IN SENATE FEBRUARY 24, 1855. 



Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies of the several reports of surveys for a rail 

 road to the Pacific, made under the direction of the Secretary of War; and also of the report of F. W. Lander, civil engineer, 

 of a survey of a railroad route from Puget s Sound, by Fort Hall and the Great Salt lake, to the Mississippi river; and the report 

 of John C. Fremont, of a route for a railroad from the head-waters of the Arkansas river into the State of California; together 

 with the maps and plates accompanying said reports, necessary to illustrate the same ; and that live hundred copies be printed 

 for the use of the Secretary of War, and fifty copies for each of the commanding officers engaged in said service. 



Attest: ASBUKY DICK1NS, Secretary. 



THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION CHAPTER 98. 



SECT. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the 

 President of the United States, to employ such portion of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and such other persons as ho 

 may deem necessary, to make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practicable and 

 economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the 

 treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and surveys. 



Approved March 3, ] 853. 



THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION CHAPTER 60. 



Appropriation: For deficiencies for the railroad surveys between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, forty thousand 

 dollars. 

 Approved May 31, 1854. 



THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION CHAPTER 267. 



Appropriation: For continuing the explorations and surveys to ascertain the best route for a railway to the Pacific, and for 

 completing the reports of surveys already made, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 

 Approved August 5, 1854. 



ERRATUM. On page 3, report of Secretary of War, for &quot;March 31&quot; read March 3. 



NOTE. In the note to Table A, page 31, report of the Secretary of War, marked thus *, which reads, &quot; These are the esti 

 mates of the office, those of Governor Stevens having been brought to the same standard of increased cost as the other routes, 

 and his equipment reduced to that of the other routes. His estimates were $117,121,000 and $7,030,000;&quot; the sum of 

 $117,121,000 is the estimate for the whole route from St. Paul to Seattle. From St. Paul to Vancouver the estimate of Governor 

 Steven s is $110,091,000. 



