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for completing the reports of surveys already made, ihe sum of one hundred and fifty t tho 
IN SENATE—FEBRUARY 24, 1855. 
Resolved, 'That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies of the several reporta 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 engi- 
neer, of a survey of a railroad route from Puget's Sound, by Fort Hall and the Great Salt lake, to the Mississippi river ; and 
ihe report of John C. Frémont, E a route for a railroad from the head-waters of the Arkansas river into the State of Cali- 
fornia ; 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 ون‎ of War, and fifty copies for each of the commanding officers engaged 
in said service. 
Attest: ` ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. 
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION—Chaprer 98. 
Secr. 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 
he may deem necessary, to make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most ae 
and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and that the sum of one hundred a 
fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money 
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and surveys. 
Approved March 3, 1853. 
— oe CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cuarrer 60. 
۲ : For deficiencies i ihe railroad surveys between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, forty thou- 
gand dollars 
Approved Ne 31, 1854. : $ . 
"s THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cuarrer 267. 
tion: For شاوی‎ the explorations and surveys to ascertain the best route for a railway to the Pacific, and 
usand dollars. 
Approved — 5, 1854. 
