of Dakota Territory. UNITED STATES SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF Dakota, Yankton, August 25, 1876. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report in duplicate of the field and office work performed in this surveying district since the date of my last annual report, together with the usual statements relating thereto, and marked A, B, C, and D; also, a map of Dakota, showing the extent of surveys up to the present date. SURVEYS. All surveys contracted for to be paid out of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, have been completed, amounting to 6 miles of standard lines, 1,429 miles 0 chains and 49 links of township lines, 4,422 miles 9 chains and 57 links of subdivisional section lines, and 213 miles 5 chains and 60 links of meander lines. The remaining portion of the survey of the Yankton Sioux Indian reservation into 40 acre lots has been completed, amounting to 78 miles 31 chains and 47 links of township lines, and 1,928 miles 27 chains and 89 links of subdivisional and meander lines. There has also been surveyed by Charles H. Bates, under his contract for the survey of the Devil's Lake Indian reservation, 53 miles 44 chains and 65 links of boundary lines, 58 miles 79 chains and 21 links of standard lines, 107 miles 45 chains and 13 links of township lines, 715 miles 52 chains and 35 links of subdivisional lines, and 100 miles 69 chains and 74 links of meander lines. There has been surveyed by deputy surveyor Thomas B. Medary, under his contract for the survey of the Peoria Bottom and adjacent lands, 87 miles 1 chain and 74 links of standard lines, 68 miles 64 chains and 69 links of township lines, 977 miles 25 chains and 8 links of subdivisional lines, and 17 miles 30 chains and 10 links of meander lines. OFFICE WORK. The field notes of all the above-described surveys have been carefully examined and approved. Diagrams have been made and the field notes transcribed of all the above described standard and township lines, and transmitted to the General Land Office. The field notes of the subdivision of 84 townships and fractional townships of the public lands have been protracted, triplicate maps of each one thereof constructed, and the maps filed and transmitted as required by law. Transcripts have been prepared and trans |