IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—Fesrvary 14, 1855. 
ved, That there be printed, for the use of the House, ten thousand copies of the reports of surveys for a railroad to 
the Pacific, made under "d direction of the Secretary of War, embracing 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 J. C. Frémont, a a qx for a railroad from the head-waters of the Arkansas river into the State of California ; 
together with the maps and plates accompanying each of said reports necessary to pog them 
Attest : ROW FORNEY, 
Jude undi dn United. States. 
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION—CHAPTER 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 s the United wire to employ such portion of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and such other persons as 
mn make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practica 
economical route k a Giry from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and that the sum of one hundred an 
sity thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, err out of any money 
in the t not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and surv 
Approved des 3, 1853. 
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—CnaPrzz 60. 
Appropriation : For deficiencies for the railroad surveys between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, forty thou- 
rand dollars. 
Approved May 31, 1854. 
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cuaprrer 267. 
Appropriation : For continuing the explorations and surveys | io ascertain the best route for a railway to the Pacific, and 
fcr completing the reporte of surveys already made, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 
Approved August 5, 1854. 
