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sary for the selection of the sites of the wells Avill be made, as also 

 the usual surveys over the routes pursued by the expedition; and bo 

 far as it can be done without interfering- with or adding to the expense 

 of the accomplishment of the special object for which the appropria- 

 tion was made, every opportunity will be availed of to gain informa- 

 tion respecting the region over which your movements will extend. 



You will obtain from the assistant quartermaster at Fort Fillmore 

 the boring apparatus, materiel, instruments, <fec., turned ov»r to him 

 by you at the termination of the work on the Pecos during the last 

 season. Upon the completion of the experiments of sinking artesian 

 wells, you will return by such route as the condition of your party 

 may render necessary or desirable, discharge your employes, dispose 

 of your outfit at some convenient and favorable point, and repair to 

 Washington with such assistants as may be required to completie 

 your report. 



The commanding officer of the department of Texas will be directed 

 to detail seventy-five enlisted men of the infantry, with two subal- 

 terns, and twenty-five enlisted men of the cavalry, with one subaltern, 

 and order them to report to you for duty, without delay, at San An- 

 tonio, Texas. 



The officers of the quartermaster's, subsistence, ordnance, and 

 medical departments, serving in Texas and New Mexico, will be in- 

 structed to furnish the expedition, upon your requisition, transporta- 

 tion, quartermaster's stores, provisions, arms, ammunition, medicine, 

 medical stores, &c., the articles for the use of the civil employes being 

 paid for out of the appropriation for the well. 



So far as it can be done consistently with the proper protection of 

 the work, you will cause working parties to be detailed from the 

 eoilisted men of your command to aid in the construction of the wells, 

 who will receive the extra pay allowed by partigraph 883, Army 

 Regulations. 



Immediately upon the receipt of these instructions, you will report 

 the kind and amount of boring apparatus, machinery, tubing, tools, 

 and materials, that should be provided for completing the experiments, 

 with their probable cost; the number of assistants and others whom 

 you propose to employ, Avith their rates of compensation; the train 

 and camp equipage necessary for the operation, with their estimated 

 cost; and the expense of organizing and maintaining the expedition 

 during one j^ear, and also for continuing it a second year. 



You will communicate with the department through the Office of 

 Explorations and Surveys, in charge of Captain A. A. Humphreys, 

 Corps of Topographical Engineers; and to this office you will make 

 the reports and returns required by "Regulations of an officer of 

 engineers in charge of a work or operation," and such other reports, 

 transmitted as often as the means of communication will alloN\^, as will 

 keep the department apprised of all your movements and of the pro- 

 gress of the work in your charge. 



Before taking the iieM, you will turn over to the same office the 



