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receive other compensation for their services upon said commission than their 

 salaries, respectively, except their traveling expenses, while engaged on said 

 duties ; and it shall be the duty of this commission to report to Congress within 

 one year from the time of its organization ; first, a codification of the present 

 laws relating to the survey and disposition of the public domain ; second, a sys- 

 tem and standard of classification of public lands ; as arable, irrigable, timber, 

 pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands and such other classes as may be deemed 

 proper, having due regard to humidity of climate, supply of water for irrigation, 

 and other physical characteristics ; third, a system of land parceling surveys 

 adapted to the economic uses of the several classes of lands ; and, fourth, such 

 recommendations as they may deem wise in relation to the best method of dis- 

 posing of the public lands of the western portion of the United States to actual 

 settlers. 



The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report 

 of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classi- 

 fication of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and palaeon- 

 tology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accom- 

 pany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs 

 and reports of said survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series, if deemed nec- 

 essary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies 

 of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of 

 publication ; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange 

 shall be the property of the United States, and form a part of the library of the 

 organization ; and the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be 

 covered into the Treasury of the United States. 



Copy of an act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept for the purpose 



of a voyage of exploration by way of Behring's Straits, the ship Jeannette, 



tendered by James Gordon Bennett for that purpose. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is here- 

 by authorized to accept and take charge of, for the use of a north polar expedi- 

 tion by way of Behring's Straits, the ship Jeannette, owned by James Gordon 

 Bennett, and by him devoted to this purpose; that he may use, in fitting her for 

 her voyage of exploration, any material he may have on hand proper for the pur- 

 poses of an arctic voyage ; and that he is further authorized to enlist the necessary 

 crew for said vessel for "special service," their pay to be temporarily met from 

 the pay of the navy, and to be paid or refunded by Jaoaes Gordon Bennett to the 

 Navy Department under the order of the Secretary of the Navy and as he may re- 

 quire; the vessel to proceed on her voyage of exploration under orders and instruc- 

 tions of the Navy Department ; that the men so ' ' specially enlisted " as above shall 

 be subject in all respects to the Articles of War and Navy Regulations and discip- 

 line; and that all parts of the act approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-eight, inconsistent with the above, be, and they are hereby, repealed : 

 Provided, That the government of the United States shall not be held liable for 

 any expenditure incurred or to be incurred on account of said exploration. 



Approved, February 27, 1879. 



