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No. 2784.-AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropria tions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, etc., and for other purposes.

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For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of the for public sur-Treasury Department on account of surveying the public lands as follows:

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For the year eighteen hundred and eighty one, two thousand and ninety six dollars and twenty two cents.

For the year eighteen hundred and eighty, three thousand three hundred and eighty nine dollars and two cents.

See No. 2780.

Aug. 7, 1882. Vol. 22, p. 302. Page 327. Appropriation for surveys.

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No.2785.-AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Goverment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, and for other purposes.

For surveying the public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dolPortion appro- lars for township, and seven dollars for section lines: Provided, That priated to Louisiana how ap. the part of the sum hereby appropriated which may be apportioned to plied. the surveying district of Louisiana, together with such sums as have been or may be deposited for surveys therein by actual settlers, under sections twenty-four hundred and one, twenty four hundred and two, and twenty four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes, may be, in whole or in part, employed in making such resurveys as may be necessary in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and he may also, in his discretion, make resurveys of other portions of the public lands from this appropriation; and an amount not exceeding For examina- fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended for occasional examtions of public inations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, 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 inspecting mineral deposits, coal-fields, and timber districts: Provided Use of certifi- further, That no certificate issued for a deposit of money for the survey cates of deposit of lands under section twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised

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Statutes, and the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sev enty-nine, amendatory thereof, shall be received in payment for lands except at the land office in which the lands surveyed for which the deposit was made are subject to entry, and not elsewhere; but this section shall not be held to impair, prejudice, or affect in any manner certificates issued or deposits and contracts made under the provisions of said act prior to the passage of this act.

For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of superintendent and employees, fifteen thousand dollars.

See No. 2781.

MILITARY RESERVATIONS

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PUBLIC LAND STATES AND TERRITORIES,

DECLARED, ENLARGED, reduced, or RELINQUISHED-JUNE 30, 1880, TO AUGUST 8, 1882.

ARIZONA.

Fort Huachuca.-By Executive order, dated October 29, 1881, there was declared a military reservation for Fort Huachuca, on unsurveyed land, and adjacent to the Babacomari grant. Area not obtainable.

ARKANSAS.

Reserve at Hot Springs.-On November 17, 1880, an Executive order was made declaring all of block 94 of the official survey of the Government reservation at Hot Springs reserved for military purposes. Area, 64 acres.

CALIFORNIA.

Forts Reading and Crook.-By act of Congress of February 15, 1881, the lands included in the Fort Reading reservation, 3,962.90 acres, and in the Fort Crook reservation, estimated at 2,560 acres, were restored to the public domain. Ante, p. 1173, No. 2710.

COLORADO.

Reserve on White River.-By President's order, dated April 26, 1881, a reservation of 8 miles square on White River, within the ceded Ute reservation, was declared for military purposes. Area, 40,960 acres.

Fort Lewis.-By Executive order, dated January 27, 1882, there was declared a military reservation for Fort Lewis in townships 34 and 35 west, ranges 10, 11, and 12 west of New Mexico principal meridian. Area, 30,720 acres, exclusive of the area of claims excepted from reservation.

DAKOTA.

Fort Totten.-By President's order, dated February 10, 1881, part of Graham's Island or peninsula and part of Rock Island or peninsula, on north side of Devil's Lake, were proclaimed as part of Fort Totten military reservation. These tracts were intended to be reserved by Executive order dated October 7, 1873, reserving them as islands, but it was subsequently found that they were not islands but were or had become peninsulas. No change in area. Ante, p. 1174.

Fort Meade.-By President's order, dated 18th of April, 1881, there was declared a timber reservation for Fort Meade, consisting of sections 19, 30, 31, the south half of section 18 and west half of section 20, in township 5 north, range 5 east; east half of sections 24 and 25, and southeast quarter of section 13, in township 5 north, range 4 east, Black Hills meridian, Dakota. Area, 3,344.83 acres.

FLORIDA.

Government reserve.-By President's order, dated August 26, 1880, there was reserved in section 29, township 20 south, range 36 east, 1,000 feet on each side, and from the center of Haulover Canal, for Government or public use. Area about 93 acres.

KANSAS.

Fort Dodge. By act of Congress of December 15, 1880, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to cause all that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation lying north of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad Company's right of way, to be surveyed as other public lands, and offered to settlers under the homestead laws. Area of reduction not ascertained. Ante, p. 1176, No. 2733.

Fort Larned. By act of Congress of August 4, 1882, the Secretary of War is authorized to relinquish and turn over to the Department of the Interior, for restoration to the public domain, the Fort Larned military reservation. Area, 10,240 acres. Ante, p. 1176, No. 2741.

MICHIGAN.

Reserve at Sault Ste. Marie.-By Executive order, dated June 10, 1882, there was reserved for public purposes, in connection with the Saint Mary's Falls Canal, "all that part of the public lands lying north of the Saint Mary's Falls Canal grant, containing sixty-seven one hundredths of an acre, and situated in the northeast quarter of section 6, township 47 north, range 1 east, Michigan." Also all that part of the public lands lying south of the Saint Mary's Falls Canal grant, and between it and Portage street, in the village of Sault Ste. Marie, containing 8.74 acres, situated in section 6, township 47 north, range 1 east. Whole area, 9.41 acres.

