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NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY OF UNITED STATES. [bull.174. 
been lost to view. Its whereabouts are still unknown. The reason it 
was not published, I am informed, is that Mr. Fish, Secretary of State 
at- that time, deemed its publication too expensive. The war hud 
brought a mountain of debt, and under these conditions he refused 
to sanction so costly a publication. 
COST. 
The total cost of surveying and marking the line, including all 
expenses, was about $600,000, or $1,463 per mile. The first appropria- 
tion for the work, made August 11, 1856, was $71,000. This and the 
subsequent appropriations are as follows: 
Appropriations for surveying and marking the boundary along the forty-ninth /><>roi/<f 
between the United States and the British Possessions, from the Rocky Mountt tins to the 
Pacific Ocean. 
Date. 
Fixed 
salaries. 
Other 
expenses. 
Total. 
Authority. 
August 11, 1856 
February 7, 1857 
June 5, 1858 
March 3, 1859 
May 26, 1860 
Total 
$11, 000 
11,000 
11,000 
11,000 
11,000 
$60, 000 
60, 000 
60, 000 
139, 000 
139, 000 
$71, 000 
71, 000 
71, 000 
150, 000 
150, 000 
Stat. L.,vol. 11, p. 42. 
Stat. L., vol. 11, pp. 159-160. 
Stat. L., vol. 11, p. 312. 
Stat. L., vol. 11, pp. 403-404. 
Stat. L., vol. 12, pp. 20-21. 
55, 000 
458, 000 
513, 000 
The amount actually expended somewhat exceeded this sum, aggre- 
gating nearly $600,000. 
In response to the House resolution of January 13, 1869, above 
referred to, Mr. Seward, then Secretary of State, transmitted, on 
February 9, 1869, a detailed reply, consisting, in the main, of a state- 
ment by Mr. C. M. Walker, then Fifth Auditor of the Treasury 
Department, of " disbursements on account of Northwest Boundary 
Survey from February 14, 1857, to December 31, 1868." * The total 
expenditures in that period were for — 
Salaries $385, 508. 78 
Contingent expenses 209, 724. 25 
Total 595, 233. 03 
Most of these were made in the five years 1857 to 1861, inclusive. 
After the latter year a small office was maintained in Washington at 
an annual rental of $250, which, with various minor items, entailed an 
annual expense of from $1,200 to $1,400. The work was finally 
closed up and the records deposited in the State Department in Octo- 
ber, 1869. 2 
1 House Ex. Doc. No. 86, Fortieth Congress, third session, 102 pp. 
2 Letter from Archibald Campbell to Acting Secretary of State, June 27, 1872. 
