n8 THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



1899 — Act of March 3, 1899; 30 Stat. L., 1074. (An act 

 making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the government for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.) 



That hereafter all standard, meander, township, and section lines of 

 the public land surveys shall, as heretofore, be established under 

 the direction and supervision of the Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office, whether the lands to be surveyed are within or without 

 reservations, except that where the exterior boundaries of public 

 forest reservations are required to be coincident with standard, town- 

 ship or section lines such boundaries may, if not previously estab- 

 lished in the ordinary course of the public land surveys, be established 

 and marked under the supervision of the Director of the United 

 States Geological Survey whenever necessary to complete the survey 

 of such exterior boundaries. * * * 



1902 — Act of June 28, 1902; 32 Stat. L, 455. (An act mak- 

 ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 

 government for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other pur- 

 poses. ) 



Hereafter, in lieu of the specific estimates for personal services now 

 required by law, there shall be submitted in the Annual Book of 

 Estimates under each item of appropriation under "General Expenses 

 of the Geological Survey," notes showing the number of persons em- 

 ployed and the rate of compensation paid to each from each of said 

 appropriations during the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year 

 for which estimates are submitted. 



Provided, That the purchase of professional and scientific books 

 and periodicals needed for statistical purposes hereafter by the scien- 

 tific divisions of the United States Geological Survey is hereby au- 

 thorized to be made and paid for out of appropriations made for the 

 said Survey. 



1902 — Act of May 16, 1902; 32 Stat. L., 741. (Joint reso- 

 lution relating to publications of the Geological Sur- 

 vey.) 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the 

 publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual 

 report of the Director, which shall be confined to one volume of royal 

 octavo size; monographs, of quarto size; professional papers, of 

 quarto size; bulletins, of ordinary octavo size; mineral resources, of 