MINNESOTA.

Fort Ridgely. By act of Congress of March 3, 1881, amending the act of July 1, 1870, all the lands within the limits of the Fort Ridgely military reservation are opened to homestead settlement and timber-culture entry as other public lands, and bond fide settlers under other forms of entry protected. 16 Stat., 187; Ante, No. 2748. Fort Abercrombie. By act of Congress of July 15, 1882, the military reservation of Fort Abercrombie, in Minnesota, is abolished, and the lands made subject to town-site homestead entry and sale as other public lands. Ante, No. 2749.

ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ.

Fort Maginnis.-By President's order, dated April 8, 1881, there was declared a reservation on unsurveyed land for Fort Maginnis; when surveyed the reservation will embrace parts of townships 16 and 17 north, ranges 20 and 21 east of Montana meridian. Area, 87,760 acres. By Executive order dated April 14, 1882, the boundaries of Fort Maginnis reservation were somewhat modified from those originally declared April 8, 1881, and the new boundaries were declared the permanent ones. Area reduced to about 31,000 acres.

Fort Assiniboine.-By President's order, dated June 16, 1881, the reservation of Fort Assiniboine-mostly within an Indian reservation-was modified as to its boundaries so as to correct errors in limits as declared by President's order dated March 4, 1880. Not materially modified in area. Ante, p. 1178.

Fort Benton.-By act of Congress of August 4, 1882, the Secretary of War is directed to restore to the Secretary of the Interior the military reservation at Fort Benton, to be disposed of under the public land laws. Ante, p. 1179, No. 2754.

NEBRASKA.

Fort Niobrara.-By President's order, dated June 6, 1881, the following-described tracts of land were reserved for the purpose of supplying Fort Niobrara with wood and timber, viz: All that part of township 34 north, range 27 west, not already embraced within the existing reservation, excepting school sections 16 and 35, the northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 28; the northwest quarter of northwest quarter, and lots 2 and 3 of section 27; the northeast quarter of southwest quarter; the west half of southwest quarter, and lot 3 of section 22; the east half of southeast quarter, and south half of northeast quarter of section 25; the east half of northwest quarter, the east half of southwest quarter, and lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of section 31, and the northeast quarter of section 33. In township 34 north, range 26 west, all of sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 29, 31, and 32; all of section 19, except lots 2, 3, 4, and 5; all of section 20, except the north half of southeast quarter and lots 5, 6, 7, and 8; and all of section 30, except the east half of northwest quarter and lots 1 and 2. In township 33 north, range 23 west, all of sections 5, 6, 7, and 8; and in township 33 north, range 27 west, all of sections 1 and 12, all west of sixth principal meridian, Nebraska. The addition to the reservation is 45 square miles and 17.43 acres, and the aggregate area of the reservation as enlarged is 54 square miles and 452.27 acres. Total area, 35,012.27 acres. Ante, p. 1179.

NEVADA.

Camp Halleck.-By Executive order, dated October 11, 1881, the boundaries of the post, hay, and wood reservations for Camp Halleck, declared October 4, 1870, were so modified as to conform to their representation upon the township plats. No material change in area. Ante, p. 1180

NEW MEXICO.

Fort Cummings.-By President's order, dated the 9th of November, 1880, Fort Cummings military reservation was enlarged so as to cover a tract 6 miles square. Area added, 20,420 acres. Ante, p. 1180.

Fort Wingate.-By President's order, dated March 26, 1881, Fort Wingate Reservation was enlarged by adding to it on the south a tract 3 miles wide and 10 miles long, thus making the reservation as enlarged to contain 130 square miles, or 83,200 Area added, 19,200 acres. Ante, p. 1180.

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OREGON.

Camp Harney.-By President's order, dated July 23, 1880, Camp Harney military reservation was proclaimed an Indian reservation and as constituting a part of the Malheur Indian reservation. Area, 1,912.14 acres.

WASHINGTON.

Fort Spokane.-By Executive order, dated January 12, 1882, a reservation of 640 acres on unsurveyed land was declared for the post of Camp (now Fort) Spokane, in Washington Territory, near the Spokane River, and in township 27 north, range 35 east.

WYOMING.

Fort Fred Steele.-By President's order, dated November 9, 1880, a reservation for wood and timber for Fort Fred Steele of what, when surveyed, will be sections 31 and 32, township 17 north, range 80 west; section 6 of township 16 north, range 80 west; and section 1 of township 16 north, range 81 west of sixth principal meridian. Area, about 2,560 acres. Ante, p. 1183.

Fort Laramie.-By President's order dated February 9, 1881, a wood and timber reservation was declared for Fort Laramie of the following-described lands: All of township 25 north, range 71 west, except sections 16 and 36; also sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of township 24 north, range 70 west; sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32, of township 25 north, range 70 west; and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of township 24 north, range 71 west; 62 sections in all. These sections are all unsurveyed except those described in township 25 north, range 70 west. Area, about 39,600 acres. Ante, p. 1183.