IN SENATE—Feprvary 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. Frémont, of a route for a railroad from the headwaters 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 five hundred 
copies be printed for the use of the Secretary of War, and fifty copies for each of the commanding officers engaged i in said 
service. 
Attest : ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. 
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION—CnarrER 98. 
Secr. 10. And be ii 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 he 
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 80 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, 1853. 
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cnaprer 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—Cuapter 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. i 
