BAKER.] MAPS. 19 
For the preparation of scientific reports on magnetics, mammals, 
birds, fishes, plants, insects, fossils, etc., including the making of 
drawings, there was expended about $3,500 * and for the drawing of 
the final maps about $9,400. 
For building the initial monument at Point Roberts was paid 
$7,590.38, one-half of which was paid by the United States and one- 
half by Great Britain. ■ 
The cost to the British Government of running and marking the 
boundary line I have not found. A single item bearing on the matter 
is contained in Parliamentary Papers, 1868, volume 37, page ^87 
(55-v), where there is "An estimate of the sum required to be voted 
in the year ending March 31, 1864, to complete the expenses of sur- 
veying the line of boundary between the British and United States 
territory in the western part of North America, 4,300 pounds." 
While the boundary survey was going forward there was another 
independent exploration by the British in progress in the region, under 
the direction of Capt. John Palliser. Early in 1857 the president of 
the Royal Geographical Society recommended to the British foreign 
office that a grant of £5,000 be voted to cover the expense of two 
years' exploration along the fort} 7 -ninth and fifty-third parallels and 
between the one hundredth and one hundred and fifteenth meridians. 3 
This sum was voted and later on <£1,500 additional, to continue the 
work one year more, making three years in all. Among the estimates 
for the year ending March 31, 1861, is an item of £6,300 for com- 
pleting Palliser's explorations. The results of Palliser's work, his 
route of travel, etc., are set forth in the Journal of the Royal 
Geographical Society of London, 1859, volume 29, pages xcvii-c; and 
1860, volume 30, pages 267-314. 
MAPS. 
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAPS. 
Two large blue chests in the manuscript room at the State Depart- 
ment contain the original observations, computations, sketches, notes, 
etc., relating to the Northwestern Boundary Survey. They do not 
contain the final maps, these being kept among the treaty maps. They 
do, however, contain the following manuscript map material, which 
may be classified as preliminary and final: 
Preliminary. — First. Several rolls of rough sketches of rcconnois- 
sances, triangulation, trails, office plattings, field sketches, etc., on 
rough paper, drawing paper, tracing linen, and tracing paper. Some 
of this is original field material identified by title, date, and signature. 
Much of it, however, is of the nature of office studies, plattings, etc., 
which served a temporary purpose and is no longer of value. 
1 House Ex. Doc. No. 86, Fortieth Congress, third session, p. 101. 
2 Same, p. 97. 
3 Parliamentary Papers, 1857, vol. 26, p. 29 (38-vii-sess. 2). 
